π Meta Llama 3 Launch; Cybertruck Recall Alert; Robots Impacting Jobs
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Introducing Meta Llama 3: The most capable openly available LLM to date. Today, weβre introducing Meta Llama 3, the next generation of our state-of-the-art open source large language model. Llama 3 models will soon be available on AWS, Databricks, Google Cloud, Hugging Face, Kaggle, IBM WatsonX, Microsoft Azure, NVIDIA NIM, and Snowflake, and with support from hardware platforms offered by AMD, AWS, Dell, Intel, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm. Meta
π: Congrats to @AIatMeta on Llama 3 release!! Releasing 8B and 70B (both base and finetuned) models, strong-performing in their model class (but we'll see when the rankings come in @lmsysorgΒ :)) 400B is still training, but already encroaching GPT-4 territory (e.g. 84.8 MMLU vs. 86.5 4Turbo)... - Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy)
Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal. Tesla has issued a recall for effectively every Cybertruck it's delivered to customers due to a fault that's causing the vehicle's accelerator pedal to get stuck. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Wednesday, the defect can result in the pedal pad dislodging and becoming trapped in the vehicleβs interior trim when βhigh force is applied.β By Jess Weatherbed via The Verge
π: Tesla is recalling all 3,878 Cybertrucks that it has shipped to date, due to a problem where the accelerator pedal can get stuck, putting drivers at risk of a crash - philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_)
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Robots can make jobs less meaningful for human colleagues. Much has been (and will continue to be) written about automationβs impact on the jobs market. In the short-term, many employers have complained of an inability to fill roles and retain workers, further accelerating robotic adoption. The long-term impact these sorts of sweeping changes will have on the job market going forward remains to be seen. One aspect of the conversation that is oft neglected, however, is how human workers feel about their robotic colleagues. By Brian Heater via TechCrunch
π: Exploring the balance of automation: @BHeater at @TechCrunch dives into how robots are reshaping our work's meaning and the dual impact on job retention and market evolution. A must-read for understanding the future of work. - Haje (@Haje)
Apple Removes WhatsApp, Threads From China App Store on Government Orders. China ordered to remove some of the worldβs most popular chat messaging apps from its app store in the country, the latest example of censorship demands on the iPhone seller in the companyβs second-biggest market. Meta Platformsβ META -2.24%decrease; red down pointing triangle WhatsApp and Threads as well as messaging platforms Signal and Telegram were taken off the Chinese App Store Friday. Apple said it was told to remove certain apps because of national security concerns, without specifying which. By Raffaele Huang via Wall Street Journal
π: China already outpacing American tech bureaucracy - Ed Zitron (@edzitron)
Crude' ransomware tools proliferating on the dark web for cheap, researchers find. Cheap ransomware is being sold for one-time use on dark web forums, allowing inexperienced freelancers to get into cybercrime without any interaction with affiliates. Researchers at the intelligence unit at the cybersecurity firm Sophos found 19 ransomware varieties being offered for sale or advertised as under development on four forums from June 2023 to February 2024. They compared the cybercrime tools to βjunk gunsβ β cheap, imported handguns that flooded the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s. By James Reddick via The Record
AI news
Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps
Cool or creepy? Microsoft's VASA-1 is a new AI model that turns photos into 'talking faces'
Google is combining its Android and hardware teams β and itβs all about AIΒ
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