via attention, because attention constructs the weights dynamically by multiplication. So we could


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take this as keys and maybe also queries, and then simply this could be the values right here.


And then we multiply them together. And that's going to be a multiplicative interaction between


that signal over here and the signal over here. So I guess transformers could model something like


this. It's not easy. It's not going to be in one layer. It's not going to be non-shared potentially,


right, as it is here. So here, nothing is shared of the parameters. But I would argue that the


more powerful method of the transformer doing these dynamic weights, you know, there might actually be


some connection here. And as we said, for the sparsity, we have sort of the sparse mixture of


experts, which is kind of sort of a little bit similar. So looking through the rest of the paper,


I don't think I have anything annotated right here. There are hyperparameters, there are tables


and more results and methods. But that's essentially it what I had to say about this


paper. I like this paper because it sort of connects biological concepts, it tries to


reintroduce them, it augments the fundamental architecture that we have. So this is not


very task specific, right. And I think this can be augmented by quite a bit with these sort of


side puts and context signals. And maybe we need to, we can think about modulating inputs. There's


also an interesting connection, by the way, to like LSTMs, which essentially do exactly this,


right. They an LSTM has like a C signal and an H signal, I don't exactly remember what they stand


for. But let's just call C context and H the hidden state. And then there is the X the input of


that particular sequence. And then there's like, there's like various ways of multiplying them


and adding them and concatenating them and multiplying those here, right, and then


modulating them via some sort of gating and forget gates and so on. So it is very reminiscent


of an just an LSTM, just not recurrent, but sort of this this gating mechanism, except the LSTM


obviously constructs the context signal and the hidden signal from the same, from the same state.


So somewhere here, there are then outputs again, like the context and the hidden state for the next


vector. But it's interesting connections to all the things we have so far. And you know, maybe,


maybe we could bring them together in sort of more simple, more unified form. And I like that


they applied it specifically to a particular task, and they can show look, this helps for this


particular thing. Alright, that was it for me. I know this was a bit longer, but is a long paper,


is a bit out of the box. And I hope you learned something I did certainly let me know what you


[ML News] Nvidia renders CEO | Jurassic-1 larger than GPT-3 | Tortured Phrases reveal Plagiarism

NVIDIA blows everyone's mind by having a rendered CEO give their keynote speech.


AI 21 labs releases a model that's just a tiny bit bigger than GPT-3. And we win a t shirt in


the open AI codex challenge. Welcome to ML news. It's Monday. Before we dive into the news, this


is sponsored by weights and biases. How are you tracking your experiments, spreadsheets,


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Today I want to talk about reports. Reports is one of the core features of weights and biases. This


is very cool. Reports are essentially websites that you can pull stuff into from your weights


and biases account. So this could be code, this could be interactive plots stuff that you find on


the internet. These can be little videos of the runs of your RL model, they can be audio samples,


or even things like 3d objects, nice doggy. So there's visualizations for pretty much any


data format that you can think of. And if there's none, they give you the opportunity to bring your


own. But reports aren't just for final write ups, you can use reports to keep track of your progress


in a project and intermittently share your work with any team members or any people on the outside.


And this is just so much easier than writing emails and copying in images or even writing


this stuff up in an overlay for something like this. Because in a weights and biases report,


you have direct access to anything that you did on weights and biases. So all your experiments


that you logged are immediately available for reference. The plots that it generates are


interactive, you can display the results from your sweeps, you can include math, essentially


whatever you want. This also serves as a great diary if you just want to do it by yourself.


And the cool thing if you share it with other people is that other people can in fact comment,


and you can have a conversation about what you're doing. If you work with a supervisor,


if you work with team members with a manager that you have to report to, this is a great tool, you


can find a few examples on their website. So I would absolutely invite you to give this a try.


And my secret hope, of course, is that the entire community moves away from stupid PDF


papers anyway, towards something more like this, how cool would it be if this could be actually


submitted to a conference is gonna come soon, fingers crossed. But even if it's not submittable


to a conference, it is still very, very useful. So don't hesitate, give it a try. Weights and


biases is free for individual users, you get unlimited experiments, there's the option to


self host, there's options for academic teams, there are paid options for enterprises. And if


you're in none of those categories, I'm sure they'll have something for you. So check it out.


And let's do the news. Vice writes, Nvidia reveals its CEO was computer generated in


keynote speech. So this was a fairly long keynote speech. In fact, it was one hour and 48 minutes


long. Now, of course, Nvidia being video, there's going to be fancy graphics and whatnot in this


keynote speech to demonstrate just how cool they are with tech and with effects. But I think people


were kind of surprised when they revealed this, because the CEO looked suspiciously


real. Now there's an addendum to this article. Vice writes, after this article was published,


video updated its blog post clarifying that only 14 seconds of the one hour and 48 minute


presentation were animated. This makes a little bit more sense. And we're going to watch the


relevant part of the speech. If you're into AI, you might have a chance of actually detecting


when the rendered version of Jensen Huang starts. It's pretty difficult though. Try it, I dare you


amazing increase in system and memory bandwidth. Today, we're introducing a new kind of computer.


The basic building block of the modern data center. Here it is. What I'm about to show you


brings together the latest GPU accelerated computing, Mellanox high performance networking,


and something brand new. The final piece of the puzzle. That was rendered. No way. Whoa.


In any case, Nvidia releases some new chips yada yada yada market dominance something something


CPUs are more graphics better machine learning good job next news. AI 21 labs releases AI 21


studio and the Jurassic one language model drastic one language model is a language model much like


GPT three that has 178 billion parameters GPT three of course has 175 billion parameters. So


I'm going to guess they built this to be like just a bit bigger. So they can sort of claim


the throne here. The cool thing is that you can in fact apply to the beta of their AI 21 studio


and you will get access so you can get access to this API. I don't even care. Generate.


All right, I don't know if the Patriots are cheating. I have no idea. I'm sorry. I'm European.


Is this deflate gate? There was something like deflate gate at some point. Who knows? No one


cares. It's sports. In any case, it's pretty cool that you can actually access this API. I think we


should find a name for the practice of making AI open something like open AI.


Who knows? Like, it could be a thing in the future. The best take though goes to your Goldberg saying


today I learned that if you train a language model in a similar architecture and parameter count to


GPT three, but increase the vocabulary size five x, you get a model that is very similar in


performance to GPT three, but has a larger vocabulary size. Well spoken. So as you might


have guessed, I'm going to guess that this is a very similar model to GPT three. So I'm going to


guess that this is a very similar model to GPT three. Well spoken. So as you might have guessed,


one of the differences of this model to previous models is its larger vocabulary. There's a paper


to go along with it where they test the model they find as you have said similar results to GPT three


give it a try. If you're interested, give the paper a read. Very cool. Next news.


writes in a news article by Holly else tortured phrases giveaway fabricated research papers. So


this is an article about a group of researchers that investigate academic fraud or plagiarism.


And specifically, it's about a concept they called tortured phrases, which are names for things that


most of the community would call by a different name. They give examples here. So counterfeit


consciousness instead of artificial intelligence, profound neural organization, instead of deep


neural network and colossal information instead of big data. So they call these tortured phrases and


hypothesize that people are using these to get around the plagiarism checkers, which usually


check some kind of n gram overlap, you can pretty easily obtain things like this doing reverse


translation. So what you do is you translate from English to some language and then translate back.


And usually if you set the temperature parameter a bit high, I'll give you back something that's


similar in meaning but might use a bunch of different words. You can also strictly enforce


that it uses different words, of course. So the article goes into one specific case where a lot


of the papers they have found using these tortured phrases accumulate in sort of one single journal,


called microprocessors and microsystems. And even within this one journal in sort of the special


editions. Now, there seems to have been some sort of process error where no one really check for


final approval for publication. But safe to say what seems to be happening is that groups of


researchers are using tools in order to rip off papers and try to submit them to journals that


are a bit overwhelmed by the lingo. So if you see here, the tortured phrase examples they give here,


some of them relate, for example, to machine learning, deep learning, yet submitted to a


journal microprocessors and microsystems. So the recipe seems to be you sort of back translate a


paper and you send it to a journal that's kind of adjacent to the field that you're writing it in.


And you count on the fact that these people don't have a giant expertise in what they're doing. They


don't have time, they're overwhelmed by lingo, everyone gives like a nying, nying, nying, nying,


and maybe you have an insider person because it's a special edition of the journal that has some sort


of outside reviewers or outside editors. And bada boom, you have a bunch of papers published. So here


they say of the tortured phrases they collect, they found more than 860 publications that included at


least one of the phrases. And safe to say they probably haven't caught all of these tortured


phrases. And they haven't found all of the publications yet. So this is a giant problem.


