QFM005: Machine Intelligence Reading List - February 2024

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Here is everything I found interesting about machines behaving intelligently during February 2024.

This month's reading highlights a recurring theme in the ethical implications and societal impact of machine intelligence such as Marcin Jabłonowski's clever exploration of AI avatars in Marcin 2.0, the discourse on the replacement of human jobs by AI at Klarna, and Geoffrey Hinton's discussion on the potential future dangers of AI at scale. Going a bit deeper into practical advances in LLM tech we see the introduction of Mamba, a State Space Model challenging Transformer models, and the innovative approaches to AI safety and effectiveness in GradSafe and Matryoshka Embedding Models. We also explore the potential of AI to replace human jobs and the ethical considerations this introduces as well as advancements in AI safety and model efficiency.

Perhaps the most incredible generative AI release this month was OpenAI's SORA video generation. The potential for SORA to disrupt video creation and production are obvious and profound, but an intelligent system that has an understanding of real-world physics has much wider implications.

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As always, the Quantum Fax Machine Propellor Hat Key will guide your browsing. Enjoy!

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M@

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