Ethics and Society Newsletter #6: Building Better AI: The Importance of Data Quality
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Did a fun experiment: What are the main themes emerging from the 100+ Nieman Journalism Lab predictions for 2025?
I used natural language processing to cluster and map them — really helps spot patterns that weren't obvious when reading predictions one by one. So what will shape journalism next year? A lot of AI and US politics (surprise!), but there's also this horizontal axis that spans from industry strategies to deep reflections on how to talk to the public.
Click any dot to explore the original prediction. What themes surprise/interest you the most?
👉 fdaudens/nieman_lab_2025_predictions_visualization
P.s.: I discovered that Nieman Lab's content is under Creative Commons license!
I used natural language processing to cluster and map them — really helps spot patterns that weren't obvious when reading predictions one by one. So what will shape journalism next year? A lot of AI and US politics (surprise!), but there's also this horizontal axis that spans from industry strategies to deep reflections on how to talk to the public.
Click any dot to explore the original prediction. What themes surprise/interest you the most?
👉 fdaudens/nieman_lab_2025_predictions_visualization
P.s.: I discovered that Nieman Lab's content is under Creative Commons license!
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Coming back to Paris Friday to open our new Hugging Face office!
We're at capacity for the party but add your name in the waiting list as we're trying to privatize the passage du Caire for extra space for robots 🤖🦾🦿
https://t.co/enkFXjWndJ
We're at capacity for the party but add your name in the waiting list as we're trying to privatize the passage du Caire for extra space for robots 🤖🦾🦿
https://t.co/enkFXjWndJ
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In the past seven days, the Diffusers team has shipped:
1. Two new video models
2. One new image model
3. Two new quantization backends
4. Three new fine-tuning scripts
5. Multiple fixes and library QoL improvements
Coffee on me if someone can guess 1 - 4 correctly.
1. Two new video models
2. One new image model
3. Two new quantization backends
4. Three new fine-tuning scripts
5. Multiple fixes and library QoL improvements
Coffee on me if someone can guess 1 - 4 correctly.
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Aya by Cohere For AI can now see! 👀
C4AI community has built Maya 8B, a new open-source multilingual VLM built on SigLIP and Aya 8B 🌱 works on 8 languages! 🗣️
The authors extend Llava dataset using Aya's translation capabilities with 558k examples!
ry it here kkr5155/maya_demo
Dataset maya-multimodal/pretrain
Model maya-multimodal/maya 👏
kudos @nahidalam and team
C4AI community has built Maya 8B, a new open-source multilingual VLM built on SigLIP and Aya 8B 🌱 works on 8 languages! 🗣️
The authors extend Llava dataset using Aya's translation capabilities with 558k examples!
ry it here kkr5155/maya_demo
Dataset maya-multimodal/pretrain
Model maya-multimodal/maya 👏
kudos @nahidalam and team
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Doing some testing with HunyuanVideo on the Hugging Face Inference Endpoints 🤗
prompt: "a Shiba Inu is acting as a DJ, he wears sunglasses and is mixing and scratching with vinyl discs at a Ibiza sunny sand beach party"
1280x720, 22 steps, 121 frames
There are still some things to iron out regarding speed and memory usage, right now it takes 20min on an A100 (see attached charts)
but you can check it out here:
https://huggingface.co/jbilcke-hf/HunyuanVideo-for-InferenceEndpoints
There are various things I want to try like the 100% diffusers version and other models (LTX-Video..)
prompt: "a Shiba Inu is acting as a DJ, he wears sunglasses and is mixing and scratching with vinyl discs at a Ibiza sunny sand beach party"
1280x720, 22 steps, 121 frames
There are still some things to iron out regarding speed and memory usage, right now it takes 20min on an A100 (see attached charts)
but you can check it out here:
https://huggingface.co/jbilcke-hf/HunyuanVideo-for-InferenceEndpoints
There are various things I want to try like the 100% diffusers version and other models (LTX-Video..)
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🤝 Want to share your AI models while protecting your work? Licenses are key!
Fascinating to see that nearly 60% of models on the Hub use Apache & MIT licenses.
Explore the viz here: huggingface/open-source-ai-year-in-review-2024
Fascinating to see that nearly 60% of models on the Hub use Apache & MIT licenses.
Explore the viz here: huggingface/open-source-ai-year-in-review-2024
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Are you at #NeurIPS2024? Check out our cool data visualizations about research papers in the Year in Review!
huggingface/open-source-ai-year-in-review-2024
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TL;DR: The Story of Attention's Development by
@karpathy
Origin: First proposed in 2014 by @Dzmitry Bahdanau, @KyunghyunCho , and Yoshua Bengio in Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate (1409.0473) . Inspired by cognitive processes and later renamed from "RNNSearch."
Key Idea: A data-dependent weighted average for pooling and communication, enabling flexible and powerful neural network connections.
