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A collection of 21 issues

Joyce Shen’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, June 17, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings “The AI bill that has Big Tech panicked” (Vox) “AI ‘might take over’ one day if it isn't developed responsibly, Geoffrey Hinton warns (CBS) “Technique improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models” (MIT) 👏 Deals Jump, a Salt Lake City-based startup automating administrative tasks for

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, June 10, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Perplexica is looking to challenge Perplexity as the open-source alternative (link) Meta Announces Plans to Use Facebook and Instagram Posts to Train AI (link) Microsoft says AI feature that captures screenshots on new PCs will be off by default after backlash (link) Alice in Wonderland: Simple Tasks

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, June 3, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings “Computer Industry Joins NVIDIA to Build AI Factories and Data Centers for the Next Industrial Revolution” (Nvidia) “AMD Announces Future AI Chips, Will Speed Rollout of New Models” (Link) “Google’s A.I. Search Leaves Publishers Scrambling” (NYTimes) “Small Language Models for Application Interactions: A Case Study”

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

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,

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

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 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

Joyce’s picks: readings in ML/AI , August 18, 2023

Spotify launched Confidence — an experimentation platform: blog and sign up for private beta. (link) “AI chatbot K Health picks up $59M in fresh funding, inks partnership with Cedars-Sinai” (link) “A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks” (NYT) “The case for and against open-source large language models for