Artificial Intelligence #58

Hey, in this issue: 2021 AI Index Report, self-supervised learning: the dark matter of intelligence, a comparative review of deep generative modeling, multimodal neurons in neural networks, must-read papers on graph neural networks, an open-source chatting framework for generative models, and more.

This issue is sponsored by Lambda Labs.

• 2021 AI Index Report
• Self-supervised learning: the dark matter of intelligence
• OpenAI’s state-of-the-art machine vision AI is fooled by handwritten notes
• Deep generative modeling: a comparative review of VAEs, GANs, normalizing flows, and energy-based and autoregressive models
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• Multimodal neurons in artificial neural networks (Distillpub paper, paper explained)
• OpenChat: an open-source chatting framework for generative models
• Data Version Control 2.0 (DVC 2.0) release
• Must-read papers on graph neural networks (GNN)
• GANsformers: scene generation with generative adversarial transformers (video, paper, code)
• Engaging AI in the battle against Alzheimer’s: AI-based method can repurpose existing therapies into new treatments

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