AI weapons 🔫, Zyphra’s Mamba 2 2️⃣, OpenAI Swarm 🤖

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It excels at long context understanding and generation due to the linear time scaling of the Mamba 2 blocks. OpenAI's Swarm (GitHub Repo) OpenAI has released a lightweight framework for communication between agents. It won't be maintained going forward, but could serve as useful inspiration. Silicon Valley is debating if AI weapons should be allowed to decide to kill (5 minute read) Debate over fully autonomous weapons continues as Anduril's Palmer Luckey expresses openness to them, contrasting with Shield AI's previous stance against AI making lethal decisions. The U.S. government remains non-committal, with no binding ban on such weapons, amidst fears that adversaries like China or Russia might develop them first. Defense tech companies, including Anduril and Palantir, are lobbying heavily to influence policy on the integration of AI in military systems. 🧠 Research & Innovation Text-to-Image Model on Public Data (18 minute read) EvolveDirector aims to create a competitive text-to-image generation model using publicly accessible resources, bypassing the restrictions of proprietary models. Evaluate Visible and Infrared Image Fusion (17 minute read) Researchers introduce the Segmentation-oriented Evaluation Approach (SEA) to better assess Visible and Infrared Image Fusion (VIF) methods, which are crucial for tasks like object detection and semantic segmentation. Deep Generative Models: A Guide for Transportation Research (75 minute read) A gentle introduction and tutorial on deep generative models in transportation research. 🧑‍💻 Engineering & Resources Get your product in front of 5 million tech professionals (Sponsor) Reach software developers, AI/ML engineers, executives and other tech professionals reading TLDR every day. TLDR offers 10 interest-based newsletters to help you get in front of your target audience. Learn more about running your first campaign with us. Realistic 4D Scene Generation (GitHub Repo) Trans4D is a new framework designed to tackle the challenges of realistic 4D scene transitions that offers improved text-to-4D synthesis. Document-level Translation Agent (GitHub Repo) DelTA, which is short for Document-levEL Translation Agent, is an online document-level translation agent based on multi-level memory. Fast 3D Compression (3 minute read) Fast Compression of 3D Gaussian Splatting (FCGS) is a new model that skips the time-consuming per-scene optimization required by previous methods. FCGS uses a quick feed-forward pass, cutting compression time drastically from minutes to seconds. 🎁 Miscellaneous Machines of Loving Grace (30 minute read) Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, is a prolific writer. He often writes internal memos. This one was published externally and imagines the extreme upside that could exist in the world if we succeed at building powerful AI systems. This AI-Powered Invention Machine Automates Eureka Moments (10 minute read) Iprova's AI-driven software analyzes diverse technical literature to suggest patentable inventions by connecting previously unlinked ideas, aiding companies like Procter & Gamble and Panasonic. The tool uses semantic search and generative AI to identify novel inventions and relies on human insight for practical application, focusing on industries with rapidly changing technologies. Despite utilizing AI, Iprova emphasizes human creativity in refining and validating invention ideas. Burn the Playbooks (9 minute read) AI excels at following defined rulesets, making it particularly effective for tasks like automating tax processes. Playbook-driven success limits human creativity, which AI can already surpass in formulaic tasks such as math tests and coding. By relying heavily on playbooks, we risk diminishing our unique human creativity and becoming more machine-like, reinforcing AI's strengths over ours. ⚡ Quick Links SambaNova Cloud: Lightning-fast inference with Llama 3 models - for free (Sponsor) Need REALLY good performance? Achieve over 100 tokens/second on the Llama 3.1 405B model—far exceeding the average GPU provider's performance of 20 TPS. Available instantly, for free Hurricane Helene and the 'Fuck It' Era of AI-Generated Slop (2 minute read) An AI-generated image related to Hurricane Helene has gone viral, despite viewers knowing it's not real. Zoom's custom AI avatar tool may come with risks (3 minute read) Zoom plans to release an AI feature next year to create photorealistic avatars for asynchronous video communication. OpenAI pursues public benefit structure to fend off hostile takeovers (5 minute read) OpenAI plans to restructure as a public benefit corporation to protect against hostile takeovers and maintain its mission of benefiting humanity. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! Share your referral link below with friends to get free TLDR swag! https://refer.tldr.tech/0b6a6dc1/2 Track your referrals here. Want to advertise in TLDR? 📰 If your company is interested in reaching an audience of AI professionals and decision makers, you may want to advertise with us. 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