This week in AI & Machine Learning: AI painting landscapes, DeepMind tackles disease, AI drug discovery, new detectron2 benchmarks, the image similarity challenge, and more!
Author’s Note:
Sixgill is now Plainsight: You may be noticing some new changes on our site & blog! Read more about our rebranding here.
There is still time to register for my upcoming live computer vision workshops. Learn how to build datasets and models for object detection!
- Intro to Computer Vision: Building Object Detection Models and Datasets — June 30th at 5:30pm PDT
- Data Annotation for Computer Vision & AI-Powered Labeling LIVE Demos — Multiple dates and times
🤖 Artificial Intelligence News:
- Nvidia’s Canvas AI painting tool instantly turns blobs into realistic landscapes ← You can now turn your doodles into “realistic” landscapes.
- DeepMind uses AI to tackle neglected deadly diseases
- Robot dog maker Boston Dynamics has a new owner ← It’s interesting how many times the company has changed ownership. I hope that with Hyundai and their recent warehouse robot launch, Boston Dynamics can really find their footing.
- Advancing AI to make shopping easier for everyone
- AI Drug Discovery Platform Insilico Medicine Announces 255 Million in funding ← This is a compelling indicator of interest in the AI Pharmaceuticals industry!
🛠️ Developer Tools & Education:
- Advancing computer vision research with new Detectron2 Mask R-CNN baselines ← Working with Detectron2 is a fun way to get started building models. It’s great to see Facebook continue working on the project!
- Data pipelines with tf.data and TensorFlow
- Meet TensorFlow community leads around the world
- Achieving Precision in Quantum Material Simulations
- The Image Similarity Challenge and data set for detecting image manipulation “We’ve built and are now sharing the largest available data set designed to help AI researchers develop new systems that can identify image manipulation at scale.”
- Improving Genomic Discovery with Machine Learning
📅 Upcoming Online AI & Data Science Events:
- Democratize Data and Scale Augmented Analytics with Integrated AI (June 29–11:00am PDT)
- Intro to Computer Vision: Building Object Detection Models and Datasets (June 30–5:30 pm PDT): ← I’ll be teaching this, so come say hi and ask questions!
- Using ML for Personalization and Optimization at Spotify (July 2–1:00pm PDT)
- Data Annotation for Computer Vision & AI-Powered Labeling LIVE Demo (July 8–3:00 pm PDT) “Learn computer vision data annotation techniques for object detection, instance segmentation, classification, and feature point clustering.”
- MLCon: AI and ML Developers Conference (July 14–8:00 am PDT)
🎤 Interesting Podcasts & Interviews:
- Advancing NLP with Project Debater w/ Noam Slonim
- Bringing AI Up to Speed with Autonomous Racing w/ Madhur Behl
- Vector databases for machine learning
📄 Notable Research Papers:
- Towards Long-Form Video Understanding
- Regularization is all you Need: Simple Neural Nets can Excel on Tabular Data
- A Systematic Collection of Medical Image Datasets for Deep Learning
- World-GAN: a Generative Model for Minecraft Worlds
- Video Swin Transformer
- How to train your ViT? Data, Augmentation, and Regularization in Vision Transformers
🤝 Connect with AI practitioners of all levels
- Stay connected with artificial intelligence and machine learning practitioners around the world! Slack Group | LinkedIn Group | Meetup Group
🦈 About the Author & Plainsight AI:
- Sage Elliott is a Developer Evangelist at Plainsight & passionate about making AI more approachable. Connect with Sage on Twitter or LinkedIn.
- Plainsight provides custom enterprise AI solutions, end-to-end machine learning lifecycle management, and fast data annotation for computer vision.
