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A collection of 41 issues

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 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 8, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Canada to invest $1.8m in AI (WSJ) Nvidia launched FoundationPose - “6D Pose Estimation and Tracking of Novel Objects” (Github) “Long-form factuality in large language models” (Google Deepmind) 👏 Deals Profluent, a Berkeley-based protein design company using AI, raised $35m in financing. Packback, a company focused on

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, April 1, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Happy first day of April! Readings will resume next week! 👏 Deals Buzz Solutions, a Palo Alto-based company focused on critical energy infrastructure protection, raised $5m in financing. Ascent Platform Corporation, a NYC-based provider of point-of-sale solutions for banks and credit unions, raised $5m in financing. Euno Data,

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