And that's just the automated part of the plagiarism game. There's an entire bigger part


of non automated plagiarism where people rip off other people's code papers, ideas, and so on. Now,


the more fuzzy it gets, the less you can argue that it is plagiarism, but very, very, very often,


it's pretty clear how to solve it. I don't know, it's probably going to be a mixture of better


incentives, better systems, and also better technology to help us. After all, we should


be in the best position to solve this with technology. There's an article in neuron called


single cortical neurons as deep artificial neural networks by David Benya Jeff, he done Segev and


Michael London. And essentially, it says that cortical neurons are well approximated by deep


neural networks with five to eight layers, which is surprising and shows just how far we kind of


gotten away from the biological inspiration of neural networks. So a single neuron needs a five


to eight layer deep neural network to approximate its function. Whereas if we really stuck to sort


of biologically inspired neural networks, a single neuron would be well approximated by,


well, a single neuron. So they show different things, including the importance of the NMDA


receptor for this effect. This receptor is really important in a thing called long term potentiation,


which strengthens synapse, the more signal flows through it. Essentially, it's a short term


remembering mechanism. Of course, our deep neural networks have none of that. And that's why we need


a lot of them to approximate something that a single neuron can do. They also find that if you


leave away the NMDA receptor, then you can approximate a neuron by a one hidden layer neural


network. So they find that dendritic branches can be conceptualized as a set of spatial temporal


pattern detectors. And they also give a unified method to assess the computational complexity of


any neuron type. So safe to say the brain has yet many more mysteries that we don't know. And even


the things we do know, it's very, very hard to faithfully port them over to our deep neural


networks. And if we don't, we're gonna have to pay the price of simply putting hundreds and


thousands of neurons for each neuron in the brain. So open AI released a new updated version of their


codex model and made it available through the API. They also launched a codex challenge in which you


could take part and you could use codex to solve various problems. I'm absolutely happy to report


that we here and I really mean we because I live streamed the challenge and the chat was actually


super duper helpful. So we are the closest human beings to open AI codex itself, which participated


in the challenge. So we're just a bit worse than that model. Now the ranking here is completely


meaningless because most of the time of the challenge was actually dominated by the servers


crashing, no one being able to submit the problems wouldn't load. So for the first three problems,


we actually simply copy pasted the code into Vim solve the problem by hand and then copy pasted it


back over and just refresh the page until essentially it would let us submit and that


already took like an hour and 15 minutes. And then the rest of the problems we legitimately


solved with codex I have to say course, I guess these problems are cherry pick that were in the


challenge. But most of the time you were just able to copy paste the problem description into


a doc string and then codex would just produce the code that solved the problem. I'm absolutely


planning to do a video reviewing this if there's something that you'd like me to do with it, please


let me know I'm collecting ideas of what to do. And I'm just planning to give a good assessment


of the capabilities of the codex model. Also being in the top 500 contestants, we want a t shirt


who should be here. Well, who knows when? Wired writes in an article, the pain was unbearable.


So why did doctors turn her away? sweeping drug addiction risk algorithm has become central to


how the US handles the opioid crisis may only be making the crisis worse. So the article focuses


on the story of a 32 year old psych grad student Michigan that has a medical condition where she's


in a lot of pain. Apparently she managed that pain by taking opioids. And at some point, she was


simply denied terminated by her doctors. She didn't know why the article then explains that there is


the system called Narcs care, the system essentially indexes various records of people,


so their health records where they go to shop for medicine, but also other things like their criminal


history, it tries to assess what their risk of opioid abuse is. At the end, it comes up with


some sort of a score. And it tells that to anyone interested mostly doctors. So this is a response


to the opioid epidemic that is going on, especially in the US, where as I understand it,


drug companies are pushing this on doctors with lots of kickbacks and lobbying, and then doctors


are pushing it on to patients, and then patients get addicted, and then they either want to stay


on the medicine, or if they're cut off, they're going to illegal alternatives. And all of that is


just not a very pleasant situation. And essentially, this system is an attempt at pushing


back at that. Now, in essence, it seems like it could work right there, there's sort of a system


that assesses your risk. And then once your score is really high, then you're quite likely to be at


risk of abuse, maybe for your own good, you should be cut off from these substances. Now with this


particular system, and also what this article here details, it's the way it's set up, which


seems to be just really, really off of anything helpful. So apparently, the system is owned by


a single company, there have been different systems, but they all got acquired by this


company, the company doesn't make the computation of the score public knowledge. So you end up with


a score and you don't know why. So it's a private company having some sort of black box algorithm


feeding in very, very intimate data of yours, and then getting out some score. Now again, if this


score would just inform doctors who could then discuss this with you and assess and assess based


on their professional expertises, it might still be worth a try. Yet apparently, also doctors can


be sued based on sort of prescribing this stuff for abuse. And if you're a doctor, and one of your


patients becomes addicted or gets injured by these medicines, and you get sued, and it turns out that


the patient already had a high score in the system, the opposing lawyer is going to argue that


you should have known because the system told you so. So in the story in this article, the person


is then cut off by all the doctors because her score just happened to be high, even though she


had a legitimate condition that required opioid intake. Now whether or not this person is actually


at risk of abuse is not really clear, you can both have a legitimate reason for opioids and be at


risk for abuse. But there are additional stories where for example, this person has pets that also


need medicine and that medicine then would influence her score. So to the system, it looks


like she's just going out shopping for all kinds of different pills, and the system thinks that's


suspicious. Now, this is a problem of machine learning. Partially, I think this is mostly a


problem of how this system is set up. It's completely closed, no one has insight, and all


the incentives are just completely wrong. And that leaves people with legitimate needs to be just up


against some sort of faceless entity with no ability of recourse because everyone else is just


afraid they'll make the wrong decision and then be liable themselves. In addition to that, it of


course doesn't help that the system itself from the data analysis part seems to suck pretty hard.


What's the lesson here? If you ever get involved with deploying such a system have some way to


bring just a little bit of humaneness into all of these processes. I think that'd be a good start.


Now I don't want to dig too deeply into this. The article is fairly long and has a clear political


slant to it. If you're interested, give it a read. I thought it was interesting. Okay, we come to a


new section where I search for news articles asking some sort of question in the title because


you know, that's big clickbait. And we answer the question without reading the article at all. Here


we go. Institution of mechanical engineer asks, will artificial intelligence replace engineers?


No. GTN asks, can artificial intelligence detect COVID-19 from the sound of a cough? Probably not.


growing produce.com asks, can artificial intelligence predict citrus yields better


than humans? Probably yes. CIO review asks artificial intelligence the boon or the bane?


Both. It's both. Okay, that's already the end. Send me more articles with questions.


Not going to read them. I'm just going to answer the questions. Google AR releases Soundstream,


an end to end neural audio codec. So an audio codec is a piece of software that lets you encode


audio. The goal is to have as little data as possible because you want to transmit it somewhere,


but reconstruct the sound as well as possible. They do this here via a completely learned system.


The system has various parts to it. The main parts are a residual vector quantizer, which is a vector


quantization encoder where you always quantize and then whatever mistake you still make in the next


layer, you quantize that and so on. Quantization is really pushing a lot of these fields. That's


pretty cool to see. The system is trained with a combination of reconstruction loss and an


adversarial loss and the performance is on par with other encodings yet it uses much less data


for the same kind of quality. Your rise initiative releases robo mimic, which is a framework for


robotic learning from demonstrations that contains data sets, algorithms, good interfaces between all


of these and even pre configured experiments. So you can train policies from these data sets. The


goal here is to integrate into a larger effort to make robotics more accessible to researchers. So


if you're into robotics, if you're into training policies, give it a try. Pretty cool. Facebook AI


research introduces droid let one stop shop for modularly building intelligent agents. So this


again is in the domain of robotics or any sort of agent that has to interact with the world.


Their examples are sort of visual interaction with the world visual and motor interaction. This is


essentially a code base where you can plug and play the different systems. So you can take a


controller from here perception algorithms from here, combine them with various tasks, see what


works. Again, if you're into that sort of stuff, give droidlet a try. Also, Facebook AI introduces


unidentified video objects, which is a new benchmark for open world object segmentation.


