Elon's AI Brain Chips + Meta to End AI Tokens

Google AI Introduces SoundStorm

Google researchers have developed SoundStorm, an audio creation technique that tackles the challenge of generating long audio token sequences. SoundStorm utilizes a hierarchical token structure and a parallel, non-autoregressive decoding scheme designed for neural audio codecs.

First off, WTF does that even mean?

They designed SoundStorm to work like a tower with multiple levels. Each level represents a different part of the audio, like different instruments in a song. By organizing the audio in this hierarchical way, SoundStorm can generate long sequences efficiently.

Got it?? Sweet on to the next part

To make things even faster, SoundStorm uses a special technique called non-autoregressive decoding. It's like having multiple musicians playing together at the same time, instead of waiting for each musician to finish before the next one starts. This allows SoundStorm to create audio much more quickly.

In summary, SoundStorm is a groundbreaking audio creation technique developed by Google. It employs a hierarchical token structure and non-autoregressive decoding to generate long audio sequences efficiently. By replacing the acoustic generator of AudioLM, SoundStorm achieves faster audio generation without sacrificing quality.

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Meta wants to end AI Tokens

Meta AI has introduced a new approach called Megabyte that addresses the limitations of tokenization in GPT models. Tokenization is a process where data is converted into tokens for processing, but it has a hard limit on the amount of data that can be handled. Megabyte replaces tokenization with a multi-layer prediction architecture, enabling end-to-end modeling of over 1 million bytes of data.

If this makes no sense to you, then let me do a quick breakdown. remember that one time you asked ChatGPT a question and it gave a Long ass answer then abruptly stops? yes that was the token for that string of text finishing. When you tell it continue it then starts a new token sequence.

Get it now?

By bypassing tokenization, Megabyte can process text documents containing approximately 750,000 words, which is a significant increase compared to the limits of existing models like GPT-4. Megabyte also performs well on tasks involving image and audio processing, surpassing or matching other byte-based transformer models. This breakthrough has implications for various applications, including training AI models with better support for non-English languages that may not be easily encoded in standard characters.

Additionally, it could enhance models like ChatGPT to work with multimedia files, such as images, videos, and audio, while maintaining similar time and energy consumption as working with text.

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Elon's Neuralink wins FDA approval for human study of brain implants

Now this not exactly AI news like generative AI that we are all used to but Neuralink turning us into cyborgs? definitely got some AI and robotics aura about it which is what this newsletter Is all about

Elon Musk's Neuralink has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its first-in-human clinical trial, marking a significant milestone for the brain-implant startup.

The FDA approval allows Neuralink to proceed with trials using its brain implant and surgical robot on patients, although specific details have not been disclosed yet. Neuralink stated that this approval is an important step toward helping many people in the future.

Despite the controversies, Neuralink's vision is to use brain implants to address various conditions and enable capabilities like web browsing and telepathy. Elon Musk has expressed confidence in the safety of the devices, even willing to have them implanted in his own children. The company has faced delays and safety concerns, but with FDA clearance, it can now move forward with its clinical trials on human subjects.

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