NOVEMBER 27, 2023
These innovations are putting AI to work right now, in areas ranging from customer service to video production to software engineering. One year ago, the appearance of OpenAI’s ChatGPT set off an AI arms race among Big Tech companies.
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Family members and representatives of people who died said the company has not done enough and called for it to mandate that carbon monoxide detectors be installed in every rental.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
DeepMind
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
We share the discovery of 2.2 million new crystals – equivalent to nearly 800 years’ worth of knowledge. We introduce Graph Networks for Materials Exploration (GNoME), our new deep learning tool that dramatically increases the speed and efficiency of discovery by predicting the stability of new materials.
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Supposed AI breakthroughs are frequently veiled in secrecy, hindering scientific consensus. Last week, it seemed that OpenAI—the secretive firm behind ChatGPT—had been broken open.
Advertisement
Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
A leaked document has talking points for the president of the United Nations climate conference, who is an oil executive in the United Arab Emirates, to advance oil and gas deals.
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
The companies had honed a protocol for releasing artificial intelligence ambitiously but safely. Then OpenAI’s board exploded all their carefully laid plans. At around 11:30 a.m.
Data Science Current brings together the best content for data science professionals from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Hacker News
DECEMBER 1, 2023
A former Google engineer and the founder of stealth AI startup Extropic, is behind the Twitter account leading the “effective accelerationism” movement sweeping Silicon Valley.
Hacker News
DECEMBER 1, 2023
This paper studies extractable memorization: training data that an adversary can efficiently extract by querying a machine learning model without prior knowledge of the training dataset. We show an adversary can extract gigabytes of training data from open-source language models like Pythia or GPT-Neo, semi-open models like LLaMA or Falcon, and closed models like ChatGPT.
Hacker News
DECEMBER 1, 2023
A groundbreaking study by Mass Eye and Ear associates tinnitus with undetected auditory nerve damage, challenging previous beliefs and opening new paths for treatment through auditory nerve regeneration.
Hacker News
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Course to get into Large Language Models (LLMs) with roadmaps and Colab notebooks. - GitHub - mlabonne/llm-course: Course to get into Large Language Models (LLMs) with roadmaps and Colab notebooks.
Advertisement
Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
DECEMBER 1, 2023
An alarmingly large portion of the world's business and finance systems run on COBOL, and only a small community of programmers know it. IBM thinks Watson can help, but it's not guaranteed.
Hacker News
DECEMBER 1, 2023
The power naps of the chinstrap penguin are even briefer and more frequent when it is tending eggs. The power naps of the chinstrap penguin are even briefer and more frequent when it is tending eggs.
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Upon its release in late 2022, ChatGPT has brought a seismic shift in the entire landscape of AI, both in research and commerce. Through instruction-tuning a large language model (LLM) with supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback, it showed that a model could answer human questions and follow instructions on a broad panel of tasks.
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Code is read more than written, code is run more than read. I think this line of thought can be extended beyond code-writing, and used as a rule of thumb to identify problems and make decisions.
Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com
Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
A U.K. woman was photographed standing in a mirror where her reflections didn't match, but not because of a glitch in the Matrix. Instead, it's a simple iPhone computational photography mistake.
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
Leading artificial intelligence company, OpenAI, has experienced a whirlwind of changes over the past week. Amidst the upheaval, an all-white, male board of directors has emerged.
Hacker News
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Over the last 18 months, we’ve had more than a handful of issues with Google. I was waiting to write about them until AFTER we got off Google, but, now seems like a good time as any.
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
A few months ago, a STEM and economics literate global decarbonization executive for a $4 billion annual revenue logistics business. [continued] The post What Drives This Madness On Small Modular Nuclear Reactors? appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
This post is the second part of a multi-series blog focused on how to accelerate generative AI models with pure, native PyTorch. We are excited to share a breadth of newly released PyTorch performance features alongside practical examples to see how far we can push PyTorch native performance. In part one, we showed how to accelerate Segment Anything over 8x using only pure, native PyTorch.
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
The most powerful secretary of state of the postwar era, he was both celebrated and reviled. His complicated legacy still resonates in relations with China, Russia and the Middle East.
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Generalist foundation models such as GPT-4 have displayed surprising capabilities in a wide variety of domains and tasks. Yet, there is a prevalent assumption that they cannot match specialist capabilities of fine-tuned models. For example, most explorations to date on medical competency benchmarks have leveraged domain-specific training, as exemplified by efforts on BioGPT and Med-PaLM.
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Generative artificial intelligence’s ability to create content, art and even code has opened up a world of opportunities for businesses seeking to leverage the technology’s potential.
Advertisement
Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.
Hacker News
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Remember a year ago, all the way back to last November before we knew about ChatGPT, when machine learning was all about building models to solve for a single task like loan approvals or fraud protection? That approach seemed to go out the window with the rise of generalized LLMs, but the fact is generalized […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
How books got organized. By Catherine Gallagher Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock images Nicholas Dames's new book considers a literary feature that scholars usually neglect.
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Dobb·E is an open-source framework for teaching robots household tasks via imitation learning in 20 minutes. The framework uses a simple tool called the Stick, collects a dataset called Homes of New York (HoNY) with it, and then trains a representation learning model, Home Pretrained Representations (HPR) with it. Then, Dobb·E uses five minutes of collected data in a new home for a novel task and within fifteen minutes, gives a policy that can solve the task with 81% average success rate.
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Speaking to undercover reporters, Saudi energy officials disclosed ambitious plans to undo progress on phasing out oil by financing high carbon infrastructure across Africa and Asia.
Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions
Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Google partnered with clean energy startup Fervo on a new geothermal project in Nevada that will send electricity to the grid that serves two of Google’s data centers. | Image: Google A first-of-its-kind geothermal project is now up and running in Nevada, where it will help power Google’s data centers with clean energy. Google is partnering with startup Fervo, which has developed new technology for harnessing geothermal power.
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
We’re excited to announce that the AWS SDK for Rust is now generally available and supported for production use. The AWS SDK for Rust provides an idiomatic, type-safe API, along with the benefits of the Rust language such as performance, reliability, and productivity.
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
SDXL Turbo is a new text-to-image mode based on a novel distillation technique called Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (ADD), enabling the model to create image outputs in a single step and generate real-time text-to-image outputs while maintaining high sampling fidelity.
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Today, we are announcing the preview of Amazon Aurora Limitless Database, a new capability supporting automated horizontal scaling to process millions of write transactions per second and manage petabytes of data in a single Aurora database.
Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
181 
Let's personalize your content