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Salesforce BLIP: Revolutionizing Image Captioning

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Image captioning is another exciting innovation in artificial intelligence and its contribution to computer vision. Salesforce’s new tool, BLIP, is a great leap. This image captioning AI model provides a great deal of interpretation through its working process. Bootstrapping Language-image Pretraining (BLIP) is a technology that generates captions from images with a high level […] The post Salesforce BLIP: Revolutionizing Image Captioning appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Integrating AI into Asset Performance Management: It’s all about the data

IBM Journey to AI blog

Imagine a future where artificial intelligence (AI) seamlessly collaborates with existing supply chain solutions, redefining how organizations manage their assets. If you’re currently using traditional AI, advanced analytics, and intelligent automation, aren’t you already getting deep insights into asset performance? Undoubtedly. But what if you could optimize even further?

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X-CLIP: Advancing Video Recognition with Language-Image Pretraining

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Video recognition is a cornerstone of modern computer vision, enabling machines to understand and interpret visual content in videos. With the rapid evolution of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformers, significant strides have been made in enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of video recognition systems. However, traditional approaches are often constrained by closed-set learning […] The post X-CLIP: Advancing Video Recognition with Language-Image Pretraining

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RAFT – A Fine-Tuning and RAG Approach to Domain-Specific Question Answering

Unite.AI

As the applications of large language models expand into specialized domains, the need for efficient and effective adaptation techniques becomes increasingly crucial. Enter RAFT (Retrieval Augmented Fine Tuning), a novel approach that combines the strengths of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and fine-tuning, tailored specifically for domain-specific question answering tasks.

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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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Create a lasting customer retention strategy

IBM Journey to AI blog

Customer retention must be a top priority for leaders of any company wanting to remain competitive. An effective customer retention strategy should support the company to maintain a healthy stable of loyal customers and bring in new customers. Generating repeat business is critical: McKinsey’s report on customer acquisition states (link resides outside of ibm.com) that companies need to acquire three new customers to make up the business value of losing one existing customer.

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Google AI Introduces AutoBNN: A New Open-Source Machine Learning Framework for Building Sophisticated Time Series Prediction Models

Marktechpost

GoogleAI researchers released AutoBNN to address the challenge of effectively modeling time series data for forecasting purposes. Traditional Bayesian approaches like Gaussian processes (GPs) and structural time series could not overcome limitations in scalability, interpretability, and computational efficiency. The neural network-based approaches lack interpretability and may not provide reliable uncertainty estimates.

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Empowering career growth amidst global challenges 

IBM Journey to AI blog

Finding the right recipe for career growth can challenge global clients. At Conagra, a leading food manufacturer, prioritizing employee growth and career mobility became paramount, especially amidst the recent pandemic. The company recognized the need for a strong skills foundation, empowering its workforce to develop talents and explore new career opportunities within the organization.

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X.ai Announces Grok 1.5: A Look at the Improved Reasoning and Long Context Capabilities

Marktechpost

X.ai has announced the release of Grok-1.5, an advanced version of the Grok-1 AI model with improved reasoning and a context length of 128,000 tokens. Here’s a quick breakdown of the key features and functionalities of Grok 1.5: Improved Reasoning: Grok-1.5 demonstrates significant improvements in reasoning and problem-solving capabilities compared to its predecessor Grok-1.

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Announcing the General Availability of Databricks Notebooks on SQL Warehouses

databricks

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Databricks Notebooks on SQL warehouses. Databricks SQL warehouses are SQL-optimized compute that provide.

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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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How to Precisely Predict Your AI Model’s Performance Before Training Begins? This AI Paper from China Proposes Data Mixing Laws

Marktechpost

In large language models (LLMs), the landscape of pretraining data is a rich blend of diverse sources. It spans from common English to less common languages, including casual conversations and scholarly texts, and even extends to modalities like images and speeches. Within this mix, the data interact in complex ways, sometimes aligning well, diverging, and occasionally conflicting.

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Apple Has Silently Removed the UltraFusion Interconnect on M3 Max

Extreme Tech

The move by Apple means the M3 Ultra could have its own interconnect, for a quad-Max 'Extreme' SoC.

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Vectara Releases the Factual Consistency Score (FCS): An AI Tool for Automated Hallucination Detection in Each Response It Generates

Marktechpost

In an era where generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly transforming the landscape of business and technology, the specter of misinformation—unintentionally generated by these powerful tools—looms large. Recognizing the critical need for reliability and trust in AI-generated responses, Vectara has introduced a groundbreaking solution: the Factual Consistency Score (FCS), powered by the enhanced Hughes Hallucination Evaluation Model (HHEM).

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Best Free AI SQL Large Model of 2024

Towards AI

Last Updated on March 31, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Meng Li Originally published on Towards AI. Best AI SQL Query Tools Want to quickly get answers from your database? The Vanna framework makes this simple. It’s an open-source tool that helps you generate SQL to let the data speak for itself. [link] Vanna has three modes to suit different needs.

