AI, MLOps, and Robotics #60

This Week in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: A Tesla robotaxi is coming, Can AI save the world? how to scale AI model deployment, Apple is developing robots, training LLMs over neurally compressed text , and much more!

My next event: Join me at the next fireside chat as we speak with Jason Koo from Neo4j about advanced RAG techniques with graph databases for LLMs. Register to attend live, ask questions, and get the recording!

?? AI News & Stories:

• Elon Musk says he’ll unveil a Tesla robotaxi on August 8 - Read on TechCrunch
• Can AI save the world? New book from Microsoft aims to show the potential for positive change - Read on GeekWire
• Our Approach to Labeling AI-Generated Content and Manipulated Media - Read on Meta
• Teachers are using AI to grade essays. But some experts are raising ethical concerns - Read on CNN
• How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I - Read on The New York Times
• Apple Reportedly Developing Robots That'll Roam Your Home - Read on CNET

?? ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• Scaling AI Model Deployment - Read on BentoML
• Retrieval Augmented Generation – RAG with LLMs - Read on LearnOpenCv
• Accelerating MoE model inference with Locality-Aware Kernel Design - Read on PyTorch
• Text2SQL using Hugging Face Datasets Server API and Motherduck DuckDB-NSQL-7B - Read on Hugging Face
• Flyte Agents: A Developer Perspective - Read on Union AI
• Seeed Unveils the Compact Matter-Ready XIAO ESP32C6 Dev Board - Read on Hackster
• Hugging Face partners with Wiz Research to Improve AI Security - Read on Hugging Face
• The Evolution and Future of Vector Databases - Read on Zilliz

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

• 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
• Integrating Multimodal AI in Your Apps with Floom | April 15th - Register on Zilliz
• Advanced RAG techniques with Graph Databases for LLMs | Jason Koo - Neo4j | May 1st - Register on Eventbrite
• A Beginners Guide to Building a RAG App Using Open Source Milvus | May 2nd - Register on Zilliz
• Enhancing Fine-Tuning Efficiency with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) | May 8th - Register on Data Science Dojo
• LangGraph & Langchain: Revolutionizing Information Access | May 22nd - Register on Data Science Dojo

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• Dotlumen CEO Cornel Amariei on Assistive Technology for the Visually Impaired - Listen on NVIDIA
• Should kids still learn to code? | Practical AI - Listen on Changelog
• Coercing LLMs to Do and Reveal (Almost) Anything with Jonas Geiping - Listen on TWiML
• Gradient Boosting: XGBoost, LightGBM and CatBoost, with Kirill Eremenko - Listen on SuperDataScience

?? Recent ML Research Papers

• Training LLMs over Neurally Compressed Text - Read on arXiv
• Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction - Read on Papers with Code
• ROBUST: 221 Bugs in the Robot Operating System - Read on arXiv
• Locating and Editing Factual Associations in Mamba - Read on arXiv
• Capabilities of Large Language Models in Control Engineering: A Benchmark Study on GPT-4, Claude 3 Opus, and Gemini 1.0 Ultra - Read on arXiv
• OpenNeRF: Open Set 3D Neural Scene Segmentation with Pixel-Wise Features and Rendered Novel Views - 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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