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Issue #64 15 stories

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Introducing GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub

Published Tuesday, August 6, 2024

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Making AI models ‘forget’ undesirable data hurts their performance
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Making AI models ‘forget’ undesirable data hurts their performance

So-called “unlearning” techniques are used to make a generative AI model forget specific and undesirable info it picked up from training data, like sensitive private data or copyrighted material. But current unlearning techniques are a double-edged sword: They could make a model like OpenAI’s GPT-4o or Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B much less capable of answering […]

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Estimate the difficulty of a music piece using AI

We think you’ll like this week’s paper for its quirkiness. Because it’s summertime, we feel it’s a great time for something different. In this paper, they explore how to use machine learning to estimate the difficulty of learning and playing a music piece. Enjoy!

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AI chip startup Groq lands $640M to challenge Nvidia
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AI chip startup Groq lands $640M to challenge Nvidia

Groq, a startup developing chips to run generative AI models faster than conventional processors, said on Monday that it’s raised $640 million in a new funding round led by Blackrock. Neuberger Berman, Type One Ventures, Cisco, KDDI and Samsung Catalyst Fund also participated.

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Code

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Handwritten Text Recognition for Xournal++ Using Deep Learning
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Handwritten Text Recognition for Xournal++ Using Deep Learning

Taking handwritten notes digitally comes with many benefits but lacks searchability of your notes. Hence, there is a need to make your handwritten notes searchable. This can be achieved with "handwritten text recognition" (HTR), which is the process of assigning searchable text to written strokes.

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