AI, MLOps, and Robotics #37

This Week in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: Future of Surgery With AI, OpenAI is exploring AI chips, A new method for watermarking AI images, Pushing Back on AI Hype, High-performance Llama 2 deployments, and much more!

Join My Next Free Workshop (Oct 17th):

Intro to ML Monitoring: Data Drift, Quality, Bias, and Explainability | Oct 17 - RSVP on Eventbrite ↗

?? AI News & Stories:

• Brains of the Operation: Atlas Meditech Maps Future of Surgery With AI, Digital Twins - Read on NVIDIA ↗
• Exclusive: ChatGPT-owner OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips - Read on Reuters ↗
• Why AI Is Medicine’s Biggest Moment Since Antibiotics - Read on The Wall Street Journal ↗
• The BBC is blocking OpenAI data scraping but is open to AI-powered journalism - Read on The Verge ↗
• AI was asked to create images of Black African docs treating white kids. How'd it go? - Read on NPR ↗The Ways Chinese Tech Giant Alibaba Is Using Generative Artificial Intelligence - Read on Forbes ↗

?? ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• Stable Signature: A new method for watermarking images created by open source generative AI - Read on Meta AI ↗
• Semantic Segmentation using KerasCV DeepLabv3+ - Read on LearnOpenCV ↗ Chat Templates: An End to the Silent Performance Killer - Read on Hugging Face ↗
• High performance Llama 2 deployments with AWS Inferentia2 using TorchServe - Read on PyTorch ↗Sequences and Systems: The Convergence of Machine Learning and Biotech - Read on union AI ↗
• A Deep Dive into Variational Autoencoders with PyTorch - Read on PyImageSearch ↗
• Scalable spherical CNNs for scientific applications - Read on Google Research ↗
• OpenLLM in Action Part 2: Deploying Llama 2 13B on BentoCloud - Read on BentoML ↗
• Shaking Things Up in Predictive Maintenance - Read on Edge Impulse ↗
• Intro to LLM Monitoring in Production with LangKit - Watch on YouTube ↗
• Segment Anything Model (SAM) has a cool new site! - See on Meta AI ↗

??? Upcoming AI Events (Ordered by date):

• AI Meetup (Virtual): Open Source Library for GenAI and LLMs | Oct 10 - RSVP on AI Camp ↗
• Milvus in Action: The Vector Database Behind Troop's Shareholder Activism | Oct 10 - RSVP on Zilliz ↗
• AI Book Club: Natural Language Processing with Transformers | Week 2 | Oct 10 - RSVP on LinkedIn ↗
• Mastering Fine-tuning: A Crash Course on Fine-tuning GPT-3.5 Turbo - RSVP on Data Science Dojo ↗
• Intro to ML Monitoring: Data Drift, Quality, Bias, and Explainability | Oct 17 - RSVP on Eventbrite ↗
• PyTorch Conference 2023:?San Francisco October 16-17 -?Learn more on the PyTorch blog ↗
• Revolutionizing Healthcare: Generative AI and Prompt Engineering in Emergency Medicine - RSVP on Data Science Dojo ↗
• Machine Learning with Ray: Supercharge Your GPU Clusters | Oct 17 - Register on luma ↗
• AI Workshop (Virtual): Building Generative AI workflows | Oct 17th - RSVP on AI Camp ↗
• Create and Monitor LLM Summarization Apps using OpenAI and WhyLabs | Oct 25th - RSVP on Eventbrite ↗
• Evaluation Builds Better Retrieval Augmented Generation Applications | Oct 26 - RSVP on Zilliz ↗
• The Trade-off Between Simplicity And Optimality In Problem-solving | Oct 31 - RSVP on Luma ↗

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• NVIDIA’s Jim Fan delves into large language models and their industry impact | NVIDIA podcast - Listen on SoundCloud ↗
• Generative models: exploration to deployment | Practical AI - Listen on changelog ↗
• Pushing Back on AI Hype with Alex Hanna - Listen on TWiML ↗
• Computational Mathematics and Fluid Dynamics, with Prof. Margot Gerritsen - Listen on SuperDataScience ↗
• Alessya Visnjic - WhyLabs | What Fuels You Podcast - Listen on YouTube ↗

?? Recent ML Research Papers

• Improved Baselines with Visual Instruction Tuning - Read on arXiv ↗
• The Un-Kidnappable Robot: Acoustic Localization of Sneaking People - Read on arXiv ↗
• ContactGen: Generative Contact Modeling for Grasp Generation - Read on arXiv ↗
• Spuriosity Rankings: Sorting Data to Measure and Mitigate Biases - Read on arXiv ↗
• Stylist: Style-Driven Feature Ranking for Robust Novelty Detection - Read on arXiv ↗
• OMG-ATTACK: Self-Supervised On-Manifold Generation of Transferable Evasion Attacks - 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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