AI, MLOps, and Robotics #31

This Week in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: Python comes to Excel, fine-tuning for GPT 3.5 has arrived, Code Llama is here, run any diffusion model anywhere, who should control access to AI, and much more!

My Next Event (Sep 6th):

Monitoring LLMs in Production with Hugging Face & WhyLabs

Register on Eventbrite ↗

📰 News & Stories:

• Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel - Read on the Verge ↗
• AI is biased. The White House is working with hackers to try to fix that - Read on NPR ↗
• The Heated Debate Over Who Should Control Access to AI - Read on TIME ↗
• How to help high schoolers prepare for the rise of artificial intelligence - Read on MIT news ↗
• Robotics is supply chain tech of future, says Gartner - Read on SupplyChain ↗

💻 Developer Tools & Resources:

• GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates - Read on OpenAI ↗
• Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding - Read on Meta AI ↗
• Introducing OneDiffusion: Run Any Diffusion Model Anywhere - Read on BentoML ↗
• Facial Emotion Recognition - Read on LearnOpenCV ↗
• Making LLMs lighter with AutoGPTQ and transformers - Read on Hugging Face ↗
• Large Scale Training of Hugging Face Transformers on TPUs With PyTorch/XLA FSDP - Read on PyTorch ↗
• Finetuning Large Language Models | New short course Learn more on DeepLearning.ai ↗
• Language to rewards for robotic skill synthesis - Read on Google AI ↗
• Distributed Fast Fourier Transform in TensorFlow - Read on TnsorFlow Blog ↗
• Build and Monitor Computer Vision Models with TensorFlow/Keras + WhyLabs - Watch on YouTube ↗

🗣️ Upcoming Events (Ordered by date):

• AI Book Club Kickoff: Generative Deep Learning by David Foster | Online, Sep 5, 1:00pm PT - RSVP on LinkedIn ↗
• Monitoring LLMs in Production with Hugging Face & WhyLabs | Online, Sep 6, 10:000am - Register on Eventbrite ↗
• AI Deep Dive: LLMs and Vector Databases | Online, Sep 6, 6:000pm - Register on AI Camp ↗
• September AI, Machine Learning & Data Science Meetup | Online, Sep 7th 10:00am PT - Register on Voxel51 ↗
• Intro to AI Observability: Monitoring ML Models & Data in Production | Online, Sep 13, 10:00am PT - Register on Eventbrite ↗
• Virtual Summit: LLMs and the Generative AI Revolution | Online, Sep 14, 8:00am PT - Register on AI Camp ↗
• Monitoring LLMs in Production using OpenAI, LangChain & WhyLabs | Online, Sep 20, 10:00am PT - Register on Eventbrite ↗
• PyTorch Conference 2023: San Francisco October 16-17 - Learn more on the PyTorch blog ↗

🎙️ AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• The new AI app stack | Practical AI - Listen on Changelog ↗
• Inverse Reinforcement Learning Without RL with Gokul Swamy - Listen on TWiML ↗
• Vicuña, Gorilla, Chatbot Arena and Socially Beneficial LLMs, with Prof. Joey Gonzalez - Listen on SuperDataScience ↗
• LLMs in the enterprise — what’s chat got to do with it? - Read the conversation on Union AI ↗

📝 Recent ML Research Papers:

• Use of LLMs for Illicit Purposes: Threats, Prevention Measures, and Vulnerabilities - Read on arXiv ↗
• ROAM: Robust and Object-aware Motion Generation using Neural Pose Descriptors - Read on arXiv ↗
• Halo: Estimation and Reduction of Hallucinations in Open-Source Weak Large Language Models - Read on arXiv ↗
• BridgeData V2: A Dataset for Robot Learning at Scale - Read on arXiv ↗
• Code Llama: Open Foundation Models for Code - Read on arXiv ↗

Hello, world! Every week I keep track of the most exciting news, resources, events, podcasts, and papers I find around AI, MLOps, and robotics. Sometimes I sprinkle in my opinions. Let me know what I missed this week in the comments!

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