Artificial Intelligence #254

Hey, in this issue: AI can now create a replica of your personality; a revolution in how robots learn; reward hacking in reinforcement learning; you could have designed state of the art positional encoding; a fast library for AutoML and tuning; SmolVLM and more.

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• AI can now create a replica of your personality
• A revolution in how robots learn
• Reward hacking in reinforcement learning
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• [Hugging Face] You could have designed state of the art positional encoding
• [Google] GenCast predicts weather and the risks of extreme conditions with state-of-the-art accuracy
• [Nature] The analysis of rural tourism image optimization under the internet of things and deep learning
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• [Tool] FLAML: A fast library for AutoML and tuning
• [Model] SmolVLM - small yet mighty vision language model

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