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ConclusionThe Hugging Face library offers powerful tools for a variety of NLP tasks. By using simple pipelines, we can perform sentiment analysis, zero-shot classification, text generation, summarization, and translation with just a few lines of code... 
Published: 2024-07-26T10:23:24
I hope you’re doing well! I’ve got some exciting news to share that I think you’ll really appreciate.Our sister publication, Chatbots Life, has just undergone a major redesign. Why should you care? Well, it’s all about making your life as an AI enthu...
Published: 2024-07-22T21:34:09
Adobe Creative Cloud applications, which tap NVIDIA RTX GPUs, are designed to enhance the creativity of users, empowering them to work faster and focus on their craft. Editor’s note: This post is part of the AI Decoded series, which demystifies AI by...
Published: 2024-07-24T13:00:56
Businesses seeking to harness the power of AI need customized models tailored to their specific industry needs. NVIDIA AI Foundry is a service that enables enterprises to use data, accelerated computing and software tools to create and deploy custom ...
Published: 2024-07-23T15:15:59
Generative AI applications have little, or sometimes negative, value without accuracy and accuracy is rooted in data. To help developers efficiently fetch the best proprietary data to generate knowledgeable responses for their AI applications, NVID...
Published: 2024-07-23T15:15:16
Team NVIDIA has triumphed at the Amazon KDD Cup 2024, securing first place Friday across all five competition tracks. The team consisting of NVIDIANs Ahmet Erdem, Benedikt Schifferer, Chris Deotte, Gilberto Titericz, Ivan Sorokin and Simon Jegou ... 
Published: 2024-07-22T22:47:07
AI and accelerated computing twin engines NVIDIA continuously improves are delivering energy efficiency for many industries. It’s progress the wider community is starting to acknowledge. “Even if the predictions that data centers will soon accoun...
Published: 2024-07-22T12:00:18
New system foreshadows a future where there are too many CCTV cameras for humans to physically watch. On the eve of the Olympics opening ceremony, Paris is a city swamped in security. Forty thousand barriers divide the French capital. Packs of pol... 
On the eve of the Olympics opening ceremony, Paris is a city swamped in security. Forty thousand barriers divide the French capital. Packs of police officers wearing stab vests patrol pretty, cobbled streets. The river Seine is out of bounds to anyon...
Published: 2024-07-26T16:24:28
AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 solve problems, with caveats on time and human assistance. On Thursday, Google DeepMind announced that AI systems called AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 reportedly solved four out of six problems from this year's Inte... 
On Thursday, Google DeepMind announced that AI systems called AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 reportedly solved four out of six problems from this year's International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), achieving a score equivalent to a silver medal. The te...
Published: 2024-07-25T21:54:52
New tool may solve a web-search problem partially caused by AI-generated junk online. Arguably, few companies have unintentionally contributed more to the increase of AI-generated noise online than OpenAI. Despite its best intentions and against i... 
Arguably, few companies have unintentionally contributed more to the increase of AI-generated noise online than OpenAI. Despite its best intentions and against its terms of service its AI language models are often used to compose spam, and its pionee...
Published: 2024-07-25T20:39:20
Keys were labeled "DO NOT TRUST." Nearly 500 device models use them anyway. In 2012, an industry-wide coalition of hardware and software makers adopted Secure Boot to protect against a long-looming security threat. The threat was the specter of ma... 
In 2012, an industry-wide coalition of hardware and software makers adopted Secure Boot to protect against a long-looming security threat. The threat was the specter of malware that could infect the BIOS, the firmware that loaded the operating system...
Published: 2024-07-25T18:00:10
Gen-3 Alpha produces wild and whimsical results. Here's what it cooked up for us. In June, Runway debuted a new text-to-video synthesis model called Gen-3 Alpha. It converts written descriptions called "prompts" into HD video clips without sound. ... 
In June, Runway debuted a new text-to-video synthesis model called Gen-3 Alpha. It converts written descriptions called "prompts" into HD video clips without sound. We've since had a chance to use it and wanted to share our results. Our tests show th...
