Inside Artificialis - #16
May 31, 2023 10:48 am
Hey, . Welcome to the monthly version of the Artificialis newsletter!
A summary of what happened during the month, the best blogs of our Medium publication, latest news of our Discord server events, and recent news in the world of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning!
So sit back, take a cup of coffee, let's go over what happened this month.
A little bit from me and the server:
I started being a bit more serious on Twitter, trying to post daily. It'll be a mix of what you see on Discord, LinkedIn, and some short-form content. Make sure not to miss it!
AI in the world
Deep Learning pioneer Hinton leaves Google, warning of dangers ahead
Why did he leave? He said AI models have improved faster than expected, and the generative AI gold rush led him to believe that the financial rewards of innovating would overwhelm incentives to rein in negative effects
Google's I/O recently ended, these are some highlights for the ML space:
- Search using generative AI (e.g, like Bing chat)
- Palm2 + Bard seem to challenge ChatGPT's capabilities
- Gemini is in training, built from the ground up and multimodal, supposedly much more capable
- Embeddings model (against OpenAI's embeddings)
- Imagen model, going against midjourney, stable diffusion and Dalle-2, available in Vertex AI
- Chirp (e.g, OpenAI's whisper), for accurate STT across 100+ languages
- MusicLM for prompt-to-text
Unveiling ImageBind, a groundbreaking AI model from Meta!
ImageBind is the first AI model capable of integrating information from six different modalities, bringing us closer to AI that can learn and understand the world as holistically as humans do.
ImageBind learns a single embedding space for text, image/video, audio, 3D, thermal, and IMU sensors.
OpenAI's CEO testifies before senate
Sam Altman testified before members of a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday on the need to regulate the increasingly powerful artificial intelligence technology being created by his company and others such as Google & Microsoft. The 3 hour long hearing covered the risks that generative AI poses to society, how it affects the job market, and why government regulation is necessary. Altman mentioned one of his biggest fears about AI “My worst fears are that we cause, we the field, the technology, the industry, cause significant harm to the world. I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong.” He also emphasised the need for regulatory intervention by governments and how it will be critical in mitigating the risks of increasingly powerful AI models. Another concern was the potential misinformation in upcoming elections, and how Altman said the potential for AI to be used to manipulate voters is very real.
Tip of the month
Here's a nice way to do error handling, a python decorator to handle most things you would not expect.
Return None if an error occurs.
Even better, log the error and return None.
This comes directly from my twitter account.
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