AI, MLOps, and Robotics #61

This Week in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: Google goes all in on generative AI, Humane Ai Pin Review, AI method captures uncertainty, faster vector search, framework for inspecting representations of language models, RAG continues to rise, 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:

• Google goes all in on generative AI at Google Cloud Next - Read on TechCrunch
• Generative AI Sucks: Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Calls For A Shift To Objective-Driven AI - Read on Forbes
• Review: Humane Ai Pin "too bare-bones and not all that useful" - Read on Wired
• New AI method captures uncertainty in medical images - Read on MIT News
• Artificial Intelligence ‘Explainability’ Is Overrated - Read on Forbes
• Dartmouth researchers look to meld therapy apps with modern AI - Read on NBC News
• Georgia Tech Unveils New AI Makerspace in Collaboration with NVIDIA - Read on Georga Tech
• Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment? - Read on MIT Technology Review

?? ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• Deploy Segment Anything Model (SAM) for Inference on Amazon SageMaker - Read on Union.ai
• Patchscopes: A unifying framework for inspecting hidden representations of language models - Read on Google
• Vision Language Models Explained - Read on Hugging Face
• Faster Dynamically Quantized Inference with XNNPack - Read on TensorFlow
• Making thousands of open LLMs bloom in the Vertex AI Model Garden - Read on Hugging Face
• SOAR: New algorithms for even faster vector search with ScaNN - Read on Google
• Neo4j Brings GraphRAG Capabilities for GenAI to Google Cloud - Read on Neo4j
• CodeGemma - an official Google release for code LLMs - Read on Hugging Face
• OpenEQA: From word models to world models - Read on Meta AI
• Our next-generation Meta Training and Inference Accelerator - Read on Meta AI
• Integrating Gradio with OpenCV DNN - Read on LearnOpenCV
• Picking the Brain of AI: BrainChip on the State of Neuromorphic Processing - Read on Edge Impulse

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

• 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
• Deep Reinforcement Learning for Maximizing Profits, with Prof. Barrett Thomas - Listen on SuperDataScience

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• Cleanlab's Curtis Northcutt and Berkeley Research Group's Steven Gawthorpe on AI for Fighting Crime - Listen on NVIDIA
• RAG continues to rise | Practical AI Podcast - Listen on changelog
• Localizing and Editing Knowledge in LLMs with Peter Hase - Listen on TWiML
• Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on the rapid progress of AI, and its impact on society - Listen on GeekWire

?? Recent ML Research Papers

• AutoCodeRover: Autonomous Program Improvement - Read on arXiv
• InstantMesh: Efficient 3D Mesh Generation from a Single Image with Sparse-view Large Reconstruction Models - Read on arXiv
• LLM2Vec: Large Language Models Are Secretly Powerful Text Encoders - Read on arXiv
• Taming Stable Diffusion for Text to 360° Panorama Image Generation - Read on arXiv
• OpenBias: Open-set Bias Detection in Text-to-Image Generative Models - Read on arXiv

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