Artificial Intelligence #252

Hey, in this issue: how AI is reshaping science and society; LLMs and chess; PCA and k-means are the same algorithm; AlphaQubit for quantum computing; distilling Llama3.1 8B into 1B; matryoshka embeddings; and more.

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• [Nature] How AI is reshaping science and society
• Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
• PCA and k-means are the same algorithm
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• [Nature] Can Google Scholar survive the AI revolution?
• [Google] AlphaQubit tackles one of quantum computing’s biggest challenges
• [Wired] Inside the booming ‘AI pimping’ industry
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• [PyTorch] Distilling Llama3.1 8B into 1B in torchtune
• [Tool] Matryoshka embeddings: Detail at multiple scales

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