Published: 2024-07-24T22:12:27
One snag: xAI might not have the electrical power contracts to do it. On Monday, Elon Musk announced the start of training for what he calls "the world's most powerful AI training cluster" at xAI's new supercomputer facility in Memphis, Tennessee.... 
On Monday, Elon Musk announced the start of training for what he calls "the world's most powerful AI training cluster" at xAI's new supercomputer facility in Memphis, Tennessee. The billionaire entrepreneur and CEO of multiple tech companies took to ...
Published: 2024-07-24T16:19:41
"Open source AI is the path forward," says Mark Zuckerberg, misusing the term. In the AI world, there's a buzz in the air about a new AI language model released Tuesday by Meta: Llama 3.1 405B. The reason? It's potentially the first time anyone ca... 
In the AI world, there's a buzz in the air about a new AI language model released Tuesday by Meta: Llama 3.1 405B. The reason? It's potentially the first time anyone can download a GPT-4-class large language model (LLM) for free and run it on their o...
Published: 2024-07-23T20:01:32
Researchers use technique to quantify eyeball reflections that often reveal deepfake images. In 2024, it's almost trivial to create realistic AI-generated images of people, which has led to fears about how these deceptive images might be detected.... 
In 2024, it's almost trivial to create realistic AI-generated images of people, which has led to fears about how these deceptive images might be detected. Researchers at the University of Hull recently unveiled a novel method for detecting AI-generat...
Published: 2024-07-22T16:19:42
OpenAI announced a prototype of its new AI-powered search engine, SearchGPT. SearchGPT aims to provide “fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources” to transform how we interact with online information. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman e...
Published: 2024-07-26T19:50:16
Welcome to this week’s roundup of handwoven AI news. This week Llamas streaked ahead in the open AI race. Big Tech firms talk up safety while their models misbehave. And making AI scared might make it work better. Let’s dig in. Open Meta vs closed Op... 
Published: 2024-07-26T05:00:31
Meta has released its upgraded Llama 3.1 models in 8B, 70B, and 405B versions and committed to Mark Zuckerberg’s open source vision for the future of AI. The new additions to Meta’s Llama family of models come with an expanded context length of 128k ...
Published: 2024-07-24T09:42:00
OpenAI has found itself at the center of a Senate inquiry following allegations of rushed safety testing. Five senators, led by Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), demanded that the company provide detailed information about its safety practices and employee ag...
Published: 2024-07-23T18:53:29
Google unveiled NeuralGCM, a hybrid weather prediction model that combines machine learning with traditional forecasting techniques and has surprising benefits. Weather prediction has enjoyed dramatic improvements in forecast accuracy but traditional...
Published: 2024-07-23T13:12:56
Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) found that writing dangerous prompts in the past tense bypassed the refusal training of the most advanced LLMs. AI models are commonly aligned using techniques like supervised...
Published: 2024-07-22T10:04:27
AI research is fueled by the pursuit of ever-greater sophistication, which includes training systems to think and behave like humans. The end goal? Who knows. The goal for now? To create autonomous, generalized AI agents capable of performing a wide ...
Published: 2024-07-20T19:20:23
Like almost any question about AI, “How does AI impact software architecture?” has two sides to it: how AI changes the practice of software architecture and how AI changes the things we architect. These questions are coupled; one can’t really be disc... 
Published: 2024-07-23T10:18:39
Since the beginning of the generative AI boom, content creators have argued that their work has been scraped into AI models without their consent. But until now, it has been difficult to know whether specific text has actually been used in a training...
Published: 2024-07-25T17:09:21
AI models can easily generate essays and other types of text. However, they’re nowhere near as good at solving math problems, which tend to involve logical reasoning something that’s beyond the capabilities of most current AI systems. But that may fi...
Published: 2024-07-25T15:30:00
AI models work by training on huge swaths of data from the internet. But as AI is increasingly being used to pump out web pages filled with junk content, that process is in danger of being undermined. New research published in Nature shows that the q...
