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Joyce Shen

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, March 4, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings “Apple Is Playing an Expensive Game of AI Catch-Up” (WSJ) “New AI image generator is 8 times faster than OpenAI's best tool — and can run on cheap computers” (Link) “Here Come the AI Worms” (Wired) “DataDreamer: A Tool for Synthetic Data Generation and Reproducible LLM

What has not changed? The case on Nvidia

It was impossible to open the news before Nvidia's recent earnings and not read some speculations regarding Nvidia earnings. The media portrayed Nvidia earnings as THE indicator for where AI is going. Articles regarding Nvidia earnings read like suspense movies. From the market open on February 20 to

Key considerations when making direct private investments in venture capital

I get this question a lot from friends who are considering making direct investments in startups. I also see this debate playing out in the public square. Having had the opportunity to invest in the private markets in the last 15+ years, my view is that direct investments by individuals

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, February 19, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings "CDAO Launches First DOD AI Bias Bounty Focused on Unknown Risks in LLMs" (U.S. Department of Defense) "Video generation models as world simulators" (OpenAI) "Diagnostic reasoning prompts reveal the potential for large language model interpretability in medicine" (Nature) 👏 Deals Rogo,

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, February 12, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings “How symmetry can come to the aid of machine learning” (MIT) “Bard becomes Gemini” (Google) “Acoustic Model Fusion for End-to-End Speech Recognition” (Apple) “Shaping the future of advanced robotics” (Deepmind) “Building geospatial foundation models via continual pretraining” (Amazon) 👏 Deals Nauticus Robotics, a Houston-based company developing subsea robots

Multimodal Learning

Multimodal learning is an approach in machine learning that involves the integration and processing of information from multiple modalities or sources. A modality refers to a distinct type of data, such as text, images, audio, video, or any other form of sensory input. In multimodal learning, the goal is to

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, February 5, 2024

📌 Readings Amazon earnings press release with strategic initiative details (link) Meta earnings call transcript (link) Microsoft product announcement (link) Alphabet earnings call transcript (link) AMD earnings slides (link) 👏 Deals Carpl, a CA-based radiology AI tech startup, has raised $6m in financing. Cohere Health, a Boston-based startup which provides intelligent prior-authorization

Helping Others See

When I flew back from Raleigh to New York Friday evening, I saw a doctor in his scrubs. He carried a box that has a label "human tissue inside." I looked closer, there is another label on the box that says "Miracle In Sight." In between

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in ML/AI, January 14, 2024

Musings Applications of emerging technology and data/ML/AI continue to take off in the marketplace. It's exciting to see Walmart expanding drone delivery in Dallas. I think it is the first of many, and through the drone delivery network, much data insights can be gained to add

Floreo VR - new potential for Autism therapy

Floreo VR, a portfolio company, has been granted FDA Breakthrough Device Designation and accepted into FDA's Total Advisory Product Lifecycle (TAP) Pilot program. Floreo provides immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences and VR-based lessons to help kids and adults with autism learn hard-to-teach skills. Floreo's lessons in