AI, MLOps, and Robotics #16

This Week in AI, MLOps, and Robotics:?AI accelerated computing is protecting the planet, building large-scale unsupervised models, Groundlight emerges from stealth, DINOv2 computer vision model, robots are changing retail, Jetson Nano AI system for drones, are large language models a path to AGI, and much more!

Featured Event (May 1st):

Intro to AI Observability: Monitoring ML Models & Data in Production

Register on Eventbrite ↗

?? News & Stories:

• Announcing Google DeepMind (Again) - Read on DeepMind ↗
• Groundlight emerges from stealth with $10M seed round to help businesses use computer vision - Read on VentureBeat ↗
• On Earth Day, 5 Ways AI, Accelerated Computing Are Protecting the Planet - Read on NVIDIA ↗
• How A.I.-powered robots are changing retail - Read on CNBC ↗
• We all contribute to AI — should we get paid for that? - Read on TechCrunch ↗
• When you realize your favorite new song was written and performed by AI - Read on NPR ↗
• Responsible AI at Google Research: Technology, AI, Society, and Culture - Read on Google AI ↗
• Elon Musk wants to develop TruthGPT, ‘a maximum truth-seeking AI’ - Read on TechCrunch ↗

??? Developer Tools & Resources:

• Building a large-scale unsupervised model anomaly detection system - Read on the Lyft engineering blog ↗
• Build a Video to Slides Converter Application using the Power of Background Estimation and Frame Differencing in OpenCV - Read on Learn OpenCV ↗
• Model Serving & Monitoring with BentoML + WhyLabs - Watch on YouTube ↗
• Accelerating Hugging Face Transformers with AWS Inferentia2 - Read on Huggy Face ↗
• AAEON BOXER-8224AI – An NVIDIA Jetson Nano AI Edge embedded system for drones and robotics - Read on CNX Software ↗
• DINOv2: State-of-the-art computer vision models with self-supervised learning - Read on Meta AI ↗
• Training a recommendation model with dynamic embeddings - Read on the TensorFlow blog ↗
• A Step-by-Step Guide to Training Your First Machine Learning Model with JAX - Read on PyImageSearch ↗

??? Upcoming Events (Ordered by date):

• Building computer vision systems in minutes via natural prompting interactions | Online, April 25 - 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:

• Capabilities of LLMs | Practical AI - Listen on Changelog?↗
• Are Large Language Models a Path to AGI? with Ben Goertzel - Listen on TWiML ↗
• Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design | Lex Fridman - Listen on YouTube ↗
• Cloud Machine Learning - Listen on SuperDataScience ↗
• Richard Socher: LLMs, Search, You.com, AGI, Metamind, AIX Ventures - Listen on The Robot Brains ↗
• ML Scalability Challenges with Waleed Kadous - MLOps Podcast - Listen on most podcasts apps ↗

?? Recent ML Research Papers:

• Segment Anything Model for Medical Image Analysis: an Experimental Study - Read on arXiv ↗
• Collaborative Diffusion for Multi-Modal Face Generation and Editing - Read on arXiv ↗
• Nerfbusters: Removing Ghostly Artifacts from Casually Captured NeRFs - Read on arXiv ↗
• Farm3D: Learning Articulated 3D Animals by Distilling 2D Diffusion - Read on arXiv ↗

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