AI, MLOps, and Robotics #23

This Week in AI, MLOps, and Robotics:?Can Machines Garden, Salesforce enters the LLM space, How ChatGPT Is Transforming the Classroom, learn fundamentals of generative AI from DeepLearning.AI, The AI behind unconnected content recommendations at Meta, MLOps Community Happy Hour, Democratizing AI, and much more!

My Next Event (July 19th):

Intro to LLM Monitoring in Production with LangKit

Register on Eventbrite ↗

?? News & Stories:

• ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces a lawsuit over how it used people’s data - Read on the Washington Post ↗
• Watch This Space: New Field of Spatial Finance Uses AI to Estimate Risk, Monitor Assets, Analyze Claims - Read on NVIDA ↗
• AI's Teachable Moment: How ChatGPT Is Transforming the Classroom - Read on CNET ↗
• How confidential computing could secure generative AI adoption - Read on TechCrunch ↗
• Whose generated line is it anyway? AI tries to crack humour’s DNA - Read on The Guardian ↗

?? Developer Tools & Resources:

• Long Sequence Modeling with XGen: A 7B LLM Trained on 8K Input Sequence Length - Read on Salesforce ↗
• Learn the fundamentals of generative AI for real-world applications - Read on DeepLearning.AI ↗
• Robolfow launches Supervision: a set of easy-to-use utilities that will be useful in any computer vision project - Learn more on GitHub ↗
• Bias in Text-to-Image Models - Read on Hugging Face ↗
• On-device diffusion plugins for conditioned text-to-image generation - Read on Google AI Blog ↗
• The Path to Achieve Ultra-Low Inference Latency With LLaMA 65B on PyTorch/XLA - Read on PyTorch Blog ↗
• The AI behind unconnected content recommendations on Facebook and Instagram - Read on Meta AI ↗
• Drone Programming with Computer Vision: A Beginner’s Guide - Read on Learn OpenCV ↗
• BYOF: Bring Your Own Functions - Announcing UDFs in whylogs - Read on WhyLabs ↗
• Edge Impulse Announces IMU and Microphone Support for Seeed’s Grove Vision AI Module - Read on Edge Impulse ↗

??? Upcoming Events (Ordered by date):

June - July is often a slower time for events; please add any you know to comment on this Newsletter!

• Why Machine Learning Design is Broken | Online, July 3, 3:30am PT - Register on Eventbrite ↗
• Investing in Open-Source Data Tools | Online, July 11, 3:30am PT - Register on Eventbrite ↗
• StateoftheArt() - A Generative AI Conference on LLMS and AI Agents?| Online, Jul 11, 9:00am PT -?Register on AI Camp ↗
• MLOps Happy Hour | Seattle, July 27, 5:30pm - Register on Meetup ↗
• PyTorch Conference 2023:?San Francisco October 16-17 -?Learn more on the PyTorch blog ↗

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• Democratizing AI // Yujian Tang | MLOps Podcast - Listen on YouTube ↗
• George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT and AGI - Listen on YouTube ↗
• Matice Founder Jessica Whited on Harnessing Regenerative Species for Medical Breakthroughs | NVIDIA AI Podcast - Listen on Soundcloud ↗
• Automated cartography using AI | Practical AI - Listen on Changelog ↗
• Data Augmentation and Optimized Architectures for Computer Vision with Fatih Porikli - Listen on TWiML ↗
• A.I. Accelerators: Hardware Specialized for Deep Learning - Listen on SuperDataScience ↗

?? Recent ML Research Papers:

• Can Machines Garden? Systematically Comparing the AlphaGarden vs. Professional Horticulturalists - Read on ArXiv ↗
• Generative AI for Programming Education: Benchmarking ChatGPT, GPT-4, and Human Tutors - Read on ArXiv ↗
• Generate Anything Anywhere in Any Scene - Read on ArXiv ↗
• Deep Ensemble for Rotorcraft Attitude Prediction - Read on ArXiv ↗
• Detect Any Deepfakes: Segment Anything Meets Face Forgery Detection and Localization - Read on ArXiv ↗
• Advances and Applications of Computer Vision Techniques in Vehicle Trajectory Generation and Surrogate Traffic Safety Indicators - 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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