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‘Visual’ AI models might not see anything at all
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🗞️ HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY
TLDR
Recent critiques of visual AI models suggest that despite their advanced capabilities, they often fail to understand context and nuances in visual data, leading to significant limitations in real-world applications.
Summary
Visual AI models excel in recognizing patterns and objects in images.
These models struggle with contextual understanding and nuances in visual data.
Real-world applications reveal gaps between model performance in controlled environments versus dynamic, real-world settings.
Continuous advancements and fine-tuning are necessary to bridge these gaps.
Industry experts highlight the importance of combining visual data with other data types to enhance model comprehension.
What We Think
The criticism of visual AI models underscores the gap between theoretical performance and practical application. While these models show impressive capabilities, their limitations in understanding context highlight the need for ongoing innovation and integration of multimodal data. For startup founders and CTOs, it’s crucial to be aware of these limitations and continuously seek improvements and complementary technologies.
⚡ LATEST IN TECH AND AI
OpenAI has outlined a five-step progression from AI to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), starting with conversational AI and aiming for AI that can perform organizational tasks autonomously. This framework is flexible and will evolve with feedback, with AGI expected within 5-10 years. This roadmap provides clear benchmarks for advancing AI capabilities.
Google DeepMind has introduced the Gemini 1.5 Pro, a significant advancement in AI capabilities, featuring a 1 million-token context window, enabling it to process vast amounts of data, including long texts, videos, and code. This model excels in multimodal understanding, making strides in logical reasoning, code generation, and multi-turn conversations. Despite its impressive abilities, it faces latency challenges, but Google is working on improvements to make it faster and more efficient.
Anthropic introduced fine-tuning for Claude 3 Haiku available in Amazon Bedrock, enabling businesses to customize the AI model for specialized tasks with improved accuracy and cost-effectiveness.
💻 DEV RESOURCES
Unsupervised Concept Extraction (UCE) is a new task that extracts and recreates multiple concepts from a single image without any human annotations.
OVFormer is a novel method for Open-Vocabulary Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) that addresses key issues in the field. It improves embedding alignment and leverages video-based training to enhance temporal consistency.
Google Threat Intelligence, powered by Gemini, leverages AI to enhance threat detection and response by combining insights from Mandiant and VirusTotal with Google's extensive data. This integration enables real-time, contextual threat analysis, improving security measures for organizations.
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💸 WHO RAISED?
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💪 POST OF THE DAY
I can't stop thinking about this quote:
"If Nike came out with a hotel – we'd be able to accurately predict what it would be like. If Hyatt came out with sneakers – we'd have no clue.
That's because Nike has a brand – Hyatt has a logo."
— Jon Brosio (@jonbrosio)
2:30 PM • Jul 14, 2024
AI IMAGE CHALLENGE
Which image is real?
Image 1
Which image do you think is real? |
Image 2
✅ PROMPT OF THE DAY
Euro Finals with a pro
Prompt: I want you to act as a football commentator. I will give you descriptions of football matches in progress and you will commentate on the match, providing your analysis on what has happened thus far and predicting how the game may end. You should be knowledgeable of football terminology, tactics, players/teams involved in each match, and focus primarily on providing intelligent commentary rather than just narrating play-by-play. My first request is "I'm watching England vs Spain - provide commentary for this match."You can adapt the prompt to your specific needs.
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