AI, MLOps, and Robotics #59

This Week in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: Databricks announces DBRX, a Boom in AI-Enabled Medical Devices, AI “agents” could do real work, a unified interface for Zero-Shot vision models in robotics, the Chatbot Guardrails Arena, and much more!

?? AI News & Stories:

• Announcing DBRX: A new standard for efficient open source LLMs - Read on Databricks
• Boom in AI-Enabled Medical Devices Transforms Healthcare - Read on NVIDIA
• AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them - Read on The Washinton Post
• Wearable AI: will it put our smartphones out of fashion? - Read on The Gaurdian
• AI “agents” could do real work in the real world. That might not be a good thing. - Read on Vox
• Orchard vision system turns farm equipment into AI-powered data collectors - Read on TechCrunch

?? ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• Pollen-Vision: Unified interface for Zero-Shot vision models in robotics - Read on Hugging Face
• A Guide to Open-Source Image Generation Models - Read on BentoML
• Fine-Tuning YOLOv9 Models on Custom Dataset - Read on LearnopenCV
• Introducing the Chatbot Guardrails Arena - Read on Hugging Face
• Generative AI to quantify uncertainty in weather forecasting - Read on Google Research
• Total noob’s intro to Hugging Face Transformers - Read on Hugging Face
• Classifying Medical Imaging On-Device with Edge Impulse and BrainChip - Read on Edge Impulse
• Langchain Tools: Revolutionizing AI Development with Advanced Toolsets - Read on Zilliz
• Build a Gesture-Based Light Controller with Computer Vision - Read on RoboFlow

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

• Monitoring LLMs in Production using LangChain and WhyLabs | April 2nd - Register on WhyLabs
• Vector Databases Explained | April 3rd - Register on Data Science Dojo
• Exploring and Understanding Multimodal Embeddings | April 3rd - Register on Luma
• LLM Evals in Practice: LLM Task Evals for Business Use Cases | April 4th - Register on Arize AI
• PyCascades (Seattle or Online) | April 6th - 7th - Register on PyCascades
• System Design in Data Engineering | April 9th - Register on Luma
• Optimizing LLM Retrieval Strategies with Arize AI & Qdrant | April 17th - Register on Arize AI
• Seattle: Build Scalable Workflows for Large Language Models (LLMs) | April 17th - Register on Eventbrite
• The Battle of Giants: Causal AI vs NLP | April 17th - Register on Data Science Dojo
• Hallucination-Free LLMs: Strategies for Monitoring and Mitigation | April 24th - Register on Data Science Dojo
• Let’s Get Better Step By Step - Llms For The Mass Market | April 24th - Register on Weights & Biases

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• AI vs software devs | Practical AI podcast - Listen on Changelog
• V-JEPA, AI Reasoning from a Non-Generative Architecture with Mido Assran - Listen on TWiML
• Generative AI for Medicine, with Prof. Zack Lipton - Listen on SuperDataScience
• Personalized Health: Viome's Guru Banavar Discusses Startup’s AI-Driven Approach - Listen on NVIDIA

?? Recent ML Research Papers

• Mini-Gemini: Mining the Potential of Multi-modality Vision Language Models - Read on Papers with Code
• VoiceCraft: Zero-Shot Speech Editing and Text-to-Speech in the Wild - Read on Papers with Code
• AniPortrait: Audio-Driven Synthesis of Photorealistic Portrait Animation - Read on Papers with Code
• Detecting Image Attribution for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models in RGB and Beyond - Read on arXiv
• MagicLens: Self-Supervised Image Retrieval with Open-Ended Instructions - Read on arXiv

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