# forck.live — 14–20 March 2022

> AI lab announcements, news reports and podcasts.

forck.live follows what companies announce about their own products. Press may
corroborate an official story; it never leads and never appears as an item of its
own. A missing date stays missing. A title is the publisher's words — where a
company does not publish in English, an English rendering is listed separately
as `Title in English` and named as this site's translation, never as theirs.

This file is one issue of the weekly archive: every confirmed
first-party announcement of ISO week 2022-W11, 14–20 March 2022, newest
first. The window never moves, so this URL always names the same seven days —
but a post published inside them and detected later is added when it arrives,
so a closed week can still gain entries.

Every entry is one first-party announcement, and carries the same eight fields
in this order before any others:

    Company · Announced · Category · Coverage · Announcement · Group · Source · Record

`Source` is the company's own page the announcement was traced to and `Record`
is this site's page for it. Both are safe to cite.

`Coverage` is a number of outlets, or `not counted` — which means this record
reached no count of its own, never that nobody wrote about it.

`Category` is this tracker's own analysis, and is authoritative wherever it is
stated. `not stated` means either that nothing has analysed the post yet or
that the analysis placed it outside this taxonomy; neither is a verdict about
the announcement.

`Announcement` is whether the post is news of something the company did, rather
than a how-to, a customer story, a changelog listing or a staffing note.

`Group` is which of this record's groups the entry falls in, carried on the
entry itself so it holds where the groups are headings and where they are not.
One of: `models`, `covered`, `announcements`, `routine`.

Anything after `Record` is held detail that only some announcements carry.

- This week's page: https://forck.live/week/2022-W11
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### Replit — Reasons Not to Join Replit

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2022-03-17
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/reasons-not-to-join-replit
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17978-reasons-not-to-join-replit
- Subject: Replit Agent

We want the people at Replit to really love working here (we do!). To help you make an informed decision about whether that would be the case for you, we challenged ourselves to come up with a list of reasons someone wouldn’t want to join our team.

### Hugging Face — Fine-Tune a Semantic Segmentation Model with a Custom Dataset

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2022-03-17
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/fine-tune-segformer
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2220-fine-tune-a-semantic-segmentation-model-with-a-custom-dataset
- Subject: Platform

To fine-tune a SegFormer semantic segmentation model using a custom dataset and Hugging Face tools.

### Replit — Escaping Dirty Pipe (a.k.a. CVE-2022-0847), mostly unscathed

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2022-03-16T18:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/dirtypipe-kernel-vulnerability
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18154-escaping-dirty-pipe-a-k-a-cve-2022-0847-mostly-unscathed
- Subject: Replit Agent

You may have heard that there was a very critical Linux kernel vulnerability making the rounds. As with all important enough vulnerabilities, this one has a catchy name: Dirty Pipe (no logo, though).

### Hugging Face — Image search with 🤗 datasets

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2022-03-16
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/image-search-datasets
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2222-image-search-with-datasets
- Subject: Platform

To use the Hugging Face datasets library, combined with faiss and sentence_transformers, to create an image search application using a dataset of digitised book images from the British Library.

### Hugging Face — Accelerate BERT inference with Hugging Face Transformers and AWS Inferentia

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2022-03-16
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/bert-inferentia-sagemaker
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2221-accelerate-bert-inference-with-hugging-face-transformers-and-aws-inferentia
- Subject: Platform

Tutorial on accelerating BERT inference with Hugging Face Transformers and AWS Inferentia on Amazon SageMaker, covering model conversion to AWS Neuron, custom inference script creation, and deployment.

### OpenAI — New GPT-3 capabilities: Edit & insert

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2022-03-15T07:00:00+00:00
- Category: model-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://openai.com/index/gpt-3-edit-insert
- Record: https://forck.live/items/913-new-gpt-3-capabilities-edit-insert
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI announces new versions of GPT-3 and Codex that can edit or insert content into existing text.

### LG AI Research — [NeurIPS 2021] Part 1: Generative model - Diffusion model Review

- Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai)
- Announced: 2022-03-14
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=191
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4958-neurips-2021-part-1-generative-model-diffusion-model-review
- Subject: EXAONE

LG AI Research blog post summarizing research papers from NeurIPS 2021, focusing on generative models and diffusion models.
