• Building LLM apps comes with unique challenges like navigating datasets and parameter weights – it involves several layers, from user interaction to data management, and you can explore them in detail in this short guide. - GitHub
• Big move for AI regulation, President Biden’s Executive Order – creators of powerful AI should share safety results and model data with the government, but the order encourages open research and small developers as well, and calls for international collaboration. - White House
• Models keep getting tinier, Capybara and Obsidian were trained on the French Mistral 7B and run locally on iPhones – even more impressive is that Obsidian is multimodal with vision capabilities. - X (Twitter)
• AI could make it possible to identify diabetes from a voice recording – a promising study of 18,000 voice recordings from 267 participants shows that variations in pitch evaluated by a machine learning model could indicate type 2 diabetes. - Mayo Clinic
• AI could also help preserve biodiversity – a model trained on bird calls performs as well as human experts do at identifying birds, and could be beneficial for forest restoration projects. - The Economist