Published: 2024-07-24T15:00:00
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Yesterday, on July 21, President Joe Biden announced he is stepping down from the race against Donald Trump in t...
Published: 2024-07-23T09:09:32
MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Hundreds of Chinese large language models have been released since the government started permitting AI companies to open up their models for the general public to play around wit...
Published: 2024-07-23T09:00:00
One year ago, on July 21, 2023, seven leading AI companies Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI committed with the White House to a set of eight voluntary commitments on how to develop AI in a safe and trustworthy way. T...
Published: 2024-07-22T17:08:55
Researchers from Google have built a new weather prediction model that combines machine learning with more conventional techniques, potentially yielding accurate forecasts at a fraction of the current cost. The model, called NeuralGCM and described ...
Published: 2024-07-22T15:00:00
Vayu Robotics has today unveiled its first delivery robot. The One can follow staff around stores to load up customer orders, before autonomously navigating city streets at speeds up to 20 mph to deliver the goods. Commercial deployment has begun.Con... 
Published: 2024-07-24T16:39:07
Disney Research Hub has different priorities to other robot developers; its robots need to move effectively and efficiently but also with a ton of style and personality. This super-cute biped, based on the BD-1 droid, is a perfect example.Continue ... 
Published: 2024-07-22T11:52:00
This nifty little quadruped robot has been trained to seek and eliminate litter by researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology, using a vacuum cleaner backpack with nozzles strapped to its ankles.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, TechnologyT... 
Published: 2024-07-20T09:47:00
MongoDB is launching a new technology stack to enable customers to build AI applications. The MongoDB AI Applications Program (MAAP) will feature reference architectures, integrations with leading AI technology providers, and a support system for cus...
Published: 2024-07-24T14:52:33
Meta has announced the latest release of its open source AI model, Llama. According to Meta, with the release of Llama 3.1 405B, the company is trying to prove that open models can be just as capable as their closed counterparts, if not better. “Llam...
Published: 2024-07-23T16:20:12
The large Language Model, or LLM, has revolutionized how people work. By helping users generate the answer from a text prompt, LLM can do many things, such as answering questions, summarizing, planning events, and more. However, there are times when ...
Published: 2024-07-22T10:00:51
Today, we are excited to announce a new capability in Amazon SageMaker inference that can help you reduce the time it takes for your generative artificial intelligence (AI) models to scale automatically. You can now use sub-minute metrics and signifi You can use the new concurrency-based target tracking auto scaling policies in tandem with existing invocation-based target tracking policies. When a container experiences a crash or failure, the resulting requests are typically short-lived ...
Published: 2024-07-25T21:13:21
Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant that helps enterprises unlock the value of their data and knowledge. With Amazon Q, you can quickly find answers to questions, generate summaries and cont You can test if the Grant-PnPAzureADAppSitePermission cmdlet worked by connecting to the SharePoint site using the Azure AD app that has the SharePoint.Sites.Selected permission and run a few SharePoint API calls: Make a note of...
Published: 2024-07-25T17:53:00
As conversational artificial intelligence (AI) agents gain traction across industries, providing reliability and consistency is crucial for delivering seamless and trustworthy user experiences. However, the dynamic and conversational nature of these As conversational artificial intelligence (AI) agents gain traction across industries, providing reliability and consistency is crucial for delivering seamless and trustworthy user experiences. However, the dynamic and conversational nature of these ...
Published: 2024-07-25T17:47:11
In the post, we introduce the AWS Neuron node problem detector and recovery DaemonSet for AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This component can quickly detect rare occurrences of issues when Neuron devi Now that the error has been detected by the node problem detector, and the recovery agent has automatically taken the action to set the node as unhealthy, Amazon EKS will cordon the node and evict the pods on the node: # Verify the Node sched...
