Popular Machine Learning Libraries, Ethical Interactions Between Humans and AI, and 10 AI Startups in APAC to Follow

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4 min readJul 20, 2023

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Demystifying Machine Learning: Popular ML Libraries and Tools

In this comprehensive guide, we will demystify machine learning, breaking it down into digestible concepts for beginners, including some popular ML libraries to use.

Fostering Ethical Interactions Between Humanity and Advanced Artificial Intelligence

This paper explores this uncharted terrain, providing a pragmatic appeal for compassionate coexistence between humanity and advanced AI.

What Can AI Teach Us About Data Centers? Part 2: Business Considerations

In the second part of our series on AI and data centers, we explore the business side of things including what staff is needed, and more.

Automating Remediation Processes for Data Security Posture Management

Before we look into how we can automate it, it is important to understand how data security posture management helps you achieve your goals.

Best Practices for Data Lake Security

While standard security measures such as passwords, multi-factor authentication, and antivirus/antimalware programs are effective, data lakes also have unique security requirements.

10 AI Startups in the APAC Region to Follow

The APAC region is fast becoming both a center for advanced computing and AI, and these are a few APAC AI startups worth keeping an eye on.

Discover new skills and learning paths with ODSC West’s Mini-Bootcamp Pass, featuring 4 full days of hands-on training, workshops, talks, and more. Register by Friday for 70% off.

OECD Report: 27% of Jobs at High Risk Due to AI

A new report from the OECD says that up to 27% of jobs are at high risk to due AI’s impact on the labor market.

Researchers From Microsoft and ETH Zurich Introduce LightGlue

ETH Zurich and Microsoft have introduced LightGlue, a new deep network that excels in visual localization under challenging conditions.

Elon Musk Announces xAI — a New Company Focused on AI

After months of comments, Elon Musk announced the formation of a new AI company called xAI in a post on Twitter.

Google AI Proposes New Method to Reduce Burden on LLMs: Pairwise Ranking Prompting

Google AI researchers have proposed a new approach called Pairwise Ranking Prompting to help LLMs in solving text ranking problems.

Google Facing Lawsuit Alleging Misusing Data to Train its LLMs

In a new lawsuit, Google is facing accusations of misusing personal data to train its large language models that power its AI products.

Actors are Claiming Studios Want to Use AI Replicas

SAG-AFTRA actors revealed a proposal from studios that included using AI to create digital likenesses of the actors.

First Sessions and Speakers Announced for ODSC West 2023

With topics like monitoring drift with MLOps and anomaly detection, here are a few of the first announced sessions for ODSC West 2023.

Video of the Week: Beyond Monitoring: The Rise of Data Observability

Watch as Monte Carlo’s Shane Murray introduces “Data Observability” as the game-changing solution to the costly reality of broken data in advanced data teams. Learn how to eliminate data downtime and ensure data trust at scale with end-to-end data observability, a critical component of the modern DataOps workflow.

Upcoming Webinars:

Take Raw Data to Curated Data in under 60 minutes

Thu, Jul 20, 2023 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM EDT

Find out how using a low-code, no-code tool can free up your time, allowing you to focus on the tasks that are actually meaningful to you. And not just that, you’ll find out how blazing fast it is to connect Apache Spark, Databricks, and TimeXtender.

From Docs to Tables: Generating Structured Data with LLMs

Wed, Jul 26, 2023 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM EDT

Better results can be obtained by using an LLM to convert documents into tables via large batch jobs for downstream analytics and ML use cases — directly on top of a warehouse like Snowflake. Join this webinar to learn how to easily generate insights from unstructured data by customizing an LLM with open-source declarative ML framework, Ludwig, and Predibase.

Spatial Data Science for Climate Risk Analytics

Tue, Aug 1, 2023 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM EDT

In this webinar, we will harness spatial data coming from multiple sources to create composite scores that can describe the climate risk associated with different assets, from people to infrastructure. All of this will be done within the CARTO cloud native environment.

Enhanced Fine-tuning (using PEFT) of Open Source Pre-trained LLMs for Q&A and Summarization Tasks

Thu, Aug 3, 2023 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM EDT

This talk is intended to guide attendees on the path of fine-tuning large pre-trained models such as HuggingFace’s Transformers (Falcon-40B), specifically focusing on question-answering and text summarization tasks.

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