This week in AI & Machine Learning: Tesla AI day, real-time tactile control for robotics, how AI is changing the world for the better, DALL·E mini, the future of robotic farming and more!
Author’s Note:
Next week, I’ll be teaching Intro to Computer Vision: Building Object Detection Models and Datasets on August 25th at 5:30 pm PDT. It’ll be a fun, fast-paced workshop covering computer vision applications, data annotation, and training an object detection model with python!
Top AI Highlight this Week:
Tesla AI Day:
Tesla held its AI day event on August 19th. At the event, we got an in-depth look at Tesla autopilot, the “dojo” deep neural network training computer, and a first glimpse of the Tesla Bot!
Checkout the full 3-hour announcement here, or watch the highlights from Lex Fridman below:
More AI & Machine Learning Stories:
🤖 Artificial Intelligence News:
- Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control
- From health care to infrastructure, how AI is changing the world for the better
- BeingAI unveils human-like AI character named Zbee
- How Google’s self-driving car project accidentally spawned its robotic delivery rival
🛠️ Developer Tools & Education:
📅 Upcoming Online AI & Data Science Events:
- Scalable Interactive and Practical Tools for Secure and Interpretable AI (August 23–7:00 pm)
- Intro to Computer Vision: Building Object Detection Models and Datasets (August 25–5:30 pm PDT)
- TransformX AI Conference 2021 (October 6–8:00 am PDT)
🎤 Interesting Podcasts & Interviews:
- Applications of Variational Autoencoders and Bayesian Optimization with José Miguel Hernández Lobato
- A Social Scientist’s Perspective on AI with Eric Rice
- NLP to help pregnant mothers in Kenya
- Josh Lessing on AppHarvest and the future of robotic farming
📄 Notable Papers:
- Do Vision Transformers See Like Convolutional Neural Networks?
- Program Synthesis with Large Language Models
- Image2Lego: Customized LEGO Set Generation from Images
🐘 About the Author & Plainsight:
- Sage Elliott is a Developer Evangelist at Plainsight & passionate about making AI more approachable. Connect with Sage on Twitter or LinkedIn.
- Plainsight’s vision AI platform streamlines the end-to-end machine learning process. From data annotation through deployment, customers quickly create and successfully operationalize their own vision AI applications to solve highly diverse business challenges. Join the conversation on Slack.
See you next week!
