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💥 Meta lifts Trump's social media restrictions
🍓 OpenAI working on secret 'Strawberry' project
🚀 SpaceX rocket accident leaves Starlink satellites in wrong orbit
🤔 OpenAI reportedly 'squeezed' through safety testing for GPT-4 Omni in just one week
🎨 Generative AI helps creativity but hurts originality, study says
🎁 + 4 other news you might like
🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools
💥 Meta lifts Trump's social media restrictionsLINK
Meta has lifted the additional penalties for rule violations on former President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts, allowing him to be treated like other users.
The prior restrictions, which allowed for full suspensions over minor violations, were implemented due to "extreme and extraordinary circumstances," according to Meta's Nick Clegg.
Trump, who has 34 million Facebook followers and 25 million Instagram followers, has resumed frequent posting since June 30th.
🍓 OpenAI working on secret 'Strawberry' projectLINK
OpenAI is developing a new reasoning technology under the code name 'Strawberry,' aimed at advancing the reasoning abilities of its AI models, according to a source and internal documents seen by Reuters.
The project, which remains highly confidential, involves a specialized post-training process designed to enable AI to not only answer questions but also autonomously browse the internet and conduct advanced research.
Similar to a method called "Self-Taught Reasoner" from Stanford, Strawberry aims to accomplish long-horizon tasks requiring extensive planning and action, which could significantly enhance AI models' reasoning capabilities.
🚀 SpaceX rocket accident leaves Starlink satellites in wrong orbitLINK
SpaceX's Falcon 9 mission to deploy 20 Starlink internet satellites experienced an anomaly with its upper stage, leading to an issue during the engine restart to raise the satellite orbit.
Though the Starlink satellites were successfully launched, they were placed in a lower orbit than intended, and efforts to raise their altitude using ion thrusters failed due to high atmospheric drag.
The FAA has mandated an investigation into the anomaly to ensure public safety and determine the root cause, working closely with SpaceX to implement corrective measures.
🤔 OpenAI reportedly 'squeezed' through safety testing for GPT-4 Omni in just one weekLINK
OpenAI reportedly condensed the safety testing duration for its newest AI model, GPT-4 Omni, to just one week.
Sources indicated internal criticism, suggesting the company prioritized rapid deployment over thorough risk assessment, with some feeling pressured to hasten protocols for the set May launch date.
An OpenAI representative acknowledged the compressed timeline but affirmed that extensive internal and external tests were conducted, and the company is reconsidering its approach to such launches.
🎨 Generative AI helps creativity but hurts originality, study saysLINK
The study found that AI tools helped individuals with low creativity write more original short stories but reduced the overall creativity of groups using AI.
AI provided less naturally creative participants with suggestions that enhanced their writing quality, while highly creative individuals saw little to no benefit from AI assistance.
Access to AI generated more similar stories among participants, raising concerns that widespread AI use in creative tasks might lead to a decline in collective originality.
Other news you might like
OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say.LINK
Nearly all AT&T subscribers’ call records stolen in Snowflake cloud hack.LINK
Linus Torvalds says RISC-V will make the same mistakes as Arm and x86.LINK
Meta researchers distill System 2 thinking into LLMs, improving performance on complex reasoning.LINK
Latest research and tools
Common Expression Language interpreter written in Rust: provides a lightweight tool for evaluating expressions in CEL, a simple and safe language with syntax similar to C++, Go, Java, and TypeScript, ideal for resource-constrained environments.LINK
gpu.cpp: a lightweight library that streamlines the integration of GPU computing into C++ projects, compatible across major GPU brands and platforms, with minimal dependencies and a focus on rapid development cycles.LINK
Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Transformer (2019): the paper demonstrates how a single Transformer model can be effectively applied to various language processing tasks with minimal task-specific adjustments.LINK
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