This Week I Learned - Week #19 2023

This Week I Learned - 

* Google's next-gen LLM PaLM 2 is already powering 25 Google services.

* PaLM 2 models are significantly smaller than GPT-4, with 400M to 15B parameters compared to 175B for GPT-3 and ~1Trillion for GPT-4. This allows the smaller PaLM 2 models to be run on phones with roughly 17 tokens per second, similar to Chat GPT

* Jupyter AI, an open-source project, brings generative AI functionalities, that help generate, debug, explain, answer questions on source code, and can even populate entire notebooks from natural language prompts.

* Google has launched Duet AI, an always-on AI collaborator that offers assistance to users with all skill levels on building secure, scalable applications. Duet AI uses state-of-the-art generative-AI foundation models and is personalized and intent-driven, offering expert guidance.

* Microsoft recently developed a Responsible AI Toolbox that encompasses interpretability, fairness, counterfactual analysis, and causal decision-making through three dashboards: a fairness dashboard, an error analysis dashboard, and an interpretability dashboard.

* The Ionic framework enables cross-platform development using React, Angular, and Vue from a single codebase.

* Okta acquired Auth0 in 2021

* KML format can be converted to Shapefile using QGIS or an online tool like MyGeodata Converter

* The shared workspace trend is growing. With hot-desking, employees complain about having to hunt for a workspace, missing a permanent space they can personalize, and finding it harder to collaborate with their colleagues. - WSJ

* A 29-year-old YouTuber Trevor Jacob, admitted he purposely crashed a small plane in California in 2021 to get video views and then obstructed a federal investigation into the crash by destroying the plane. His video of the crash has more than 3.1 million views and shows him jumping out of the plane while it plummets to the ground.

* Data governance is a collection of processes, roles, policies, standards, and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of information in enabling an organization to achieve its goals.

Source - LinkedIn