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Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI

Analytics Vidhya

In a surprising turn of events, OpenAI, the leading artificial intelligence research lab, has announced the termination of its co-founder and CEO, Sam Altman. This unexpected decision, announced on November 17, 2023, has sent ripples through the tech industry, raising questions about the future of the organization and its AI research. Chief technology officer Mira […] The post Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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New Frontiers in Generative AI — Far From the Cloud

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In the beginning, there was the internet, which changed our lives forever — the way we communicate, shop, conduct business. And then for reasons of latency, privacy, and cost-efficiency, the internet moved to the network edge, giving rise to the “internet of things.” Now there’s artificial intelligence, which makes everything we do on the internet easier, more personalized, more intelligent.

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Microsoft Unveils first AI chip: Maia 100 Chip and Cobalt CPU

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In a groundbreaking move at the annual Ignite conference, Microsoft unveiled the highly anticipated Maia 100 chip and Cobalt CPU. This strategic initiative aims to seize control of technology, establishing dominance in the fiercely competitive AI computing market. CEO Satya Nadella outlined ambitious plans to harness the power of these innovative chips.

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10 Ways Artificial Intelligence is Shaping Secure App Development

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Artificial Intelligence has revolutionized various industries, including app development. Apps face numerous security problems, from malware attacks and data breaches to privacy concerns and user authentication issues. These security challenges not only risk user data but also affect the credibility of app developers. Integrating AI into the app development lifecycle can significantly enhance security measures.

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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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A Deep Dive into Model Quantization for Large-Scale Deployment

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Introduction In AI, two distinct challenges have surfaced: deploying large models in cloud environments, incurring formidable compute costs that impede scalability and profitability, and accommodating resource-constrained edge devices struggling to support complex models. The common thread among these challenges is the imperative to shrink model size without compromising accuracy.

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The Next Frontier of Email Efficiency with LLMs

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Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) has grown significantly in the past few years, mainly because of the rise of large language models (LLMs). These sophisticated AI systems, trained on vast datasets containing abundant human language, have driven myriad technological advancements. LLMs’ sheer scale and complexity, such as GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3), have elevated them to […] The post The Next Frontier of Email Efficiency with LLMs appeared first on Analytics Vidhya

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Sam Altman Removed from OpenAI, Mira Murati Appointed Interim CEO

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In a significant shift at the helm, OpenAI Inc. has announced the departure of Sam Altman as CEO. The board of directors confirmed that Mira Murati, the Chief Technology Officer of the company, will take over as interim CEO with immediate effect. This change marks a pivotal moment for OpenAI, a leading entity in the artificial intelligence sector, which was founded as a non-profit in 2015 with the ambitious mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity.

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Unlocking the Future of AI with Jepson Taylor

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In this episode of Leading With Data, we interacted with Jepson Taylor, Co-lead AI Masterclass at NYU and ex-chief AI Strategist at Dataiku. Unfolding the future of AI, Taylor shares invaluable insights into the pivotal moments of his journey – from chemical engineering to AI entrepreneurship, a successful startup acquisition, and the rise of generative […] The post Unlocking the Future of AI with Jepson Taylor appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Umbar Shakir, Gate One: Unlocking the power of generative AI ethically

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Ahead of this year’s AI & Big Data Expo Global , Umbar Shakir, Partner and AI Lead at Gate One , shared her insights into the diverse landscape of generative AI (GenAI) and its impact on businesses. From addressing the spectrum of use cases to navigating digital transformation, Shakir shed light on the challenges, ethical considerations, and the promising future of this groundbreaking technology.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI

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In a sudden move, Altman is leaving after a ‘deliberative review process’ by the company’s board. Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI, the company announced on Friday. “Mr.

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How Generative AI Has Revolutionized Robotic Surgery

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Robotic surgery has been transformative in the world of medicine. Imagine having a robot assist in surgery with incredible precision and the guidance of a skilled surgeon’s steady hands. With a blend of advanced robotics and computer technology, surgeons perform complex procedures through tiny incisions, and patients enjoying quicker recovery times and less discomfort.

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Sam Altman ousted as OpenAI’s CEO

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Sam Altman has been fired from OpenAI, Inc., the 501(c)(3) nonprofit that acts as the governing body for OpenAI, the AI startup behind ChatGPT, DALL-E 3, GPT-4 and other highly capable generative AI systems. He’ll both leave the company’s board of directors and step down as CEO.

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3 Essential Compliance Regulations for Data Security in Remote Work

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Remote work has surged in popularity, transforming how you approach your daily tasks and where you perform them. This shift means you’re no longer confined to the office, allowing for flexibility and convenience. Yet, with this freedom comes a crucial responsibility — ensuring data security. You must understand compliance regulations thoroughly because they are your playbook for protecting sensitive information, no matter where your workspace is.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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ChatGPT parent company OpenAI fires CEO Sam Altman

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CNN — OpenAI, the company behind the viral chatbot ChatGPT, fired its CEO and founder, Sam Altman, on Friday. His stunning departure sent shockwaves through the budding AI industry.

