What’s AI Weekly?
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team
Originally published on Towards AI.
Good morning, AI enthusiasts! This week, we’re diving into a challenge many of us face: keeping up with the rapid pace of AI and answering some extremely thought-provoking questions, such as: Is AI helping us think better, or is it leading to cognitive decline?
We’ll also explore DeepSeek’s impact on machine learning engineering, the latest on preference alignment, vector databases, and more.
Let’s break it down together!
What’s AI Weekly
AI poll of the week! I ran a similar poll a couple of years ago, and back then, ChatGPT was leading by a wide margin. Today, despite the many new options available, it still holds the top spot by a large margin. Why do you continue using ChatGPT? Does this also apply to specialized tasks? For instance, Claude’s latest release is optimized for coding — would you use it for that? Let’s discuss in the thread!
Collaboration Opportunities
The Learn AI Together Discord community is flooding with collaboration opportunities. If you are excited to dive into applied AI, want a study partner, or even want to find a partner for your passion project, join the collaboration channel! Keep an eye on this section, too — we share cool opportunities every week!
- Bavoyager is looking for a partner to collaborate on a side hustle. To know more about the project, reach out in the thread!
- Lisz.a is working on identifying novel biomarkers for different disorders with the help of informatics and is looking for people to help with his ethical AI research. If this sounds interesting, connect with him in the thread!
- Ayanb1827 is working on a fully open-source personal study app/time management project and is looking for individuals with experience in AI agents, LangChain, agentic reasoning, RAG, and similar technologies within a React application. If you have experience in these areas and want to share some insights or chat, contact them in the thread!
Meme of the week!
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TAI Curated section
Article of the week
Building AI-Powered Chatbots with Gemini, LangChain, and RAG on Google Vertex AI by Shenggang Li
Our must-read articles
- Preference Alignment by Sarvesh Khetan
- Vector Databases 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Vector Search and Indexing by Afaque Umer
- Is Artificial Intelligence Ushering Cognitive Decline? by Cezary Gesikowski
- DeepSeek in My Engineer’s Eyes by Kelvin Lu
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