Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #75! This was a bit of a quiet two weeks for productized and climate AI, so today I’ve just got three ML research and one cool stuff links for you: OpenAI’s GPT-3 book summarization; Google AI’s Wikipedia-based dataset for multimodal mod … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #73, a classic links issue. Today for productized AI I’ve got Merlin, an app for identifying birds by their calls; and an Oxygen Digital panel I joined on the future of AI-assisted coding. For ML research I found Stanford’s new Mistral l … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #71! Today for productized AI I covered the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, which is a collaboration between DeepMind and the European Bioinformatics Institute. For ML research I’ve got OpenAI’s Python-like open-source Triton GPU p … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #69! Today’s issue focuses on a new AI product that’s been all over Twitter this week: GitHub Copilot, “your AI pair programmer” powered by OpenAI’s new Codex model. This story became quite long and I’m not including any other items in t … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #67. The main story in today’s DT is about AI’s role in helping fight the COVID-19 pandemic. I avoided writing about the preprints in this space for a long time, but a new overview article in The Gradient pushed me to finally take a seco … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #65; I’ve got a whole lot of links for you today. In productized AI, I covered the EU’s final proposal for its Artificial Intelligence Act, a new jargon-aware (!) live meeting transcription feature in Microsoft Teams, and the new AI-powe … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #63. I took today to finally sit down and read three recent articles from Distill, the machine learning journal that focuses on AI interpretability with the help of clear writing and great, often interactive, visuals. (It’s also my favor … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #61! Today’s issue is a bit different from usual: I don’t have the regular sections or any quick links. Instead, I finally wrote a longer essay that I’ve been mulling over in my head for a long time, on the potential climate opportunity … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #60. Two weeks after we were ice skating on the canals, spring has arrived in Amsterdam and I’m sitting on the roof, writing this issue in the sun after a great row this morning! 🌞🚣‍♂️ For productized AI, I wrote about th … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #59! I’ve got a classic links issue for you today, featuring: 🔌 Productized AI: camera-based vitals measurements on Google Pixel phones; and Microsoft’s new Speller100 model powering input validation in Bing. 🎛 ML Researc … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #58! In today’s issue I wrote about the AI Incident Database, a new project by the Partnership on AI that’s meant to help future machine learning researchers and developers avoid repeating bad outcomes that AI-powered systems have histor … | Continue reading

Hey there, welcome to Dynamically Typed #56. First, a personal update going into the new year: I'm starting a new job! Monday will be my first day as machine learning engineer at Dexter Energy, an Amsterdam-based startup that uses AI to predict and optimize renewable (mostly wind … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #55. In today's issue I'm mostly focusing on DeepMind's new AlphaFold 2 (AF2) model, which I waited to dive into until last month's hype settled down a bit; that story is right below this, in the ML research section. It took pretty long … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #54! Today's main story is about an ethics conflict at Google AI; I've done my best to summarize what happened over in the ML research section. Beyond that, I've got quick links across all categories: updates on adversarial deepfakes and … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #53! It has one again been a very busy two weeks on my news feeds, so let's dive straight in. For productized AI, Runway ML launched the first (well, maybe) web-based automated video background removal tool; and Apple open-sourced a for … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #52! I have quite a few links for you today. In productized AI, I've got the 2020 State of AI report, Google's Duplex updates, and Microsoft's Lobe (re)launch. For ML research, there's Julian Togelius' excellent new AGI essay and a tool … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #51! Today in productized AI, I'm covering Adobe's big new Photoshop release full of AI-powered features and I have quick links on Descript's new video editor, Cyril Diagne's ClipDrop app, and a Google deep dive on the engineering of big … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to the 50th (🎉) edition of Dynamically Typed!One of the things I'm most proud of with this newsletter is that it's allowed me to build a big corpus of my own previous writing to refer back to. A while ago, I wrote a Python script to download DT issue … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #49! Today's productized AI feature story is on autonomous trucks, which is where I think self-driving vehicle tech will have its first big impact; I've also got quick links to Facebook's survey paper on AI systems for social network saf … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #48. Today's newsletter is a bit later than usual because of an unexpected extra rowing training (yesterday) and an unexpected last beach day of the year (today) — I'm trying to make the club's eight and big ocean waves are fun!I wrote t … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #47! I was on holiday the past two weeks—hanging out with my family for the first time since the start of the pandemic—so today's newsletter is a bit shorter than usual. That means no feature stories, but lots of quick links! For product … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #43! Today's feature story is on productized AI: I wrote about SnapML—Snapchat's machine learning platform—and its potential as a platform for creative ML developers to distribute their models to an audience of millions. Quick links in t … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #44. Today I'll be covering just one productized AI story—about the crazy demos that people have been building using OpenAI's GPT-3 API—for two reasons. First, a lot has already been built with it, so there's a ton to cover. Second, I'm … | Continue reading

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #42! Today I'm covering three big stories: big tech's long-awaited move away from selling facial recognition APIs; OpenAI's enormous (read: 100x bigger) new GPT-3 language model; and the Greenpeace report on tech's machine learning contr … | Continue reading