/AI Weekly/Issue 75
A faster, better way to train general-purpose robots
Published Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Therapy involves patients talking with animated digital representations of voices they hear ‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads? Digital characters – avatars – could help people with psychosis hear voices less often and reduce the distress caused, research suggests.
Inspired by large language models, researchers develop a training technique that pools diverse data to teach robots new skills.
Join us in this episode where we talk with Jim Bennett about Revolutionize developer productivity.
My paper on simulations that look almost like reality is available for free
Undergrad Angela Busheska has a passion for sustainability. She talks with researcher Vaishnavi Ranganathan about the why behind her drive, the work she did at Microsoft on a platform for tracking land use, and her advice for making the internship experience count.
The joint reconstruction of shape and appearance for translucent objects from real-world data poses a challenge in computer graphics, especially when dealing with complex layered materials like leaves or paper.
By Ioana Bica, Nezihe Merve Gürel We are excited to announce this year’s affinity events co-located with NeurIPS. What are affinity groups? At NeurIPS, affinity groups play a crucial role in promoting and supporting the ideas and voices of various communities that are defined by some axis of joint identity and raise awareness of issues […]
I was investigating options for displaying images in a terminal window (for multi-modal logging output of LLM) and I found this neat Python library for displaying images using iTerm 2.
In the world of machine learning and deep learning, the term “epoch” is fundamental yet often misunderstood. It is a critical concept that…
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