Radar Trends to Watch: October 2023>
– Mike Loukides
I have gathered a summary of the information provided:
1) Getty, a company that owns the copyright to a collection of images, is reimbursing customers’ legal costs if they are sued for copyright infringement.
2) Sony has developed a two-dimensional model for measuring skin tone that considers hue in addition to darkness.
Meta has released an open-source dataset called FACET for testing AI models.
3) The Toyota Research Institute has created robots with large behavior models, using techniques from large language models.
These robots are more versatile and easier to train than previous models.
4) OpenAI has released DALL-E 3, an image synthesis AI built on top of ChatGPT, which greatly improves understanding of simple prompts without complex designs.
5) Amazon has limited authors to publishing three books per day to throttle the flood of AI-generated books.
6) Google’s Bard now integrates with Maps, Google Docs, and includes a “Check your answer” button.
7) Optimization by Prompting (OPRO) is a technique using an AI model to optimize problem-solving prompts.
Starting with “Take a deep breath” has shown to be beneficial.
8) Google’s DeepMind has developed an AI model capable of identifying potential disease-causing gene variants.
9) LanceDB, an open-source vector database designed to be embedded within apps, has entered the competition in the vector database space.
10) Stability AI’s Stable Audio is a generative AI demo for music, showing some progress in the field.
11) Microsoft has assumed liability for copyright infringement related to all its Copilot products, not just GitHub.
12) HuggingFace offers Training Cluster as a Service, allowing users to train large language models using their infrastructure.
13) MetaAI has announced CoTracker, a Transformer-based tool for tracking multiple points’ movement in videos.
14) Google’s Workspace suite now includes DuetAI, an AI-driven extension that can perform tasks such as note-taking and writing emails.
15) Google’s DeepMind has launched SynthID, a watermarking tool for AI images, currently available to Imagen users within Vertex AI.
16) Godot, an open-source game engine, is gaining popularity as an alternative to Unity.
17) OpenTofu, an open-source fork of Terraform, has gained support from the Linux Foundation and several major enterprises.
18) DSPy is an alternative programming framework for applications with large language models that emphasizes programming over prompting.
19) Rivet is a graphical IDE for developing applications with large language models, utilizing low-code tools for AI development.
20) Microsoft and Anaconda have introduced Python in Excel, allowing users to embed Python within spreadsheets.
21) JetBrains has released RustRover, an IDE for Rust that supports collaboration and integrates with various Rust development tools.
22) Refact is a language model designed for refactoring, offering fill-in-the-middle support and performance comparable to other language models.
23) HuggingFace has developed Candle, a machine learning framework for Rust with GPU support.
24) Google, Apple, and Mozilla have reported a vulnerability in the WebP image compression library, which has been fixed in the latest browser releases.
25) The FBI successfully infiltrated the Quakbot botnet and uninstalled its own software.
26) Just-in-time (JIT) access minimizes security risks by granting access to services only when and for as long as needed.
27) MalDoc is a new attack in which a Word document with malicious VB macros is embedded in a PDF, posing a threat to both PDF and Word users.
28) Mozilla’s research highlights the privacy concerns associated with connected cars, which collect and transmit personal data without meeting minimum security standards.
29) The Signal Protocol, used by apps like Signal, Google RCS messaging, and WhatsApp, has been upgraded for post-quantum cryptography.
30) Decentralized projects like Quiet (a chat app) and Postmarks (a social bookmarking service) provide alternatives to centralized services like Slack and del.icio.us.
31) Wavacity is a browser-based port of the Audacity audio editor using WebAssembly.
32) The open web’s future is discussed in an interview with Cory Doctorow, emphasizing the importance of interoperability.
33) Web LLM now supports LLaMA 2 in the browser, running on WebGPU for GPU acceleration (Chrome only).
34) A startup has developed ceramic-coated tape with up to 1 Petabyte of storage per tape, suggesting a potentially valuable data storage solution.
35) Qualcomm’s investment in RISC-V, an open-source instruction set architecture, marks a significant step in its competition with ARM and Intel.
36) Researchers used a quantum computer to slow down a chemical process significantly, demonstrating the computer’s research capabilities beyond computation.
37) IBM has made progress in quantum error correction, reducing the number of physical qubits required for virtual error-corrected qubits.
38) DIY tools for automating insulin delivery systems are gaining acceptance, showing superior performance compared to commercial systems.
Please note that some information may be subject to change or further advancements.
Link: https://www.oreilly.com/radar/radar-trends-to-watch-october-2023/