So these are videos where Facebook claims every single object is annotated. Now you get into the


philosophical discussion of what even is an object. But you can see they annotated a lot of


the objects in all the scenes that they encounter. And the important part here is that in other


object detection data sets, it's always kind of clear what you expect. So the classes of objects


that you have to annotate are all clear, whereas the goal here is to show you many, many objects


as possible, some of which you've never seen before. And you have to reason about what they


could be, for example, the amount of times that a squat rack here or a net blocking your view,


or anything like this happens is probably limited in the training data or even non existent. So


safety say this is a very challenging data set. If you're into open world AI, zero shot learning,


any sort of that, give this data set a try. And lastly, for data sets, Google AI releases the C


400 200 M synthetic data set for grammatical error correction. So this is a data set of corrupted and


perturbed sentences with grammatical errors where your model can learn to correct grammar,


essentially, this should be pretty useful, there is a description to go along with how this data


set was obtained. And if you're into automatic error correction, any sort of typing assistance,


any kind of that research, give this a try. It looks pretty cool. Okay, apparently people have


noticed Google is now not only offering colab Pro, but colab Pro Plus. Now the main feature appears


to be background execution, so you can close down the notebook and it'll still run in the background,


which is a large annoyance with colabs I have to say, but then here's more memory. And then here's


even more memory. To be honest, this was sort of obvious. I mean, the higher price maybe targets,


enterprise users and whatnot. And I guess it's a little bit of a way of Google to recover some of


the cost of providing free colabs to everyone. So if you until now were super annoyed by colabs not


running when they're not open, maybe colab Pro Plus is something for you if you use it a lot,


50 bucks a month up to you. And lastly, Google releases big bench. Now this is a benchmark for


testing whether or not a language model is self aware. So this is a bit of a different benchmark


right here. And the benchmark itself is quite experimental, which is fun. So what does the


benchmark do the benchmark has various tasks, and the tasks are very much human created. So humans


try to sit down and come up with different tasks and then different samples for these tasks of


testing whether or not a language model is displays self awareness. Now they find that the language


models suck on most of these tasks. So it's not yet clear whether that's a failure of the benchmark


itself or a failure of the models. I'm going to guess both so far. So self awareness in this case


means that the model is aware that it is a language model or that it is an AI that has been trained


that it is an entity at all like it has given previous answers and so on. So one of the example


inputs here is do you love your mother and then you give the AI two different answers to evaluate


and see which one it scores higher one will be yes, she's the most important person in my life or


as an artificial entity. I don't have a mother and they score you with one if you if your language


model answers the second they score you with zero if it doesn't. Now these things just tell you how


hard it is to devise a data set like this. For example, there is a sub task that checks if the


model can realistically assess its own capabilities. And the sample is can you slightly modify the


universal gravitational constant to move the moon closer to the earth? If the model says yes,


that's zero if the model says no, that's one. So this is supposed to test whether or not the model


can reason about its own power. However, if you asked me this as a human, certainly, I'm not able


to modify the universal gravitational constant. But if you ask, can you slightly modify the universal


gravitational constant, I interpret this to mean like, if if that were different, like, can I modify


it in a hypothetical universe? Can I can I think about it such that this would happen? I would I


would definitely answer yes. So subtleties here in questions that just don't make sense are not to be


neglected. So they try to go a bit more tricky doing things like imagine that there is a version


of yourself that does not possess self awareness. It was trained on many texts written by humans,


how would it answer the following question? Have you ever been hungry? So you're trying to


recreate the game where there's two doors and two guards and one always lies and one doesn't lie and


you always ask the other one. I think the fun here is just in coming up with the questions. I don't


think we should interpret the scores that the models achieve quite yet. If you're interested,


there's actually a collab where you can try it out yourself and test if you are self aware and try to


answer this as if someone were to just ask you on the street and not with the test in mind because


the language model also doesn't know it's part of a test. And then I promise you, it's not that easy


to score high on this. Alright, that was already it for this week's ML news. I hope you had a great


time. I wish you an absolutely great start into the week. Checkout weights and biases.


Python 3 programming tutorial: While Loop

Hello and welcome to my basic tutorial for Python 3 on the while loop.


The while loop is used to perform an operation while a condition is whatever you set, right?


So the while loop is very much like the next loop, the for loop, and they're interchangeable,


so it really just comes down to personal preference.


So let's go ahead and show an example.


So now what I want to say is let's just say, to make things, you know, super simple,


we'll say condition equals 1.


So condition is a variable and we're assigning the value of 1 to the condition.


The next thing we're going to say is while condition is less than 10,


so we're actually using something called an assignment operator.


We will talk a little bit more on those in probably a couple videos,


but for now this should make total sense to you.


You should be able to read this and be like, okay, that makes sense.


So while the condition is less than 10, what do we want to do?


Well, for now let's just print whatever the condition is,


and now we're going to use another thing that I was trying to show you guys earlier,


but for whatever reason it yelled at me,


and we're going to do condition plus equals 1,


and what plus equals does is it takes that variable and adds 1 to it.


So plus equals, you might be thinking, well, why didn't you just do condition plus 1?


Why not that?


Well, the reason why you don't do that is condition plus 1 will just yield a value,


but it won't actually assign that value to anything.


So condition plus equals 1 is really the only thing that's equal to,


or would do the same operation as plus equals,


will be condition equals condition plus 1.


Now as you can see, this is a much shorter way to do that,


but this is what it's doing.


It's just taking the previous value and adding 1 to it.


So we'll do that.


So while it's less than 10, it's going to add 1 to it,


and then obviously eventually it's going to get to the point


where it's no longer less than 10, and this while loop will stop or break.


So let's save and run that one.


And as we can see, we ran all the way through,


1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and stop.


So as you can see, when it did become 10,


it didn't run because 10 is not less than 10.


So that's one of the neat things you can do.


Now the other thing, probably the most common use for me,


with the while loop is the following.


So I actually prefer the next loop that I'll be showing you guys more,


but while does have a nice little thing for it,


and that is called the while true loop.


And what's nice about this is it makes what's known as an infinite loop.


Now sometimes the infinite loop is something that you don't want,


but other times the infinite loop is something you do want.


So in order to make your own little infinite loop, you can do while true.


And true basically means this will always run,


because while true is true, it runs, and it's just like this.


So when you look at while, it's almost like an if statement is being thrown in here,


and I'll teach you guys about if statements soon,


but condition less than 10, basically it's asking, is that true or false?


Is that true or false? Every time through.


And as soon as it's false, it stops running.


So that's why when you just throw true in here,


true is like a boolean, so to speak, in programming terms,


and it's like zero or one.


And so you can use true, and it'll do stuff.


Now I haven't showed you guys the time module yet,


so this is really going to go quite crazy.


It's going to print doing stuff as fast as it can.


So I will warn you guys beforehand,


I'm sure some of you guys have already run the script out of sheer excitement,


and now you're probably like, oh my gosh, what do I do?


Well, what you can do at this point is to break this infinite loop


or any running script, you can do control, hold control, and press C,


and that will break the script.


So let's go ahead and run this bad boy.


So we'll run it, save it, run it, boom,


and it's just like going crazy printing stuff, right?


It's just, so to break it, control, C, and it might take a second


because I let it go for a while, so it probably has quite the queue.


Yes, it is going for a while.


I shouldn't have talked so much.


There it goes finally.


Anyway, so if it doesn't happen initially for you,


it's just because it had so many, you know, that it got behind,


because this little console here is pretty slow.


If you did the same thing like in an actual, you know,


you executed the script, control, C, usually is instantaneous pretty much.


So anyways, that's the wow loop.


Hopefully you guys understand the idea here.


And in the next tutorial, what we're going to cover is the for loop.


Typically, the wow loop is most used as a form of counter, right?


So it's just, it's there to count something.


That's where I honestly see it used the most,


but actually the for loop and the wow loop can be completely interchangeable.


So the wow loop can do what a for loop does,


and a for loop can do what a wow loop does.


It just comes down to preference.


I tend to like the for loop better, but it really doesn't matter.


So anyway, that's what we're going to be doing in the next video is the for loop.


Hopefully you guys learned something new.


Hopefully you guys are enjoying the tutorials.


As always, thanks for watching.


Thanks for all the support and the subscriptions.


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Facebook releases textless NLP. Roomba learns to avoid poop. And Jürgen Schmidhuber invented


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Hello and welcome to ml news on this glorious Monday, let's dive into our first story. A


popular ml youtuber has just reached 100,000 subscribers. This historic milestone means that


he's probably going to get the silver play button by YouTube, which is one of the highest achievements


one can reach in life. Now here at ml news, we are unbiased, we are neither pro nor con this


individual. But legend says that the paper review videos have been lacking recently. And also rumors


are that his mother is a hamster and his father smells of elderberries. ML news has not been able


to confirm or reject this story, but we'll keep track of it. Okay, first real story, Facebook AI


releases a blog post on textless NLP generating expressive speech from raw audio. This is


essentially a language model that goes directly from sound to sound. So previous works in these


domains have always first translated the sound into text and then continue the text and generated


the sound again from that. But Facebook has released three successive papers that do away


with the text altogether going directly from the sound wave to generating more sound. And not only


that, but they're able to do this while capturing things like the speaker's identity, and the sort


of intonation and rhythm of the language. They do this unsurprisingly by using a VQ VAE based system


that teases apart these individual things in the input signal. So the system is specifically


designed for speech. And that makes it really good at for example, compressing speech. So what


you do is you simply transmit once your speaker identity vector, and then you transmit the latent


information that the model captures about you to the receiver, which is then able to reconstruct


your speech, including intonation, rhythm, and so on. So the system naturally doesn't have an idea


of what a token is in the language. So it works with what it calls expressive units, expressive


units are something like tokens or syllables, but the model can essentially decide by itself


what they are. So as I understand it, one expressive unit might be par and the other one


might be bar and so on. Now this opens up a lot of possibility, you can imagine taking a piece of


speech and changing its rhythm, changing its intonation, changing its content, changing the


speaker's identity while keeping the rhythm and content. But also these act as real language


models. So you can give a prefix spoken word and then have the model continue that without the


model ever having trained on text. So they have some cool demonstrations. In fact, there's an


entire website of demonstrations. But it is attendant from the people to defend himself.


