AI, MLOps, & Robotics #1

I've wanted to try the LinkedIn newsletter for a few years, and I thought I should kick off the new year by finally doing it!

I'll try to capture the most interesting news, tool releases, events, podcasts, and research papers around Artificial Intelligence, MLOps, and Robotics in a simple-to-read list. Sometimes I'll add my thoughts. Please add anything you want to highlight in the comments below!

?? News & Stories:

• Nvidia Omniverse adds generative AI with Unity - Read on VentureBeat ↗
• Microsoft is reportedly integrating ChatGPT's technology into Bing Read on Engadget ↗
• Robots of CES: Meet the Cutest, Smartest, and Most Helpful Bots of 2023 - Read on CNET ↗
• Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks - Read on The Guardian ↗

??? Upcoming Events (Ordered by date):

• Live AMA: NLP and Generative Adversarial Networks with Yannic Kilcher (Deep Learning Daily) | Online: Jan 9th, 8:00 am PST - Register on Zoom ↗
• How To Scale Model Serving in Production | Online: January 12th, 7:00 am PST - Register on lightning.ai ↗
• Why Graph Query Language Matters - Jason Koo, Neo4j | Online: Jan 12th, 10:30 am PST - Register on Eventbrite ↗
• Applications of AI and AI Infrastructure Summit | Online: Jan 17, 09:00 am PST - Register on AICamp ↗
• Intro to AI Observability: Monitoring ML Models & Data in Production Workshop | Online: Jan 17th, 10:00 am - Register on Eventbrite ↗
• Practical Learning-to-Rank: Deep, Fast, Precise | Online: Jan 17th, 5:00pm - Register on Eventbrite ↗
• How Aurora Accelerates Autonomous Vehicle ML Model Development Using Kubeflow | Online: Jan 18, 10:00 am PST - Register on MLOps community ↗

• The Robust & Responsible AI Summit (Featuring Andrew Ng) | Online: Jan 26th, 9:15 am - Register on WhyLabs.ai ↗

?? Tools & Tutorials:

• Arduino Puts a Syntiant NDP Machine Learning Chip on Its New Nicla Voice TinyML Development Board - Read on Hackster ↗
• Fine-tuning DETR for Object detection with HuggingFace - Read on HuggingFace ↗
• Building Neural Collaborative Filtering recommendation models with TensorFlow - Watch on YouTube ↗

??? Podcast & Interviews

• TWiML: Service Cards and ML Governance with Michael Kearns - Listen on twiml ↗
• Practical AI: NLP research by & for local communities - Listen on changelog ↗
• The AI Podcast: UF Provost Joe Glover on Building a Leading AI University - Listen on sound cloud ↗

?? Research Papers

• ConvNeXt V2: Co-designing and Scaling ConvNets with Masked Autoencoders - Check it out on Papers with Code ↗
• Muse: Text-To-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformers - Check it out on Papers with Code ↗
• Skip-Attention: Improving Vision Transformers by Paying Less Attention - Read on arxiv ↗

You Can Support This Newsletter By:

• ?? Leaving a comment with anything you found interesting this week!
• ??? Joining the discussion in the Robust & Responsible AI Slack!
• ? Giving the open-source project I work on a GitHub star!

Connect or follow me ( Sage Elliott ) for more content on machine learning, MLOps, and robotics. Have a great week! ??