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Joyce Shen

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, March 25, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings “Evolving New Foundation Models: Unleashing the Power of Automating Model Development” (Sakana AI) Meta’s SceneScript, a model for 3D scene reconstruction (Meta) 01 Light - a precursor to a digital personal assistant. What do you think? (check it out, documentation) “Tennessee becomes first US state with

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, March 18, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Incorporating Ethics in AI (UC Berkeley) Apple’s multimodal model (link to technical paper) Cognition released Devin, an AI-based software engineer (link) Foundational model for robot development (link) 👏 Deals Vescent, a CO-based startup leasing quantum 2.0 technologies to enable commercialization, has raised $5m in seed financing.

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, March 11, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Highly anticipated Nvidia GTC Conference is on March 18-21. (Link) The European Union launched the European AI Office that will be responsible for implementing the AI Act. (Link) “Meta is building a giant AI model to power its ‘entire video ecosystem,’ exec says” (CNBC) Claude 3 launched.

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