Aug
2,
2023
Using OpenAI’S CLIP Model on the iPhone: Semantic Search For Your Own Pictures
The iPhone Photos app supports text-based searches, but is quite limited. When I wanted to search for a photo of “my girlfriend taking a selfie at the beach,” it didn’t return any results, even though I was certain there was such a photo in my album. This prompted me to...
Jun
21,
2023
AI as a Superpower: LAION and the Role of Open Source in Artificial Intelligence
In early March of this year, we had the pleasure of talking with Christoph Schuhmann, co-founder of the open-source AI organization LAION. We spoke with him about the organization's founding, the datasets and models it has produced, and the future of open-source AI development.
Jun
5,
2023
ChatGPT and Artificial General Intelligence: The Illusion of Understanding
The introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022 touched off a debate over the merits of artificial intelligence which continues to rage today.
Mar
30,
2023
AI Alignment
At least since the arrival of ChatGPT, many people have become fearful that we are losing control over technology and that we can no longer anticipate the consequences they may have. AI Alignment deals with this problem and the technical approaches to solve it.
Feb
14,
2023
Google Bard: The Answer to ChatGPT?
<div style="text-align: justify;">With the release of the AI ChatGPT at the end of November 2022, OpenAI made big waves that don’t seem to be dying down. For a long time, not just in the tech bubble, people waited for the giant Google to answer. Now here it is: Google introduced...
Feb
1,
2023
ChatGPT: The Big Disruptor?
<div style="text-align: justify;">Disruptive technologies or innovations like ChatGPT set in motion a process that can change the way we do business or even, how we live. The real disruptor is not ChatGPT, but the rapid development of new technologies in the field of AI and ML that are emerging on...
Nov
16,
2022
Three Key Considerations When Implementing AI
<div style="text-align: justify;">For some time now, artificial intelligence that allows an image to be generated from a text input, has been more or less freely available. Well-known examples are OpenAI's DALL-E and Google's Imagen. Not too long ago, Stability.ai's DreamStudio.ai was released, which, unlike the other AIs, is completely open...
Oct
19,
2022
DreamStudio, Stable Diffusion & Language Models
<div style="text-align: justify;">For some time now, artificial intelligence that allows an image to be generated from a text input, has been more or less freely available. Well-known examples are OpenAI's DALL-E and Google's Imagen. Not too long ago, Stability.ai's DreamStudio.ai was released, which, unlike the other AIs, is completely open...
Oct
4,
2022
AI in Vaccine Development and Rollout
<div style="text-align: justify;">This article describes use cases and tools that AI healthcare companies and research teams built to facilitate vaccine design, speed up trials, predict mutations, prioritize patients, and address vaccine hesitancy.
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Aug
22,
2022
Scalable Programming
<div style="text-align: justify;">Java continuously introduces new, useful features. For instance, Java 8 introduced the Stream API, one of the biggest highlights of the past few years. But is aggregating data with the Stream API a panacea? In this article, I’d like to explore if there’s a better alternative for certain...