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Google's PaLM-E Combines Vision and Language AI for Robot Control
Researchers from Google's Robotics team recently announced PaLM-E, a combination of their PaLM and Vision Transformer (ViT) models designed for controlling robots. PaLM-E handles multimodal input data from robotic sensor and outputs text commands to control the robot's actuators. Besides performing well on several robotics tasks, PaLM-E also outperforms other models on the OK-VQA benchmark.
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QCon New York 2023: Day Three Recap
Day Three of the 9th annual QCon New York conference was held on June 15th, 2023, at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn, New York. This three-day event, organized by C4Media, included keynote addresses by Suhail Patel and Sarah Bird, and presentations from four conference tracks.
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QCon New York 2023 Panel Discussion: Navigating the Future - LLM in Production
The recent QCon New York conference featured a panel discussion titled "Navigating the Future: LLM in Production." Some key takeaways are that there are two trends in LLMS: closed models behind APIs and open-source models, and that organizations using LLMs will need to think deeply about testing and evaluating the models themselves, with a strong emphasis on risk mitigation.
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Voxel51 Open-Sources Computer Vision Dataset Assistant VoxelGPT - Q&A with Jason Corso
Voxel51 recently open-sourced VoxelGPT, an AI assistant that interfaces with GPT-3.5 to produce Python code for querying computer vision datasets. InfoQ spoke with Jason Corso, co-founder and CSO of Voxel51, who shared their lessons and insights gained while developing VoxelGPT.
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AI, ML, Data Engineering News Round Up: Vertex, AlphaDev, Function Calling, Gorilla, and Falcon
The latest update, spanning from June 12th, 2023, highlights the recent advancements and announcements in the domains of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. This week's spotlight is on notable entities such as Google, OpenAI, UC Berkeley, and AWS.
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QCon New York 2023: Day Two Recap
Day Two of the 9th annual QCon New York conference was held on June 14th, 2023, at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn, New York. This three-day event, organized by C4Media, included a keynote address by Alicia Dwyer Cianciolo and presentations from four conference tracks and one sponsored track.
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QCon New York 2023: Day One Recap
Day One of the 9th annual QCon New York conference was held on June 13th, 2023, at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn, New York. This three-day event, organized by C4Media, included a keynote address by Radia Perlman and presentations from four conference tracks and one sponsored track.
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OpenAI Announces Function Calling, Allowing Developers to Describe Functions
OpenAI has introduced updates to the API, including a capability called function calling, which allows developers to describe functions to GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 and have the models create code to execute those functions.
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Nvidia's NeMo Guardrails Enhances Safety in Generative AI Applications
Nvidia's new NeMo Guardrails package for large language models (LLMs) helps developers prevent LLM risks like harmful or offensive content and access to sensitive data, by providing an essential layer of protection in an increasingly AI-driven landscape.
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C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code
Microsoft has introduced the C# Dev Kit, a new extension to Visual Studio Code, offering an enhanced C# development environment for Linux, macOS and Windows. This kit, combined with the C# extension, uses an open-source Language Server Protocol (LSP) host to provide an efficient and configurable environment.
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Meta's Open-Source Massively Multilingual Speech AI Handles over 1,100 Languages
Meta AI open-sourced the Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) model, which supports automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) in over 1,100 languages and language identification (LID) in over 4,000 languages. MMS can outperform existing models and covers nearly 10x the number of languages.
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Latest Updates for Azure App Service Presented at Microsoft Build 2023
The Microsoft Build 2023 event showcased the latest updates and additions to the Azure App Service. The event, held in person in Seattle, included some group sessions, demonstrations and Q&A sessions on Azure App Service with such topics as changes within PremiumV3, Automatic Scaling or memory optimisation for ASEv3.
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JunoDB: PayPal Open Sources Key-Value Store Powering 350 Billion Daily Requests
PayPal recently open-sourced JunoDB, a distributed key-value store that uses RocksDB as the underlying storage engine. A highly available and security-focused database, JunoDB serves daily 350 billion requests at PayPal.
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Google Announces State-of-the-Art PaLM 2 Language Model Powering Bard
Google DeepMind recently announced PaLM 2, a large language model (LLM) powering Bard and over 25 other product features. PaLM 2 significantly outperforms the previous version of PaLM on a wide range of benchmarks, while being smaller and cheaper to run.
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Microsoft Build 2023: Bing AI and Copilot Plugins for ChatGPT OpenAI, Microsoft Fabric and More
This year's Microsoft Build was focused on artificial intelligence, with new Copilot experience additions for Windows 11 and Edge, as well as new Bing AI and Copilot plugins for ChatGPT OpenAI. Key announcements also included the Microsoft Fabric analytics platform, the introduction of the Microsoft Dev Box for development environments, and upgrades within Microsoft Azure.