Wed.Sep 11, 2024

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Muscle-Powered Robotics: A New Frontier in Biomimetic Engineering

Unite.AI

In a notable development in the field of robotics, researchers at ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have unveiled a new robotic leg that mimics biological muscles more closely than ever before. This innovation marks a significant departure from traditional robotics, which has relied on motor-driven systems for nearly seven decades.

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Has Huawei outsmarted Apple in the AI race?

AI News

What was supposed to herald a new era of AI for Apple has instead left many underwhelmed when the tech giant unveiled the iPhone 16 series, its first AI-powered smartphone line-up, which happens to be still in beta testing and expected to take months, if not years, to fully roll out globally. To make matters worse for the Cupertino, California-based smartphone maker, Chinese tech giant Huawei launched its new Mate XT smartphone just hours after the former’s event, boasting far more impress

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Speech AI apps: 8 new Speech AI tools, releases, updates, and more

AssemblyAI

More companies are building with Speech AI than ever before, thanks to the increased accuracy, speed, and availability of Speech AI models.  Companies across industries are integrating Speech AI to build next-generation meeting note-takers, digital advertising tools, conversation intelligence tools, and more.  The past few months have been no exception.

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Anais Dotis-Georgiou, Developer Advocate at InfluxData – Interview Series

Unite.AI

Anais Dotis-Georgiou is a Developer Advocate for InfluxData with a passion for making data beautiful with the use of Data Analytics, AI, and Machine Learning. She takes the data that she collects, does a mix of research, exploration, and engineering to translate the data into something of function, value, and beauty. When she is not behind a screen, you can find her outside drawing, stretching, boarding, or chasing after a soccer ball.

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The Ultimate Blueprint for an AI-First Contact Center

Start building the AI workforce of the future with our comprehensive guide to creating an AI-first contact center. Learn how Conversational and Generative AI can transform traditional operations into scalable, efficient, and customer-centric experiences. What is AI-First? Transition from outdated, human-first strategies to an AI-driven approach that enhances customer engagement and operational efficiency.

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Agentic Frameworks for Generative AI Applications

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Imagine having an AI-powered assistant that not only responds to your queries but also autonomously gathers information, executes tasks, and even handles multiple types of data—text, images, and code. Sounds futuristic? In this article, we dive into the autogen framework, a cutting-edge technology that enables you to build such intelligent, multimodal conversational agents.

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Reflection 70B : LLM with Self-Correcting Cognition and Leading Performance

Unite.AI

Reflection 70B is an open-source large language model (LLM) developed by HyperWrite. This new model introduces an approach to AI cognition that could reshape how we interact with and rely on AI systems in numerous fields, from language processing to advanced problem-solving. Leveraging Reflection-Tuning , a groundbreaking technique that allows the model to self-assess and correct its own mistakes in real-time, Reflection 70B has quickly risen to the top, outclassing proprietary models like GPT-4

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Samsung Announces 9th Generation 1-Terabit QLC NAND Flash

Extreme Tech

It should make for SSDs with generous capacities at affordable prices.

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2024 Fortune Best Workplaces in Technology™ recognizes Databricks

databricks

We are excited to announce that Databricks was named one of the 2024 Fortune Best Workplaces in Technology™. This award reflects our.

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Search Gets Smarter: How OpenAI’s SearchGPT is Changing the Game

Unite.AI

In our increasingly interconnected world, efficient and accurate Web search has become critical. Whether students gather information for their academic projects or professionals want to stay updated with the latest industry trends, search engines have become an essential part of our daily routines. However, while helpful, traditional search engines often come with their challenges.

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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PowerLM-3B and PowerMoE-3B Released by IBM: Revolutionizing Language Models with 3 Billion Parameters and Advanced Power Scheduler for Efficient Large-Scale AI Training

Marktechpost

IBM’s release of PowerLM-3B and PowerMoE-3B signifies a significant leap in effort to improve the efficiency and scalability of language model training. IBM has introduced these models based on innovative methodologies that address some of the key challenges researchers and developers face in training large-scale models. These models, built on top of IBM’s Power scheduler , demonstrate IBM’s commitment to advancing AI capabilities while optimizing computational costs.

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This Portable SSD Uses Solid-State Cooling to Maintain 3Gbps Transfers

Extreme Tech

Iodyne's Pro Mini has two Frore cooling chips inside.

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SimpleClosure: A Legal Tech Story of Triumph Over Adversity

Artificial Lawyer

Every startup has a foundation story, but SimpleClosure’s is one of the best. Here’s that story – followed by what this very original company can do.

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JUICE Space Probe Confirms Earth Is Habitable

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Well, that's a relief.

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The New CX: Your Guide to AI Agents

The guide for revolutionizing the customer experience and operational efficiency This eBook serves as your comprehensive guide to: AI Agents for your Business: Discover how AI Agents can handle high-volume, low-complexity tasks, reducing the workload on human agents while providing 24/7 multilingual support. Enhanced Customer Interaction: Learn how the combination of Conversational AI and Generative AI enables AI Agents to offer natural, contextually relevant interactions to improve customer exp

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Integrating Entra ID, Azure DevOps and Databricks for Better Security in CI/CD

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Personal Access Tokens (PATs) are a convenient way to access services like Azure Databricks or Azure DevOps without logging in with your password.

