Based on its own charter, OpenAI should surrender the race
Based on its own charter, OpenAI should surrender the race
Martin Lumiste
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The macroeconomics of agentic AI
During the Industrial Revolution, machines displaced most Western agricultural workers, who later went on to cities and earned higher wages. However, some time later, the automobile displaced all horses, and they still haven’t reallocated to new professions. In the coming decades, are we the 19th century peasant, or the horse?
How not to screw up your baby
Reflections on the science behind modern parenting advice.
Potterising old family photos
Using AI models to animate old family photographs with Harry Potter-style moving pictures.
Perceptually lossless (talking head) video compression at 22kbit/s
Achieving extreme video compression rates using the LivePortrait model for talking head videos.
Compressing images with neural networks
An introduction to learned image compression using neural networks.
ML research and startups
What to expect from machine learning research roles in industry versus academia.
Quarterly planning is a noisy optimisation problem
Lessons on maximising impact as an individual contributor in large product organisations.
Why you should A/B test your LLM evals
Using paired difference tests to handle LLM stochasticity when evaluating model improvements.
How gradient boosting almost won a NeurIPS competition
Our second place finish in the NeurIPS 2022 Traffic4cast competition using gradient boosting.