Joyce Shen’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, November 4, 2024
5-minute weekly must-read on data science and artificial intelligence news, funding, and research, curated by Joyce Shen.
Topic
Technology
A collection of 32 issues
threatER Recognized in Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies for 2024
There are about 25 million private companies in the U.S. and only 4000 public companies. Getting on Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies list is not an easy feat. I am proud to share that threatER was named on this year's prestigious list.
Effectively, threatER blocks and allows
Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, August 19, 2024
📌 Musings and Readings
“How A.I. Can Help Start Small Businesses” (NY Times)
“People are falling in love with — and getting addicted to — AI voices” (Vox)
“AI Risk Categorization Decoded (AIR 2024): From Government Regulations to Corporate Policies” (Paper)
“APE: Active Prompt Engineering - Identifying Informative Few-Shot Examples for LLMs”
Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, August 5, 2024
📌 Musings and Readings
“Reddit Acquires Generative AI Startup Memorable AI” (Bloomberg)
“Method prevents an AI model from being overconfident about wrong answers” (MIT)
“Gemma Scope: helping the safety community shed light on the inner workings of language models” (Google Deepmind)
“GE HealthCare taps Amazon Web Services to build generative AI
Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, July 8, 2024
📌 Musings and Readings
"Learning to speak to whales using AI, with David Gruber" (UChicago Big Brains Podcast)
“Job scams surged 118% in 2023, aided by AI.” (CNBC)
“China is the runaway leader in generative AI patent applications followed by the US, the UN says.” (AP)
Apple to gain
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,
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, 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