Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

Meta is planning to introduce AI-powered bots on Facebook and Instagram, allowing users to create and interact with AI characters that can generate and share content. The company sees this as a way to attract and retain a younger audience, and to get a return on its investment in generative AI models.

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Building a Knowledge System That Enhances Rather Than Replaces Thought

The creator of Zettelgarden reflects on the history of knowledge management, from Socrates to AI-generated content, and grapples with the balance between digitizing note-taking and preserving human thought. They aim to develop Zettelgarden as a tool that enhances human intelligence by automating "drudge work" while keeping core activities like reading, understanding, and synthesizing firmly in human hands.

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The biggest AI flops of 2024

The past year has seen significant advancements in AI, but also numerous misfires, including the proliferation of low-quality "AI slop" content across the internet, AI-generated images warping public expectations of real events, and the creation of problematic content such as deepfakes and explicit images. Additionally, AI-powered gadgets and search summaries have also experienced failures, highlighting the need for improved content moderation and regulation in the AI industry.

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Show HN: I built an AI calendar to help you get stuff done – feedback wanted

A developer is seeking up to 20 testers for a 7-day trial of their Personalized AI Calendar with ChatGPT Integration, a tool designed to help users plan and prepare for tasks ahead of time. The calendar uses AI to generate tailored responses on scheduled days, and users can refine these responses through interactive chat.

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RAG a 40GB Outlook inbox – Long term Staff member leaving, keeping knowledge

A user is considering using a Retrieval-Augmented Generator (RAG) to process a 40GB Outlook inbox of a long-term staff member who is leaving the company, in order to preserve their knowledge and insights. The goal is to create a database that can handle incoming queries and provide smart suggestions for replies. The user is asking if anyone has attempted something similar and if it was practical or beneficial.

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TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English? (2023)

Researchers have found that small language models often struggle to produce coherent text, but a new dataset called TinyStories, consisting of simple short stories, can be used to train and evaluate smaller models that still produce fluent and consistent stories. This dataset and a new evaluation framework using GPT-4 to grade model output like a teacher, can facilitate the development of language models, especially for low-resource or specialized domains.

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Why transformers are obviously good models of language

Transformers, a type of neural network, have achieved significant success in processing language, outperforming alternative models. The transformer architecture's empirical success suggests that the linguistic approaches it embodies should be given greater consideration by the linguistics community as potentially the best available theories on language.

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Meta: Memory Layers at Scale

Memory layers, which use a trainable key-value lookup mechanism, can be added to models to increase parameters without increasing computational cost. Models with improved memory layers outperform dense models and mixture-of-expert models in downstream tasks, especially factual tasks, and can be scaled up to 128 billion memory parameters.

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2 OLMo 2 Furious

OLMo 2 is the next generation of open language models, featuring improved architecture, training recipes, and pretraining data mixtures that achieve better training stability and efficiency. The fully open OLMo 2 models are competitive with or surpass comparable models like Llama 3.1 and Qwen 2.5, while using fewer FLOPs and providing transparent training data, code, and recipes.

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The Overthinking of O1-Like LLMs

Models like OpenAI o1 achieve remarkable performance by emulating human-like thinking, but often waste computational resources on simple problems. This study proposes strategies to mitigate this "overthinking" issue, successfully reducing computational overhead while preserving model performance across various test sets.

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Kotaemon: An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents

Kotaemon is an open-source, clean, and customizable RAG UI for chatting with documents, built with both end users and developers in mind. It offers a user-friendly interface for RAG-based QA, supports various LLMs, and provides easy installation and customization options.

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DAC: An Innovative Prompting Technique to Enhance Mathematical Accuracy in LLMs

Researchers have developed a novel approach called "divide and conquer" to improve the accuracy of large language models (LLMs) in mathematical domains, achieving state-of-the-art performance without fine-tuning. The method uses a programming language like Python to divide mathematical problems into subproblems until they can be solved, significantly reducing calculation errors.

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Show HN: Curiso AI – an infinite canvas for your thoughts

Curiso.ai is an infinite canvas platform that connects nodes and AI services, allowing users to explore ideas in depth without repetition, and supports multiple AI providers and custom models. The platform offers features such as a node-based conversation system, customizable interface, and secure local encrypted storage, and is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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I made a shell AI copilot

Shy.sh is a shell AI copilot that uses a large language model (LLM) to assist with shell commands and tasks. It can be installed with pip and configured to use various LLM providers, and offers features such as interactive mode, screenshot analysis, and safe mode to prevent execution of commands.

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HawkinsDB: Neuroscience-Inspired Memory Layer for LLM Applications

HawkinsDB is a neuroscience-inspired memory layer for large language model (LLM) applications, designed to store and recall information in a more human-like way. It's based on Jeff Hawkins' Thousand Brains Theory and supports multiple types of memory, including semantic, episodic, and procedural, allowing for more nuanced and context-aware queries.

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