[ML News] Groq, Gemma, Sora, Gemini, and Air Canada's chatbot troubles

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Your dose of ML News! OUTLINE: 0:00 - Intro 0:20 - Gemma & Gemini 3:40 - Groq 6:30 - Nvidia EOS Supercomputer 7:15 - Gpulist.ai 8:20 - Demis Hassabis on scale 10:10 - Hardware wars 12:05 - Sora 15:10 - Gemini 1.5 Pro & Long Context 18:45 - Air Canada must pay for chatbot mistake 23:30 - Giant Rat Balls 26:25 - Various News References: https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemma-open-models/?utm_source=tw https://twitter.com/altryne/status/1760358916624719938?t=PVZkHQA_p7GxmeUX0hcZ_Q&s=09 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1760078920135872716?t=PVZkHQA_p7GxmeUX0hcZ_Q&s=09 https://groq.com/ https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/1759347920543834117?t=cS5nPvZOsV6iDA1mVabHOg&s=09 https://twitter.com/GroqInc/status/1759483896322781584 https://wow.groq.com/news_press/groq-lpu-inference-engine-leads-in-first-independent-llm-benchmark/ https://twitter.com/tianle_cai/status/1759780363361251828?t=SobcZzLkKufAhKaSK56DoA&s=09 https://twitter.com/DZhang50/status/1759728119005712837 https://twitter.com/felix_red_panda/status/1759720197055791188 https://twitter.com/cHHillee/status/1759704303810519271 https://twitter.com/mascobot/status/1759709223276228825 https://www.techpowerup.com/319172/nvidia-unveils-eos-to-public-a-top-ten-supercomputer https://andromeda.ai/ https://gpulist.ai/ https://archive.ph/G6POi https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/jim-keller-responds-to-sam-altmans-plan-to-raise-dollar7-billion-to-make-ai-chips https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-destroy-humankind-yudkowsky https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1758197872716026209?t=P6KPJIJ4Xxr82oMkh_Hd3w&s=09 https://twitter.com/_Borriss_/status/1758206358376050822?t=drmW5Qzs7OuEaV_00uSqHQ&s=09 https://twitter.com/billpeeb/status/1758650919430848991 https://twitter.com/tsarnick/status/1758323312483303443?t=SmELRZbMIH_1hfx-T4RNHA&s=09 https://twitter.com/MartinNebelong/status/1758431263193543080?t=do6FAkgZL8qpblevr8uxeQ&s=09 https://twitter.com/OriolVinyalsML/status/1758148444588319020?t=K2RYfqbLuBvP-viCaPyC-Q&s=09 https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/1759804492919275555 https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/1759737197710704939?t=nt1vJygjHAUm5ad37MOfOQ&s=09 https://twitter.com/haoliuhl/status/1757828392362389999?t=YnOsR_O52b2D7R3EW-A-0w&s=09 https://github.com/lucidrains/ring-attention-pytorch https://bc.ctvnews.ca/air-canada-s-chatbot-gave-a-b-c-man-the-wrong-information-now-the-airline-has-to-pay-for-the-mistake-1.6769454 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/air-canada-chatbot-lawsuit-1.7116416 https://twitter.com/kareem_carr/status/1758148011245371627?t=KLGIAEy0_dXst8WBkPs7KA&s=09 https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/scientists-aghast-at-bizarre-ai-rat-with-huge-genitals-in-peer-reviewed-article/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a389b/ai-midjourney-rat-penis-study-retracted-frontiers https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1757600075281547344?t=8Sdkzge2gw3NOEjJL1BfaA&s=09 https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1759996549109776702?t=KCmoCq5o6nTrlagAKn5-JQ&s=09 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00497-8 https://twitter.com/CohereForAI/status/1757359611399532921 https://cohere.com/research/aya https://twitter.com/OfirPress/status/1759571109513416768?t=XIXOgbTucAlb7xLq7eLo8Q&s=09 https://github.com/mut-ex/gligen-gui https://www.projectaria.com/datasets/aea/ https://twitter.com/StabilityAI/status/1760656767237656820?t=cPicZ5BVMiNzAS0f7yB79A&s=09 https://twitter.com/gordic_aleksa/status/1760692060439634041?t=5ANBNrMLrU0byDGQtFOhgw&s=09 https://huggingface.co/gordicaleksa/YugoGPT https://huggingface.co/datasets/nvidia/OpenMathInstruct-1/blob/main/LICENSE https://interestingengineering.com/science/ai-spots-dangerous-drug-combos https://archive.ph/caW1Y#selection-4955.105-4955.142 https://newatlas.com/robotics/seeing-eye-dog-v2-gamechanger/ https://os-copilot.github.io/ https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-reportedly-plans-to-launch-an-ai-tool-this-year-2024-2?r=US&IR=T https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/16/anthropic-takes-steps-to-prevent-election-misinformation/?guccounter=1 https://archive.ph/Gbcgb Links: Homepage: https://ykilcher.com Merch: https://ykilcher.com/merch YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/yannickilcher Twitter: https://twitter.com/ykilcher Discord: https://ykilcher.com/discord LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ykilcher If you want to support me, the best thing to do is to share out the content :) If you want to support me financially (completely optional and voluntary, but a lot of people have asked for this): SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/yannickilcher Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yannickilcher Bitcoin (BTC): bc1q49lsw3q325tr58ygf8sudx2dqfguclvngvy2cq Ethereum (ETH): 0x7ad3513E3B8f66799f507Aa7874b1B0eBC7F85e2 Litecoin (LTC): LQW2TRyKYetVC8WjFkhpPhtpbDM4Vw7r9m Monero (XMR): 4ACL8AGrEo5hAir8A9CeVrW8pEauWvnp1WnSDZxW7tziCDLhZAGsgzhRQABDnFy8yuM9fWJDviJPHKRjV4FWt19CJZN9D4n

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