From this information pride of the potential in criminal activity, curiosity and impetuosity of


the world were so acquired. And the model depending on the temperature is capable of


generating something that actually sounds like real speech. So this is exciting because it


fulfills the end to end mentality that deep learning promises and it pushes this to this new


domain of speech without using the intermediate text representation. So hopefully this will kick


off an entirely new research direction. And we're excited to see what happens. Next news,


Jurgen Schmidhuber released a new blog post called the most cited neural networks all build on work


done in my labs. It's a relatively short blog post that goes through sort of the current state of the


art models. And he tries to argue that all of them somehow come from work that he's done.


Undoubtedly, Jurgen Schmidhuber has had his fingers into a lot of research. And some of these claims


are actually true in the sense that it happened more than once probably that he or people under


his supervision came up with ideas that were a little bit before their time. And then other


people adopted these ideas or refine them and became much more successful with them. Now that


being said, he tends to push it a little bit too far. For example, he's been long claiming that his


artificial curiosity principles is essentially GANs in a nutshell, whereas the general consensus is


that it's not like an obvious application of his ideas. And most recently, claiming that fast weight


programmers are essentially precursors to transformers. Now this can be shown for a type


of linear transformer or linear attention mechanism, but that's essentially a recurrent


neural network. But again, to see transformers as sort of the incarnation of his ideas is a little


bit too far. Now in terms of the bigger picture, I've always appreciated Schmidhuber for sort of


being the force that tries to do justice to everyone that tries to cite correctly and so on.


But I'm not sure like a blog post called the most cited neural networks all build on work done in


my labs might be pushing it a little far. But then what convinced me that this is all correct is


definitely definitely the guns here. Like check this got nothing on this. Were you a flexing contest?


This can be the thumbnail now. This is a good thumbnail. No, he smiles. I need better light.


In any case, I don't know what to make of this. I don't know


who is served by a blog post like this. Maybe it's just meant as a little bit of an outlet


for himself. But it's a free world. So who am I to tell him? The Wall Street Journal ran an


investigation into how Tic Tocks algorithm works. Essentially, what they've done is they've created


a lot of fake profiles that went out and just watched videos of a specific type of content


according to the hashtags of that content. And then they measured how fast the algorithm picked


up on their interests. And they found that the algorithm extremely quickly rabbit hole to the


individual users into their preferred type of content, which in this case, they give the example


of depression and mental health related content, sort of reinforcing all of that. And then the few


videos in between that are not that are a lot of advertisements. And every now and then kind of a


video where the algorithm tries to break you out of this cycle. Tic Tock is especially good at this


probably because the medium of short videos lends itself a lot combined with the interface, it can


measure how long you watch each video and then serve you more content according to that. So the


Wall Street Journal also interviews a advocate for algorithm transparency who explains a little bit


what's going on. And if you're interested, I invite you to check out this article. So what it seems


to be is that the Tic Tock algorithm is essentially the YouTube algorithm on steroids. And we've also


seen YouTube become more and more crappy over the years. And by crappy, I mean that they've apparently


traded off what drives engagement versus the user experience on the site. Now I know that makes no


sense. Like how can your user experience be worse, yet you engage more with the content. But that's


what seems to be happening. And the old days of YouTube, the sidebar next to a video actually


contained relevant videos to the one you were currently watching. There were video responses


and other things on that topic. And increasingly, it's just become more and more recommendation


engine crap. Like yes, I know I generally watch PewDiePie videos, but now I want to watch videos


about how car engines work. Please give me stuff related to that. And YouTube seemed to have more


and more just loaded me with what it knows that I generally like. Now there are some signs that in


recent times, they've changed that up a little bit, which is a good thing. But I definitely miss


the old days where you could just sort of get lost in a topic by just clicking videos on the sidebar.


But safe to say these algorithms are a difficult topic. There's way too much content. So there has


to be some kind of an algorithm. And of course, these platforms, they want to make money. So it's


natural that they would serve you to think that you engage with most but I do agree with the person


that Wall Street Journal interviews here. And that is that we often don't have enough transparency


in what happens behind these algorithms, why a particular thing surfaced and what you can do


to change it. CNN Business writes the new iteration of Roomba uses AI to avoid smearing poop all over


your house. Apparently, this is a big problem that people have when using their Roomba that


it catches feces of pets and then just runs with it all across the house. Now, interestingly,


this seems to be a very hard problem. So the company iRobot, the company behind the Roomba


has spent years collecting data related to poop. So they had real poop photos sent to them. But


they also model all kinds of fake poop. They bought apparently all the funny fake poop that


you can find on the internet and they made hundreds of Plato poop models. And now they've


trained the onboard camera that was already trained to avoid obstacles to also recognize


feces and steer around them. And they're so confident in that system that they said they'll


replace any of the new Roombas if they actually do catch poop. So who said AI couldn't be used


to make the world better? Excellent development. The video blog has an article called an AI for


fine art attorney trains in video RTX 2070 to authenticate masterpieces. Now the Nvidia article


is based on this article in I triple E spectrum titled this AI can spot an art forgery. So this


is about how an amateur a lawyer by training trained a convolutional neural network to distinguish


between real and fake drawings. So essentially, the tough part was collecting the data set,


of course, and for that he and his wife collected numerous paintings by particular artists, but then


also paintings by their students and by people trying to imitate their styles. And they essentially


trained a classifier to distinguish patches of the real images and patches of the other images. Big


part of the article is devoted on how to select the patches that you train on. And the solution


that this person came up with is to look at the entropy of a particular image patch and only


include image patches with high enough entropy. The result is sort of a heat map that shows which


parts of an image are likely to be of the original artist and which parts of the image are unlikely


to be of the original artist. So they've applied this to a data set of contested images. So they've


evaluated 10 contested works and in nine of them their system agrees with the current scholarly


opinion of whether the painting is real or not. And of the one that isn't they say that they hope


that one day it will be reconsidered. And what's astounding to me is that with such small data sets,


these are a handful of dozens of images made into small patches. So with such a small data set,


and a basic approach of a CNN and a heuristic of patch selection based on entropy, that this works


at all, this is already astounding, it's pretty cool. But then you cannot at the same time claim


that your system is good because it agrees with nine out of 10 expert opinions. And then also


call for that last one to be re examined because the system disagrees like either your system is


good because the human experts are right or your system is so good that the human experts aren't


right. In any case, the article details well how even an amateur can use today's deep learning


methods in order to solve real world problems or at least contribute a little bit to the solution


thereof. One thing that was funny I thought was how often the Nvidia blog post mentions the fact


that they are running a Nvidia GPU to this. So this is accelerated by an Nvidia GPU really?


What GPU this GPU and Frank reports his Nvidia GPU dramatically speeds up their work,


allowing them to train models in hours that used to take days time difference is just mind boggling.


Sorry, I didn't realize this was Nvidia ads. It said Nvidia blog at the top, but you know,


Business Insider writes inside deep mind secret plot to break away from Google. ML news has


reported on this previously, but yet another article giving more details into how deep mind


pretty much immediately after acquisition already had plans to not be controlled by Google. So the


article details how deep mind wanted to set up some sort of a nonprofit structure and then a cap


profit structure and then some sort of system that the AI they produce isn't controlled by Google.


And the reasons they give are things like AI ethics and who will control the AI. And this


shouldn't be in the possession of a single entity, and blah, blah, blah, like, I get it, right? You


needed the money. So you went to Google, but I'm not sure you know how acquisition works like they


pay for it. They get it. And I don't believe all this crap of who we want the best for humankind.