Published: 2024-07-25T17:39:39
Mistral AI’s Mistral Large 2 (24.07) foundation model (FM) is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. Mistral Large 2 is the newest version of Mistral Large, and according to Mistral AI offers significant improvements across multilingual capabilit We get the following response: Certainly! Below is a Python function called `palindrome_prime_finder` that finds all prime numbers within a given range that are also palindromes when written in base 10. ```python def is_prime(n): """Check...
Published: 2024-07-24T20:14:49
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, but they may not always generalize well to specific domains or tasks. You may need to customize an LLM to adapt to your unique use case, Conclusion In this post, we focused on how to run LLM fine-tuning and evaluation experiments at scale using SageMaker Pipelines and MLflow. You can use managed MLflow from SageMaker to compare training parameters and evaluation results to select...
Published: 2024-07-24T19:01:32
Amazon Q is a fully managed, generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered assistant that you can configure to answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, gain insights, and complete tasks based on data in your enterprise. The enterprise Amazon Q is a fully managed, generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered assistant that you can configure to answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, gain insights, and complete tasks based on data in your enterprise. The enterprise...
Published: 2024-07-24T18:53:41
This post is a joint collaboration between Salesforce and AWS and is being cross-published on both the Salesforce Engineering Blog and the AWS Machine Learning Blog. Salesforce, Inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Fr three tools contained in the Einstein 1 Studio, that allow organizations to build custom AI functionality and roll it out to their users. The Salesforce Einstein AI Platform team is the group supporting development of Einstein applications. They are...
Published: 2024-07-24T16:52:10
In today’s digital landscape, the protection of personally identifiable information (PII) is not just a regulatory requirement, but a cornerstone of consumer trust and business integrity. Organizations use advanced natural language detection services Replace INTENT_NAME and SLOT_NAME with your preferred intent and slot names, respectively. CloudWatch data protection log group policies for data identifiers Sensitive data that’s ingested by CloudWatch Logs can be safeguarded by using log grou...
Published: 2024-07-23T20:01:37
Today, we are excited to announce AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia support for fine-tuning and inference of the Llama 3.1 models. The Llama 3.1 family of multilingual large language models (LLMs) is a collection of pre-trained and instruction tuned ge Additionally, if you want to use vLLM to deploy the models, you can refer to the continuous batching guide to create the environment. After you create the environment, you can use vLLM to deploy Llama 3.1 8/70B models on AWS Trainium or Inferenti...
Published: 2024-07-23T16:18:57
Today, we are excited to announce the availability of the Llama 3.1 405B model on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, and Amazon Bedrock in preview. The Llama 3.1 models are a collection of state-of-the-art pre-trained and instruct fine-tuned generative arti Today, we are excited to announce the availability of the Llama 3.1 405B model on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, and Amazon Bedrock in preview. The Llama 3.1 models are a collection of state-of-the-art pre-trained and instruct fine-tuned generative arti...
Published: 2024-07-23T16:18:26
Today, we are excited to announce that the state-of-the-art Llama 3.1 collection of multilingual large language models (LLMs), which includes pre-trained and instruction tuned generative AI models in 8B, 70B, and 405B sizes, is available through Amaz The following table lists all the Llama models available in SageMaker JumpStart along with the model_ids, default instance types, and the maximum number of total tokens (sum of number of input tokens and number of generated tokens) supported for ...
Published: 2024-07-23T16:16:39
Introducing structured randomization into decisions based on machine-learning model predictions can address inherent uncertainties while maintaining efficiency. Organizations are increasingly utilizing machine-learning models to allocate scarce resources or opportunities. For instance, such models can help companies screen resumes to choose job interview candidates or aid hospitals in ranking kidney transpla...
Published: 2024-07-24T00:00:00
MAIA is a multimodal agent that can iteratively design experiments to better understand various components of AI systems. As artificial intelligence models become increasingly prevalent and are integrated into diverse sectors like health care, finance, education, transportation, and entertainment, understanding how they work under the hood is critical. Interpreting the ...
