AI, MLOps, and Robotics #64

This Week in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: An AI-controlled fighter jet, AI-generated foreign ministry, NASA Showcases robotics Innovations, PyTorch is taking LLMs to the Edge, Open-Source Video Dubbing, The ISO Standard for Graphs(GQL), Advanced RAG techniques, and much more!

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?? AI News & Stories:

• An AI-controlled fighter jet took the Air Force leader for a historic ride. What that means for war - Read on AP News
• An AI tool used in thousands of criminal cases is facing legal challenges - Read on NBC News
• Ukraine unveils AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson - Read on the Gaurdian
• Natural language boosts LLM performance in coding, planning, and robotics - Read on MIT News
• NASA Showcases Innovations at the 2024 FIRST Robotics World Championships - Read on NASA
• How Artificial Intelligence Is Making 2,000-Year-Old Scrolls Readable Again - Read on the Smithsonian
• OpenAI to use FT journalism to train artificial intelligence systems - Read on the Gaurdian

?? ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• NVIDIA AI Microservices for Drug Discovery, Digital Health Now Integrated With AWS - Read on NVIDIA
• ExecuTorch Alpha: Taking LLMs and AI to the Edge with Our Community and Partners - Read on PyTorch
• SDXL Inpainting: Fusing Image Inpainting with Stable Diffusion - Read on LearnOpenCV
• Open-Source Video Dubbing Using Whisper, M2M, Coqui XTTS, and Sad Talker - Read on Union
• Deep Dive into LlaMA 3 by Hand - Read on Towards Data Science
• Georgia Tech and Meta create massive open dataset to advance AI solutions for carbon capture - Read on Meta AI
• Keys To Understanding ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models - Read on Arize
• The Essential Role of Vector Databases in LLMOps - Read on Union
• Transforming PDFs into Insights: Vectorizing and Ingesting - Read on Zilliz
• CVPR 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks – Part 2: Benchmarks - Read on Voxel51
• Product spotlight: Native LLM & multimodal support for hybrid evaluation - Read on Labelbox
• GQL: The ISO Standard for Graphs Has Arrived - Read on Neo4j
• Scaling hierarchical agglomerative clustering to trillion-edge graphs - Read on Google Research
• Improving Prompt Consistency with Structured Generations - Read on Hugging Face

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

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• AI Book Club: Reliable Machine Learning Kickoff! | May 7th - Register on LinkedIn
• AI meetup (May): AI, LLMs, and ML - Seattle | May 7th - Register on AI Camp
• Enhancing Fine-Tuning Efficiency with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) | May 8th - Register on Data Science Dojo
• Build Your Own AI Coding Assistant with Vision GPT | May 15th - Register on Data Science Dojo
• Women in Data Science Conference -Seattle | May 14th - Register on WiDs puget Sound
• Electronics and Robotics Meetup - Seattle | May 14th - Register on Meetup
• AI Workshop: Self-hosted LLMs Agent and Build Scalable Workflows for LLMs - SF | May 15th - Register on AI Camp
• Bytes & Brews - Bay Area | May 15th - Register on Weka
• Securing and Controlling LLM Applications With LangChain and WhyLabs | May 15th - Register on WhyLabs
• LangGraph & Langchain: Revolutionizing Information Access | May 22nd - Register on Data Science Dojo
• Improving and Evaluating Your RAG Application | May 21st - Register on Arize
• AI Quality conference - SF | [use 'testinprod' for 20% off ] | June 25th - Register on AI Quality Conference

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• The Tidyverse of Essential R Libraries and their Python Analogues, with Dr. Hadley Wickham - Listen on SuperDataScience
• Advanced RAG techniques with Graph Databases for LLMs with Jason Koo from Neo4j - Listen on YouTube
• Explainable AI: Insights from Arthur's Adam Wenchel - Listen on NVIDIA
• Orchestrating AI Workloads with Union AI - Listen on The open-Source Startup Podcast
• Private, open source chat UIs | Practical AI - Listen on Changelog
• Controlling Fusion Reactor Instability with Deep Reinforcement Learning with Aza Jalalvand - Listen on TWiML

?? Latest ML Research Papers

• KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks - Read on arXiv
• StoryDiffusion: Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation - Read on arXiv
• Prometheus 2: An Open Source Language Model Specialized in Evaluating Other Language Models - Read on arXiv
• Distillation for Multilingual Information Retrieval - Read on arXiv
• Multi-Space Alignments Towards Universal LiDAR Segmentation - Read on arXiv
• FLAME: Factuality-Aware Alignment for Large Language Models - Read on arXiv
• Large language models can accurately predict searcher preferences - 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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