Sun.Dec 03, 2023

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Announcing our $50M Series C to build superhuman Speech AI models

AssemblyAI

I’m excited to share that we’ve raised $50M in Series C funding led by Accel , our partners that also led our Series A, with participation from Keith Block and Smith Point Capital , Insight Partners , Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, and Y Combinator. This brings AssemblyAI’s total funds raised to $115M — 90% of which we’ve raised in the last 22 months, as organizations across virtually every industry have raced to embed Speech AI capabilities into their products

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Researcher Develops Domain-Specific Scientific Chatbot

Unite.AI

In scientific research, collaboration and expert input are crucial, yet often challenging to obtain, especially in specialized fields. Addressing this, Kevin Yager, leader of the electronic nanomaterials group at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), Brookhaven National Laboratory, has developed a game-changing solution: a specialized AI-powered chatbot.

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Key Congress staffers in AI debate are funded by tech giants like Google and Microsoft

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Big tech companies are funneling money through a science nonprofit to help pay the salaries of AI staffers in Congress — and it’s just one example of the increasing influence outside-funded fellows are exerting on tech policy in Washington.

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Perplexity Unveils Two New Online LLM Models: ‘pplx-7b-online’ and ‘pplx-70b-online’

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Perplexity, an innovative AI startup, has introduced a solution to transform information retrieval systems. This launch introduces two new large language models (LLMs), pplx-7b-online and pplx-70b-online, which mark the pioneering foray into publicly accessible online LLMs via an API. Unlike traditional offline LLMs like Claude 2, these models leverage live internet data, enabling real-time, precise responses to queries, overcoming the struggle with up-to-the-minute information such as the lates

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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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There’s a gap between AI talk and businesses actually using it

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Major companies can’t stop talking about artificial intelligence tools, but few businesses report using them. America’s biggest companies can’t stop hyping artificial intelligence to investors, but new data shows few businesses are putting the technology to actual use.

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Meta's AI chief doesn't think AI super intelligence is coming anytime soon, and is skeptical on quantum computing

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Meta's chief scientist and deep learning pioneer Yann LeCun said he believes that current AI systems are decades away from reaching some semblance of …

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Researchers from NYU and Meta Introduce Dobb-E: An Open-Source and General Framework for Learning Household Robotic Manipulation

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The team of researchers from NYU and Meta aimed to address the challenge of robotic manipulation learning in domestic environments by introducing DobbE, a highly adaptable system capable of learning and adapting from user demonstrations. The experiments demonstrated the system’s efficiency while highlighting the unique challenges in real-world settings.

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The Who’s Who Behind the Modern Artificial Intelligence Movement

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Before chatbots exploded in popularity, a group of researchers, tech executives and venture capitalists had worked for more than a decade to fuel A.I.

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Meet SceneTex: A Novel AI Method for High-Quality, Style-Consistent Texture Generation in Indoor Scenes

Marktechpost

High-quality 3D content synthesis is a crucial yet challenging problem for many applications, such as autonomous driving, robotic simulation, gaming, filmmaking, and future VR/AR situations. The topic of 3D geometry generation has seen a surge in research interest from the computer vision and graphics community due to the availability of more and more 3D content datasets.

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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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Can an AI chatbot be convicted of an illegal wiretap? A case against Gap's Old Navy may answer that

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With generative AI tools like ChatGPT bound to create more powerful personal assistants that can take over the role of customer service agents, the …

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AWS’ Generative AI Strategy Starts to Take Shape and Looks a Lot Like Microsoft’s

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Created Using DALL-E Next Week in The Sequence: Edge 349: We are almost at the end of our series about fine-tuning and we are going to discuss the nascent space of reinforcement learning with AI feedback(RLAIF). We review the original RLAIF paper and NVIDIA’s NeMo framework. Edge 350: We review Hugging Face’s Zephyr model which has quickly become one of the most robust open source LLMs in the market.

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OpenAI’s GPT store might not have killed the company—but it could still threaten AI startups

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The tumult that came before OpenAI’s grand unraveling highlights the perils of building on someone else’s technology. In the days and weeks before Sam Altman was unceremoniously fired from OpenAI—then reinstated over the course of a long, confusing weekend—the company was flying high.

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Meet Meditron: A Suite of Open-Source Medical Large Language Models (LLMs) based on LLaMA-2

Marktechpost

One of the most exciting applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) is in medicine, with some of its use cases including medical research, tailored health plans, clinical diagnosis, and many more. However, given how safety-critical the field is, it is necessary to stress-test these models in various use cases to ensure they are safe to use. Additionally, these models should be released to the public to allow for its scrutiny.

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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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7 Key Differences Between How Leaders And Managers View ChatGPT

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ChatGPT, Claude, Scribe, AlphaCode, Bard, DALL·E 2, and other generative AI have been part of the workplace for about a year, and virtually everyone inside organizations has been looking at, and thinking about, AI. Some employees are experiencing FOBO—the Fear of Becoming Obsolete.

