A new Google Cloud blog shows how to use Vertex AI to run DeepMind’s groundbreaking Alphafold protein structure prediction system — I spent several months in early 2021 interviewing data science candidates. In every interview, I asked the candidate to name two major AI accomplishments from 2020. Here are the two headlines I was looking for: GPT-3 — released in limited beta by OpenAI in June 2020 2. AlphaFold — announced…

Comparing two revolutions, 25 years apart Think of a technology trend that led people to pick up a suite of new skills, delve into arcane hardware details, and even change careers. Think of a technology trend that made headlines, inspired movies and TV series, and threatened to upend whole industries…

Can Codex translate commands between AWS and Google Cloud? — Many businesses need to deal with multiple cloud environments. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud each have their own sets of commands to carry out cloud actions, such as setting up buckets, defining service accounts, and other administration tasks. It would be great to have an automated way to translate commands…

Can Codex be a go-between for deep learning frameworks? — OpenAI’s Codex provides a set of computer language-specific operations that can be used to generate code from English language descriptions, automatically document code, and translate between coding languages. Over the last few months I have been exporing Codex’s capabilities, including its ability to generate web applications from English-language prompts and…

Can Codex translate all kinds of COBOL into JavaScript? — Earlier this year OpenAI released Codex as an AI-driven environment for working with computer code. Codex can turn English language descriptions into code, create comments from code, and translate from one programming language to another. …

Codex generates Python and JavaScript from (slightly) more complex COBOL — Since I got access to OpenAI’s Codex I have been trying to see what it can do and looking for some experiments that haven’t already been explored. I wrote an article and published a video about some basic tests I did getting Codex to go back and forth between COBOL…

Can OpenAI’s code-generation system deal with code from the punch card era? — COBOL has been around for over sixty years. Despite concerted efforts to migrate more and more COBOL programs to modern languages, it shows no sign of disappearing any time soon. There is still a lot of COBOL running — close to 1/4 trillion lines of it by one recent estimate…

Trying out OpenAI’s automated code generation system — One of the highlights of my technical life in 2020 was getting access to GPT-3. Thanks to the advice provided by in this video, I was able to get access to GPT-3 and publish a series of videos describing experiments I did with GPT-3 to generate git commands from English…

Harnessing the power of early stopping and model save callbacks — When you train a deep learning model you want to get the most out of the resources that you are using to train the model. If you’re using an environment like Paperspace Gradient where you pay by the hour, time is literally money. If you can train your model in…