Ten from the weekend 05/28: A few interesting reads that I came across:

Focus areas: Blockchain| ML-AI| Data science/Analytics applications |eSports| CRISPR| Design thinking

1. State of GPT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZQun8Y4L2A

2. QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs — this makes LLMs tuning very fast: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14314

3. LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment: 1000 instructions can finetune a LLM: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11206

4. Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10973

5. LangChain AI Handbook: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/langchain/

6. Google I/O, MSFT build and the coming AI wars: https://stratechery.com/2023/google-i-o-and-the-coming-ai-battles/ || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNfINi5CNbY || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xdbnE1vDxI

7. You want to catch up on recent AI stuff: https://a16z.com/2023/05/25/ai-canon/ || LLM University: https://docs.cohere.com/docs/structure-of-the-course

8. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-microsoft-swallowed-its-pride-to-make-a-massive-bet-on-openai

9. Introducing the AI Sandbox for advertisers: https://www.facebook.com/business/news/introducing-ai-sandbox-and-expanding-meta-advantage-suite

10. In an “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit, REACT and the US Secret service praised blockchain technology: https://blockworks.co/news/secret-service-pig-butchering-scams

11. The tangled history of mRNA vaccines: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w