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SeamlessM4T, a Multimodal AI Model for Speech and Text Translation
SeamlessM4T allows people to communicate effortlessly through speech and text across different languages.
AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff
I gave a talk last month at the Story Discovery at Scale data journalism conference hosted at Stanford by Big Local News. My brief was to go deep into the …
Extracting Structured Data from Recipes Using Conditional Random Fields (2015)
Erica Greene describes the tool that she built to extract structured data from recipes.
Implementing LLaMA3 in 100 Lines of Pure Jax
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Introduction to Bayesian Filter
Restate Some Basic Concepts and Math in Bayesian Filter
LLMs can't self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds
A study by Google's DeepMind and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has found that self-correction in large language models (LLMs) isn't universally effective.
How I feel about AI
It's complicated
Zillow just gave us a look at machine learning's future
It's put up or shut up time for Data Science teams. When the business depends on our work for revenue growth, success is expected. Failure is fatal.
GPT-4.5: "Not a frontier model"?
OpenAI's latest model raises more questions than answers, but no, the AI bubble isn't popping quite yet.
LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction
" A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."
The AI Industry Is Lying to You
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Which GPU(s) to Get for Deep Learning
Here, I provide an in-depth analysis of GPUs for deep learning/machine learning and explain what is the best GPU for your use-case and budget.
Translating Akkadian clay tablets with ChatGPT?
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Neeva acquired by Snowflake
Snowflake is acquiring Neeva, a search company founded to make search even more intelligent at scale by leveraging generative AI and other innovations.
Flow-Based Programming, a way for AI and humans to develop together
I think by now everybody reading this will have seen how the new generation of Large Language Models like ChatGPT are able to produce somewhat useful code. Like any advance in software development—from IDEs to high-level languages—this has generated some discussion on the future employment prospects in our field.
Email immutability matters more in a world with AI
Email immutability matters even more in a world of AI. Here is how we enable your use of your data, in line with our values.
I asked GPT-3 to make a presentation for me
Here's what it came up with, read by yours truly.
The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring
FROMSOFT has a reputation for diverse and punishing npc encounters across the entire Soulsborne extended series, but the implementation of the AI decision making itself is perhaps unexpectedly low-tech. Since the majority of the code is implemented in Havok Script (A games-oriented Lua implementation from Havok) it’s…
ZombAIs: From Prompt Injection to C2 with Claude Computer Use
A few days ago, Anthropic released Claude Computer Use, which is a model + code that allows Claude to control a computer. It takes screenshots to make …
My deep learning rig (2022)
A lot of people have asked about the computers I used to train TorToiSe. I’ve been meaning to snap some pictures, but it’s never “convenient” to turn these servers off so I keep procrastinating. We had some severe thunderstorms today here i
My Conversation with “Eugene Goostman”
If you haven’t read about it yet, “Eugene Goostman” is a chatbot that’s being heavily promoted by the University of Reading’s Kevin Warwick, for fooling 33% of judges …
Finding thousands of exposed Ollama instances using Shodan
We uncovered 1,100+ exposed Ollama LLM servers—20% with open models—revealing critical security gaps and the need for better LLM threat monitoring.
Learning Concepts with Energy Functions
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
Avoid Artificial Stupidity
The first step to AI - data democratisation
Fixing Gemma Bugs
Unsloth fixing Google's open-source language model Gemma.
Machine Learning Engineer Guide: Feature Store vs. Data Warehouse
The feature store is a data warehouse of features for machine learning (ML)....
Building a Knowledge System That Enhances Rather Than Replaces Thought
Preserving and augmenting human insight in an age of automated knowledge with Zettelgarden
Robust Adversarial Examples
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