Breakthrough: Bahdanau's "soft search" mechanism (softmax + weighted averaging) solved encoder-decoder bottlenecks in machine translation.
Transformer Revolution: Attention Is All You Need (1706.03762) (2017) by @ashishvaswanigoogle et al. simplified architectures by stacking attention layers, introducing multi-headed attention and positional encodings.
Legacy: Attention replaced RNNs, driving modern AI systems like ChatGPT. It emerged independently but was influenced by contemporaneous work like Alex Graves’s Neural Turing Machines (1410.5401) and Jason Weston’s Memory Networks (1410.3916) .
Attention to history: Jürgen Schmidhuber claims his 1992 Fast Weight Programmers anticipated modern attention mechanisms. While conceptually similar, the term “attention” was absent, and there’s no evidence it influenced Bahdanau, Cho, and Bengio’s 2014 work. Paying attention (!) to history might have brought us to genAI earlier – but credit for the breakthrough still goes to Montreal.
Referenced Papers:
Attention Origin: Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate (1409.0473)
Transformers: Attention Is All You Need (1706.03762)
Alex Graves' Work: Neural Turing Machines (1410.5401), Generating Sequences With Recurrent Neural Networks (1308.0850)
Jason Weston @spermwhale 's Memory Networks (1410.3916)
Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks (1409.3215) by Ilya Sutskever ( @ilyasut ), Oriol Vinyals, Quoc V. Le
Who else deserves recognition in this groundbreaking narrative of innovation? Let’s ensure every contributor gets the credit they deserve. Leave a comment below 👇🏻🤗
Origin: First proposed in 2014 by @Dzmitry Bahdanau, @KyunghyunCho , and Yoshua Bengio in Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate (1409.0473) . Inspired by cognitive processes and later renamed from "RNNSearch."
Key Idea: A data-dependent weighted average for pooling and communication, enabling flexible and powerful neural network connections.
Breakthrough: Bahdanau's "soft search" mechanism (softmax + weighted averaging) solved encoder-decoder bottlenecks in machine translation.
Transformer Revolution: Attention Is All You Need (1706.03762) (2017) by @ashishvaswanigoogle et al. simplified architectures by stacking attention layers, introducing multi-headed attention and positional encodings.
Legacy: Attention replaced RNNs, driving modern AI systems like ChatGPT. It emerged independently but was influenced by contemporaneous work like Alex Graves’s Neural Turing Machines (1410.5401) and Jason Weston’s Memory Networks (1410.3916) .
Attention to history: Jürgen Schmidhuber claims his 1992 Fast Weight Programmers anticipated modern attention mechanisms. While conceptually similar, the term “attention” was absent, and there’s no evidence it influenced Bahdanau, Cho, and Bengio’s 2014 work. Paying attention (!) to history might have brought us to genAI earlier – but credit for the breakthrough still goes to Montreal.
Referenced Papers:
Attention Origin: Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate (1409.0473)
Transformers: Attention Is All You Need (1706.03762)
Alex Graves' Work: Neural Turing Machines (1410.5401), Generating Sequences With Recurrent Neural Networks (1308.0850)
Jason Weston @spermwhale 's Memory Networks (1410.3916)
Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks (1409.3215) by Ilya Sutskever ( @ilyasut ), Oriol Vinyals, Quoc V. Le
Who else deserves recognition in this groundbreaking narrative of innovation? Let’s ensure every contributor gets the credit they deserve. Leave a comment below 👇🏻🤗
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Quick update from week 1 of smol course. The community is taking the driving seat and using the material for their own projects. If you want to do the same, join in!
- we have ongoing translation projects in Korean, Vietnamese, Portuguese, and Spanish
- 3 chapters are ready for students. On topics like, instruction tuning, preference alignment, and parameter efficient fine tuning
- 3 chapters are in progress on evaluation, vision language models, and synthetic data.
- around 780 people have forked the repo to use it for learning, teaching, sharing.
⏭️ Next step is to support people that want to use the course for teaching, content creation, internal knowledge sharing, or anything. If you're into this. Drop an issue or PR
REPO: https://buff.ly/3ZCMKX2
discord channel: https://buff.ly/4f9F8jA
- we have ongoing translation projects in Korean, Vietnamese, Portuguese, and Spanish
- 3 chapters are ready for students. On topics like, instruction tuning, preference alignment, and parameter efficient fine tuning
- 3 chapters are in progress on evaluation, vision language models, and synthetic data.
- around 780 people have forked the repo to use it for learning, teaching, sharing.
⏭️ Next step is to support people that want to use the course for teaching, content creation, internal knowledge sharing, or anything. If you're into this. Drop an issue or PR
REPO: https://buff.ly/3ZCMKX2
discord channel: https://buff.ly/4f9F8jA