AI, MLOps, and Robotics #27

This Week in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: Google has a new way of training robots, how AI-generated data can poison future models, TensorFlow 2.13 and Keras 2.13, what is Keras Core? Medical Image Segmentation Using ??, How Good is Google Bard's visual understanding, touch-based object rotation, and much more!

My Next Event (Aug 2nd):

Intro to ML Monitoring: Data Drift, Quality, Bias and Explainability

Register on Eventbrite ↗

?? News & Stories:

• Developers Look to OpenUSD in Era of AI and Industrial Digitalization - Read on NVIDIA ↗
• In AI-enabled drug discovery, there might be more than one winner - Read on TechCrunch ↗
• Google is training robots the way it trains AI chatbots - Read on The Verge ↗
• AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models - Read on Scientific America ↗
• A New Dawn in Robotics: Touch-Based Object Rotation - Read on Unite AI ↗

?? Developer Tools & Resources:

• Stable Diffusion XL on Mac with Advanced Core ML Quantization - Read on Hugging Face ↗
• In search of a generalizable method for source-free domain adaptation - Read on Google AI ↗
• Hugging Face and LangKit: Your Solution for LLM Observability - Read on WhyLabs ↗
• What's new in TensorFlow 2.13 and Keras 2.13? - Read on the TensorFlow Blog ↗
• Medical Image Segmentation Using ?? HuggingFace & PyTorch - Read on LearnpOenCV ↗
• Announcing CPP-based S3 IO DataPipes - Read on PyTorch ↗?
• Supercharge Edge AI with NVIDIA TAO on Edge Impulse - Read on Edge impulse ↗
• Community-driven AI innovation comes alive with Llama 2 - Read on Meta AI ↗
• What Is Keras Core? - Read on PyImageSearch ↗
• RT-2: New model translates vision and language into action - Read on DeepMind ↗
• The Transformer Architecture of GPT Models - Read on Medium ↗

??? Upcoming Events (Ordered by date):

• AI Dev Day/Google IO Extended Seattle (AI Edition) | Seattle, July 31, 4:30pm -?Register on AI Camp ↗
• Intro to ML Monitoring: Data Drift, Bias and Explainability |?Online, Aug 2, 10am PT -?Register on Eventbrite ↗
• Outside LLMs AI Music Hackathon | August 4-6 -?RVSP on OutsideLLMs?↗
• AI Tinkerers Seattle - August Meetup | Seattle, Aug 8, 5pm PT - RSVP on AI Tinkerer ↗
• Combining the Power of LLMs with Computer Vision | Online, Aug 9, 10am PT -?Register on Eventbrite ↗
• Intro to Machine Learning | Online, Aug 24th, 11:00am - Register on Eventbrite ↗
• PyTorch Conference 2023:?San Francisco October 16-17 -?Learn more on the PyTorch blog ↗

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• LLMs in Production: Lessons Learned - Joe Heitzeberg, CEO Blueprint AI - Listen on YouTube ↗
• Codeium’s Varun Mohan and Jeff Wang on Unleashing the Power of AI in Software Development | NVIDIA AI podcast - Listen on Soundcloud ↗
• There's a new Llama in town | Practical AI - Listen on Changlog ↗
• BloombergGPT – an LLM for Finance with David Rosenberg - Listen on TWiML ↗
• The Modern Data Stack, with Harry Glaser - Listen on SuperDataScience ↗
• Yaniv Altshuler: AI to Reduce Carbon Emissions - Listen on The Robot Brain Podcast ↗
• LLMs for Everyone - Meryem Arik - Listen on DataTalks Club ↗

?? Recent ML Research Papers:

• To Adapt or Not to Adapt? Real-Time Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation - Read on arXiv ↗
• The RoboDepth Challenge: Methods and Advancements Towards Robust Depth Estimation - Read on arXiv ↗
• MARS: An Instance-aware, Modular and Realistic Simulator for Autonomous Driving - Read on arXiv ↗
• Matching Patients to Clinical Trials with Large Language Models?- Read on arXiv ↗
• How Good is Google Bard's Visual Understanding? An Empirical Study on Open Challenges - Read on arXiv ↗

Hello, world! Every week I keep track of the most exciting 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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