Research

Google Research

Google's Batch Calibration Technique Improves In-Context Learning When Prompting LLMs

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Chris McKay• October 14, 2023 • 3 min read

Batch Calibration refines in-context learning, and effectively tackles many of its biases while delivering state-of-the-art performance and unprecedented robustness.

Research Open Source Healthcare

M42 Health Unveils Med42 - A Milestone for Open Access in AI for Healthcare

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Chris McKay• October 13, 2023 • 2 min read

The model achieved up to 72% accuracy in a zero-shot evaluation on the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), and outperforms OpenAI's ChatGPT 3.5.

Apple Research

Apple's New Tool Continuously Downloads and Crawls Apps to Train AI to Better Understand User Interfaces

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Chris McKay• October 9, 2023 • 4 min read

The system offers a novel approach to training machine learning models that power various accessibility, testing, and design tools for app developers.

Meta Research

Meta Launches $500K Llama Impact Grants

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Chris McKay• October 6, 2023 • 1 min read

The Llama Impact Grants program seeks to identify and support compelling applications of Llama 2 that provide social benefits across the globe.

Microsoft Research Responsible AI

Microsoft's New Initiative to Accelerate Foundation AI Model Research

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Chris McKay• October 5, 2023 • 2 min read

A diverse research ecosystem is essential to realizing the promise of AI. AFMR aims to expand access to powerful models, engaging academics outside of computer science to pursue a broad range of important opportunities.

Google Biotech & Health Research

Google DeepMind's New AI Tool Helps Pinpoint the Causes of Genetic Diseases

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Chris McKay• September 22, 2023 • 3 min read

In a recently published paper in Science, it was revealed that AlphaMissense had classified a staggering 89% of all possible missense variants — illuminating the pathogenic or benign nature of these mutations.

Research

Toyota Uses New Generative AI Technique to Quickly Teach Robots New Skills

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Chris McKay• September 19, 2023 • 2 min read

The innovative approach, called Diffusion Policy, allows robots to acquire new dexterous behaviors, such as peeling vegetables or flipping pancakes, in just a few hours.

Research

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Funds Powerful AI System for Nonprofit Life Science Research

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Chris McKay• September 19, 2023 • 2 min read

The high-performance computing cluster will feature over 1,000 Graphics Processing Units to facilitate the development of AI and large language models for biomedicine at an unprecedented scale.

Google Research

Google's Latest Research Can Make Static Photos Interactive or Turn Them Into Videos

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Chris McKay• September 16, 2023 • 2 min read

Applications include turning still images into seamlessly looping dynamic videos, or allowing users to realistically interact with objects in photos.

Research Microsoft

Microsoft Proposes InstructDiffusion for Unified Computer Vision Modeling

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Chris McKay• September 9, 2023 • 4 min read

The model offers a promising concept for developing adaptable, generalist vision models. By mimicking how humans process images, it points towards more universal and flexible AI to handle diverse vision challenges.

Open Source Research

Falcon 180B: A New Leader in Open LLMs Emerges

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Chris McKay• September 6, 2023 • 2 min read

It outperforms Llama 2, demonstrates abilities on par with closed models like PaLM 2 Large (despite being just half its size), and ranks just below GPT-4.

Meta Open Source Research

Meta Releases BELEBELE, A Multilingual AI Benchmark Spanning 122 Languages

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Chris McKay• September 4, 2023 • 2 min read

BELEBELE represents the largest parallel multilingual benchmark ever created specifically for reading comprehension.

Meta Research

Embracing Open Source and Equity: Meta Announces Commercial Relicensing of DINOv2 and Introduction of FACET

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Chris McKay• August 31, 2023 • 2 min read

By opening up DINOv2 under a more permissive license and introducing FACET for fairness benchmarking, Meta is setting a positive example for responsible AI development.

Research Biotech & Health

Researchers Used AI to Give a Paralyzed Woman Her Voice Back

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Chris McKay• August 23, 2023 • 2 min read

Not only does the implant use Ann's brain signals to generate speech, but it also animates a digital avatar with facial expressions, mimicking the natural nuances of human communication.

Google Research Robotics

Google Researchers Teach Robots New Skills With Just Natural Language

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Chris McKay• August 22, 2023 • 3 min read

This study could herald a new era in robotics, enabling anyone to easily teach robots an array of new skills simply by explaining it to them.

Meta Research

Meta Unveils SeamlessM4T for Near Universal Speech Translation

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Chris McKay• August 22, 2023 • 3 min read

The project represents Meta's endeavor to create a unified multilingual system capable of catering to all language translation needs.

Open Source Research

Allen Institute Unveils Dolma, Largest Open Training Dataset for Large Language Models

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Chris McKay• August 19, 2023 • 2 min read

Dolma is significantly larger than other open datasets and is released under AI2’s impact license, which was designed to balance ease of access with mitigation of potential risk in distributing large datasets.

Research Stability AI

Humans in 4D: Tracking People in 3D Over Time Using Transformers

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Chris McKay• August 9, 2023 • 2 min read

New research from Berkely present an approach that, given any video in the wild, can jointly reconstruct the underlying humans in 3D, and track them over time.

Google Research Sustainability

Google is Using AI to Reduce the Climate Impact of Contrails

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Chris McKay• August 8, 2023 • 2 min read

Working with American Airlines, and Breakthrough Energy, Google Research was able to reduce contrails by 54% compared to typical flight paths.

Microsoft Research

Project Rumi: Augmenting AI Understanding Through Multimodal Paralinguistic Prompting

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Chris McKay• August 3, 2023 • 2 min read

New research from Microsoft aims to help AI understand non-verbal cues like facial expressions, tone of voice, gestures, and more

Meta Research

Meta Open Sources AudioCraft

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Chris McKay• August 2, 2023 • 3 min read

The company says responsible innovation can’t happen in isolation. By open sourcing its research and resulting models, it hopes to ensure that everyone has equal access.

Research

Seeing Through Darkness: Purdue Researchers Unveil AI Thermal Imaging Technology

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Chris McKay• August 1, 2023 • 2 min read

Improving upon traditional machine vision and perception, this method is designed to help machines perceive and interact with their surroundings in ways that were previously unthinkable.

AI Safety Research

RLHF In the Spotlight: Problems and Limitations with Key AI Alignment Technique

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Chris McKay• July 31, 2023 • 3 min read

A new paper takes a closer look at serious open challenges related to RLHF, and emphasizes that relying solely on it for AI alignment is profoundly risky

Google Healthcare Research

Med-PaLM M is a Multimodal Biomedical AI from Google Research and Google DeepMind

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Chris McKay• July 31, 2023 • 3 min read

Across all tasks in the benchmark, Med-PaLM M reached or exceeded state-of-the-art performance, often surpassing specialized models optimized for individual tasks by a wide margin.