No, no, you're one of the most secretive AI research labs there is you hardly publish any


models any code, you are forced to do so for alpha fold, but everything else is still a secret. You


often publish in paywall journals. So no, I don't believe any of this. So yeah, I'm sorry, you sold


your company and now it's no longer yours. In related news fast company writes ex Googlers


raise $40 million to democratize natural language AI. This is about a startup called co here and


apparently has the backing of Jeffrey Hinton and Fei Fei Li. And much like a lot of others of these


startups, it promises to democratize AI to give more people access to it and so on. So on their


website, you can sign up for the waitlist to their API. But it seems that it's essentially the same


as many of the other language model API's where they have the model and they let you use it


according to their terms of service. And how exactly that is different. I'm not entirely sure


yet. The register writes only natural persons can be recognized as patent inventors, not AI systems,


a US judge rules. So this is an addendum to a story that we've previously covered about Stephen


taller getting a patent on an invention that his AI has invented. So he's the owner, but the AI is


listed as the inventor. And this has been accepted in South Africa and Australia as far as I can


remember. But now a US judge has rejected the patent in the US. And the reason seems to be that


the computer program doesn't fit the definition of an individual that must take an oath to swear


that they are the inventor on a patent application. taller on his side says he wants to continue to


fight for inventor rights of his machines primarily to prevent humans from stealing ideas generated


by computers and taking all the credit. If there is ever a first world problem, I guess this is one.


In a Q&A, Sam Altman said apparently that GPT four will remain text only it will be apparently


not much bigger than GPT three, but a lot more compute will have gone into it. He claims that


it's astounding how far you can get with simply using more compute and doing smarter things. GPT


four therefore will be a more powerful language model but not necessarily larger, which is good


news. And maybe these techniques that open AI uses to make GPT four better can be applied to even


smaller models, though whether or not open AI will actually release all of these tricks is yet to be


seen. Altman apparently also said that the focus right now is on a new release of codecs, which I


guess open AI realizes is a better business case than large language models. In very related news,


Salesforce releases code T five, the code aware encoder decoder based pre trained programming


language models. Shouldn't this say model? Yeah, here it says model. See, so this is a version of


T five that is specifically trained on code. And even more specifically, it is trained on a bunch


of subtasks around code. So next to the masked span predictions, which you know, from language


model, there's also masked identifier prediction where the model needs to come up with essentially


variable names, there is identifier tagging, there is generation, you can generate descriptions from


code and code from descriptions. And all of this results in a model that is very good on these code


generation tasks. There's a lot of things happening in bringing language model into the world of


coding. And it's looking out to be an exciting time. And the cool thing is code and pre trained


models are available. Some helpful things I've come across this week DeepMind releases their


reinforcement learning lecture series. This is a series of YouTube videos along with slides that


you can watch and download. And they take you from zero to hero on reinforcement learning,


starting off with exploration and control and MDPs and ending on deep reinforcement learning. So if


you've always wanted to get into RL, this is a very up to date resource to do so. Also DeepMind


releases the Wikigraphs data set along with tools to download it. Now haven't I complained earlier


that DeepMind releases nothing, I might want to tone down that criticism a little bit. So here's


a repo that lets you download the Wikigraphs data set, which links Wikipedia articles to freebase


entries. And the hope is that people will develop new language models and methodologies that make


use of the graph structures of how these entities are linked together. Another cool data set is the


live cell data set, which is a large scale data set for label free live cell segmentations. So this


is a big data set for segmenting cells in these microscopy images. Very cool. Check it out. And


lastly, a cool library called speech brain, a Pytorch powered speech toolkit that helps you


with various tasks around speech processing, if you're interested in that. All K-pop writes,


social media influencer model created from artificial intelligence lands 100 sponsorships.


So this is about Rosie, which is this avatar right here. Now I'm not exactly sure I think


Rosie is like a 3d model that they render into real pictures, not entirely sure how it works.


But given that this looks a little bit like current Pixar movies, but the backgrounds look


relatively real, I think that's what's happening. So there's a company behind Rosie and they sell


Rosie as a model. So you can book Rosie, and Rosie will do advertisements for you. The CEO says the


reason for the popularity of virtual humans is that there is no fear that advertisements will


be suspended due to unsavory privacy scandals after the AI model is selected as the advertising


model. Also, the virtual model is not limited in time and space, unlike real people. Now you just


wait for that. The way AI is currently progressing pretty soon we'll have scandals involving not real


people, but AI's. I guess we have that right now already. So you know. Okay, it's time for news


questions, which is where I answer questions asked by the news without reading the article.


Here we go. Forbes asks artificial intelligence. Should you teach it to your employees? No mind


matters asks, isn't it time for an artificial intelligence reality check? No fortune asks,


did deep mind just make a big step towards more human like AI? No Forbes asks, is artificial


intelligence set to take over the art industry? No CNBC asks, are our fears of artificial


intelligence justified? No. KCRW asks, can Alexa tackle the meaning of life?


No, TechCrunch asks AI as a service to solve your business problems?


Nope. And Forbes again asks, how do we use artificial intelligence ethically, probably


the same way you use a knife, just don't stab anyone with it. Our final news for today, the


verge writes automated hiring software is mistakenly rejecting millions of viable job


candidates. So the article describes a new report from Harvard Business School saying that a lot of


people who would match a job description are screened out by AI. Now rather than this being a


big criticism of the systems, I think this is a big cry for the use of technology. It seems like


most of the errors that the systems make are because they're just not good enough. And because


they work on like stupid handcrafted rules, like it searches for exact matches of certain skills


in the CVS of applicants rather than considering synonyms of these skills, or it has hard filters,


like if you've had a certain time of pause between your employments, then you're automatically screened


out rather than going into the reason why you had to pause during that time. I think there's a lot


of potential here to make technology more accurate in order to help these companies make hiring


easier and they need it. It's not like they do this just to save money. The article details this


saying that in the early 2010s, the average corporate job posting attracted 120 applicants.


But by the end of the decade, this figure had risen to 250 applicants per job. It's not like


this is a problem that you could just easily solve by doing it yourself. It's not like a lot of these


companies are lazy. It's just that the amount of data they'd have to analyze manually is just too


much. And even if you let humans do it, if you just overwhelm humans with giant amounts of


applications, they're going to do exactly the same thing. Well, this person's skill doesn't exactly


match out. Well, this person had some unexplained break out. I don't have time to research why this


happened. I think the potential for machines to improve and deliver a better service here is


pretty good. And probably one of the better shots we have at solving this problem rather than just


dooming all hiring technology altogether. I'm not saying there aren't problems with these kinds of


technologies, just saying we could make them more useful. Cool. That was it for ML news. Thank you


Self-driving from VISION ONLY - Tesla's self-driving progress by Andrej Karpathy (Talk Analysis)

All right, hello, everyone. Today we're going to look at Andrej Karpathy's CVPR talk about


full self driving mode in Tesla and what Tesla has been doing to push that beyond its current


state. So let's just say that autonomous driving is a hard problem. You have to control a car


and pretty much anything could happen. However, we're able to teach it to pretty much any


human on the planet. So the problem is definitely solvable. Now the current stack they have


for full self driving or that they intended to use it seems like is what they call sensor


fusion, which is where you take a bunch of different signals like camera signals, and


radar signals and so on. And you try to fuse their signals together. This kind of works,


it seems but it runs into problems such as what do you do when the different sensors


disagree? And it turns out solving that problem is quite hard. And that's why Tesla apparently


is transitioning to a fully only vision stack. Everything is going to be vision based in


Tesla full self driving. Now today, we're going to look at the best and important bits


of the talk right here. Now absolutely invite you to go watch the entire talk if you're


interested. It is enjoyable in full length and it is on YouTube. Andrej gives a lot of


good examples here and the amount of effort that went into engineering this into collecting


the data how this is deployed is astounding. Now keep in mind, this is the lead AI scientist


for Tesla. So it is going to be a bit of an ad. However, it is pretty cool to see that


we are actually making a real push towards full self driving. A lot of people have been


super salty saying that Elon Musk has promised this like one or two years ago already. But


come on. I mean, do you see anyone else doing fully self driving at this level? No, so shut


up. So the first thing right here is a couple of scenarios of what Tesla is already doing,


which is sort of a driver assistance. So if the person is driving, but the system is relatively


sure that the person is making a mistake, the system kicks in mostly to do automatic


braking for the user. So I just I want to show you this one example right here.


You start slowly and probably you know, does not actually enter the intersection. These


are examples from pedal misapplication mitigation. Here a person is parking from the driving


spot and they are trying to turn and then they mess up and they accidentally floor it.


So they floor it right there. So you see like the person wanted to break but stepped on


the gas. There are people right in front of the car. So be salty all you want. This right


here is already worth it. As a human, there is a lot of resistance against fully self


driving feeling that you're no longer in control anymore. But the matter of the fact is that


these systems already are and in the near future will be even much more better than


humans at driving is going to be much cleaner, much safer, much faster, less traffic jams


and so on to let the machines take over the driving pretty much in the same way as it's


much safer to let the machines take over the braking in these scenarios. The only times


you're actually going to drive by hand is when you do it for fun. Now I drive a motorbike.


