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Last week, at our first StrictlyVC evening of the year, generously hosted by Cloudflare at its San Francisco headquarters, prominent AI investors Elad Gil and Sarah Guo joined us to talk about how they think about AI investing in a world where deals were getting bid up feverishly two months ago, and where reportedly, some startup teams are now looking to sell, owing to the costs involved with building their software. We talked about some of their deals, whether valuations have gotten wildly ahead of themselves, and…

A paper walkthrough of the new text-to-speech model by Microsoft ResearchDALL-E 2: a record player that receives text on one side, and outputs sound waves on the other side. digital art.Hello readers,In this article, we will dive deep into a new and exciting text-to-speech model developed by Microsoft Research, called VALL-E. The paper presenting the work has been released on Jan. 5, 2023, and since then has been gaining much attention online. It is worth noting that as of writing this article, no pre-trained model has…

DALL-E 2: “A robot dressed in a robe writing biblical sentences in Hebrew. Digital art.”Hi all,I am sharing a short project I worked on that involves improving the performance of the text-davinci-003 model by OpenAI using intelligent prompting. I will start by saying that this work is inspired by the excellent video tutorials by James Briggs — (specifically this one — https://youtu.be/dRUIGgNBvVk) and much of the code I used is taken from his examples as well.The outline of this article is as follows:Intro — Unique and…

Sentence Embeddings 101Image by Ri Butov from PixabayIn this article, I will present the topic of sentence embeddings. We will learn what sentence embeddings are and how they can be helpful. We will review some basic (and even naive) methods for creating sentence embeddings and also some recent advances in the field. We will end with an experiment I conducted on measuring document visualization quality when using different sentence embedding techniques. So without further ado, let’s jump right in!The article will be…

Photo by Nathan Engel: https://www.pexels.com/photo/time-lapse-photography-of-car-lights-in-front-of-cinema-436413/Hello readers,For those of you who haven’t read the previous part, here is the link:In that article, I present the MovieLens-1M dataset (a movie recommendations dataset that contains 1 million ratings for movies made by different users) along with some exploratory data analysis and try out some classical recommender systems algorithms. Although, that article is not a pre-requisite and you will be able to…

A hands-on recommendation systems tour using the popular benchmark datasetPhoto from pexelsRecommendations. We all consume them. Be it through our favorite movie streaming apps, online shopping, or even passively as a target of advertising campaigns. How are these recommendations created? How does a recommendation system utilize enormous datasets of internet transactions to generate high quality and personalized recommendations? I find these questions fascinating, hence I decided to embark on a learning journey and this…