AI, MLOps, and Robotics #19

This Week in AI, MLOps, and Robotics:?Google I/O's Announcements, Robots Reinventing Food Delivery, Expansion of Zipline Home Drone Delivery, ?What’s new in TensorFlow and Keras, AI Agents and Data Integration, low-latency text generation, and more!

My Next Event (May 17th):

Build and Monitor Computer Vision Models with Keras + WhyLabs

Register on Eventbrite ↗

?? News & Stories:

• Google I/O's Big Reveals: Pixel Fold, Pixel 7A, Android 14, AI and More - Read on CNET ↗
• Startup’s AI Slashes Paperwork for Doctors Across Africa - Read on the NVIDIA Blog ↗
• An influencer used OpenAI’s technology to create an A.I. version of herself that will be your girlfriend for $1 per minute - Read on Fortune ?↗
• How Uber's Robotics Partner Is Reinventing the $310B Food Delivery Industry - Read on Entrepreneur ↗
• European Union Set to Be Trailblazer in Global Rush to Regulate Artificial Intelligence - Read on Time ↗
• JPL’s Snake-Like EELS Slithers Into New Robotics Terrain - Read on NASA ↗
• Expansion of Zipline Home Drone Delivery Services: GNC, Pagliacci Pizza, and More - Read on Dronelife ↗ I shared how Zipline was making me excited for drones again a couple of months ago; it will be interesting to see their new design in action!

??? Developer Tools & Resources:

• Meet YOLO-NAS: New YOLO Object Detection Model Beats YOLOv6 & YOLOv8 - Read on LearnOpenCV ↗
• Assisted Generation: a new direction toward low-latency text generation - Read on Hugging Face ↗
• Enabling conversational interaction on mobile with LLMs - Read on the Google AI Blog ↗
• Google I/O 2023: What’s new in TensorFlow and Keras? - Read on the TensorFlow blog ↗
• AI and Machine Learning @ I/O Recap - Read on the TensorFlow blog ↗
• Get Early Access to the First Purpose-Built Monitoring Solution for LLMs - Read on WhyLabs ↗
• Introduction to Causality in Machine Learning - Read on PyImageSearch ↗
• Let's Talk Trash: Sorting Waste with Computer Vision and Robotics - Read on Edge Impulse ↗
• ImageBind: Holistic AI learning across six modalities - Read on Meta AI ↗

??? Upcoming Events (Ordered by date):

Note: fewer events are scheduled in the coming months; if you have any you'd like me to include, leave a comment!

• [ATOM] Advanced/All Topics on Machine Learning discussion group | Seattle, May 16, 6:00pm - RSVP on Meetup
• Build and Monitor Computer Vision Models | Online, May 17, 10:00am PT -?Register on Eventbrite ↗
• ML Meetup: LLMs with LangChain?| Austin, May 17, 5:00pm PT -?Register on AI Camp ↗
• Code that Creates: A Stable Diffusion Meetup | Seattle, May 23, 6:00pm - Register on Luma ↗
• Intro to ML Monitoring: Data Drift, Quality, Bias and Explainability?| Online, May 24, 3:00pm PT-?Register on Eventbrite ↗

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation - Listen on the Lex Fridman Podcast ↗

Bojan Tunguz & Johnny Israeli on How AI and Crowdsourcing Can Advance Vaccine Distribution | NVIDIA AI Podcast - Listen on Soundcloud ↗

The last mile of AI app development | Practical AI - Listen on Changelog ↗

AI Agents and Data Integration with GPT and LLaMa with Jerry Liu - Listen on TWiML ↗

Digital Analytics with Avinash Kaushik - Listen on SuperDataScience ↗

Google I/O highlights, AI risks and rewards, and the future of creativity - Listen on GeekWire ↗

?? Recent ML Research Papers:

Rhino: An Autonomous Robot for Mapping Underground Mine Environments - Read on arXiv ↗

A Survey on Intersectional Fairness in Machine Learning: Notions, Mitigation, and Challenges - Read on arXiv ↗

Meta-hallucinator: Towards Few-Shot Cross-Modality Cardiac Image Segmentation?- Read on arXiv ↗

Discovering Bugs in Vision Models using Off-the-shelf Image Generation and Captioning?- Read on arXiv ↗

Hello, world! Every week I keep track of the most interesting news, resources, events, podcasts, and papers I find around AI, MLOps, and robotics. Sometimes I sprinkle in my opinions. Let me know what I missed this week in the comments!

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