AI’s medical breakthrough

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

The long run of medical imaging just got much clearer and faster — 5000x faster, to be exact.

UCLA’s SLIViT model matches expert accuracy at warp speed, but can it revolutionize healthcare without leaving humans within the dust? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• AI reaches expert level in medical scans

• Meta reveals recent AI models, tools

• Create brand-consistent visuals with AI

• Anthropic unveils recent evaluations for AI sabotage risks

• 6 recent AI tools & 4 recent AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

AI & MEDICINE

🧠 AI reaches expert level in medical scans

The Rundown: Researchers at UCLA just developed SLIViT, a brand new AI model that may analyze complex 3D medical scans with expert-level accuracy in a fraction of the time required by human specialists.

The small print:

• SLIViT (SLice Integration by Vision Transformer) can efficiently analyze various 3D imaging types, including MRIs, CT scans, and ultrasounds.

• The model matches clinical expert accuracy while reducing evaluation time by a mind-blowing factor of 5,000.

• Unlike other AI models, SLIViT requires only a whole bunch of coaching samples, making it more practical for real-world applications.

• The framework leverages transfer learning, using prior knowledge from 2D medical data for efficient training with smaller 3D datasets.

Why it matters: With the growing demand for faster diagnostics, SLIViT’s ability to rapidly and accurately analyze imaging offers a possible game-changer for healthcare. The model’s ability to work with small datasets also makes it more accessible for providers with limited resources — potentially democratizing expert medical imaging.

TOGETHER WITH HEIGHT

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The Rundown: Height’s autonomous project management tool eliminates the manual legwork required to maintain your work tidy and up-to-date — so you possibly can deal with greater than just managing tasks.

Height handles tedious workflows like:

• Detecting scope changes and mapping edits back to your specs

• Triaging bugs, assigning priority and escalating as needed

• Tagging and organizing backlogs by feature, estimate, and more

Create your first autonomous project without cost.

META

🚀 Meta reveals recent AI models, tools

The Rundown: Meta FAIR just introduced a set of recent research models and datasets, including an upgraded image segmentation tool, a cross-modal language model, solutions to speed up LLM performance, and more.

The small print:

• Spirit LM is an open-source multimodal language model that integrates speech and text to generate more natural-sounding and expressive speech.

• Meta’s SAM 2.1 update offers improved image and video segmentation on its popular predecessor, which saw over 700,000 downloads in 11 weeks.

• Layer Skip provides an end-to-end solution for accelerating LLM generation times by nearly 2x without specialized hardware.

• Other artifacts include SALSA for security testing, Meta Lingua for language model training, an artificial data generation tool, and more.

Why it matters: Meta continues to push the AI bar forward with big releases across various areas. Given the corporate’s impressive open-source systems, it’s hard to ascertain a future where closed models and tools have a major advantage — and the moat between the 2 appears to be shrinking with each release.

AI TRAINING

🎨 Create brand-consistent visuals with AI

The Rundown: Ideogram permits you to create on-brand visuals to your social media campaigns, maintaining color consistency across all platforms.

Step-by-step:

1. Access Ideogram and note the free day by day credits for trying it out.

2. Arrange your brand’s custom color palette within the settings.

3. Craft an in depth prompt and adjust settings like aspect ratio and rendering quality.

4. Generate the image, review it, and refine it by adjusting prompts or settings as needed.

Pro tip: Experiment with different aspect ratios (e.g., 1:1 for Instagram and 16:9 for Twitter headers) to create platform-specific images while maintaining brand consistency.

PRESENTED BY IBM

💻 IBM’s most compact AI models goal enterprises

The Rundown: Meet IBM’s recent third generation of Granite with recent open, compact, and efficient 2B and 8B language models.

Designed to provide enterprises more ways to embed and scale AI of their businesses, these recent 2B and 8B compact models are:

• Trained with fastidiously curated data;

• Cost-efficient;

• Designed to run high-performance solutions.;

Learn more about how these models will help transform enterprise AI adoption.

AI RESEARCH

🕵️ Anthropic unveils recent evaluations for AI sabotage risks

The Rundown: Anthropic just published a set of recent evaluations aimed toward detecting potential sabotage capabilities in advanced AI systems, specializing in risks that might arise if models try and subvert human oversight or decision-making.

The small print:

• 4 recent evaluations were developed: human decision sabotage, code sabotage, sandbagging (hiding capabilities), and undermining oversight.

• The evaluations use mock scenarios to check models’ ability to govern and deceive humans, insert bugs into code, and undermine monitoring systems.

• Tests were run on Claude 3 Opus and Claude 3.5 Sonnet models, which didn’t flag concerning results but showed the potential to sabotage.

• Anthropic is open-sourcing the evaluations and said stronger anti-sabotage mitigation will likely be needed as AI continues to enhance.

Why it matters: Anthropic’s research shows that AI isn’t excellent at sabotaging humans… yet. However the capabilities are there in some capability — and if the model acceleration continues like many think it’ll, it’s only a matter of time before these threats will likely be real and vital to mitigate.

NEW TOOLS & JOBS

Trending AI Tools

• 👨‍💻 AI Desk – AI-powered customer support to your website

• 👁️‍🗨️ MyLensAI – Key points of any web page & YouTube in a single click

• 🗣️ SagaLabs AI – AI-powered translation tool and platform for writing

• 🧠 BrowserCopilot AI – An AI companion across the online that understands the context of your work

• 🎥 Shorts Generator – Create viral videos in minutes with AI

Latest AI Job Opportunities

• Sanctuary AI – Financial Controller

• Shield AI – Test Pilot

• Curai – Sales Executive, Payers

• Waymo – Staff Software Engineer

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THAT’S A WRAP

See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, and Alvaro—aka The Rundown Team