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Meet PepCNN: A Deep Learning Tool for Predicting Peptide Binding Residues in Proteins Using Sequence, Structural, and Language Model Features

Marktechpost

PepCNN, a deep learning model developed by researchers from Griffith University, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Rutgers University, and The University of Tokyo, addresses the problem of predicting protein-peptide binding residues. PepCNN outperforms other methods in terms of specificity, precision, and AUC metrics by combining structural and sequence-based information, making it a valuable tool for understanding protein-peptide interactions and advancing drug discovery efforts.

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The OpenAI Drama Shows We've Entered the Age of the Employee

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Labor holds more cards than ever. Here's how your company needs to adjust. The failed ouster of Sam Altman was a microcosm of current power dynamics in corporate America.

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This Deep Learning Research Unveils Distinct Brain Changes in Adolescents with ADHD: A Breakthrough in MRI Scan Analysis

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In a groundbreaking development, researchers have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to address the inherent challenges in diagnosing Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) among adolescents. The conventional diagnostic landscape, reliant on subjective self-reported surveys, has long faced criticism for its lack of objectivity.

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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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Larry Page accused Elon Musk of favoring human species over digital life forms during an argument about the dangers of AI at Musk's 44th birthday

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Larry Page and Elon Musk argued about AI at Musk's 44th birthday party in 2015. Page reportedly said humans would eventually merge with machines.

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Microsoft Researchers Propose MAIRA-1: A Radiology-Specific Multimodal Model for the Task of Generating Radiological Reports from Chest X-rays (CXRs)

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The team of researchers from Microsoft tackled the problem of generating high-quality reports for chest X-rays (CXR) by developing a radiology-specific multimodal model called MAIRA-1. The model utilizes a CXR-specific image encoder and a fine-tuned LLM based on Vicuna-7B and text-based data augmentation, focusing on the Findings section. The study recognizes the challenges and suggests that future versions could incorporate current and previous study information to reduce information hallucinat

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From Learning To Earning: How To Use AI To Get Your Next Promotion

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Understanding how to use AI gives you additional knowledge about various aspects of your business than your less-informed peers. 81% of surveyed professionals feel that AI will help them progress in their careers, whether by saving time, strengthening their networks, or changing the way they work. Knowing how to use the technology isn’t enough: to leverage your proficiencies to make a real career change, you’ll need to know how to market your skills.

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Breaking the Boundaries in 3D Scene Representation: How a New AI Technique is Changing the Game with Faster, More Efficient Rendering and Reduced Storage Demands

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NeRF represents scenes as continuous 3D volumes. Instead of discrete 3D meshes or point clouds, it defines a function that calculates color and density values for any 3D point within the scene. By training the neural network on multiple scene images captured from different viewpoints, NeRF learns to generate consistent and accurate representations that align with the observed images.

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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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How OpenAI's nonprofit-corporate model works, and how it fueled its CEO's temporary ouster

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The board of OpenAI, creator of the popular ChatGPT and DALL-E artificial intelligence tools, fired Sam Altman, its chief executive officer, in late …

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Metadata Metamorphosis: from plain Data to Enhanced insights with Retrieval Augmented Generation

Mlearning.ai

Discover how metadata, the hidden gem of your knowledge base, can be transformed into a powerful tool for enriching your RAG pipeline and… Continue reading on MLearning.

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Business Tech Roundup: You Can Now Talk To ChatGPT For Free

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Here are five things in tech that happened this week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – You can now talk to ChatGPT like Siri for free, but it won't reveal OpenAI's secrets. OpenAI will now allow free access to a voice enabled chatbot in the GPT-3.

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Generating Molecular Conformers with Manifold Diffusion Fields

Machine Learning Research at Apple

This paper was accepted at Generative AI and Biology workshop at NeurIPS 2023. In this paper we tackle the problem of generating a molecule conformation in 3D space given its 2D structure. We approach this problem through the lens of a diffusion model for functions in Riemannian Manifolds. Our approach is simple and scalable, and obtains results that are on par with state-of-the-art while making no assumptions about the explicit structure of molecules.

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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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Aye Aye, Cap’n! Investing in AI is like buying shares in a whaling voyage captained by a man who knows all about ships and little about whales - 3 Quarks Daily

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by William Benzon That title reads like I have doubts about the current state of affairs in the world of artificial intelligence. And I do – who doesn’t? – but explicating that analogy is tricky, so I fear I’ll have to leave our hapless captain hanging while I set some conceptual equipment in place.

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Fast Optimal Locally Private Mean Estimation via Random Projections

Machine Learning Research at Apple

We study the problem of locally private mean estimation of high-dimensional vectors in the Euclidean ball. Existing algorithms for this problem either incur sub-optimal error or have high communication and/or run-time complexity. We propose a new algorithmic framework, ProjUnit, for private mean estimation that yields algorithms that are computationally efficient, have low communication complexity, and incur optimal error up to a 1+o(1)-factor.

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ChatGPT predicts Palantir stock price for 2024

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Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) is an American software company that specializes in big data analytics and artificial intelligent (AI).

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