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Practical, Informative, Strategic AI perspectives from Synthminds

šŸ§  Synthminds.AI Weekly: The Essence of Innovation and Unity

šŸŽ‰ Whatā€™s Poppinā€™ Synthminders!?!?! šŸŽ‰ 

Join us as we launch our first in a weekly exploration of artificial intelligence's vast landscapes. This week we dig into where technology and creativity intersect, inspired by Wes's journey, share groundbreaking AI developments, and the vibrant contributions of the Synthminds community.

šŸš€ #52weeksofAI - Week 5

~Wes's AI Odyssey: Text-to-Video Innovation~

A Creative Showdown Beyond the Gridiron

This week, Wes introduced us to an extraordinary Super Bowl of technology, where Stability AI and Leonardo.AI's Text-to-Video models take center stage. It's not the San Francisco 49ā€™ers vs. Kansas City Chiefs, but a showcase of how AI is transforming our storytelling capabilities. Join Wes in this innovative journey and be inspired to experiment with these cutting-edge models yourself.

šŸ“˜ AI Word of the Week: Abstraction

Simplifying Complex terms so everyone - beginner to advance - can better understand AI,ML concepts and terminology

Abstraction - The process of reducing complexity by focusing on key elements. In computing, abstraction involves hiding unnecessary details and complexity so programmers can more easily work with an application, system or concept. This allows them to focus on essential features and functionality.

Getting more Advanced: In AI, abstraction is used to simplify complex problems and data to make them more tractable. For example, neural networks use multiple layers of abstraction, with later layers learning more complex concepts from simpler features identified in earlier layers. Abstraction enables AI systems to learn and reason about complex concepts without being overwhelmed by low-level details.

Context/Relevance: A facial recognition system uses multiple layers of abstraction. Earlier layers may focus on identifying simple shapes and colors, while later layers build on these to recognize facial features like eyes and noses. The last layers then use these facial feature representations to recognize identity. This layered abstraction allows the system to learn the complex concept of facial identity recognition through increasing levels of abstraction.

Want to see more of the AI Glossary (link) that we compiled? Thereā€™s 117 terms and growing. Share what you want to see added to the list

šŸŒ AI in Focus: The Stories from the Week we believe are most important for you to know

Google Deepmind proposes ā€˜self-discoverā€™ framework for LLMs, improves GPT-4 performance

New 'Self-Discover' Prompting Framework - enhances LLM's reasoning capabilities, improving performance up to 32% and with 10-40X less compute!

MiniCPM: Unveiling the potential of End-side Large Language Models

MiniCPM is a new type of AI model powerful enough to compete with much larger models, but small and efficient enough to run on your phone or other devices.

ā€œEnsuring the first few data points remain in memory, the researchersā€™ method allows a chatbot to keep chatting no matter how long the conversation goes.ā€

Key findings for what areas Social and Education companies want to deploy AI to help with, and the main challenges theyā€™re encountering for implementing AI

Google Deepmind team shares in a short blog post how they created the longest context window for Gemini 1.5

šŸ’” Synthminds in Action: This Week's Highlights

Synthmindsā€™ own, Goda Go!, presents a compelling view of how data analytics is becoming the new black gold in 2024, underscoring its indispensable role in pushing the boundaries of AI.

Synaptic Labs: Obsidian Zotero

In the 11th video in the series, Joseph (Professor Synapse  himself!), takes a comprehensive look at Zotero, a free content capturing tool that could serve as a great alternative to Readwise.

Synaptic Labs: Intro to Neural Networks

ā€¦from the history of neural networks, how they work to input & output layers and backpropagation this is an excellent intro for newbies and advanced users of AI tools.

šŸŽ“ Research and Discoveries: Actionable Insights

The top article this week from the latest research and practical applications of AI shared within our community. From theoretical breakthroughs to hands-on applications, this is the one thing to be sure to read about the evolving landscape of AI technology.

Purpose: - The research was initiated to address the challenge of how large language models (LLMs) can more effectively solve complex tasks by developing intrinsic reasoning structures, which is a significant issue in the field of Computer Science, particularly in Artificial Intelligence. The purpose of the study was to introduce and evaluate a new approach, SELF-DISCOVER, that allows LLMs to internally devise a reasoning program for problem-solving, akin to human problem-solving strategies

Key Findings: SELF-DISCOVER achieves superior performance against other inference-heavy methods such as CoT + Self-Consistency and majority voting, while requiring significantly less computational resources (10-40x fewer). The approach performs best on tasks requiring diverse world knowledge and shows a moderate performance boost on algorithmic tasks compared to Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting.

Discussion: The discussion in the research article highlights the significance of the findings and their potential impact on the field of Artificial Intelligence and Computation and Language. It suggests that SELF-DISCOVER not only enhances the performance of LLMs in complex problem-solving but also offers a more interpretable and efficient way to understand the reasoning process of these models. This contributes to the field by providing a novel method for improving LLMs' problem-solving capabilities and potentially reducing the computational resources required for such tasks.

šŸ¤ Together, We Innovate

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