Weekend Musings Rewind — February 2021
Weekend Musings is a weekly video blog series that focuses on tech talks around research and industrial applications of artificial intelligence in various domains.
In the rewind series, I will recap the weekend musings monthly, which would help you collate the content in one place and revisit the tech bytes that I have shared throughout the month.
Here is what we learned in February 2021:
Episode 1 — Image Generation, News summarization and AI: Fantasy vs Reality
In this episode we learned about three topics:
- Using text descriptions to produce images using neural networks. DALL·E is a 12-billion parameter version of GPT-3 trained to generate images from text descriptions, using a dataset of text–image pairs.
Read more here:
https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/ - Facebook AI’s news-summarization application called “TL;DR” — an abbreviation for “Too Long; Didn’t Read”
Read more here: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-news-article-summary-tools-brain-reader - AI: Fantasy versus Reality — How AI has been perceived in movies and what the real applications are.
a) Metropolis (1927) with humanoid Maria
b) The day the earth stood still (1951) with humanoid Gort
c) The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) with flying cars
Episode 2 — AI in Healthcare
In this episode, we will explore 3 applications of AI in medical sciences/ healthcare. The topics I will talk about today are:
- Predicting virus mutations using natural language processing — An MIT research
Read more here: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6526/284.full - AlphaFold (DeepMind): Predicting the 3-dimensional structure of a protein using amino acid sequence
Read more here:
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/AlphaFold-Using-AI-for-scientific-discovery - FastMRI (Facebook AI + NYU Langone): Building high-resolution MRI images using low k-space data
Read more here: https://fastmri.org/
Episode 3 — AI in Robotics
In this episode, we will explore 3 applications of AI in robotics. The topics I will talk about today are:
- iRobot — Home cleaning devices Read more about iRobot’s AI-powered vacuum cleaners:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/25/21377585/irobot-ai-software-update-home-intelligence-genius-app - Hanson Robotics — Humanoid Robots Read more about Hanson Robotics’ Sophia helping in the senior care:
https://mindmatters.ai/2021/02/sophia-the-robot-retooled-to-help-with-senior-care/ - Boston Dynamics — Mobility/Navigation Robots Read more about Boston Dynamics’ self-charging Spot Mini robot:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/2/22261932/boston-dynamics-spot-enterprise-self-charging-scout-web-based-control-software-robotic-arm
Episode 4 — Chat with the Expert — William Falcon
In this episode of Weekend Musings, we will chat with William Falcon, the CEO, and Founder of PyTorch Lightning.
Join me to learn more about his journey from Venezuela, being a veteran to being a technology innovator and creating PyTorch Lightning to serve the machine learning open-source community.
That’s a wrap to February! I hope you guys enjoyed this month’s Weekend Musings and you find something insightful out of it.
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