AI, MLOps, and Robotics #28

This Week in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: jobs most exposed to AI, Apple is spending a lot on generative AI, Encrypted Large Language Models (LLMs), Airforce Valkyrie flight powered by AI, Multimodal medical AI, and more!

My Next Event (Aug 9th):

Combining the Power of LLMs with Computer Vision - Jacob Marks, Voxel51

Register on Eventbrite ↗

?? News & Stories:

• How Seattle startups are ‘supercharging’ internal operations with AI - Read on GeekWire ↗
• What jobs are most exposed to AI? Pew research reveals tasks more likely to be replaced. - Read on USA Today ↗
• Is artificial intelligence a threat to journalism, or will the technology destroy itself? - Read on The Guardian ↗
• How enterprises can harness foundation models for AI development - Read on LabelBox ↗
• Tim Cook says its $22.6 billion research spend is for generative AI - Read on Insider ↗
• Air Force Research Laboratory touts first successful Valkyrie flight powered by AI - Read on The Hill ↗

?? Developer Tools & Resources:

• Open-sourcing AudioCraft: Generative AI for audio made simple and available to all - Read on Meta AI ↗
• Towards Encrypted Large Language Models with FHE - Read on Hugging Face ↗
• How to Build Generative AI Applications and 3D Virtual Worlds - Read on NVIDIA ↗
• Multimodal medical AI - Read on Google AI ↗
• AMD's Journey to Openness and Performance - Read on PyTorch ↗
• Introducing the Modern AI Orchestration Resource Hub - Read on Union AI ↗
• Navigating FDA's AI Guidelines for Medical Devices: The Edge Impulse Perspective - Read on Edge Impulse ↗

??? Upcoming Events (Ordered by date):

• 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 ↗
• Build and Monitor Computer Vision Models with TensorFlow/Keras | Online, Aug 23, 10:00am PT - Register on Eventbrite
• Intro to Machine Learning | Online, Aug 24th, 11:00am -?Register on Eventbrite ↗
• Monitoring LLMs in Production with Hugging Face & WhyLabs | Online, Sep 6, 10:000am - Register on Eventbrite ↗
• PyTorch Conference 2023:?San Francisco October 16-17 -?Learn more on the PyTorch blog ↗

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans | Lex Fridman Podcast - Listen on YouTube ↗
• Vector databases (beyond the hype) | Practical AI - Listen on Changelog ↗
• The Enterprise LLM Landscape with Atul Deo - Listen on TWiML ↗
• Generative A.I. without the Privacy Risks - Listen on SuperDataScience ↗

?? Recent ML Research Papers:

• Top 5 AI papers of July 2023 - Read on LearnOpenCV ↗
• The All-Seeing Project: Towards Panoptic Visual Recognition and Understanding of the Open World - Read on arXiv ↗
• DETR Doesn't Need Multi-Scale or Locality Design - Read on arXiv ↗
• Higher Chest X-ray Resolution Improves Classification Performance - Read on arXiv ↗
• FROD: Robust Object Detection for Free - Read on arXiv ↗
• Masked Diffusion Models Are Fast and Privacy-Aware Learners?- 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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