AI, MLOps, and Robotics #66

This Week in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: The Robot dogs of war, Apple Intelligence, Challenges in red teaming AI, Stable Diffusion 3, Top CVPR 2024 papers, McDonald’s will stop testing AI, and much more!

Join my next event on June 19th as I have a fireside chat with Mark Huang, co-founder of Gradient on improving agentic workflows with longer LLM context! RSVP on Eventbrite

?? AI News & Stories:

• OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone to Board of Directors - Read on OpenAI
• Let Slip the Robot Dogs of War - Read on Wired
• McDonald’s will stop testing AI to take drive-thru orders, for now - Read on the Verge
• The robotic pet dragon helping with loneliness - Read on BBC
• AI experimentation is high risk, high reward for low-profile political campaigns - Read on ABC
• Apple’s AI, Apple Intelligence, is boring and practical — that’s why it works - Read on TechCrunch
• The Apple-OpenAI Deal Puts AI Safety Under Even Greater Scrutiny - Read on Forbes

?? ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• Human I/O: Detecting situational impairments with large language models - Read on Google Research
• Data-aware, Event-driven AI Orchestration with Artifacts - Read on Union.ai
• Benchmarking LLM Inference Backends: vLLM, LMDeploy, MLC-LLM, TensorRT-LLM, and TGI - Read on BentoML
• Benchmarking TensorFlow and TensorFlow Lite on Raspberry Pi 5 - Read on Hackster
• Enhancing Image Segmentation using U2-Net: An Approach to Efficient Background Removal - Read on LearnOpenCV
• Diffusers welcomes Stable Diffusion 3 - Read on Hugging Face
• Challenges in red teaming AI systems - Read on Anthropic
• Putting RL back in RLHF - Read on Hugging Face
• Voyage AI Embeddings and Rerankers for Search and RAG - Read on Zilliz
• Step-by-Step Guide to Choosing the Best Embedding Model for Your Application - Read on Weaviate
• AWS debuts 2 AI certifications to give you an edge in pursuing in-demand cloud jobs - Read on about amazon
• Automatic License Plate Reader Using OCR in Python - Read on PyImageSearch
• A new large-scale simulation platform to train robots on everyday tasks - Read on TechXplore

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

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• AI Book Club: AI Book Club: Developing Apps with GPT-4 and ChatGPT | June 18th - RSVP on Meetup
• Kickstart GenAI Development with Neo4j's GraphRAG Ecosystem | June 18th - Register on Neo4j
• Improve Agentic Workflows with Longer LLM Context with Mark Huang co-founder of Gradient | June 19th - RSVP on Union
• Advanced RAG | June 20th - Register on Weaviate
• AI Quality conference (SF) | [use 'testinprod' for 20% off ] | June 25th - Register on AI Quality Conference
• Tokenization in NLP: From Basics to Advanced Techniques | June 26th - Register on Data Science Dojo
• PuPPy & WiDS Python talk night at Slalom Consulting (Seattle) | June 26th - Register on Meetup
• Build a Custom Chatbot with LLMs + RAG | Online Workshop | June 27th - Register on Union
• 2024 Mid Year Gen AI Zoo | June 27th - Register on Luma
• Mastering Data Science: The Impact of LLMs | July 17th - Register on Data Science Dojo
• RAG Hack Night at GitHub (SF) | August 13th - Register on Luma

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• Using edge models to find sensitive data | Practical AI podcast - Listen on Changelog
• Gen AI at the Edge: Qualcomm AI Research at CVPR 2024 with Fatih Porikli - Listen on TWiML
• Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), with Dr. Nathan Lambert - Listen on SuperDataScience
• How AI is eating Finance — with Mike Conover of Brightwave - Listen on Latent Space
• Michael Rubloff Explains How Neural Radiance Fields Turn 2D Images Into 3D Models - Listen on the NVIDIA Podcast

?? Latest ML Research Papers

• 5 Papers on My CVPR 2024 Must-See List! - Read on Voxel51
• Matching Anything by Segmenting Anything - Read on arXiv
• TextGrad: Automatic "Differentiation" via Text - Read on arXiv
• Autoregressive Model Beats Diffusion: Llama for Scalable Image Generation - Read on arXiv
• VideoGPT+: Integrating Image and Video Encoders for Enhanced Video Understanding - Read on arXiv
• Depth Anything V2 - Read on arXiv
• Towards Evaluating the Robustness of Visual State Space Models - 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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