We’re recapping 30 of the biggest AI news items of the year to date in this special edition (almost) mid-year review podcast episode. My original thought was to do a top 10 of 2023, but it quickly became obvious that we weren’t going to be able to pick only 10 (March 2023 was
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Bold UK AI Report from Institute GC
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Another bold report from @InstituteGC on AI and the UK, which I’m excited to have contributed. Please read and share your thoughts!
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FNet performance limitations compared to attention-based architectures
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Yeah, for some applications it may be sufficient. But FNet doesn't outperform a contemporary attention-based architecture though
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Model Explainability in Machine Learning Systems
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Does your model work? Can it explain itself? @HeatherGorr talks about explainability and #MachineLearning http://
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Is AI Advancing Too Quickly Google Leaders Weigh In
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Is artificial intelligence advancing too quickly? What AI leaders at Google say https://
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Industrial Research Pipeline Elegance Over Novelty
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When reviewing, I will give credit to submissions which work well in an elegantly simple pipeline. While other reviewers (always) raise novelty issues (and/or out-of-the-scope questions for the specific task). Look forward to seeing how industrial research looks like.
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Transformers Learn Through Gradual Rank Increase
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Transformers learn through gradual rank increase paper page: https://
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… identify incremental learning dynamics in transformers, where the difference between trained and initial weights progressively increases in rank. We rigorously prove this occurs under the -

Cap3D: Scalable Automatic 3D Object Text Description System
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Scalable 3D Captioning with Pretrained Models paper page: https://
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Retrieval-Enhanced Contrastive Vision-Text Models for Improved Concept Recognition
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Retrieval-Enhanced Contrastive Vision-Text Models paper page: https://
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… Contrastive image-text models such as CLIP form the building blocks of many state-of-the-art systems. While they excel at recognizing common generic concepts, they still struggle on -

FasterViT: Fast Vision Transformers with Hierarchical Attention
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FasterViT: Fast Vision Transformers with Hierarchical Attention paper page: https://
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… design a new family of hybrid CNN-ViT neural networks, named FasterViT, with a focus on high image throughput for computer vision (CV) applications. FasterViT combines the