AI Tech CircleHey Reader! With the gap of a 1-week break due to the holiday season, I am back with the weekly newsletter. This week I got a chance to look into the Ethical #AI with the new regulations by different Governments and adoption is at the highest level. thought of going through the fundamentals of ethical AI and it requires transparency in how decisions are made and accountability for those decisions. Issues arise when AI systems are “black boxes” with decisions that are not explainable or accountable and nobody is ready to explain it. AI projects should have clear, understandable decision-making processes and be accountable for outcomes. Tips to start learning AI ethics, Begin by learning the core principles of AI ethics, such as:
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Weekly News & Updates…This week’s new AI features and products are announced, fueling the technology revolution.
The Cloud: the backbone of the AI revolution
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 Paper: Attention is all you need |
Anyone working in Generative AI must read this paper, which has led the way in getting LLMs to the world through transformer models.
“Attention Is All You Need” and on this link, you can find the code
Hope this helps!
Potential of AI
- Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback, Anthropic AI has published a paper on where they trained an AI assistant through self-improvement, without any human labels identifying harmful outputs. The only human oversight was provided through a list of rules or principles. here you can read the paper.
Things to Know
- Building a Llama-enabled WhatsApp Chatbot, a step-by-step guide
- GFN brings the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III to the cloud, the first Activision title on GeForce NOW as part of the NVIDIA and Microsoft partnership.
The Opportunity…
Podcast:
- This week’s Open Tech Talks episode 109 on 109 ‘The art of storytelling – An insight from Master’
Courses to attend:
- Large Language Models course from Databricks: Application through Production for developers, data scientists, and engineers looking to build LLM-centric applications.
- Introduction to Machine Learning, Spring 2019, Carnegie Mellon University
- A curated list of free courses & certifications
Events:
- CES 2024, Jan. 9-12, in Las Vegas, USA
Tech and Tools…
- 6 strategies for prompt writing from OpenAI
- StreamDiffusion is a diffusion pipeline designed for real-time interactive generation. It introduces significant performance enhancements to current diffusion-based image generation techniques.
- GPT Pilot, the core technology for the VS Code extension aims to provide the first real AI developer companion
Data Sets…
- Ego-Exo4D: A foundational dataset for research on video learning and multimodal perception from Meta, It focuses on skilled human activities, like, playing sports, music, cooking, dancing, and bike repair. Advances in AI understanding of human skills in video could facilitate many applications. more details to read are here
- a new dataset from Anthropic for measuring discrimination across 70 different potential applications of language models, including loan applications, visa approvals, and security clearances. can be accessed here
Other Technology News
Want to stay on the cutting edge?
Here’s what else is happening in Information Technology you should know about:
- Apple reportedly wants to use the news to help train its AI models reported by The Verge
- The 3 Most Important AI Innovations of 2023 by Times
That’s it!
As always, thanks for reading.
Hit reply and let me know what you found most helpful this week – I’d love to hear from you!
Until next week,
Kashif Manzoor
The opinions expressed here are solely my own conjecture based on experience, practice, and observation. They do not represent the thoughts, intentions, plans, or strategies of my current or previous employers or their clients/customers. The objective of this newsletter is to share and learn with the community.