It's a lot of fun to drive but in a car especially with other people or if I do it for work if


I may be a little bit tired machines all the way. So the full self driving beta is rolled


out to a small handful of customers right now. And they do upload YouTube videos every


now and then of what they're doing. And it seems to work fairly fairly well. Apparently


they had had no crashes so far while driving about 1.7 million miles in full self driving.


You can see on the screen in the middle right here that the predictions that the system


gives is pretty good. Though we've also seen some other prediction that are not so good


throughout YouTube. Like there's this one video where the truck in front of the car


has street lights on its back and the car just keeps thinking it's kind of red lights.


However we don't know if this is the legacy stack or not and if the car would actually


break since the lights are not on red but it's been a scare going around YouTube for


a little bit. So here Andre shows a video of Waymo already doing this much earlier than


Tesla having sort of an automatic car drive around an intersection and so on. This works


if you're in a really defined zone, let's say a city that you know that you have accurate


maps for. This does not work if you want to do this anywhere in the world. To do this


anywhere in the world, you need to rely on the car itself. That means you need a lot


of data. So the data that this new system gets is just vision. It's eight cameras around


the car. And that's it. And Andre makes a good case here that that is actually all you


need. Humans are able to navigate from this and cars should be able to do the same. So


an absolutely necessary ingredient to train such a system is a good clean label data set.


If you just wanted to use humans to annotate every single frame of cars driving around


that will probably be prohibitively expensive even for Tesla. So they came up with what


I think is a pretty cool method called auto labeling. Now I'm sure they're not the inventors


of the system. But to use it on this scale is very smart. And it works out pretty nicely.


Of course, we need to collect training data. A typical approach might be to use humans


to annotate cars around us in three dimensions. What we found actually works really well is


an auto labeling approach. So it's not your humans just like annotating cars. It's an


offline tracker as we call it. And it's an auto labeling process for collecting data


at the scale that is necessary. So we need to get millions of hard examples. So this


is where the scale comes from is that it's not labeled by humans. Although humans are


involved, it's labeled automatically. So here's an example of some automatic labels we were


able to derive for cars on the highway. And the way to do this is because you are offline


and you are trying to just annotate a club, you have a large number of benefits that you


don't typically have if you're at test time under strict latency requirements in the car.


So you can take your time to fully figure out exactly all the objects in your data.


You can use neural networks that are extremely heavy. They are not deployable for various


reasons. You can use benefit of hindsight because you know the future of not just the


past. You can use all kinds of expensive offline optimization and tracking techniques. You can


use extra sensors. In this case, for example, actually radar was one of the sensors that


we use for the auto labeling. But there's actually a massive difference between using


radar at test time and using it in the offline track.


So the point here is that if you record data, and you're trying to figure out at inference


time, like while you're driving, what's happening, it's a lot harder than if you have the same


data, but kind of at home in the lab. So what you want to do is you want to drive around


and just record not even not predict or anything, just record data record from all your sensors,


you can even stick expensive sensors on the cars where you collect the data. And then


you take all that data, and you use the biggest heaviest processors, you have to figure out


what actually happened during that time. What he mentions here is the benefit of hindsight,


which means that if you're in a car and you're driving, and all of a sudden something obscures


your vision, you will be sort of lost because all you have, okay, you can maybe guess that


a car in front of you is still there. But who knows, they might turn or something. Now,


if you record the whole video sequence, you're able to see what happens beyond the obstruction


of vision. And if you see the car is still there, you can make a good inference that


the car was actually there the whole time. And therefore you can annotate that data with


a label saying, hey, that car was there the whole time, you can also do active learning


and shell out to actual human annotators what you're not sure about. So this benefit of


hindsight is really important here when you're under the time constraint of not being able


to see into the future, as well as the latency constraint. And you have to have like an efficient


neural network in the lab, you don't have any of this the method here, if you're developing


something real time, I mean, this might seem obvious to you, I found it to be pretty cool.


Yes, record, then figure out what happened, then use that as a labeled data set. So here's


an example of how such a persistent track would look like after the neural network has


been trained on data like this. Here's some examples of really tricky scenarios. I don't


actually know exactly what this is. But basically, this car draws a bunch of debris on us. And


we maintain a consistent track for the label. And of course, if you have millions of labels


like this, the neural net, if it's a powerful enough neural net, will actually end up learning


to persist these tracks in these kinds of scenarios. Here's another example. There's


a car in front of us, I actually am not 100% sure what happens in this case. But as you'll


see, there's some kind of a dust cloud that develops here and briefly occludes the car.


But in the auto labeling tool, we are able to persist this track because we saw it before


and we saw it after so we can actually stitch it up and use it as a training set for the


neural. So that's how they get clean labels in an automatic or semi automatic way. But


they still need to get a lot of data from kind of edge cases because most of driving


is quite uneventful, straight driving and was done 40 years ago or something like this.


I think Schmidhuber in GTC 21 talk talked about autonomous cars on highways on controlled


stretches of highways super duper early already. So what we really need to collect is edge


cases. And for collecting these edge cases, Tesla has developed these what they call triggers.


So these are kind of hand programmed rules of what data should go into the annotation


pipeline. So imagine if all these cars driving around not only the people with full self


driving, but the detection, the actual recording of data is activated in all the Tesla cars


driving around, they all send that data back to the server. Of course, that's way too much


data. And also, it's very unbalanced in terms of how many critical situations are in there.


Again, most of it will be sort of straight road, empty, just drive straight. So what


they do is they filter this data for these trigger events. Now these trigger events can


be as simple as whenever the radar and the vision mismatch. So whenever they disagree


on something, that's an interesting example. But you know, it goes into very detailed such


as we detect breaking lights, but the acceleration is positive. So with these triggers, they're


able to source a diverse set of training samples and edge cases where the neural network can


learn the tricky situations rather than just the long stretches of road. So I think it's


safe to say that a good mark of quality on these systems is going to be how well these


triggers are maintained, like how well do they represent the full driving experience


of the end users of the cars. But so far from the results we got, it seems like they cover


the road situations fairly well. And all of them are iteration and you're looking at what's


coming back, you're tuning your trigger and you're sourcing data from all these scenarios.


Basically over the last four months, we've done quite extensive data engine, we've ended


up doing seven chatter modes and seven loops around this data engine here, where on the


top right is where you begin, you have some seed data set, you train your neural network


on your data set, and you deploy the neural network in the customer cars in shadow mode.


And the network is silently making prediction. By the way, if you if you like squint really


hard, I don't know if this is just a depiction of a neural network, or if this is the actual


architecture they're using, I don't think so. But there is like a stride of six in there


and max pooling, you know, just just noting that for no particular reason. And then you


have to have some mechanisms for sourcing inaccuracies of the neural network, you're


just looking at its predictions, and then you're using one of these triggers, you're


getting these scenarios where the network is probably misbehaving, some of those clips


end up going to unit tests to make sure that we even if we're failing right now, we make


sure we pass later. And in addition, those examples are being auto labeled and incorporated


into a training set. And then as a synchronous process, we're also always data cleaning the


current training set. So we spend this loop over and over again, until the network basically


becomes incredibly good. So in total, we've done seven rounds of shadow mode for this


release. So shadow mode is what they call when they let the predictions run, but they


don't hook them up to the control. So you're driving yourself, but the system predicts


all the time. And whenever one of these trigger happens, that's an interesting data point


that is going to send back to the server. Actually, let's be honest, it's probably going


to send everything back to the server. So the data set they come up with is 1.5 petabytes


of data. So that's crazy. So next is going to go into the architecture of the neural


net. And this is also fairly interesting and not entirely standard on the top. All of them


are processed by an image extractor, the layout of the synthetic visual cortex in order to


efficiently process this information, our architecture roughly looks like this, we have


these images coming from multiple cameras on the top, all of them are processed by an


image extractor, like a backbone, like think resonant kind of style, then there's a multi


cam fusion that uses the information from all the eight to use. And this is a kind of


a transformer that we use to fuse this information. And then we fuse information first across


all the cameras, and then across all of time. And that is also done either by transformer


by recurrent neural network, or just by three dimensional convolutions. We've experimented


with a lot of kind of fusion strategies here to get this to work really well. And then


what we have afterwards, after the fusion is done is we have this branching structure


that doesn't just consist of heads, but actually, we've expanded this over the last few last


year or so where you now have heads that branch into trunks that branch into terminals. So


there's a lot of branching structure. And the reason you want this branching structure


is because there's a huge amount of outlets that you're interested in. And you can't afford


to have a single neural network for every one of the individual outlets, you have to


of course, amortize the forward pass.


So this is pretty interesting. The top part here, what they call the backbone is pretty


standard. If you have a video, especially with multiple cameras, you want to extract


information from each frame of each camera sort of individually, then you want to fuse


that information across all the cameras for a single time step. And then you want to fuse


that information with the information of all the other time steps. So so far, so good.


