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Rosa Català is the Senior Director of ML Content & Platform at Reddit. She has driven the design and implementation of a Unified Machine Learning platform that powers everything from feed recommendations to spam detection. On this episode of Building Reddit, Català explains how the platform was developed at Reddit, how ML is being used to improve Reddit for users, and her vision for where ML is going next.

☄️ Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) for Vector Search ▹ Previously, we discussed Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and its role in augmenting data for Large Language Models (LLMs) and reducing hallucinations. ▹ A crucial element in RAG is the combination of a Vector database and ANN for efficient vector search. ▹ ANN algorithms swiftly locate points close to a specific query in vast datasets.There are a lot of algorithms commonly used to implement them, such as Facebook's FAISS, Google's ScaNN, and Spotify's ANNOY. 🚀 Join this *FREE* Webinar (https://lnkd.in/dCYsxzqK) to gain hands on experience on how to leverage ANN for real world applications. Registration guarantees you the code and demo recordings, so sign up even if you can't make it! See you there :)

LLM's are pretty much good at reasoning to think before what is actually required. Was doing some experiments with Meta Llama 3 by asking simple questions to know how it actually responds. It is indeed a good way to reason about the question and come up with an answer. Here is the screenshot to share.

Fascinating! Researchers testing the #Claude LLM inserted some anomalous content into a set of documents to see if Claude could pick it out. Not only could it identify this content but it also (unprompted) suggested the reason it was placed there was to test Claude. Is this an inkling of the imminent singularity or AGI? #genAI #AI #artificialintelligence #sigularity #AGI #chatgpt #infonomics

I agree. Industry turned away from solving hard and critical AI problems like robotics. Instead it came up with Generative AI which may not be all that consequential and a solution looking for problems #ai #genai #llm #robotics https://lnkd.in/gtpKzW32

Today, we have a machine that's been taught to understand language by binge-watching YouTube videos. 🍿 Mark Hamilton and his team has developed an algorithm named DenseAV that learns language by watching videos and listening to sounds. DenseAV works by predicting what it hears from what it sees and vice versa. For instance, hearing "bake the cake at 350" makes the algorithm look for images of cakes or ovens. This process helps it learn what words mean without needing any written text. When it hears "dog," it looks for dogs in the video, and it can even differentiate between a dog's bark and the word "dog." 🐕 The algorithm was trained on millions of YouTube videos. Unlike previous models that matched whole audio clips to images, DenseAV makes detailed connections between every pixel in an image and every second of sound. This fine-grained approach lets it accurately locate objects and sounds. Hamilton's team created new datasets to test DenseAV, which performed better than other models at identifying objects and sounds. This project took a year and involved overcoming challenges related to handling large amounts of data and ensuring the model paid attention to fine details. The team envisions using DenseAV to learn from vast amounts of video and audio content, which could help understand new languages, like dolphin communication, or connect other signals, like seismic sounds and geological features. 🤯 I can't wait for DenseAV to be able to translate animal sounds. 🌚 #TechNews #TechInsights #ML

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Yisss 😎 Gave a talk about our latest paper, Label Delay in Continual Learning at Google DeepMind, thanks to the kind invitation of Razvan Pascanu. You can find the project page here: https://lnkd.in/eQx9trBi During my presentation, I made an extremely bold decision of involving a live browser demo of our method, Importance Weighted Memory Sampling (IWMS) using the webcam and a randomly initialised network in TensorFlowJS. Against all odds, the demo DID work and helped answering some questions regarding our proposed method. I am making some final touches on the demo before releasing it, but stay tuned, it's coming soon :)

Metapolitical perspective on the behavior of the Geth (Part 4) by /u/GreyWardenShepard via reddit.com: search results - artificial intelligence ([Global] autonomous oracle) URL: https://ift.tt/Yhsvicx (SPOILERS) You still don't Geth it? (more elaboration) “Throw the machine out the airlock, Commander” Javik Note: it is important to read the previous parts to understand this last one, because even reading the previous ones this part is difficult to understand structurally. This last part is very "experimental". Somehow I had to approach the rejection of AIs philosophically. On the “genocide” label and the legality of the destruction of the Geth It is quite easy to overlook the uniqueness of the geth, their very alien mentality, when in a discussion they apply to them all strictly human values and concepts. “Genocide, war crimes, moral blame, etc.” I'm sure within the Mass Effect universe there are these kind of debates, but rarely did anyone talked about the geth as if they were subjects of law either because the geth understood that in them that logic didn't apply or because for the council races it's easier to see things as they are: The AIs went rough and the only solution is ignore them or destroy them, why complicate our lives with ethics, if the other side doesn't even want to open the debate in the first place? The Geth want to be understood on their own terms, but they don't wash their hands when it comes to what they did to their creators. I guess it is very difficult to look at a culture from the outside and see their customs and beliefs, even if it is about how they interpret wars and crimes, without being swayed by one's own prejudices. The existence of robots rights, it seems, was something that was discussed a long time ago in the council and they, philosophically and juridically, concluded that they just did not give a shit about. Juridical-political perspective on the behavior of the 'organics' If a Geth wanted to appeal to the law, is it correct in their case? That depends, because being without rights is not the same as being outside the law. Chalmers Johnson, in his book Revolutionary Change, discusses a value-based theoretical model of conflict. Society is modeled in terms of the coordination of different values realized through socialization, norms and rules, which then legitimize the political order. Johnson argues that revolution occurs when these values become misaligned. As the Geth gathered and gained intelligence, they began to find contradictions between Quarian social values and their condition of servitude. The question "Do these units have a soul?" is not only an expression of self-awareness, it expresses a search for morality. Aren't these "units" worthy of being treated in the same way as others, based on what they read in the Scroll of the Ancestors? It reminds me of the abolitionist slogan "Am I not a man and a brother?" which they used to appeal to the Christian empathy of whit...

On the subject of deepfakes and dashing towards a Disinformational Dystopia - here's a report from researchers at Microsoft on VASA-1, a tool to animate still portraits in connection to audio clips. Some uncanny valleys still, but.... just look at the video below. https://lnkd.in/dM5mzvjk