AI, MLOps, and Robotics #15

This Week in AI, MLOps, and Robotics:?Elon Musk founds X.AI, AWS announces tools generative AI, robotic worms, Segment Anything Model makes data annotation easier, building LLM applications for production, benchmarking AI inference at the edge, and much more!

Featured Event:

Model Serving & Monitoring with BentoML + WhyLabs

April 19th

Register on Eventbrite ↗

?? News & Stories:

• Elon Musk Founds New Artificial Intelligence Company X.AI - Read on The Verge ↗
• AWS Announces New Tools for Building with Generative AI - Read on AWS ↗
• First hands-free self-driving system approved for British motorways - Read on The Guardian ↗
• Why robotic worms could one day dig beneath your feet - Read on BBC ↗
• Researchers used machine learning to improve the first photo of a black hole - Read on Engadget ↗
• Streaming sites urged not to let AI use music to clone pop stars - Read on The Guardian ↗

??? Developer Tools & Resources:

• The Facebook Segment Anything Model is now available in the self-hosted version of CVAT - Read on CVAT ↗ It's also available in Roboflow!
• Building LLM applications for production - Read on Chip Huyen's Blog ↗
• Scythe Robotics releases open-source CANopen stack - Read on The Robot Report ↗
• A new, unique AI dataset for animating amateur drawings - Read on Meta AI ↗
• Graph classification with Transformers - Read on Hugging Face ↗
• Benchmarking AI Inference at the Edge | Edge Impulse - Watch on YouTube ↗
• A Guide To ML Monitoring And Drift Detection - Read on Model Serving ↗
• Robotic deep RL at scale: Sorting waste and recyclables with a fleet of robots - Read on the Google AI blog ↗
• Intro to AI Observability: Monitoring ML Models & Data in Production - Watch on YouTube ↗

??? Upcoming Events (Ordered by date):

• Effective Domain-Driven Design for Machine Learning Products | Online, April 19, 7:30am PT -?Register on Eventbrite ↗?
• Model Serving & Monitoring with BentoML + WhyLabs | April 19, 10:00am PT -?Register on Eventbrite ↗
• PyData Seattle Conference | Seattle, April 26 - 28 -?Register on PyData ↗
• Semantic Layer Summit 2023 | Online, April 26, 10:30am PT -?Register on AI Camp ↗
• Intro to AI Observability: Monitoring ML Models & Data in Production | Online, May 1, 10:00 am - Register on Eventbrite ↗
• Machine Learning in Digital Identity | Online, May 2, 3am PT -?Register on Eventbrite ↗
• Open Source MLOps on Public Cloud?| Online, May 2, 7:30am PT -?Register on Eventbrite ↗
• WhyLabs and Databricks: Simplifying ML Monitoring in Complex Environments | Online, May 10, 10:00am PT - Register on Eventbrite ↗

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast - Listen on YouTube ↗
• How GlüxKind Created Ella, the AI-Powered Smart Strolle | NVIDIA AI Podcast - Listen on Soundcloud ↗
• Computer Scientists as rogue art historians | Practical AI Podcast - Listen on Changelog ↗
• Open Source Generative AI at Hugging Face with Jeff Boudier - Listen on TWiML ↗
• Streaming, reactive, real-time machine learning - Listen on SuperDataScience ↗
• Raluca Ada Popa joins Host Pieter Abbeel: Data Privacy, AI, Enclaves, Confidential Computing - Listen on The Robot Brains Podcast ↗

?? Recent ML Research Papers:

• Segment Everything Everywhere All at Once - Read on arXiv ↗
• Pre-Training for Robots: Offline RL Enables Learning New Tasks from a Handful of Trials - Read on arXiv ↗
• RoboBEV: Towards Robust Bird's Eye View Perception under Corruptions - Read on arXiv ↗
• Expressive Text-to-Image Generation with Rich Text - Read on arXiv ↗
• STU-Net: Scalable and Transferable Medical Image Segmentation Models Empowered by Large-Scale Supervised Pre-training - Read on arXiv ↗

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