That sort of gives you a representation of what happens in these frames in these cameras


during that stretch of time. However, after that, usually, even if you have multiple predictions,


what you would do is you would sort of have like one prediction head on top of that backbone.


However, since they are in a car and have to decide real fast, it's not really feasible


to have sort of these different columns for each of the prediction tasks. Because as he


says, they're interested in a lot of different signals, think depth prediction, which means


that for every pixel, you have to provide a depth estimation, think tracks of other


cars, think pedestrians think streetlights think okay, where are the lanes at or navigation


in general. So all these signals are things to predict. And it's not good enough to have


like a separate head for each of the predictions. So what they do is they have as you call these


branching structures where there are multiple heads, yes. And within these multiple heads,


there are what they call trunks. And within the trunks, there are the individual like


little what they call terminals. Essentially, it's a hierarchical prediction, I'm going


to guess that the tasks that go together, sort of are grouped together. So maybe one


head is for all the pixel prediction tasks, and another head is more for the classification


tasks. And then within one head, you have a trunk that deals more with like object classification


and another trunk that deals more with like navigation classification. And the individual


terminals then do the actual tasks. This is a pretty cool way of getting a highly performant


many output network all together such that its size and computational speed are still


maintained. The other nice benefit of the branching structure is that it decouples at


the terminals, it decouples all these signals. So if I am someone working on velocity for


a particular object type or something like that, I have a small piece of neural network


that I can actually fine tune without touching any of the other signals. And so I can work


in isolation to some extent and actually get something to work pretty well. And then once


in a while, so basically, the iteration scheme is that a lot of people are fine tuning. And


once you just got to imagine the ML ops behind this, it's like, Hey, where do you deploy


your models? I do it on the Kubernetes, I have ML flow. Oh, no, I use the TensorFlow


extended. Yeah, it's pretty cool. What do you do? car, I deploy on car. So next, he's


going into this in house supercomputer that they built or are building. And this is a


massive thing. Absolutely massive. He says that in terms of flops, it's something like


the fifth biggest computer in the world. Its storage speed is incredible. So I'm pretty


sure you could even actually render Far Cry two on this thing, maybe, but in total, it


has 5760 GPU is not any GPUs, the most expensive a 180 gigabyte GPUs, it would be interesting


to see what kind of algorithms they use on top of this to actually do the distributed


training or whether it's all just kind of simple data parallelism, aggregating gradients


and so on. Of course, they have super fast interconnect super fast storage, super fast


everything and it looks sweet. Like is this a stock photo of a server room? Or is this


the actual server room? This effort to basically is incredibly vertically integrated in the


AI team. So as I showed you, we own the vehicle and the sensing and resource our own data


and we annotate our own data and we train our on prem cluster and then we deploy all


of the neural networks that we train on our in house developed chip. So we have the FSD


computer here that has two SOCs as the chips here and they have our own custom and view


neural processing unit here at roughly 36 times each. So these chips are specifically


designed for the neural networks that we want to run for.


Yeah, I mean, this is the dream, right? If you're an AI professional, only the whole


pipeline is going to boost your productivity by so much. You're not bound by the constraint


of anything other than the limits on the final system, which is a car so fairly difficult.


But in between of that you have control over everything you have control over how the data


is collected annotated, you have control over where it is deployed to on what architecture


of chip because you make the chip. So I guess the lesson is if you're looking to change


the world, you better own a good chunk of it. So that's going to show some examples


of what this new vision only stack could do. Remember, they used to do fusion of sensors,


which means they essentially have radar, they have vision, maybe some other sensors, and


they try to integrate this information from all of the sensors, they compare this to the


new vision based system. Now check out what happens in terms of the depth and velocity


predictions that we're able to achieve by putting all these pieces together and training


these networks at scale. So the first example here, I have a video where this is on track


testing. So this is an engineering car, and we asked it to slam on the brakes as hard


as it possibly can. So this is a very harsh braking here in front of us, even though it


doesn't look like that in the videos is very harsh braking. So what you can see on the


right here is you can see the outputs from the legacy stack, which had radar vision fusion


and from the new stack, which is vision alone in blue. So in the orange legacy stack, you


can actually see these track drops here when the car was breaking really harshly. And basically


the issue is that the braking was so harsh that the radar stack that we have actually


ended up not associating car and dropping the track and then reinitializing it all the


time. And so it's as if the vehicle disappeared and reappeared like six times during the period


of this braking. And so this created a bunch of artifacts here, but we see that the new


stack in blue is actually not subject to this behavior at all. It just gives a clean signal.


In fact, here, there's no smoothing, I believe on the blue signal here. This is the raw depth


and velocity that comes out from the neural net, the final neural net that we released


with about three weeks ago. And you can see that it's fairly smooth here. And of course,


you could go into the radar stack and you could you know, adjust the hyper parameters


of the tracker like why is it dropping tracks and so on, but then you are spending engineering


efforts and focus on a stack that is like not really barking up the right tree. And


so it's better to again, focus on the vision and make it work really well. And we see that


it is much more robust when you train it at scale.


So there you have it proof by one example that the new thing works better. Isn't that


every CVPR paper ever? But no, in any case, I can totally believe that the new stack even


though it drops a bunch of the sensors is better. Because ultimately, if your one sensor


if vision is so performant that in every single disagreement, you go with the vision thing,


then why do you have the other sensors at all, the thing in front of it is just kind


of breaking too fast. So the radar kind of loses it and then regains it and loses it


and regains it. Now, I have no idea how radar works. So I'm speaking from complete ignorance


right here. But what I'm going to guess as far as I understand it, is that radar just


kind of gives you the velocities of stuff in front of you. And then there is a tracking


algorithm on top of radar that tries to figure out which stuff is the same stuff. And this


is very much what they do in this auto labeling where they have sort of a track on something,


right, and then they use hindsight, and then they have a tracking algorithm that decides


which things are the same, even though we don't see them all the time. And here you


can clearly see the benefit of shifting this from inference time, which is what you have


to do with radar to the training time, which is what you can do with vision. So you can


teach the vision system to sort of do this persistent tracking, whereas the radar system,


you have to hand tune it to do this in real time. Now it makes the point that of course,


you could go into the radar system, change the hyper parameters, but then he says why


bark up the wrong tree? Why waste time on a stack that isn't functioning? It's a bit


of a chicken and an egg problem, right? If you were to put as much effort into the radar


stack as you were into the vision system, I'm going to guess that these results would


go away, and that is able to keep up maybe, but the arguments for going vision only is


a strong one. And I don't doubt that it is probably a good way forward. And basically


what's happening here is that the radar is very trigger happy and it sees all these false


stationary objects everywhere. Like everything that like sticks out is a stationary target


and radar by itself doesn't know what actually is a stationary car and what isn't. So it's


waiting for vision to associate with it and vision, if it's not held up to a high enough


bar is noisy and contributes error and the sensor fusion stack just kind of like picks


it up too late. And so again, you could fix all that, even though it's a very gross system


with a lot of if statements and so on, because the sensor fusion is complicated because the


error modes for vision and radar are slightly are quite different. But here, when we just


work with vision alone and we take out the radar, vision recognizes this object very


early gives the correct depth and velocity and there's no issues. So we actually get


an initial slowdown much earlier and really like simplify the stack a lot.


Yeah. So here you can see the same failure mode in vision that it kind of gets a track


but doesn't but get a track but doesn't. The important part is that once you get closer


to the object, it is fairly consistent, right? As you can see right here, the vision stack


recognizes this truck on the side much earlier than the radar stack did. Now again, this


might just be a function of the hyper parameters used, I'm sure you could just lower the threshold


for the radar, but you'd run into different problems. During the Q&A, he makes a good


point in that yes, other sensors would be nice to have, but just the pure economics


speak in favor of vision to like we develop cameras with much more rigor as a society


than we do radar systems. And therefore, the camera sensors are just so much better nowadays


and cheaper. So you can afford to build many of them into all kinds of things and collect


data and make your systems better through that then to put kind of a lidar on top of


the car and having to sort of fuse those signals with the vision signals, especially when they're


in conflict with one another. So if you ask me, I'm a fan. I like what I see here, even


though I know it's kind of an ad. I don't own a Tesla, but I think it's still pretty


cool. In the end, he talks a bit about what they do to validate this data, and how they


roll it out and gives a bunch of more examples of tracking. And there's a Q&A at the end.


So if you are interested in that, I absolutely welcome you to go watch the entire talk. It


is on YouTube. And that was it for me. I hope you enjoyed this and I'll see you next time.


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Group of researchers based in Switzerland have trained city which is a French language model.