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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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Mora: A New Multi-Agent Framework that Incorporates Several Advanced Visual AI Agents to Replicate Generalist Video Generation Demonstrated by Sora

Marktechpost

Researchers from Lehigh University and Microsoft introduced a new multi-agent framework, Mora, to address the challenge of advancing video generation technology. While in recent years, there has been significant progress in image and text synthesis, video generation remains relatively unexplored. Existing models have struggled to produce long-duration videos exceeding 10 seconds, limiting their practical utility.

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Provide live agent assistance for your chatbot users with Amazon Lex and Talkdesk cloud contact center

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Amazon Lex provides advanced conversational artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to enable self-service support for your organization’s contact center. With Amazon Lex, you can implement an omnichannel strategy where customers engage via phone, websites, and messaging platforms. The bots can answer FAQs, provide self-service experiences, or triage customer requests before transferring to a human agent.

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Meet OpenFoundry: An AI Research Startup Building a Developer Infrastructure for Open Source AI

Marktechpost

Developing and optimizing AI models requires significant work since developers frequently need help identifying the appropriate models for their particular requirements. Developing these AI solutions may be challenging and drawn out for open-source projects. Many developers find it difficult to cope with more user-friendly tools than what I need help purchasing.

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Microsoft Says Copilot Users Would Love It More If They Wrote Better Prompts

Extreme Tech

Rather than improving its product—or admitting people don't want it—Microsoft is throwing shade.

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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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Researchers from the University of York and Université Paris-Saclay Introduce DeepKnowledge for Generalisation-Driven Deep Learning Testing

Marktechpost

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) demonstrated tremendous improvement in numerous difficult activities, matching or even outperforming human ability. As a result of this accomplishment, DNNs were widely used in many safety- and security-critical applications, including autonomous driving, flight control systems, and medication development in healthcare. The performance of DNN models still needs to be more consistent, and they are unstable when exposed to even minor changes in the input data.

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Designing Responsible AI Solutions

Towards AI

Last Updated on March 31, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Dr Richard Matthews – Chief AI Officer RHEM Labs Originally published on Towards AI. Microsoft’s 6 responsible AI Principles that we use at RHEM Labs Top highlight At RHEM Labs, we run on trust, and we’re committed to building using the latest responsible AI solutions and guidelines to provide our partners and customers with secure platforms for business and data.

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Managed Sportlogiq to Databricks Data Ingestion Pipelines for NHL Teams: A Game-Changing Alliance

databricks

Overview In the competitive world of professional hockey, NHL teams are always seeking to optimize their performance. Advanced analytics has become increasingly important.

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Insights from a Computer Science Conference: DATE 2024

Towards AI

Last Updated on March 31, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Federico Peccia Originally published on Towards AI. Top highlight In the last week of March, I attended the Design, Automation, and Test in Europe 2024 Conference. This academic conference is focused on techniques and methods for designing better electronic systems. It covers a wide range of topics, from optimizing Neural Networks for a particular hardware platform to new fabrication methods for building new hardware for AI applications

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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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Save Big on Drives for World Storage Day

Extreme Tech

Yes, it's a holiday. Yes, you should take advantage of it for big savings on HDDs and SSDs.

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How I Use Custom GPT Builder For My Data Storytelling Workshops

Towards AI

Last Updated on March 31, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): John Loewen, PhD Originally published on Towards AI. Organizing CSV files and custom rules into a shared GPTDall-E image: highlighting the importance of innovative thinking in addressing worldwide issues. With all of the recent additions to OpenAI’s flagship ChatGPT Plus tool, I have been looking at how to take advantage of its new functionality.

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Google Says RCS Messaging Will Come to iPhone This Fall

Extreme Tech

Google let the timeline slip in an image posted to its RCS landing page.

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Improving Our Agility

SAS Software

SAS SVP Kimberly May provides an update about the new Support Operating Model. The post Improving Our Agility appeared first on SAS Blogs.

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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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MSI's New PCIe Gen 5 SSD Features Oversized Performance, Cooling

Extreme Tech

The company's latest SSD is one of the fastest we've seen thus far.

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Developing Credit Scoring Models for Banking and Beyond

ODSC - Open Data Science

Editor’s note: Aric LaBarr is a speaker for ODSC East this April 23–25. Be sure to check out his talk, “ Developing Credit Scoring Models for Banking and Beyond ,” there! The interpretability of machine learning models is paramount in many industries. From credit-worthiness to insurance claims, and anti-money laundering to readmittance to a hospital, getting end-users to understand the output of analytical models can be a challenge.

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Europa Clipper Spacecraft Survives Extreme Environmental Testing at JPL

Extreme Tech

This is the last opportunity to detect major flaws before launch.

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