Published: 2024-07-23T16:00:00
Analysis and materials identified by MIT engineers could lead to more energy-efficient fuel cells, electrolyzers, batteries, or computing devices. As the name suggests, most electronic devices today work through the movement of electrons. But materials that can efficiently conduct protons the nucleus of the hydrogen atom could be key to a number of important technologies for combating globa...
Published: 2024-07-23T10:30:00
A new study shows someone’s beliefs about an LLM play a significant role in the model’s performance and are important for how it is deployed. One thing that makes large language models (LLMs) so powerful is the diversity of tasks to which they can be applied. The same machine-learning model that can help a graduate student draft an email could also aid a clinician in diagnosing cancer.Howe...
Published: 2024-07-23T00:00:00
The model could help clinicians assess breast cancer stage and ultimately help in reducing overtreatment. Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a type of preinvasive tumor that sometimes progresses to a highly deadly form of breast cancer. It accounts for about 25 percent of all breast cancer diagnoses.Because it is difficult for clinicians to determine the...
Published: 2024-07-22T14:00:00
An international collaboration seeks to innovate the future of how a mechanical man's best friend interacts with its owner, using a combination of AI and edge computing called edge intelligence. The overarching project goal is to make the dog come 'a...
Published: 2024-07-23T20:47:53
An automated assessment technique that uses artificial intelligence could revolutionize the management of Parkinson's disease....
Published: 2024-07-23T12:35:21
Researchers are calling for regulation to guide the responsible and ethical development of bio-hybrid robotics -- a ground-breaking science which fuses artificial components with living tissue and cells....
Published: 2024-07-22T17:59:02
Introducing Trace, Microsoft and Stanford University's novel AI optimization framework, now available as a Python library. Trace adapts dynamically and optimizes a wide range of applications from language models to robot control. The post Tracing the Figure 5: We show the number of environmental interaction actions taken to succeed in each task. Trace optimized agent takes fewer steps to succeed, thus more efficient in this environment. Figure 6: Demo videos of how Trace agents behave...
Published: 2024-07-25T19:04:25
The competitive dynamics of AI agents and a method for learning and applying temporal action abstractions represent just some of Microsoft’s contributions to ICML 2024. The post Microsoft at ICML 2024: Innovations in machine learning appeared first o In an era increasingly steered by data, machine learning is a pivotal force, transforming vast amounts of information into actionable intelligence with unprecedented speed and accuracy. For example, recent advances in machine learning have led to b...
Published: 2024-07-22T16:00:00
You wouldn't download a performer Actors are back on strike for an entirely unsurprising reason: Studios aren't willing to give video game actors enough protection from artificial intelligence. ...
Published: 2024-07-26T20:24:11
Sure, it took three days to do what teenaged brainiacs do in nine hours but who's counting? Researchers at Google DeepMind claim they've developed a pair of AI models capable of taking home a silver medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad ...
Published: 2024-07-26T11:35:14
Management drank the Kool Aid but staff can't cope with new demands Bosses expect artificial intelligence software to improve productivity, but workers say the tool does the opposite, according to a survey by find-a-workplace research org the Upwork ...
Published: 2024-07-26T06:34:13
Team America AI Police? Sam Altman has called for a US-led coalition of nations to ensure AI remains a vehicle for freedom and democracy, and not a tool for authoritarians to keep themselves in power and dominate others. ...
Published: 2024-07-25T23:07:14
Launching in Beta is so 2014. We're in the prototype limited sign-up era now After months of speculation, shy and retiring OpenAI has showed the world a glimpse of its very own web search engine powered by AI. ...
Published: 2024-07-25T20:22:48
Looks a lot like Google's AI Overviews, hopefully without some of the early unfortunate summaries Microsoft is adding generative search to Bing despite the search engine's market share showing no increase after prior AI tech additions. ...
Published: 2024-07-25T16:32:58
Recursive training leads to nonsense, study finds Researchers have found that the buildup of AI-generated content on the web is set to "collapse" machine learning models unless the industry can mitigate the risks. ...
