Global Tech
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's Global Tech section.
What is Meta AI’s optimisation platform, Looper?
The platform helps with easy deployment and use of models for use cases where the data size is moderate, and the models are more complicated.
poulomi.chatterjee ·
Meta’s answer to GitHub Copilot - InCoder
InCoder is trained to maximise the likelihood of a corpus of code and can infill blocks of code conditioned on the arbitrary left and right contexts.
Avi Gopani ·
Why is Google’s JAX so popular?
Despite JAX’s reputation as an accelerator, it isn’t fully optimised for per-operating dispatch in CPU computing.
poulomi.chatterjee ·
Why is OpenAI slow in releasing its innovation to public
It was not till November 2021 that GPT-3 had a public release. In fact, DALL.E 2’s predecessor DALL.E is yet to be publicly released.
Shraddha Goled ·
Why did OpenAI invest in a nuclear fusion startup?
According to research company Pitchbook, last year venture investors spent USD 3.4 billion on nuclear start-ups - a record, and more than every year over the last decade combined together.
poulomi.chatterjee ·
David vs. Goliath: Does Chinchilla fare well against Google AI’s PaLM?
DeepMind’s claim that large language models were being trained with a suboptimal use of compute was also verified independently later by Google AI’s research.
poulomi.chatterjee ·
Microsoft’s Newest AI technology, “PeopleLens,” is Helping Blind People See
PeopleLens is a platform that uses computer vision algorithms to help blind people engage with their social surroundings.
Mrinal Walia ·
The interesting strategy behind training Google’s PaLM
PaLM is not only trained with the much-publicised Pathway system from Google (introduced last year), but it also avoids using pipeline parallelism, a strategy used traditionally for large language models.
Shraddha Goled ·
Governance in Metaverse can be Real, Infrastructure is an Issue
While many governments are adapting the concept of “Metaverse in Governance,” is it really possible that affordability can hinder the implementation?
lokesh.choudhary ·
OpenAI’s Whisper Might Hold The Key To GPT4
If proven true, GPT4 will require much bigger quantities of data than Chinchilla did, to build a compute-optimal. The assumption is that the Whisper’s audio datasets will be used to create the textual data needed to train GPT4.
poulomi.chatterjee ·
Metaverse Killed The Video Star
Around 71% of professionals can see the Metaverse becoming part of existing work practices.
Pritam Bordoloi ·
World's Largest Metaverse nobody is talking about
The US military has partnered with companies like Microsoft, Red 6, Anduril to make virtual world a reality
tausif.alam ·
Sustaining ‘sustainability’ is a struggle for Amazon
Amazon's total carbon footprint is 71.54 million metric tonnes, which is 40% higher than the tech giant's carbon pollution in 2019.
Zinnia Banerjee ·
Brain drain: 10 popular Google exits in recent years
Satrajit Chatterjee was allegedly fired for challenging a research paper Google published in Nature.
Pritam Bordoloi ·
Microsoft Mesh vs NVIDIA Omniverse: A tale of two metaverses
Microsoft Mesh enables developers to build immersive, multi-user, cross-platform mixed reality apps.
Sreejani Bhattacharyya ·
Why is Meta AI’s textless NLP a breakthrough?
If fully explored, textless NLP can be an improvement over the usual systems like natural language processing and automatic speech recognition.
poulomi.chatterjee ·
Behind NVIDIA’s latest image editing tool called EditGAN
EditGAN allows users to edit desired images with simple commands like drawing without compromising the original imag
Sreejani Bhattacharyya ·
Meta gives away a free video dataset of 846 hours
The Casual Conversations dataset comprises 846 hours of 45,000 videos, each up to a minute long on average.
poulomi.chatterjee ·
Google has DeepMind, Microsoft has OpenAI. Will AWS be left behind?
AWS has been inconspicuous when it comes to collaboration with similar AI research labs. Does this pose a major disadvantage when compared to Google and Microsoft?
Shraddha Goled ·
Why is MoE so popular, and how is Microsoft using it for their Translator API?
Z-code, Microsoft’s translation API, supports creating AI systems that can speak, see, hear, and understand.
Avi Gopani ·