Google recently launched Vertex - their new AI offering
It includes various ML models, including text, image recognition and more all in one spot
And the best part: Anyone can leverage them for their business with a single developer
Here's my favourite ones + example use cases
1/ PaLM 2, their foundational text model - similar to chatGPT & powers bard, but can be tuned for a wide variety of use-cases.
Ex: You're a small bakery, you copy paste all your reviews into it, and find out people love cupcakes, but want gluten free options
2/ Embeddings for Images, lets you capture images and their features.
Ex: Landscape designers can suggest based on images. Client can share photos of yards they found online, and AI suggests plants, lights pavers etc super easily and automatically
So its been a few days since the vision pro launch, and I think i figured out Apple's VR play.
Or rather, how VR will actually take off, and why Apple is perfectly positioned to build Jarvis in real life..
Alright so lets get the facts straight:
- Vision pro is $3.5k
- Comes out 2024
- M2 + R1 chip
- Their WWDC announcement was VERY different for the vision pro (generally they have everyone using it)
- No specific use cases (replacement for tv? taking a video of your kid? work?)
Seems like Apple is taking a huge risk with vision pro, and they aren't quite sure how it'll play out, so they made some bets, like those i mentioned.
But right off the bat we can cross off:
- IRL use cases (the taking a video of your kid was creepy, black mirror stuff)
Microsoft just announced they are adding Windows Copilot, their AI operating system.
It looks great at a first glance, and you'd think Apple is in trouble. But that's far from the truth.
While Windows AI OS might be cool, Apple's MacOS may have already won.
Here's why:
Ok first up the new Windows AI OS. From the demo video it
- copilot like os, basically clippy
- lets you edit, summarize and create documents across windows
- can use a chatbot to change settings like dark mode or turn bluetooth on
- send images to teams
Microsoft has done a killer job at adopting AI at an absolutely insane speed.
They were first on:
- OpenAI investment
- AI in bing
- AI tooling inside office365 + way more
But here is the issue, and where MSFT starts to fall flat..
The medical industry will never be the same again.
Google has released Med-PALM2, their LLM specifically for medical purposes.
It scored higher than humans on a medical exam.
Heres the breakdown, and a glimpse of future of healthcare:
Alright so what' is med-palm? It's google's version of palm-2, but fine tuned and trained specifically for medical purposes.
That means its much MUCH better than a generic LLM at
- understanding users questions
- understanding various health scenarios
- synthesizing answers
And here is the crazy part. It scored 86.5% on the MedQA dataset, the highest out any LLM.
The dataset contains general USMLE style questions. These are the same questions a person is applying for a medical license would answer in an exam beforehand.