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PS5 Disc Drive Accessory Sold Out Online Following PS5 Pro Reveal

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Major retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, and Target are fresh out of the $79 drive.

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FPT Software AI Center Introduces HyperAgent: A Groundbreaking Generalist Agent System to Resolve Various Software Engineering Tasks at Scale, Achieving SOTA Performance on SWE-Bench and Defects4J

Marktechpost

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized software engineering, demonstrating remarkable capabilities in various coding tasks. While recent efforts have produced autonomous software agents based on LLMs for end-to-end development tasks, these systems are typically designed for specific Software Engineering (SE) tasks. Researchers from FPT Software AI Center, Viet Nam, introduce HyperAgent, a novel generalist multi-agent system designed to address a wide spectrum of SE tasks across differe

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SpaceX Polaris Dawn Crew Completes First-Ever Civilian Spacewalk

Extreme Tech

Astronauts spent 20 minutes outside the Dragon capsule.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Apple Researchers Propose a Novel AI Algorithm to Optimize a Byte-Level Representation for Automatic Speech Recognition ASR and Compare it with UTF-8 Representation

Marktechpost

End-to-end (E2E) neural networks have emerged as flexible and accurate models for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, as the number of supported languages increases, particularly those with large character sets like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK), the output layer size grows substantially. This expansion negatively impacts compute resources, memory usage, and asset size.

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MSI X870 Boards for AMD CPUs to Offer 8-Pin Auxiliary PCIe Power

Extreme Tech

It says it's for 'AI Computing' or systems with multiple GPUs.

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Understanding the Hidden Layers in Large Language Models LLMs

Marktechpost

Hebrew University Researchers addressed the challenge of understanding how information flows through different layers of decoder-based large language models (LLMs). Specifically, it investigates whether the hidden states of previous tokens in higher layers are as crucial as believed. Current LLMs, such as transformer-based models, use the attention mechanism to process tokens by attending to all previous tokens in every layer.

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PS5 Pro's $700 Price Tag Reflects 'Lack of Competition,' Analyst Says

Extreme Tech

Translation: No one else is releasing a mid-cycle console upgrade this powerful, so Sony can do as it pleases.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Building a Conversational Medical Form with GPT-4, Langchain, and SQLite

Towards AI

Last Updated on September 11, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Imagine you’re sitting in a doctor’s office. Instead of filling out a cold, static medical form filled with dozens of boxes to tick and questions to answer, you’re having a conversation with a friendly assistant.

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CMU Researchers Introduce MMMU-Pro: An Advanced Version of the Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning (MMMU) Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Understanding in AI Models

Marktechpost

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly applied in diverse fields such as medical image analysis, engineering diagnostics, and even education, where understanding diagrams, charts, and other visual data is essential. The complexity of these tasks requires MLLMs to seamlessly switch between different types of information while performing advanced reasoning.

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Anomaly detection in streaming time series data with online learning using Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Time series data is a distinct category that incorporates time as a fundamental element in its structure. In a time series, data points are collected sequentially, often at regular intervals, and they typically exhibit certain patterns, such as trends, seasonal variations, or cyclical behaviors. Common examples of time series data include sales revenue, system performance data (such as CPU utilization and memory usage), credit card transactions, sensor readings, and user activity analytics.

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MiniCPM3-4B Released by OpenBMB: A Versatile and Efficient Language Model with Advanced Functionality, Extended Context Handling, and Code Generation Capabilities

Marktechpost

OpenBMB recently released the MiniCPM3-4B , the third-generation model in the MiniCPM series. This model marks a great step forward in the capabilities of smaller-scale language models. Designed to deliver powerful performance with relatively modest resources, the MiniCPM3-4B model demonstrates a range of enhancements over its predecessors, particularly in functionality and versatility.

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Relevance, Reach, Revenue: How to Turn Marketing Trends From Hype to High-Impact

Speaker: Alexa Acosta, Director of Growth Marketing & B2B Marketing Leader

Marketing is evolving at breakneck speed—new tools, AI-driven automation, and changing buyer behaviors are rewriting the playbook. With so many trends competing for attention, how do you cut through the noise and focus on what truly moves the needle? In this webinar, industry expert Alexa Acosta will break down the most impactful marketing trends shaping the industry today and how to turn them into real, revenue-generating strategies.

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Building & Deploying a FastAPI Video Description App: From Code to Cloud with GPT, Docker and Azure

Towards AI

Last Updated on September 11, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Ever wanted to turn a video into a text description without manually watching and writing down the details? Well, you’re in luck! Today, we’re going to build a FastAPI application that takes a video URL as input and generates a description using AI.

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Rare Footage of a Satellite Reentering Earth's Atmosphere Captured

Extreme Tech

Though not particularly high-fidelity, the ESA footage should give space agencies insight into what happens when a piece of equipment heads back to Earth.

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Never Thought Artificial Lawyer Would See This One….

Artificial Lawyer

If you’d told Artificial Lawyer a few years ago that no-code automation pioneer Bryter would be offering AI-driven contract review it would have fallen off.