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Generative AI Report: FraudGPT – AI Powered Fraud Begins

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Word out on the street is that FraudGPT has launched. It's an AI bot exclusively targeted for offensive purposes, such as crafting spear phishing emails, creating cracking tools, and creating fake identities, and it signals the first major instance of a published fraud-focused AI tool. FraudGPT follows in the footsteps of WormGPT.

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Check out the brand-new SDXL 1.0 and its capabilities

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Stability AI unveiled SDXL 1.0, the most sophisticated iteration of its primary text-to-image algorithm. It generates graphics with a greater resolution than the 0.9 version, uses less processing power, and requires fewer text questions. With Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, it is now more practical and effective than ever! Like ChatGPT, artificial intelligence tools don’t just produce text.

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Invisible Asymptotes (2018)

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"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.

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Montreal startup HumanFirst raises $5M to transform organizations’ conversational data into no-code AI agents

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Imagine you run a customer service desk at a company. You quickly notice that your employees spend a good chunk of their day answering the same questions from different customers.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

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have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth.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.

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DynamoDB vs. Cassandra: Which Database Is a Great Fit for Your Business?

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In this contributed article, April Miller, a senior IT and cybersecurity writer for ReHack Magazine, believes that If you need a new database for your business, Amazon Web Services DynamoDB and Apache Cassandra are two of the most prominent options. Choosing between them isn’t easy, but this breakdown will help you feel more informed and confident.

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7 ChatGPT scams to look out for

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With the rise of artificial intelligence, we’re now encountering the unexpected reality of the ChatGPT scam. This groundbreaking AI tool, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has swept the globe, revolutionizing the way we interact online. Yet, the same features that make it appealing to billions are being exploited by cybercriminals in new and worrying ways.

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AWS AI-powered video highlights feature introduces game-changing World Cup viewing experience for fans

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Sports fans continue to seek a dynamic viewing experience whenever they decide to tune into a live sporting event. The advancements in technology have only raised expectations.

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insideBIGDATA AI News Briefs – 7/27/2023

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Welcome insideBIGDATA AI News Briefs, our podcast channel bringing you the latest industry insights and perspectives surrounding the field of AI including deep learning, large language models, generative AI, and transformers. We're working tirelessly to dig up the most timely and curious tidbits underlying the day's most popular technologies. We know this field is advancing rapidly and we want to bring you a regular resource to keep you informed and state-of-the-art.

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RT-2: New model translates vision and language into action

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Introducing Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2), a novel vision-language-action (VLA) model that learns from both web and robotics data, and translates this knowledge into generalised instructions for robotic control, while retaining web-scale capabilities. This work builds upon Robotic Transformer 1 (RT-1), a model trained on multi-task demonstrations which can learn combinations of tasks and objects seen in the robotic data.

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Treat your CI system as a product for faster and better feedback

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Improving the feedback time of a continuous integration (CI) system and optimizing the test methods and classes resulted in more effective feedback for development teams. CI systems are an important part of the development process and should be treated as such.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

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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Hollywood needs to pivot now, or AI will replace the studios, too

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Actors and writers worry that Hollywood studios will use AI to replace them. But in a shocking twist, AI may be coming for the studios, too. One of the many legitimate concerns held by the actors and writers on strike right now is that Hollywood will use AI to replace them.

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Heard on the Street – 7/26/2023

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Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

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When is Dinner, By State

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I know dinner time varies around the world, but I wanted to know if dinner time was different within the United States, and if so, by how much. Who eats the earliest? Who eats the latest?

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Why don't we get our drinking water by taking salt out seawater? (2008)

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Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

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.

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ServiceNow expands platform with additional generative AI capabilities to ease enterprise productivity

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Low-code enterprise automation company ServiceNow has announced the expansion of its Now platform’s generative AI capabilities, introducing case summarization and text-to-code features.

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In the 17th Century, Leibniz Dreamed of a Machine That Could Calculate Ideas

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Part two of a six-part series on the history of natural language processing and artificial intelligence

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Making 'The Blue Flash': How I reconstructed a fatal atomic accident

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In 1946, a dangerous radioactive apparatus in the Manhattan Project killed a scientist when his screwdriver slipped. Ben Platts-Mills pieced together what happened inside the room.

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The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)

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Can a human touch make Silicon Valley’s biggest discussion forum a more thoughtful place?

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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.

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Researchers reveal platform to study high-entropy alloy electrocatalysis

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Introduced in 2004, high-entropy alloys (HEAs) are alloys composed of multiple principal elements in nearly equiatomic proportions. Their unique chemical composition results in a high degree of chemical disorder, i.e., entropy, and produces remarkable properties such as high strength, ductility, and strong wear-and-tear resistance even at high temperatures.

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Is everything we eat associated with cancer? A systematic cookbook review (2013)

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Associations with cancer risk or benefits have been claimed for most food ingredients. Many single studies highlight implausibly large effects, even though evidence is weak. Effect sizes shrink in meta-analyses.

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Plans Develop for High-Speed Rail in the PNW

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With a growing population in the Pacific Northwest, the call for better public transportation heightens. This March, Washington’s State Legislature signed off on a transportation milestone, allocating $150 million to a high-speed connection between Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Though this funding could reduce congestion, cut carbon emissions, and better connect these coastal cities, a high-speed rail that travels above 200 miles per hour between major cities has never been done befo

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LPython: Novel, Fast, Retargetable Python Compiler

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About LPython is a Python compiler that can compile type-annotated Python code to optimized machine code. LPython offers several backends such as LLVM, C, C++, WASM, Julia and x86. LPython features quick compilation and runtime performance, as we show in the benchmarks in this blog. LPython also offers Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation and seamless interoperability with CPython.

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The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

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.

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TMAP – On Demand Tactile Street Map

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How can someone without eyesight learn a city block or navigate a new neighborhood? In 2018, the LightHouse introduced TMAP: Tactile Maps Automated Production, offering on-demand tactile street maps.

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Intent to approve PEP 703: making the GIL optional

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Posting for the whole Steering Council, on the subject of @colesbury’s PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython). Thank you, everyone, for responding to the poll on the no-GIL proposal. It’s clear that the overall sentiment is positive, both for the general idea and for PEP 703 specifically. The Steering Council is also largely positive on both.

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The Resilience of Costco

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For 40 years, Costco has succeeded with a simple formula: reinvest merchandising profits into lower prices and better products; be a disciplined operator; and treat customers and employees well.

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The U.K. Government Is Close to Eroding Encryption Worldwide

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The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services, which will destroy end-to-end encryption.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

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.

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How “windfall profits” from AI companies could fund a universal basic income

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Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Meta President Nick Clegg, Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google’s President of Global Affairs Kent Walker, and Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith at the White House. | Getty Images Companies like OpenAI and Google could make unthinkable profits from successful AI.

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Finding “Discs of Tron” on the Roadside

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We've spoken about arcade Tron a few times here on the blog over the years. Specifically, I shared some development documents a few months back here. For those of you that don't know, Tron essentially became two games - the regular Tron game with the four stages, and the spin off game, Discs of Tron.

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AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models

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Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model

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Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images The AI debate splitting the tech world, explained. Last week, Meta made a game-changing move in the world of AI. At a time when other leading AI companies like Google and OpenAI are closely guarding their secret sauce, Meta decided to give away , for free, the code that powers its innovative new AI large language model , Llama 2.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

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.