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Catching up with an ever-growing technology is not a simple task, especially at the moment of establishing preventative measures and regulations in case it gets out of hand. This is why most companies emphasise their focus on responsible AI development.

Here’s what you’ll find today:

• Build your own robot with Hugging Face

• Researchers propose a way to distinguish humans from AI

• OpenResearcher promotes AI in scientific research

• AMD tries to catch up with Nvidia’s AI reign

• Google’s “Image 3” is now available

• And more.

🤖 Build your own robot with Hugging Face (3 min)

Hugging Face's mission involves the democratisation of AI development through openness, and they've taken this effort to a field that's set to bring major advancements to the AI community: robotics. This started with the launch of their LeRobot platform a few months ago, and now it continues to grow as they've released a tutorial that guides developers through building and training AI-powered robots.

Now, developers can build their own robots and teach them to move with just a laptop—an activity that, long ago, was only available to corporations and institutions is now in the hands of those who are curious enough. We can expect big innovations to come from this approach.

🆔 Researchers propose a way to distinguish humans from AI (1 min)

Many predict that a time will come when it will be difficult to differentiate humans from AI bots on the internet. Although this remains a possibility, it hasn't happened yet, and at the moment, researchers are looking for ways to prevent it from happening. A group that includes members from OpenAI, Microsoft, MIT, and others is developing a method called "Personhood Credentials" to tackle the problem.

What they hope to accomplish with this is a way to diminish the surge of AI bots, as well as avoid identity theft as they become more capable. The digital credentials will confirm that the holder is a human without revealing more information.

📄 OpenResearcher promotes AI in scientific research (2 min)

OpenResearcher is the result of a joint effort by the Generative AI Research Lab (GAIR). As its name reveals, this is an open-source project with a focus on scientific research, a domain that is being transformed by the use of AI. The application works as an assistant and easily answers researchers' questions.

By combining retrieval augmentation from the internet with base knowledge from ArXiv, OpenResearcher can ask reorienting questions to guide the analysis. It also includes customised tools that accelerate the research process.

💸AMD is demonstrating that Nvidia isn't the only player in the AI arena. They've recently announced the acquisition of ZT Systems, a company specialising in building custom computing infrastructure for AI "hyperscalers." The deal has a valuation of $4.9 billion, and it seeks to improve the speed at which AMD develops its technologies.

🖼️After announcing it back in May and with a limited rollout following, Google has made its Imagen 3 generator available to US users through their AI Test Kitchen. The image generator has received great praise from Google, as it creates images with higher quality, better detail, and richer lighting. They've also shared a research paper that goes in-depth about the system.

⚡️Quick links

Transformers in music recommendation

RAGChecker: a fine-grained evaluation framework for diagnosing retrieval and generation modules in RAG

MeshFormer: High-Quality Mesh Generation with 3D-Guided Reconstruction Model

Meta’s Self-Taught Evaluator enables LLMs to create their own training data

Microsoft will start training AI models with user data from Copilot, Bing, and MSN in October

Tesla is hiring people to do the robot

Thank you for reading!