# forck.live — 2–8 January 2023 > 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 2023-W01, 2–8 January 2023, 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/2023-W01 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### LG AI Research — [NeurIPS 2022] LobsDICE: Offline Learning from Observation via Stationary Distribution Correction Estimation - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2023-01-06 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=294 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4911-neurips-2022-lobsdice-offline-learning-from-observation-via-stationary - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research introduces LobsDICE, a new offline learning from observation algorithm accepted at NeurIPS 2022, which uses stationary distribution correction estimation to mimic expert policy from state-only demonstrations without environment interaction. ### Replit — The Fourth Age Of Programming - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-01-04 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/fourth - Record: https://forck.live/items/18073-the-fourth-age-of-programming - Subject: Replit Agent The technological singularity —or simply the singularity—is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization. According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, I.J. Good's intelligence explosion model, an upgradable intelligent agent will eventually enter a "runaway reaction" of self-improvement cycles, each new and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing an "explosion" in intelligence and resulting in a powerful superintelligence that qualitatively far surpasses all human intelligence. — Wikipedia In normieland, where I still spend plenty of time both online and IRL, software’s newfound ability to write, draw, and speak like we humans is often taken as evidence that the machines are about to remake our entire society (again) and totally change the nature and value of labor (again). I don’t think the normies are wrong about this, but as flashy as Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT are, old heads know that the Robot Apocalypse has exactly one and only one horseman : computer programs that can write computer programs . … ### OpenAI — Delivering nuanced insights from customer feedback - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2023-01-04 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/yabble - Record: https://forck.live/items/881-delivering-nuanced-insights-from-customer-feedback - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI is using GPT-3 to provide fast and nuanced insights from customer feedback. ### OpenAI — Fine-tuning GPT-3 to scale video creation - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2023-01-03T08:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/waymark - Record: https://forck.live/items/882-fine-tuning-gpt-3-to-scale-video-creation - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI is fine-tuning GPT-3 to power and scale done-for-you video creation. ### Replit — Replit in Review: A Recap of What We Shipped in 2022 - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-01-03 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://replit.com/blog/replit-recap-2022 - Record: https://forck.live/items/18216-replit-in-review-a-recap-of-what-we-shipped-in-2022 - Subject: Replit Agent As we work on game-changing features for 2023, we wanted to take a look back at the major things we shipped in 2022. Here are some highlights! Shipping SZN 2022 Product (1/19) Teams Pro - The Replit solution for companies and organizations. Private Repls. Team collaboration. Boosted performance. The future of cloud-based development. More to come in 2023. (2/28) Kaboom Draw - Kaboomjs, our innovative gaming programming language, is already surging in popularity, but we are constantly improving it. With Kaboom Draw, developers can now adjust images with a click & drag in Bret Victor style. (3/31) Search Replit - The scale of Replit is amazing. +100M Repls... and growing rapidly. What's even more amazing? Being able to search through ALL of them. (4/18) New Replit Profiles - Community is a core part of Replit. Developers all around the world, of all experiences, connecting over a common passion for building. Now, with profiles, you can add social, showcase your work, see who else is online, and much more. (6/1) Generate Code - Tell the computer what you want. Have it generate code for you. A big step towards some of the amazing AI tools we're continuing to build. … ### Hugging Face — Introduction to Graph Machine Learning - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-01-03 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/intro-graphml - Record: https://forck.live/items/2114-introduction-to-graph-machine-learning - Subject: Platform Educational blog post on graph machine learning concepts. ### Hugging Face — Accelerating PyTorch Transformers with Intel Sapphire Rapids - part 1 - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-01-02 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/intel-sapphire-rapids - Record: https://forck.live/items/2116-accelerating-pytorch-transformers-with-intel-sapphire-rapids-part-1 - Subject: Platform To accelerate PyTorch transformer training on a cluster of Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs using Intel oneAPI CCL and IPEX, with instructions for setting up on AWS R7iz instances. ### Hugging Face — AI for Game Development: Creating a Farming Game in 5 Days. Part 1 - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-01-02 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/ml-for-games-1 - Record: https://forck.live/items/2115-ai-for-game-development-creating-a-farming-game-in-5-days-part-1 - Subject: Platform This blog post is part 1 of a series on using AI tools for game development, focusing on using the open-source model Stable Diffusion to determine the art style for a farming game, with instructions on setting it up locally or online and generating concept art.