AI, MLOps, and Robotics #41

This Week in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: Sam Altman ousted, Microsoft creating its own silicon, AI and music, Amazon’s robot can lift up to 2,500 pounds, Emu generative video and Emu editing, data science for astronomy, and much more!

??? Join My Next event (Dec 6th):

I'm doing a fireside chat with Jacob Marks at Voxel51 to talk about how LLMs are transforming computer vision. RSVP to attend live and get the recording. ??

?? AI News & Stories:

• ??Sam Altman ousted as OpenAI’s CEO - Read on TechCrunch ↗
• With a systems approach to chips, Microsoft aims to tailor everything ‘from silicon to service’ to meet AI demand - Read on Microsoft ↗
• ??The 3D printer that crafts complex robotic organs in a single run - Read on Nature ↗

• An early look at the possibilities as we experiment with AI and Music - Read on YouTube ↗
• Introducing Titan, Amazon’s new mobile robot that can lift up to 2,500 pounds - Read on Abut Amazon ↗
• A lawyer fired after citing ChatGPT-generated fake cases is sticking with AI tools: ‘There’s no point in being a naysayer’ - Read on Fortune ↗
• NVIDIA Introduces Generative AI Foundry Service on Microsoft Azure for Enterprises and Startups Worldwide - Read on NVIDIA ↗
• Discord is shutting down its AI chatbot Clyde - Read on The Verge ↗

?? ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)? - Read on NVIDIA ↗
• Fine-Tuning BERT using Hugging Face Transformers - Read on LearnOpenCV ↗
• ??Introducing Emu Video and Emu Edit, our latest generative AI research milestones - Read on Meta AI ↗
• Emerging practices for Society-Centered AI - Read on Google Research ↗
• What's new in TensorFlow 2.15 - Read on TensorFlow Blog ↗
• Accelerating Generative AI with PyTorch: Segment Anything, Fast - Read on PyTorch ↗
• Building and Deploying A Sentence Embedding Service with BentoML - Read on BentoML ↗
• Scaling multimodal understanding to long videos - Read on Google Research ↗
• Faster R-CNNs - Read on PyImageSearch ↗

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

• Large Language Models Agents | Nov 21st - RSVP on Luma ↗
• Prompt Engineering Crash Course | Nov 22nd - RSVP on Data Science Dojo ↗
• Prompt Engineering 101 | Nov 27th - RSVP on Luma ↗
• Flyte School: Learn Your Codebase - Fine-Tuning CodeLlama with Flyte... to Learn Flyte | Nov 30th - RSVP on Union AI ↗
• Monitoring LLMs in Production with Hugging Face and WhyLabs | Nov 30th - RSVP on Eventbrite ↗
• How LLMs are Transforming Computer Vision | Jacob Marks at Voxel51 | Dec 6th - RSVP on Eventbrite ↗
• Safeguarding Data Integrity: On-Prem RAG Deployment | Dec 7th - Register on Zilliz ↗
• Building Yourself a Private Search System with Retrieval Augmentation with Haystack | Dec 7th - RSVP on Voxel51 ↗
• Data Analytics and Generative AI | Dec 13th - RSVP on Data Science Dojo ↗

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• AI trailblazers putting people first | Practical AI - Listen on Changelog ↗
• Deploying Edge and Embedded AI Systems with Heather Gorr - Listen on TWiML ↗
• Data Science for Astronomy, with Dr. Daniela Huppenkothen - Listen on SuperDataScience ↗
• AI for Digital Health - Maria Bruckert | Data Talks Club - Listen on YouTube ↗

?? Recent ML Research Papers

• Emu Edit: Precise Image Editing via Recognition and Generation Tasks - Read on arXiv ↗
• DRESS: Instructing Large Vision-Language Models to Align and Interact with Humans via Natural Language Feedback - Read on arXiv ↗
• ChatGPT-3.5, ChatGPT-4, Google Bard, and Microsoft Bing to Improve Health Literacy and Communication in Pediatric Populations and Beyond - Read on arXiv ↗
• Interpretable Reinforcement Learning for Robotics and Continuous Control - Read on arXiv ↗
• SonoSAMTrack -- Segment and Track Anything on Ultrasound Images - 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 in the comments what I missed this week!

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