AI, MLOps, and Robotics #65

This Week in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: GPT-4o, training surgical robots in simulations, how chatbots can create disinformation, speeding up ViTs, advancing medical AI with Med-Gemini, 7 Ways to Evaluate and Monitor LLMs, and much more!

Note: I'll be going on vacation for the next few weeks, and don't plan on publishing the newsletter until I get back!

?? AI News & Stories:

• Google and OpenAI are racing to rewire the internet - Read on The Verge
• Meet the Robotics Company Who is Engineering Some of the Most Exciting Field Deployed Technology - Read on the Robot Report
• Needle-Moving AI Research Trains Surgical Robots in Simulation - Read on NVIDIA
• We'll need universal basic income - AI 'godfather' - Read on BBC
• See How Easily A.I. Chatbots Can Be Taught to Spew Disinformation - Read on The New York Times
• The robots are coming. How Ukraine became the testing ground for AI-powered combat - Read on Politco

?? ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• Hello GPT-4o - Read on OpenAI
• Speeding up ViTs using Block Sparsity - Read on PyTorch
• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) with Diarization : Speech-to-Text - Read on LearnOpenCV
• Advancing medical AI with Med-Gemini - Read on Google Research
• PaliGemma – Google's Cutting-Edge Open Vision Language Model - Read on Hugging Face
• License to Call: Introducing Transformers Agents 2.0 - Read on Hugging Face
• Counting on Speed: Rapidly Tracking Parts With NVIDIA Jetson Nano - Read on Egde Impulse
• 7 Ways to Evaluate and Monitor LLMs - Read on WhyLabs
• Reducing Data Labeling Costs with Uncertainty Sampling - Read on Groundlight AI
• Using Generative AI to Evaluate Bias in Speeches - Read on Arize
• Harnessing Power at the Edge: An Introduction to Local Large Language Models - Read on PyImageSearch

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

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• AI Book Club: Reliable Machine Learning Kickoff! | May 21st - Register on LinkedIn
• Improving and Evaluating Your RAG Application | May 21st - Register on Arize
• Embedded Vision Summit (Santa Clara) | May 21 - 23 - Register on Embedded Vision Summit
• LangGraph & Langchain: Revolutionizing Information Access | May 22nd - Register on Data Science Dojo
• Building Multimodal Search Applications in Typescript | May 22nd - Register on Weaviate
• LLM Security and Control With Hugging Face and WhyLabs | May 22nd - Register on WhyLabs
• Data architectures to accelerate your cloud-based AI Initiatives | May 23rd - Register on AIAI
• Developing better chatbots with AI-assisted labeling & LangSmith May 29th - Register on LabelBox
• AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Meetup | May 30th - Register on Voxel51
• AI Quality conference (SF) | [use 'testinprod' for 20% off ] | June 25th - Register on AI Quality Conference

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• Emulating Humans with NSFW Chatbots - with Jesse Silver - Listen on Latent Space
• Basecamp's Phil Lorenz on Combining AI With Biodiversity Data - Listen on NVIDIA
• Full-stack approach for effective AI agents - Listen on Changelog
• Aligning Large Language Models, with Sinan Ozdemir - Listen on SuperDataScience
• Powering AI with the World’s Largest Computer Chip with Joel Hestness - Listen on TWiML

?? Latest ML Research Papers

• MambaOut: Do We Really Need Mamba for Vision? - Read on arXiv
• Hunyuan-DiT: A Powerful Multi-Resolution Diffusion Transformer with Fine-Grained Chinese Understanding - Read on arXiv
• Grounding DINO 1.5: Advance the "Edge" of Open-Set Object Detection - Read on arXiv
• How Far Are We From AGI - 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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