As a self-taught nutrition enthusiast, I have been contributing to the crowdsourced India database of Open Food Facts - "the Wikipedia of food", by adding and editing products. The decentralized open source project has data on more than 3 million products (as of April 2024) from countries around the world.Open Food Facts (OFF) data is released as Open...

In the TED talk, AI Is Turning into Something Totally New, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman proposes that a more apt metaphor for AI is a new digital species. I predict that we'll come to see them as digital companions, new partners in the journeys of all our lives....waves of history are clearly speeding up, as each one is amplified and accelerated...

This Week I Learned - * Meta Llama 3 is out. Built on Meta Llama 3 is Meta AI, an intelligent assistant that is capable of complex reasoning, following instructions, visualizing ideas, and solving nuanced problems.* How IBM trained Granite LLMs (PDF, last updated April 4th, 2024, 19 pages)* The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (PDF, April 2024, 274...

The AWS PartyRock app MindMap Party by Mario M won first prize in the Freestyle Category of the AWS PartyRock Generative AI Hackathon that was hosted on DevPost.The app lets you visualize AI-generated content created in PartyRock. The LLM produces markdowns on a topic and simultaneously a link that renders the markdown as a mind map. A static HTML file deployed...

From record-breaking heatwaves to devastating hurricanes, extreme weather events are becoming increasingly common and intense. As the impacts of climate change become more pronounced, it's clear that our planet's weather patterns are undergoing significant shifts. These changes not only have profound implications for the natural world, but also for...

Over 7,600 registered on DevPost for the AWS PartyRock Generative AI Hackathon, a challenge for all builders to get hands-on making generative AI-powered apps with PartyRock, an Amazon Bedrock Playground. 1,446 projects were submitted under 5 categories during the period Jan 29 – Mar 11, 2024 that the contest was open.The winners - Overall Category...