Published: 2024-07-25T11:31:11
Big Blue brings in more cash and profit than predicted Generative AI's powers extend to helping the ancient concept of a proprietary enterprise OS and hardware stack to thrive, if IBM's Q2 2024 results are any guide. ...
Published: 2024-07-25T06:33:14
But the books look good, because of real AI ServiceNow has parted ways with president and chief operating officer Chirantan "CJ" Desai after an internal investigation found he had violated company policy when hiring the former CIO of the US Army as t ...
Published: 2024-07-25T04:27:10
It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it Mistral AI on Wednesday revealed a 123-billion-parameter large language model (LLM) called Mistral Large 2 (ML2) which, it claims, comes within spitting distance of the top models from OpenAI, Anthr ...
Published: 2024-07-25T01:45:42
Is this what the kidz call a glow-up? Microsoft has tasked network operator Lumen Technologies formerly CenturyLink with scaling up its network capacity as the Windows giant looks to grow its burgeoning AI services business, the duo revealed Wedn ...
Published: 2024-07-24T19:21:15
Claims 'everyone on Earth is going to want one' Tesla profits were nearly halved in the second quarter of 2024, extending a run of woe for the company, lightened only by a surge in energy generation and storage. ...
Published: 2024-07-24T16:04:09
As the G-Cloud brings in big bucks and plentiful profit Google has managed to cap the costs it incurs when using AI to generate results. ...
Published: 2024-07-24T02:03:26
Zuck says he wants to mimic Linux and go open source, kind of Meta today released Llama 3.1 405B, its largest and most capable large language model yet, which the social network claims can go toe-to-toe with OpenAI and Anthropic's top models. ...
Published: 2024-07-23T21:38:13
But not necessarily health The results of the largest universal basic income (UBI) trial program in the United States this one backed by billionaire Sam Altman, no less are in and entirely unsurprising. ...
Published: 2024-07-23T16:46:14
Big misconception is that data ingestion is occurring, we're told Google, after facing accusations about its AI model ingesting private files, says Gemini can read and summarize this type of sensitive data in real time but only with Workspace users' ...
Published: 2024-07-22T19:15:10
Shrinks training pool, but hurts services like the Internet Archive The internet is becoming significantly more hostile to webpage crawlers, especially those operated for the sake of generative AI, researchers say. ...
Published: 2024-07-22T14:28:06
DC went to YC to talk OS....
Published: 2024-07-26T21:56:06
In a recently uncovered 1983 speech, Steve Jobs predicted the ubiquity of personal computers. In 2024, AI has brought us to another inflection point....
Published: 2024-07-26T13:00:00
The union representing the voice and motion-capture actors who work in video games authorized the strike after talks with gaming companies stalled over the use of AI....
Published: 2024-07-25T21:21:22
The company behind ChatGPT is expanding into search, and leaning heavily on its relationships with publishers....
Published: 2024-07-25T20:03:25
The Garden State has enacted a hefty new tax credit specifically for AI businesses. But tax incentives particularly for data centers don’t always create a lot of jobs....
Published: 2024-07-25T18:29:25
Google’s new advance combines a large language model with a self-learning AI. The technique could address some shortcomings with AI although there’s a catch....
Published: 2024-07-25T15:30:26
A controversial new surveillance system in Paris foreshadows a future where there are too many CCTV cameras for humans to physically watch....
Published: 2024-07-25T11:25:54
States across the US are seeking to criminalize certain uses of AI-generated content. Civil rights groups are pushing back, arguing that some of these new laws conflict with the First Amendment....
Published: 2024-07-24T11:30:00
The newest version of Llama will make AI more accessible and customizable, but it will also stir up debate over the dangers of releasing AI without guardrails....
Published: 2024-07-23T15:05:18
Algorithms designed to handle a car after it loses traction could potentially intervene on behalf of human drivers....
Published: 2024-07-23T11:45:00
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