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Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, May 27, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings “OpenAI to start using news content from News Corp. as part of a multiyear deal” (Link) “Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model” (Link). Longer paper here. “GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites” (Link) 👏 Deals Overland AI, a WA-based startup

The Power of "I don't know"

In our world where influencers are giving advice nonstop on social media and many people seem to know more than us, we may feel like we have to be "know it all." The reality is that in this fast moving, dynamic, and competitive world, it is very hard

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, May 20, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Reflections from Google I/O 2024 (Link) Stability AI may be looking for a buyer (Reuters) “Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive Chatbots” (Wired) “pfl-research: simulation framework for accelerating research in Private Federated Learning” (Apple) 👏 Deals Lucid Bots, a NC-based company building robotics for labor-intensive work,

Observations from Google I/O 2024

I had the opportunity to join Google I/O earlier this week. To me, the macro theme was applications. How do we apply generative AI to our work and our day-to-day lives? In my view, for the first time, without any reservation, Google showed us the future of those who

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, May 13, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Contributors' concerns over OpenAI and Stack Overflow partnership (link) TikTok automates labeling of AI Generated Content (TikTok) “AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life’s molecules” (Google) AlphaFold Server - prediction tool for researchers to understand interaction of proteins and other molecules.

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, May 7, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Google DeepMind released Med-Gemini, a family of multimodal models fine-tuned and specialized for medicine. (technical paper) Amazon Q, a generative AI assistant for business and developers, has launched. (AWS) Reinforcement Learning Problem Solving with Large Language Models (technical paper) An AI-controlled fighter jet took the Air Force

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, April 22, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Llama 3 (Meta’s technical blog). It’s worth reading if you are technical. I like how aggressive Meta has become in launching new open source models and embedding (no pun intended) Llama 3 model to power its apps. I started testing Meta AI in Instagram this

Groupthink

The market is volatile, and people are "taking risks off the table." If you watch major financial news channels, you hear this a lot in the past few days. Today, I heard commentator say that a major correction is good, and they were expecting it. I have several

AI Computing - Meta's MTIA

Busy week in the world of data and AI. Today, Meta announced the company's new generation of Meta AI chips called MTIA - tuned for training and inference of data workloads for ranking and recommendation. https://ai.meta.com/blog/next-generation-meta-training-inference-accelerator-AI-MTIA/ A few observations: * Continued separation of training,

Future of Robotics

WSJ published an article today on robotics and highlighted use cases in warehouses, meat packing, and other industrial settings. It's worth a read. https://www.wsj.com/business/meet-the-robots-slicing-your-barbecue-ribs-338a7794?mod=hp_lead_pos7 Robotics has come a long way in a relatively short period of time considering the