Learn AI Together — Towards AI Community Newsletter #21

Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team

Originally published on Towards AI.

Good morning, AI enthusiasts! This week, the community has several exciting events, collaboration opportunities, and projects. We are also close to releasing a few amazing resources and need your help in the poll to know what you want to learn more about.

-Louis-François Bouchard, Towards AI Co-founder & Head of Community

Learn AI Together Community section!

Upcoming Community Events

The Learn AI Together Discord community hosts weekly AI seminars to help the community learn from industry experts, ask questions, and get a deeper insight into the latest research in AI. Join us for free, interactive video sessions hosted live on Discord weekly by attending our upcoming events.

1. Paper Walkthrough: RAG for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks

This week, we have a paper walkthrough for the research paper on Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks.

Join us next Saturday, April 27, for the RAG paper walkthrough on the Learn AI Together Discord server!

Sync your Google calendar to have all our upcoming events!

Featured Community post from the Discord

Oppyalex has released a new agent-based AI-assisted coding tool focused on AI and human collaboration. It’s part IDE and part chat client and uses a RAG system that allows you to ask questions about your codebase or kick off multi-step coding tasks across multiple files. Check it out here and support a fellow community member. Share your feedback in the Discord thread!

AI poll of the week!

It’s exciting to know the community is interested in learning it all! We are working on something super cool, covering everything from the technical to the conceptual aspects of AI, LLMs, NLP, computer vision, and more! If there’s something you want to learn, drop it in the Discord thread!

Collaboration Opportunities

The Learn AI Together Discord community is flooding with collaboration opportunities. If you are excited to dive into applied AI, want a study partner, or even want to find a partner for your passion project, join the collaboration channel! Keep an eye on this section, too — we share cool opportunities every week!

1. Proj3ctg and their team are looking for someone well-versed in AI, ML, Unity, Stable Diffusion, and control nets. They are building a film creator AI with an integrated streaming platform. If this is the right opportunity for you, reach out to them in the thread!

2. 0b_wi has built a voice-to-voice LLM on a consumer-grade machine (3–6 seconds response time). If you would like to work on building new features or making this into a docker container with a web UI, contact them in the thread!

3. Oppyalex is working on a developer tool powered by AI. They are looking for someone with coding skills to help put together some demos. If you think this opportunity is for you, connect with them in the thread!

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Article of the week

Why Command R+ is Much Better Than Mistral Large and Offers the Same Level of Performance as ChatGPT-4_Here is The Result by Gao Dalie

Command R+ is the most performant model for the key elements that enterprises care about in terms of RAG, multilingual capabilities, and tool use. This step-by-step guide will cover what Command R+ is, how to use Command R+, and Why Command R+ is Much Better Than Mistral Large and Offers the Same Level of Performance as ChatGPT-4.

Our must-read articles

1. Infinite Context Window?! by Louis-François Bouchard

Context window. These two words might have been the most sought-after and anticipated in large language model research papers and announcements by OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google. Well, thanks to Google’s most recent paper called Infini-attention, context windows are no longer a problem. This article shows how they accomplished this.

2. Generate Data Insights in No Time using AI by muffaddal qutbuddin

Unlock the power of AI for your business! This latest article guides you through building an AI app that streamlines data analysis and accelerates insights generation. Unlike ChatGPT, this AI approach accesses all company data and learns from a growing repository of examples.

3. Image Function Calls Made Easy with Claudetools by Vatsal Saglani

Up until now, OpenAI models have been best in class for generating structured JSON outputs and function calling. But very recently, Anthropic released their Claude 3 family of models. The models in this family are very good at reasoning, coding, and structured data generation.

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