When I was new to Google Brain, I got involved in a long and heated discussion about evaluation numbers for some models we were using. As we walked out of the room, the most senior researcher told me “Look, the only metrics that matter are app store ratings. Everything else is just an approximation.“. The […]| Pete Warden's blog
Most recent news about AI seems to involve staggering amounts of money. OpenAI and Nvidia sign a $100b data center contract. Meta offers researchers $100m salaries. VCs invested almost $200b in AI …| Pete Warden's blog
There’s an LLM hiding in Chrome. Buried in the browser’s basement, behind a door with a “Beware of Leopard” sign. But I’ll show you how to find it. In a couple minutes…| Pete Warden's blog
3 posts published by Pete Warden during October 2024| Pete Warden's blog
I’m excited to announce Torre, a new product that translates instantly between Spanish and English. A lot of native English speakers I talk to don’t understand why a better approach to …| Pete Warden's blog
Pete Warden discusses the importance of captions, highlighting their utility in training speech-to-text AI and advocating for inclusion in more web videos. He announces the launch of MoonshineJS, a…| Pete Warden's blog
Sharp Beach in Pacifica looking south, on a beautiful Sunday afternoon Not long after I’d first moved to San Francisco, I had a friend from the UK visit. My apartment overlooked the N Judah t…| Pete Warden's blog
Man facing down three tanks in Tiananmen Square, taken by Jeff Widener of the Associated Press. I love the country of China, I made some good friends while collaborating with engineers based in Bei…| Pete Warden's blog
I’ve never been much of a podcast or video creator but recently I’ve started posting a series of short chats with my friend Ann Spencer on YouTube and it’s been a lot of fun. I re…| Pete Warden's blog
Guest post by Nat Jeffries, Founding Engineer at Useful Sensors. At Useful Sensors we love using disposable frameworks to deploy on-device transformers. Having built several such frameworks, I real…| Pete Warden's blog
I’ve been using the ONNX Runtime a lot recently, and while it has been a lot of fun, there are a few things I’ve missed from the TensorFlow Lite world. The biggest (no pun intended) is the lack of tools to shrink the model file size, something that’s always been essential in the mobile app … … Continue reading →| Pete Warden's blog
When I first tried ChatGPT, it blew my mind. Its ability to respond intelligently to almost any prompt I gave it was astonishing, it was obvious to me it was the future. It seemed like we’d finally built the kind of AI we’ve all seen in the movies. Over time though, one big limitation became … … Continue reading →| Pete Warden's blog
Imagine asking a box on a pillar at Home Depot “Where are the nails?” and getting directions, your fridge responding with helpful advice when you say “Why is the ice maker broken?”, or your car ans…| Pete Warden's blog