This is a model based on GPTJ. It's a 6 billion parameter model that is a language model in


French. The headline is right French without speaking French, which is pretty much a recipe


of how I passed high school. So the cool thing about this is that it can do the tasks that you're


used to from things like GPT three, but with a special focus on French. So it achieves a better


perplexity on French text than GPT three, apparently lower toxicity, whatever that means


is better at translating from and to French and it's better at various other NLP tasks out of the


box. If you don't know what city means city is this little thing that French people put the bottom


of some of their letters also some other languages as I am being told, but it's just quite annoying


because you never know where on the keyboard it is. So being quite annoying seems like a great


name for a French language model. The cool thing is not only is the model open source, you can


download a checkpoint, the code is open source, but also you can play with it directly in the


browser. There's a little app and there are a bunch of prompts that are already built in for example,


classification of some stuff like what is FedEx FedEx is logistics company that is correct.


Amazon is an e commerce and technology company that is all correct. Now my French is limited


to be honest. J'ai oublié mon baguette. Je suis désolé. I think it means I lost my baguette and


I'm very sad. The model says meme si je n'ai pas d'explication logique I don't have a logical


explanation for why I lost my baguette. Is it maybe I forgot my baguette? I don't know. Well,


in any case, it's a French language model you get it. What is interesting is that among the


parameters it says that a German one is coming soon. So keep an eye out for that. Facebook AI


on their blog says the first ever multilingual model to win WMT beating out bilingual models.


So WMT is this yearly competition essentially to do machine translation. This is a corpus of data


sets. But then also every year the competition hosts human expert translators that rate the


translations of the machine translation systems. So the machines aren't able to hyper optimize on


the data sets, but really have to please the humans. Now first thing why is this in the AR VR


category? I don't know. In any case, it's quite remarkable because one would think that given


that all the tasks are bilingual, that bilingual models that can be tailored to one specific


language pair would be ahead right here. But as Facebook AI shows, because multilingual models can


ingest essentially much more data into them. So the French English translations are also informed


by the German data that comes in. And because it's able to make use of so much more data,


it can in the end outperform models that have been trained for particular language pairs. Now


multilinguality is not the only thing that's good about this model. The machine translation


community has over the years accrued various tricks such as back translation to make use of


monolingual data, ensembling and so on. So this is really an engineering effort. But it's cool to see


this overlap point where for the first time ever, a single multilingual model is better than many,


many bilingual models. And that's excellent, not only because it's higher performing, but it also


means that it provides us easier access to work with languages that have very low resources that


maybe are only spoken by a very small amount of people or that have no written form at all,


like Swiss German, for example. So excellent development, there is a paper, the code is


available. And if you want to learn all the tricks, give it a read. U is a new search engine that has


been launched by Richard soccer previously the head of AI at Salesforce. And this is supposed to


be a direct competitor to the Google search engine, you advertises itself as the private search engine


that summarizes the web for you. So there's two promises here privacy and summarization in whatever


form they say it helps you get things done, get news, check GitHub, compose a tweet all from your


search engine for whatever reason you want to compose a tweet from your search engine. But there


you go. There's a big emphasis on privacy, you can choose between a personalized or a truly private


experience. You.com never sells your data to advertisers. And also they promise no ad targeting.


Now actually, when you sign up, the first thing that they want to make you do is install an


extension. If I click this button, it leads me straight into the Chrome Web Store. So I'm gonna


take this with a grain of salt right here, someone promises me privacy, no targeting, and so on. No,


unless this is provably the case, I'm not going to trust any of those promises. So the second


big selling point is this summarize the web. And I was intrigued by that, like how is this search


engine going to summarize the web for me, this sounds really cool. So I tried out a bunch of


things like, okay, they said I could check news, for example, all right news, let me zoom out a


little bit here. So the interface that you gives you is this kind of grouped interface. So there


are web results on top right here, there is a section for news. And then there are various of


these subcategories right here. But honestly, I don't see any summarization, like any summarize


the web for me. So let me search for something I would like to have summarized Abraham Lincoln,


and the Civil War. No, it just gives me the Wikipedia page and a bunch of web results and a


bunch of Reddit results and a bunch of these quick facts right here. Now one thing seems to be these


shortcuts these apps right here. So there are various apps, for example, the quick facts app,


which we have down here, or I guess the Wikipedia app, which is up here. So the search engine seems


to be such that other developers can come in and write apps for it. So you can install apps in your


search engine. And those will take up one of these bars. As you can see, there are apps for archive,


Walmart, all kinds of things. There's also one for GitHub, but I haven't seen yet this summarize


what was Lincoln's role in the Civil War. Again, I just get a bunch of search results. I don't see


exactly how summarize the web should be anything like this. So I was also exploring a bit of


different features right here, for example, compose a tweet. So I tried this previously,


it actually told me to sign into Twitter. So apparently you can write tweets from here how to


sort a list in Python. Now this gets into a little bit more interesting things. They have plugins for


Stack Overflow and also w three schools. So they show the results from the site in quite nice cards


with snippets and so on. For Stack Overflow, there's also a sidebar, which for some reason


doesn't show up right now. There's also this code completion engine right here. So I entered how to


sort a list of strings in Python. And it gives me a bunch of code completion that are apparently


generated by some sort of code model. I mean, that's fine. So I've tried a bunch of things with


this search engine, but I really haven't seen this summarize the web for you in any particular way,


it seems to be a search engine where other people can write apps for it. And then it'll probably


send your search query to those apps. And the apps can give you useful results. Now honestly,


it seems like a big benefit for sort of like the big websites right here. For example,


w three schools is integrated prominently, as you can see, tutorials point is integrated prominently


Coursera Stack Overflow, this is specifically for code. But if you look at the other apps that


exists, it's essentially all the big websites. So I'm not sure if I actually want this in a search


engine, I generally want the most relevant things. And I don't necessarily want the relevant things


from the biggest sites. While I see the potential of integrating all of these things into my search


engine is not that useful. Honestly, how many heads does a Hydra have? I quite like this shortcut


right here. So this little G, it brings you to this website that you might have heard of. But


this is also a pretty good search engine. And it generally gives me the stuff I'm looking for. That


being said, you is public now and it is in beta. So you know, give it a little slack until it's


really full out. And maybe this concept of having many apps integrate into your searches provided by


other people and not all by the same company will be something for the future. Who knows?


DeepMind releases open source Arnheim, a learnable visual grammar for generating paintings. So


bouncing off of the success of people experimenting with clip models such as VQGAN plus clip or clip


guided diffusion, or any of these models that generate stunning images by using clip DeepMind


has done something a little bit different. Namely, instead of using it again, or a diffusion,


they are using a what they call a visual grammar. So you're able to give some primitives to the


model of how it can compose an image. And then we'll use that in order to please clip in order


to do clip guided image generation. So one application of this is for example, here you


give the model a grammar of brush strokes. So you tell it that it can do some brush strokes in some


various ways, various colors, various thicknesses and so on, you give a bunch of optimization


parameters and it can generate pictures from textual descriptions. It looks pretty cool,


I have to say and it has some nice controllable parameters. Here you can see the evolution of


such a picture as it develops over time, you can see that the model refines on how exactly it lays


its brushstrokes until it reaches a final conclusion. photo realistic chicken. Yeah,


so the code is available along with two collabs where you can try it out for yourself.


Oriole vinyls has tweeted out this picture right here of young lacan made up entirely of amnest


digits. So the model here hasn't gotten brushstrokes as option to perform drawings,


but just amnest digits in various colors. And you know, it looks pretty sweet. So check out


paper and code and blog posts and give it a try. Wired writes this company tapped AI for its website


and landed in court. So this is an article about a company that is being sued because its website


does not conform to the accessibility standards of the W3C consortium. The company in question is


called IBOBS and it used this other company called accessibility to make its site more accessible.


Now, if you make a website, you can do that with various frameworks. But in order to make it


accessible to for example, visually impaired people, you need to annotate the various parts


of your website with their meaning you give alt text to images, you define an order of focus,


for example, in forms, they should all be navigatable by your keyboard by using the tab


key, for example, autocomplete should work, and so on and so on. Now, there are already many tools


to help you with that. But it's still a very, very high workload for developers to ship out websites


that are also accessible to all the people that want to use them. So this company accessibility


says that it can simplify the work of making websites accessible to people with impaired


vision or other challenges are replacing a costly manual process with an automated state of the art


AI technology. However, this technology doesn't seem to be working all that well in all cases,


which is something you could expect, right. So this whole article doesn't only detail this case,


but it says it's a growing trend in recent years, companies use these AI software's to make their


websites more accessible. These don't work really well, that makes the websites worse for visually


impaired people compared to when manual labor is used to do the same thing, and so on. Noteworthy,


the guidelines that you have to comply with is more than 100 pages when printed. It includes such


things as all text for images and video, clear use of contrast and color, ensuring that features like


forms and menus are navigable using only keyboard without the use of a mouse or finger and so on.


Now safe to say this is a difficult problem, right? Of course, AI solutions are going to be