Teaching Common Sense and Maths to LLMs
(T) The most common dissatisfaction of users with large language models (LLMs) is hallucination. In addition, LLMs are not good at maths. Here are a few resources to explore the […]
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Serge-Paul Carrasco
Deep Dive into Google Generative AI Announcements at Google IO
(T) Following is my quick summary of this week Google Generative AI and other major ML announcements at Google IO 2023. The breath and depth of those announcements is quite […]
Generating Generative AI
(T) There are now five ways to develop and launch a generative model: Here is a fun video from Yannic introducing “en grande pompe” OpenAssistant: References: Note: The picture above […]
Today is the 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
(E) Today is the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Humanity at its worse. We cannot forget! Note: The picture above is from Wikipedia – “Jewish women and children […]
LLMs and Generative AI Start-Ups and Investments
(B) According to a recent report, VCs firms have increased their investments in generative AI from $408M in 2018 to $4.5B in 2022. Most start-ups that have started the development […]
A Knee on the Neck
(E) “A Knee on the Neck: Do what they tell you because they are the law, at that moment not what you believe to be true. Swallow your pride if […]
From Droughts and Fire to Flood and Snow
(E) Last year, California had a severe drought from January to March. This year, we had a large number of storms, one after each other, from the end of last […]
A New Peak for the Global Consumption of Coal in 2022
(E) According to the IEA (International Energy Agency), the production of coal has reached a new peak in 2022 surpassing 8 billion tonnes for the first time. The IEA expects […]
The Pathways System – Google’s NextGen ML Platform for LLMs
(T) Jeff Dean announced the vision for Google’s next generation model Pathways in a blog post in the fall of 2021. Another blog article and a paper was published about […]
La Portée de L’Alexandrin dans la Langue de Molière
(E) I went this Friday at the Alliance Francaise of Silicon Valley to watch its monthly movie “Alceste à Bicyclette” in French, or “Bicycling with Molière” in American, while enjoying […]
Let be Clear About the Capabilities of Generative Models and Dialogue Agents
(T) “chatGPT has taken the world by storm”. That is what everyone of us has been reading everywhere and everyday for over two months now about chatGPT. And, everyone of […]
Google Research in 2022 and Beyond
(T) As he did since 2017, Jeff Dean, the tech lead of the Google Research and Health Teams shared some of the key achievements of his team for 2022 in a […]
Changement Climatiques On Savait Déjà Depuis Longtemps
(E) l’Institut National de l’ Audiovisuel (INA) a rassemblé d’excellentes videos sur les previsions du changement climatique qui étaient connus depuis plus de 45 ans. 1974 – René Dumont « Vous savez […]
Happy New Year! Best Wishes for 2023!
(E) Happy new year! Wishing to everyone the best for 2023! One of my favorite events during the first day of the year is to watch live on TV the […]
The Monarch is Back in Pacific Grove Again this Winter
(E) For the pleasure of both the kids and the adults, the Monarch is back in Pacific Grove. And, its number is slightly above last year (See the blog post […]
Joyeux Noël
(E) I wish that everyone on Earth could experience on Christmas Day an exquisite dinner. A dinner and its menu are exquisite when it makes you want to live. Why? […]
The COP 15 – The United-Nation Biodiversity Conference
(E) At the COP 15 biodiversity conference in Montreal, nearly 200 countries (without the U.S. and the Vatican) pledged to avoid mass extinction of plant and animal species, in particular […]
Hoping that We Will Never Spend Again $200 B for a Worldwide Sport Event?
(E) I have to say, the final game of the 2022 Football World Cup between France and Argentina was a blast! I wish France would have won. But I am […]
Theoretical Deep Learning
(T) Research in deep learning is moving rapidly in every direction: reinforcement and imitation earning for robots, computer vision for self driving cars, graph neural networks for biology, and language […]
Containing the Growth of the Human Population
(E) As tweeted by Antonio Guterres: “As we welcome the 8 billionth member of our human family, we must think ahead. By 2050, the world’s population will be approaching 10 […]
Energy Transition Has Never Existed and Will Never Exist
(E) The latest report of the 2022 IPCC working group III mentioned in its 2,900 pages 2,517 times the word “transition”. According to the historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, energy transition has […]
COP 27 – As Always No Decision to Stop Carbon Dioxide Emissions!
(E) The major outcome of the COP 27 this week in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt, was that wealthier countries have agreed to set up a fund to help the poorest ones […]
The Evolution of Google Datacenter Networking Architecture and Technologies
(T) I have been trying over the years to follow the evolution of Google’s datacenter and networking technologies, and in particular its switching fabric Jupiter. See the following blog posts:”Google’s […]
Dialogues of the Carmelites
(E) You usually go to the Opera to have an entertaining and social evening with your spouse, family, or friends. But what about going to the Opera to listen to […]
The Destruction of our Forests: Brazil, Senegal, and France
(E) Our worldwide forests are so precious but we are doing a pretty good job to destroy them. Brazil is losing the Amazon in order to produce and export beef […]
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