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Joyce’s picks: readings in ML/AI, July 28, 2023

“Aided by A.I. Language Models, Google’s Robots Are Getting Smart” (NYTimes) “AI search of Neanderthal proteins resurrects ‘extinct’ antibiotics” (Nature) “SK Hynix and Samsung’s early bet on AI memory chips pays off” (FT) “KNN-Diffusion: Image Generation via Large-Scale Retrieval” (Link) “Consistency Models” (Link) “SelfCheckGPT: Zero-Resource Black-Box Hallucination

Generative AI x Knowledge Graphs

Data wrangling tasks include data acquisition, data ingestion, data extraction, data cleaning, data transformation, exploratory data analysis, and data pipelining for ML tasks. Data variety, dimensionality, complexity, duplication, provenance can further complicate this data wrangling process.

Joyce's picks - readings in machine learning /AI - July 21, 2023

Meta LLaMA — original blog (link) Meta and Microsoft Introduce the Next Generation of Llama (link) Most outsourced coders in India will be gone in 2 years due to A.I., Stability AI boss predicts (CNBC) One senator’s big idea for AI (Politico) Unstructured, which offers tools to prep enterprise

Joyce’s picks — readings in machine learning /AI

July 14, 2023 Nvidia deepens bets on AI in drug discovery with Recursion investment (Reuters) New York City’s AI Hiring Bias Law Creates Hurdles for Companies (Bloomberg Law) Removing bias in AI: Wells Fargo shares open toolkit for explainability (Venturebeat) This amazing new AI tool turns a scribble into

Bigger is not better in machine learning

I heard an interview today featuring the Chief Scientist of Mosaic ML. One of the things Jonathan Frankle said is that bigger is not better. He, of course, is talking about machine model size (e.g., number of parameters). I posit that we can agree that bigger models may not

Cheerleaders and Advocates

Some of the best emails and texts arrived in my inbox in the last few days were from friends and former students informing me that the small part I played in helping them made a difference in their professional endeavors. Here is an example I got this Sunday morning, and

Capitalization Table (cap table) Basics

In my experience, I have found that even with founders and entrepreneurs have various levels of understanding of capital structure represented by what's called a capitalization table or "cap table." Basics: Cap table is an Excel file that summarizes equity ownership structure in a corporation. The

Security Robots

I recently learned that a Santa Fe high school is testing autonomous robots with multiple cameras to monitor the surrounding areas of the school to assist school security team. The autonomous robots learn the routes of the school, capture videos of the surroundings, and provide the footage to school'

Machine Learning and Audio Data

I was excited to see WSJ featuring Shazam. The 6-minute video explains how Shazam works, albeit in a simple manner. How Shazam Makes Unique Audio Fingerprints to Identify SongsMore than 23,000 songs are identified each minute by Shazam and the app has been used over 70 billion times. But

Making meaningful investments

As a technology investor, people ask me what I invest in. After talking about thematic focus areas, I point out that I like to invest in solutions that are solving meaningful problems. Sometimes, it's hard to convey what's meaningful because what's meaningful to one