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What's new in TensorFlow 2.15

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Posted by the TensorFlow team TensorFlow 2.15 has been released! Highlights of this release (and 2.14) include a much simpler installation method for NVIDIA CUDA libraries for Linux, oneDNN CPU performance optimizations for Windows x64 and x86, full availability of tf.function types, an upgrade to Clang 17.0.1, and much more! For the full release note, please check here.

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Who is Mira Murati, OpenAI’s new interim CEO?

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In a surprising move, OpenAI today abruptly fired Sam Altman, its CEO and a member of its board of directors, and installed CTO Mira Murati as interim CEO. But who, exactly, is Mira Murati?

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Researchers from the University of Washington and Duke University Introduce Punica: An Artificial Intelligence System to Serve Multiple LoRA Models in a Shared GPU Cluster

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To specialize in pre-trained large language models (LLMs) for domain-specific tasks with minimum training data, low-rank adaptation, or LoRA, is gaining popularity. Tenants may train various LoRA models at a minimal cost since LoRA greatly reduces the number of trainable parameters by keeping the pre-trained model’s weights and adding trainable rank decomposition matrices to each layer of the Transformer architecture.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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The Sudden Fall of Sam Altman

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What it means that the world’s most powerful AI executive is out of a job Earlier this year, I asked Sam Altman whether decisions made by OpenAI’s leaders might one day lead to unemployment among the masses. “Jobs are definitely going to go away, full stop,” he told me.

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Meet JARVIS-1: Open-World Multi-Task Agents with Memory-Augmented Multimodal Language Models

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A team of researchers from Peking University, UCLA, the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and the Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence introduces JARVIS-1, a multimodal agent designed for open-world tasks in Minecraft. Leveraging pre-trained multimodal language models, JARVIS-1 interprets visual observations and human instructions, generating sophisticated plans for embodied control.

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Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source

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This morning at Scaleway’s ai-PULSE conference, French billionaire and Iliad CEO Xavier Niel gave some extra details about his plans for an AI research lab based in Paris. This new lab called Kyutai will be a privately-funded nonprofit working on artificial general intelligence.

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This AI Paper Introduces LLaVA-Plus: A General-Purpose Multimodal Assistant that Expands the Capabilities of Large Multimodal Models

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Creating general-purpose assistants that can efficiently carry out various real-world activities by following users’ (multimodal) instructions has long been a goal in artificial intelligence. The area has recently seen increased interest in creating foundation models with emerging multimodal understanding and generating skills in open-world challenges.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.

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OpenAI board fires Sam Altman as CEO, begins search for successor

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[Update 9:04pm: This story is still unfolding. Co-founder Brockman, who quit after learning of the news of Altman’s firing, has followed up with a tweet saying he and Sam Altman were “shocked by what the board did” and “are still trying to figure out what happened.

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Meet SPHINX: A Versatile Multi-Modal Large Language Model (MLLM) with a Mixer of Training Tasks, Data Domains, and Visual Embeddings

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In multi-modal language models, a pressing challenge has emerged – the inherent limitations of existing models in grappling with nuanced visual instructions and executing a myriad of diverse tasks seamlessly. The crux of the matter lies in the quest for models that transcend traditional boundaries, capable of comprehending complex visual queries and executing a wide spectrum of tasks ranging from referring expression comprehension to intricate feats like human pose estimation and nuanced object

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Three Senior OpenAI Researchers Resign as Crisis Deepens

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Three senior researchers at OpenAI resigned Friday night as the artificial intelligence developer suffered fallout from the firing of CEO Sam Altman …

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Amazon Researchers Propose KD-Boost: A Novel Knowledge Distillation Algorithm Designed for Real-Time Semantic Matching

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Web search and e-commerce product search are two primary applications that depend on accurate real-time semantic matching. In product searches, the difficulty is in bridging the semantic gap between user queries and the associated results. The matching procedure generally consists of two steps: Product Sourcing (PS) and Automated Query Reformulation.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Sam Altman was raising a VC fund when OpenAI fired him

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People familiar with the matter also said he was in good spirits in the days before the company's board said it "no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.

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Serving a PyTorch Model with FastAPI and Docker

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Last Updated on November 18, 2023 by Editorial Team Author(s): Marcello Politi Originally published on Towards AI. Learn how to develop a complete Machine Learning ServicePhoto by SpaceX on Unsplash Working on personal Machine/Deep Learning projects is very enjoyable. In the evenings, in front of the laptop, you code things you like, you read interesting papers, and you don’t have any deadlines to meet.

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OpenAI Ousts Altman After Clashes Over AI Safety, Making Money

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OpenAI, the pioneer of widely used tools that generate specialized digital content from simple prompts, ousted its co-founder and Chief Executive …

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