AI, MLOps, and Robotics #42

This Week in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: Arm Pushes AI, ML to the Edge, How AI could power the climate breakthrough, hard decisions on lethal autonomous weapons, medical imaging AI made easier, 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:

• Arm Pushes AI, ML to the Edge with the Compact, High-Efficiency Helium-Powered Cortex-M52 - Read on Hackster ↗
• An agency created an AI model who earns up to $11,000 a month because it was tired of influencers - Read on Business Insider ↗
• How AI could power the climate breakthrough the world needs - Read on CNN Business ↗
• Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive - Read on The New York times ↗
• Pentagon’s AI initiatives accelerate hard decisions on lethal autonomous weapons - Read on AP News ↗
• Accenture’s Chief AI Officer Lan Guan on Why This Is a Defining Moment - Read on TIME ↗

?? ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• Medical Imaging AI Made Easier: NVIDIA Offers MONAI as Hosted Cloud Service - Read on NVIDIA ↗
• SegFormer ?? : Fine-Tuning for Improved Lane Detection in Autonomous Vehicles - Read on LearnOpenCV ↗
• Tools and Methodologies for Studying Causal Effects - Read on PyImageSearch ↗
• California examines benefits, risks of using artificial intelligence in state government - Read on Los Angeles Times ↗

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

• Prompt Engineering 101 | Nov 27th - RSVP on Luma ↗
• How to Create an LLM Eval from Scratch: Lessons from the Trenches | Nov 28th - RSVP on Arize ↗
• 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 ↗
• MLOps Community Demo Day! [Seattle] | Dec 5th - RSVP on Meetup ↗
• How LLMs are Transforming Computer Vision | Jacob Marks at Voxel51 | Dec 6th - RSVP on Eventbrite ↗
• Women in ML Symposium 2023 | Dec 7th - RSVP on Google AI Developers ↗
• 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 ↗
• Optimize Your LLM Stack - RSVP on Partiful ↗
• Data Analytics and Generative AI | Dec 13th - RSVP on Data Science Dojo ↗
• MLOps Happy Hour [Seattle] | Dec 13th - RSVP on Meetup ↗
• How Milvus Powers Credal’s Mission for “Useful AI, Made Safe” - Read on Zilliz ↗

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• Afresh CEO Nathan Fenner On How AI Can Help Grocers Manage Supply Chains | NVIDIA AI Podcast - Listen on Soundcloud ↗
• Generating product imagery at Shopify | Practical AI podcast - Listen on changelog ↗
• Visual Generative AI Ecosystem Challenges with Richard Zhang - Listen on TWiML ↗
• Humanoid Robot Soccer, with the Dutch RoboCup Team - Listen on SuperDataScience ↗
• Improving simulations of clouds and their effects on climate - Read on Google Research ↗
• Building and Deploying an Image Embedding Application with CLIP-API-Service - Read on BentoML ↗

?? Recent ML Research Papers

• Retrieval-Augmented Layout Transformer for Content-Aware Layout Generation - Read on arXiv ↗
• Deep-learning-based acceleration of MRI for radiotherapy planning of pediatric patients with brain tumors - Read on arXiv ↗
• Visual In-Context Prompting - Read on arXiv ↗
• ZipLoRA: Any Subject in Any Style by Effectively Merging LoRAs - Read on arXiv ↗
• XAGen: 3D Expressive Human Avatars Generation - Read on arXiv ↗
• A Good Feature Extractor Is All You Need for Weakly Supervised Learning in Histopathology - Read on arXiv ↗
• Pelvic floor MRI segmentation based on semi-supervised deep learning - 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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