Category: artificial intelligence
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Finetuning Phi3-mini-4k-instruct on custom Data + CPU Inference

Small Language Models (SLM) In the past two years, robotics has undeniably gained increasing attention due to exciting advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs). Many of our expectations for robots, such as engaging in natural conversations and taking actions based on spoken commands, can only be realized with the help…
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Navigating the Challenges of Data Drift in Real-World AI Applications

Personal Story Two years ago, our team embarked on an ambitious project: developing an AI-powered receipt information extraction and validation system with no human intervention. The concept was straightforward: users would photograph their receipts, and our intelligent system would process these images through an intricate pipeline—transforming photos into actionable data…
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Notes on the A.I. Act of the European Union (Prohibited AI Practises)

The AI Act, which came into effect on August 1st, 2024, marks a significant step in regulating artificial intelligence (AI). This groundbreaking legislation establishes the first comprehensive legal framework for AI in Europe, aiming to ensure public trust in AI services. [1] The Act employs a risk-based approach, categorizing AI…
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Political Biases in Language Models (Part II – Evaluation of Politial Leanings)

In my previous discussion, I delved into the paper by Feng et al., published at ACL 2023, which explored the intricate relationship between political biases in large language models (LLMs) and their performance on downstream tasks like hate speech and misinformation detection. Now, let’s dive deeper into the solutions proposed…
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Political Biases in Language Models (Part I – Evaluation of Politial Leanings)

The issue of political biases in language models has been a topic of growing concern, especially among those of us who focus our studies in artificial intelligence. We’re well aware that bias is not a new problem in machine learning systems—it often stems from data imbalances. The quality of data…
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EcoVoyage: A Proposal to Gamify and Incentivise the HK Travel Experience

Our proposal for the Open Data Hackathon 2023 organized by HKTag BY Geoffrey Chu and Koby Choy The Hong Kong tourism industry has been grappling with a decline in tourist numbers in recent years, and even post-COVID, we’re still not seeing the same levels of visitors as before. As per…
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How are big corporations leveraging data? Case Study: Marriott International

Marriott International is a worldwide hospitality company that deliver a diverse portfolio of hotels, residential properties, and timeshares. They offer a wide range of choices for customers by providing brands that cater various price ranges and service levels. [1] Notably, the organization’s in-house digital solutions provider, Marriott Digital Services (MDS)…
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Exploring the Opportunities and Risks of ChatGPT: The Future of Conversational AI

ChatGPT is indeed a sign of AI evolution. On the technical perspective, not only is it of the largest language models that is ever built, its ability to perform a wide range of tasks such as translation, summarization and text generation has also surprised experts from different fields. Some people…
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More On ChatGPT: The Next Generation Conversational AI Model for Human-like Interactions

ChatGPT is an incredibly powerful natural language processing model that was released by OpenAI in November 2022. It is designed to tackle a variety of text-based tasks, including closed book question answering and fill-in-the-blank text generation. Using the transformer model architecture from GPT, ChatGPT has achieved remarkable results in a…
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Since everyone is talking about AI…

By now, I believe most of you would have heard of “ChatGPT” or “GPT-4”. It has been all over the news for the past few months, definitely all over the place on my Twitter timeline. How do you know when A.I is really making an impact? The most straightforward way…