Subj : Meta's open AGI plan 🧠, Figure deploys robots 🤖, Whisper speech generation 👨‍💻 To : tldr@synchro.net From : TLDR Date : Fri Jan 19 2024 11:37 am --85yME2UP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mark Zuckerberg has announced plans to achieve artificial general intelli= gence=C2=A0 Sign Up [1]|Hire [2]|Advertise [3]|View Online [4]=20 = =09=09TLDR =09=09TOGETHER WITH [Fern] [5] TLDR 2024-01-19 D= ELIVER STRIPE-LEVEL SDKS AND DOCS (SPONSOR) [6]=20 Wish your company ha= d a developer experience as smooth as Stripe=E2=80=99s?=C2=A0Fern can hel= p. Input your OpenAPI spec and=C2=A0we'll create easy-to-use SDKs and cle= ar API documentation for you. Why Fern? =09* Backed by Y Combinator.= =09* Trusted by Webflow, Cohere, and Merge.=C2=A0 =09* We love open so= urce. 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It will require users to use Face ID or To= uch ID and certain changes may take up to an hour to take effect. The fea= ture addresses a key vulnerability where thieves can lock victims out of = their Apple IDs by resetting the password using their passcodes. Stolen D= evice Protection will be included in the iOS 17.3 release expected next w= eek.=20 =F0=9F=9A=80=20 SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY FIGURE'= S HUMANOID ROBOTS ARE ABOUT TO ENTER THE WORKFORCE AT BMW (4 MINUTE READ)= [9]=20 Figure is sending its general-purpose humanoid robots to start= real-world work at BMW's manufacturing plant in South Carolina. The de= al may be one of the first-ever commercial deals involving humanoid robot= s. While the two companies have yet to announce exactly what Figure's rob= ots will be doing on the factory floor, training has already begun in the= company's labs for the first tasks. The partnership is milestone-based, = so Figure will have to prove its robots can do useful work before it scal= es its operations.=20 FLYING KITES DELIVER CONTAINER-SIZE POWER GENERAT= ION (4 MINUTE READ) [10]=20 Airborne wind energy is a new field that = uses kites instead of turbines to generate energy from wind. Kites are ni= mbler than turbines and can deliver a more constant energy supply. Nether= lands-based company Kitepower has developed a system called Hawk that fli= es out in 'pumping' cycles - it flies out while pulling at a tether, gene= rating electricity on the ground, and when the tether reaches its maximum= length, the ground station winches the kite back in, using only a frac= tion of the energy it produced. The system fits into a standard shipping = container and assembly at a new site takes less than 24 hours.=20 = =F0=9F=92=BB PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE ETHICAL HACKING = 101 WORKSHOP: SECURE YOUR APPLICATIONS | FEB 8 | 11AM EDT (SPONSOR) [11] = Are you proactively securing your applications? Join Snyk=E2=80= =99s Ethical Hacking 101 Workshop =E2=9A=A1 to learn how ethical hacking = can help you identify security weaknesses in your systems before attacker= s do. Get live support in the hands-on lab as =E2=9C=85 you find and fix= vulnerabilities and =E2=9C=85 learn the process of responsible disclosur= e. Reserve your spot [11]=20 WHISPERSPEECH (GITHUB REPO) [12]=20 = WhisperSpeech is a text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper. The = models are currently only trained on the English LibreLight dataset, but = future releases will target multiple languages. Samples of synthesized vo= ices are available in the repository.=20 WHAT'S NEW WITH ML IN PRODUCTI= ON (27 MINUTE READ) [13]=20 Most machine learning in production is stil= l not related to large language models or generative AI, which make up le= ss than 10% of the market at most. At their core, machine learning models= are algorithms that perform compression on a corpus of data. A lot has c= hanged in leading-edge machine learning applications over the past year a= s the industry has moved from smaller, business-specific models that perf= orm specific tasks to very large generalist models that complete text. Th= e pendulum is again shifting to smaller models that people are starting= to fine-tune and run on their own. 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Mark Zuckerberg has announced plans to = achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI). While he doesn't have a time= line for when AGI will be reached or an exact definition for it, he has mov= ed Meta's AI research group FAIR to the same part of the company building g= enerative AI products across its apps. The move aims to allow Meta's AI bre= akthroughs to more directly reach its users. Meta plans to own more than 34= 0,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of the year.
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Figure's humanoid robots ar= e about to enter the workforce at BMW (4 minute read)

Figure is sending its general-purpose h= umanoid robots to start real-world work at BMW's manufacturing plant in Sou= th Carolina. The deal may be one of the first-ever commercial deals involvi= ng humanoid robots. While the two companies have yet to announce exactly wh= at Figure's robots will be doing on the factory floor, training has already= begun in the company's labs for the first tasks. The partnership is milest= one-based, so Figure will have to prove its robots can do useful work befor= e it scales its operations.
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