Perplexity vs. Google 🔍 // Microsoft vs. NYT ⚖️ // General Computer Control 💻

07/03/2024 14 min

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Episode Synopsis

Perplexity AI is a search startup that's looking to take on Google by solving the inadequacies of searching the web. They are nearing unicorn status with a valuation of around $1 billion.
Microsoft is being sued by The New York Times for copyright infringement and abusing the newspaper’s intellectual property in training LLMs. Microsoft accuses the Times of "unsubstantiated" claims and compares the lawsuit to Hollywood's resistance to the VCR in the 70s.
A new paper introduces the concept of General Computer Control (GCC), which is the idea of building agents that can master any computer task by taking only screen images and producing keyboard and mouse operations as output. The authors propose a framework called Cradle that has strong reasoning abilities to ensure generalizability and self-improvement across various tasks.
A paper evaluates different tokenizer inference methods and their impact on the performance of downstream NLP tasks. The authors found that for the most commonly used tokenizers, greedy inference performs surprisingly well, and a recently-introduced contextually-informed tokenizer outperforms all others on morphological alignment.
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Timestamps:
00:34 Introduction
01:23 Perplexity Poised To Become Latest AI Startup To Hit Unicorn Status — Report
02:53 Microsoft compares The New York Times’ claims against OpenAI to Hollywood’s early fight against VCR
04:41 Training great LLMs entirely from ground zero in the wilderness as a startup
05:49 Fake sponsor
07:39 Towards General Computer Control: A Multimodal Agent for Red Dead Redemption II as a Case Study
09:15 Design2Code: How Far Are We From Automating Front-End Engineering?
11:01 Greed is All You Need: An Evaluation of Tokenizer Inference Methods
12:49 Outro

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