Image Restoration (IR) is a key aspect of computer vision that aims to retrieve high-quality images from their degraded versions. Traditional techniques have made significant progress in this area; however, they have recently been outperformed by Diffusion Models, a technique that's emerging as a highly effective method in image restoration. Yet, existing Diffusion Models often…
At the Generative AI: Shaping the Future symposium, Rodney Brooks, keynote speaker and co-founder of iRobot, cautioned against overestimating the capabilities of Generative AI. The technology supports powerful tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, but Brooks argued that no single technology ever exceeds all others. He stressed the importance of responsible development and use…
As software companies grow, their codebases often become more complex, resulting in accumulated legacy code and technical debt. This situation becomes more challenging when team members - especially those well-versed in the codebase - leave the company. Newer team members may face difficulties understanding the code due to outdated or missing documentation. To overcome these…
Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly impacted machine learning and natural language processing, with Transformer architecture being central to this progression. Nonetheless, LLMs have their share of challenges, notably dealing with lengthy sequences. Traditional attention mechanisms are known to increase the computational and memory costs quadratically in relation to sequence length, making processing long sequences…
NVIDIA is pushing boundaries in the world of AI and high-performance computing (HPC) with the launch of its Blackwell platform. Named after renowned mathematician, David Harold Blackwell, the platform introduces two innovative Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) – the B100 and the B200 – which promise to shake up AI and HPC with groundbreaking advancements.
The B100…
In a recent symposium titled "Generative AI: Shaping the Future", iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks urged caution regarding the unbridled optimism around generative artificial intelligence (AI). Generative AI uses machine-learning models to generate new material similar to the data it has been trained on, and has proven capable of creative writing, translation, generating code, and creating…
Large language models (LLMs) have made significant strides in the field of artificial intelligence, paving the way for machines that understand and generate human-like text. However, these models face the inherent challenge of their knowledge being fixed at the point of their training, limiting their adaptability and ability to incorporate new information post-training. This proves…
Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have been successful in text and image comprehension tasks, including Referring Expression Comprehension (REC). Notably, models like Griffon have made significant progress in areas such as object detection, denoting a key improvement in perception within LVLMs. Unfortunately, known challenges with LVLMs include their inability to match task-specific experts in intricate…
In a recent AI research paper, Google researchers have developed a new pre-trained scorer model, named Cappy, which has been designed to improve and surpass the capabilities of large multi-task language models (LLMs). This new development aims to tackle the primary issues related to LLMs. While they demonstrate remarkable performance and compatibility with numerous natural…
Medical image segmentation is a key component in diagnosis and treatment, with UNet's symmetrical architecture often used to outline organs and lesions accurately. However, its convolutional nature requires assistance to capture global semantic information, thereby limiting its effectiveness in complex medical tasks. There have been attempts to integrate Transformer architectures to address this, but these…
Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers from Stanford University and Notbad AI Inc are striving to improve language models' AI capabilities in interpreting and generating nuanced, human-like text. Their project, called Quiet Self-Taught Reasoner (Quiet-STaR), embeds reasoning capabilities directly into language models. Unlike previous methods, which focused on training models using specific datasets for particular tasks, Quiet-STaR…