October 4, 2022
September was a busy month. In addition to continued fascination over art generation with DALL-E and friends, and the questions they pose for intellectual property, we see interesting things happening with machine learning for low-powered processors: using attention, mechanisms, along with a new microcontroller that can run for a week on a single AA battery. In other parts of the technical universe, “platform engineering” has been proposed as an alternative to both DevOps and SRE. We’ve seen demonstrations of SQL injection-like attacks against GPT-3; and companies including Starbucks, Chipotle, and Universal Studios are offering NFT-based loyalty programs. (In addition to a Chipotle’s steak grilling demo in the Metaverse.)
Artificial Intelligence
- Facebook/Meta ups the ante on AI-generated images: they have a system that creates short videos from a natural language description. Videos are currently limited to five seconds. It isn’t open to the public.
- Transformers, which have a key to the progress in natural language processing, are now being adapted for work in computer vision, displaying convolutional neural networks.
- A group of researchers are talking about bringing attention mechanisms to resource-constrained TinyML applications. Attention mechanisms are the central innovation that led to language tools like GPT-3. Low power attention could revolutionize ...
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