True Positive Weekly #104
The most important artificial intelligence and machine learning news and articles
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Hey, in this issue: the cultural divide between mathematics and AI; how to backdoor an AI model; a surveillance camera with AI anomaly detection; build your own GitHub Copilot; transformers without normalization; Mistral Small 3.1 SOTA vision model; and more.
[Project] The dark side of Python’s pickle – How to backdoor an AI model
[Project] A surveillance camera with AI anomaly detection caught a meteor on camera
[Project] Build your own GitHub Copilot (code)
[Tool] AxisLabeling: a Python package that implements several axis-labeling algorithm
[Model] Mistral Small 3.1: a vision model that outperforms comparable models like Gemma 3 and GPT-4o Mini
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