Focus AI - Edition #100

#StateOfAi #DeepMind #StableDiffusion #SDMetrics

Oct 20, 2022

Edition #100 - October 21st 2022

This is it! After a long pause, we are back for this 100th edition. This newsletter keeps evolving to bring you the best news in a the more concise way. I hope you like it. Feel free to subscribe or to share it.

This week:

🗞 State of AI Report 2022
🧬 Discovering novel algorithms with AlphaTensor
🦾 Parsing Commands Into Actions

💸 Picsellia raises 2 million euros to accelerate its development
🖼 The Illustrated Stable Diffusion

== News ==

🗞 State of AI Report 2022

This slide deck is one of the most comprehensive resources you'll find about the current state of AI. Explores a variety of topics including research, commercial applications, politics, safety, and predictions for the coming year. It's dense but it's a very visual deck and easy to follow.

🧬 Discovering novel algorithms with AlphaTensor

In a paper published in Nature, DeepMind researchers introduced an AI system that discovered a faster way to do matrix multiplication. It's a big deal - not just because matrix multiplication is crucial to data and engineering work - but because the system, called "AlphaTensor," is designed to optimize arbitrary objectives. Here's how it works.

🦾 Parsing Commands Into Actions

A new method enables robots to respond helpfully to verbal commands by pairing a natural language model with a repertoire of existing skills.

SayCan, a system developed by researchers at Google and its spinoff Everyday Robots, enabled a robot equipped with an arm, camera, and gripper to take a high-level command such as “I spilled my drink, can you help?” and choose low-level actions appropriate to a given environment such as “find a sponge” and “go to table.”

The authors tested the system by giving the robot 101 commands in a mock kitchen that contained 15 objects such as fruits, drinks, snacks, and a sponge. Human judges determined that the robot planned valid actions 84 percent of the time and carried them out 74 percent of the time. In a real-life kitchen, the robot achieved 81 percent success in planning and 61 percent success in execution.

💸 Picsellia raises 2 million euros to accelerate its development

Picsellia, a start-up specializing in artificial intelligence, has just finalized a seed for an amount of 2 million euros. This fundraising follows a first round of funding carried out a year ago. Several business angels, some of whom specialize in the field of AI, took part in this round table led by Axeleo Capital.

Picsellia has been offering innovative technological solutions since 2019 to enable their customers to understand their projects, from start to finish, in a systemic way. This new financing will enable the start-up specializing in artificial intelligence to be able to meet growing demand, while recruiting new employees.

== Code & Tools ==

I’d like to introduce a new section: Code & Tools. The first part of this newsletter is accessible for everyone. This one is dedicated for the techies folks.

🖼 The Illustrated Stable Diffusion

AI image generation is the most recent AI capability blowing people’s minds (mine included). The ability to create striking visuals from text descriptions has a magical quality to it and points clearly to a shift in how humans create art. The release of Stable Diffusion is a clear milestone in this development because it made a high-performance model available to the masses (performance in terms of image quality, as well as speed and relatively low resource/memory requirements).

After experimenting with AI image generation, you may start to wonder how it works.

This is a gentle introduction to how Stable Diffusion works.

📊 SDMetrics

Synthetic Data Metrics (SDMetrics) is an open-source Python library for evaluating tabular synthetic data. Compare synthetic data against real data using a variety metrics, generate visual reports and share them with your team.

#StateOfAi #DeepMind #StableDiffusion #SDMetrics #Picsellia

A big thanks to our sources: https://jack-clark.net/, https://www.actuia.com/, https://thevariable.com/news/, https://techcrunch.com/, https://read.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/

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