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DECEMBER 13, 2023
The outspoken CloudFlare founder said the time and money that businesses are pouring into early AI projects are unlikely to yield returns, and he blasted cloud providers for making the problem worse.
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Google has done it again. The search giant announced the launch of MusicFX today, a groundbreaking new experimental tool that enables users to generate their own music using AI.
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DECEMBER 14, 2023
Kytch, the company that tried to fix McDonald’s broken ice cream machines, has unearthed a 3-year-old email it says proves claims of an alleged plot to undermine their business.
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DECEMBER 15, 2023
In today’s issue of Command Line, I reported that ByteDance has been violating the developer license of both Microsoft and OpenAI by using GPT-generated data to train its own, competing model in China. After my report was published, OpenAI spokesperson Niko Felix sent the following statement confirming that ByteDance’s account has been suspended: As I reported, most of ByteDance’s GPT usage has been done through Microsoft’s Azure platform, not through OpenAI directly.
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DECEMBER 14, 2023
GE Aerospace GE Aerospace says it successfully demonstrated an advanced jet propulsion concept that involves a dual-mode ramjet design utilizing rotating detonation combustion. This could offer a pathway to the development of new aircraft and missiles capable of flying efficiently at high supersonic and even hypersonic speeds across long distances. A press release that GE Aerospace put out today offers new details about what it says “is believed to be a world-first hypersonic dual-mode ram
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DECEMBER 15, 2023
The $80 Lego Ideas Polaroid OneStep is a 516-piece recreation of the classic 1977 OneStep SX-70 instant camera. Here’s The Verge’s exclusive peek at how it went from fan creation to final product.
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DECEMBER 14, 2023
Engineered immune cells, most commonly used to treat cancers, show their power against lupus and other immune disorders. Engineered immune cells, most commonly used to treat cancers, show their power against lupus and other immune disorders.
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DECEMBER 14, 2023
Since yesterday, customers of Ubiquiti networking devices, ranging from routers to security cameras, have reported seeing other people's devices and notifications through the company's cloud services. [.
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DECEMBER 14, 2023
Today, Mozilla announced more than 450 new extensions (software that adds new features or functionality to the browser) to users on Firefox for Android at Mozilla’s AMO Android page. This milestone marks the launch of a new open extension ecosystem on mobile where developers are now free to create and publish extensions and users can easily access and install them on Firefox for Android.
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DECEMBER 14, 2023
Ancient humans painted scenes in Indonesian caves more than 45,000 years ago, but their art is disappearing rapidly. Researchers are trying to discover whatâs causing the damage and how to stop it â before the murals are gone forever.
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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?
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DECEMBER 14, 2023
We present a new research direction for superalignment, together with promising initial results: can we leverage the generalization properties of deep learning to control strong models with weak supervisors?
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DECEMBER 14, 2023
After years of battles over Bills C-11 and C-18, few Canadians will have the appetite for yet another troubling Internet bill. But given a bill that envisions government-backed censorship, mandates age verification to use search engines or social media sites, and creates a framework for court-ordered website blocking, there is a need to pay attention.
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DECEMBER 14, 2023
New advertisements by Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange, prey on the financial anxieties of Gen Z and other young adults. The ads, which are on heavy rotation on cable television, depict the modern economic system as rigged. In one of the ads, a young woman gets good grades, goes to college, and ends up saddled with debt. After she enters the workforce, it becomes impossible for her to afford to buy a house or start a family.
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DECEMBER 13, 2023
As the developing world witnesses a boom in road building, a movement to retrofit existing roads is gathering steam. Using embankments, channels, and dikes, so-called “green roads” harvest excess water for use in irrigation and flood prevention, while slashing maintenance costs.
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DECEMBER 14, 2023
At Intel’s Meteor Lake launch event, Pat Gelsinger went on the offensive against Nvida, claiming the whole industry is motivated to move beyond CUDA, and that Intel is well positioned
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DECEMBER 14, 2023
Large language model improves on efforts to solve combinatorics problems inspired by the card game Set. Large language model improves on efforts to solve combinatorics problems inspired by the card game Set.
DECEMBER 15, 2023
To hear the hype from vendors, you would think that enterprise buyers are all in when it comes to generative AI. But like any newer technology, large companies tend to move cautiously. Throughout this year, as vendors feverishly announced new generative AI-fueled products, CIOs took note. Some companies have actually been looking to cut back […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
DECEMBER 15, 2023
The EU AI Act still isn’t set in stone and the European elections could shake things up. But for the moment, the tech industry fears the Act may stifle competition. Meanwhile, artists and authors have proved more welcoming.
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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.
DECEMBER 13, 2023
A.I. tools like ChatGPT did not boost the frequency of cheating in high schools, Stanford researchers say. Last December, as high school and college students began trying out a new A.I.
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DECEMBER 13, 2023
Tesla Inc. filed a recall covering more than 2 million vehicles after the top US auto-safety regulator determined its driver-assistance system Autopilot doesn’t do enough to prevent misuse.
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DECEMBER 13, 2023
Over a decade ago, I pointed out that as Google kept trying to worm its way deeper into our lives, a key Achilles' heel was its basically non-existent customer service and unwillingness to ever engage constructively with users the company f s over.
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DECEMBER 13, 2023
Transformers are a class of autoregressive deep learning architectures which have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance in various vision, language, and robotics tasks. We revisit the problem of Kalman Filtering in linear dynamical systems and show that Transformers can approximate the Kalman Filter in a strong sense. Specifically, for any observable LTI system we construct an explicit causally-masked Transformer which implements the Kalman Filter, up to a small additive error which is
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DECEMBER 13, 2023
Their study reveals that during anoxia, or oxygen deprivation, the brain undergoes a series of changes, including a massive release of glutamate and a surge in gamma and beta waves, potentially linked to near-death experiences.
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DECEMBER 14, 2023
Stable Zero123 is an AI-powered model for generating novel views of 3D objects with improved quality. Released for non-commercial and research purposes, it uses an improved dataset and elevation conditioning for higher-quality predictions. Using the improved open-source code, researchers can use this model to create 3D objects from images.
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Hong Kong CNN — ERNIE Bot 4.0, run by Chinese tech giant Baidu, is touted to be in the same league as industry darling chatbot GPT-4. Unveiled in October and launched to paying subscribers in November, ERNIE 4.
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Google thinks that there’s an opportunity to offload more healthcare tasks to generative AI models — or at least, an opportunity to recruit those models to aid healthcare workers in completing their tasks. Today, the company announced MedLM, a family of models fine-tuned for the medical industries.
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DECEMBER 12, 2023
Phi-2 is now accessible on the Azure model catalog. Its compact size and new innovations in model scaling and training data curation make it ideal for exploration around mechanistic interpretability, safety improvements, and fine-tuning experimentation on a variety of tasks.
DECEMBER 12, 2023
A system that records the brain's electrical activity through the scalp can turn thoughts into words with help from a large language model – but the results are far from perfect
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Saying “Hey Meta” while wearing the Ray-Ban smart glasses will summon a virtual assistant that sees and hears what’s happening around you. Meta is finally going to let people try its splashiest AI features for the Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, though in an early access test to start.
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DECEMBER 12, 2023
Miklos Daniel Brody, a cloud engineer, was sentenced to two years in prison and a restitution of $529,000 for wiping the code repositories of his former employer in retaliation for being fired by the company. [.
Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
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