Fri.Oct 13, 2023

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Exploring the Advanced Multi-Modal Generative AI

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction In today’s ever-advancing world of technology, there’s an exciting development on the horizon – Advanced Multi-modal Generative AI. This cutting-edge technology is about making computers more innovative and great, creating content and understanding. Imagine a digital assistant that seamlessly works with text, images, and sounds and generates information.

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Dave Barnett, Cloudflare: Delivering speed and security in the AI era

AI News

AI News sat down with Dave Barnett, Head of SASE at Cloudflare , during Cyber Security & Cloud Expo Europe to delve into how the firm uses its cloud-native architecture to deliver speed and security in the AI era. According to Barnett, Cloudflare’s cloud-native approach allows the company to continually innovate in the digital space. Notably, a significant portion of their services are offered to consumers for free.

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Implementing Demand Based Hotel Room Pricing in Data Science using MLOps

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction During Covid, the hospitality industry has suffered a massive drop in revenue. So when people are traveling more, getting the customer remains a challenge. We will develop an ML tool to solve this problem to counter this problem and set the fitting room to attract more customers. Using the hotel’s dataset, we will build […] The post Implementing Demand Based Hotel Room Pricing in Data Science using MLOps appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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China Targets Generative AI Data Security With Fresh Regulatory Proposals

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Data security is paramount, especially in fields as influential as artificial intelligence (AI). Recognizing this, China has put forth new draft regulations, a move that underscores the criticality of data security in AI model training processes. “Blacklist” Mechanism and Security Assessments The draft , made public on October 11, didn't emerge from a single entity but was a collaborative effort.

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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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Shift from proactive to predictive monitoring: Predicting the future through observability

IBM Journey to AI blog

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the seamless operation and performance of software applications is crucial for businesses. Downtime, glitches and service interruptions can result in significant revenue loss and damage a company’s reputation. This is where modern, advanced monitoring solutions like IBM Instana come into play. With its cutting-edge capabilities, Instana goes beyond traditional monitoring approaches like New Relic, enabling organizations to detect and predict i

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Responding in real time to changing market dynamics

IBM Journey to AI blog

Keeping up with the volatility of the market is no easy task. When you feel like you understand the changes, you might wake up the next morning to encounter something drastically different. These shifting dynamics bring about unexpected disruptions—like changes in levels of demand—impacting your ability to effectively manage your inventory, satisfy your customer needs, and ultimately your bottom line.

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How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington

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A sprawling network spread across Congress, federal agencies and think tanks is pushing policymakers to put AI apocalypse at the top of the agenda — potentially boxing out other worries and benefiting top AI companies with ties to the network.

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Can Large Language Models Truly Act and Reason? Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Introduce LATS for Enhanced Decision-Making

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LLMs have proven valuable for reasoning and decision-making tasks. They excel in breaking down complex problems into sequential steps, but their performance can be improved through methods like self-consistency and multi-step decomposition. LLMs are also effective for decision-making in various domains, though they often struggle to adapt to dynamic environments.

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ChatGPT use shows that the grant-application system is broken

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The fact that artificial intelligence can do much of the work makes a mockery of the process. It’s time to make it easier for scientists to ask for research funding. The fact that artificial intelligence can do much of the work makes a mockery of the process. It’s time to make it easier for scientists to ask for research funding.

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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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How Can We Effectively Compress Large Language Models with One-Bit Weights? This Artificial Intelligence Research Proposes PB-LLM: Exploring the Potential of Partially-Binarized LLMs

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In Large Language Models (LLMs), Partially-Binarized LLMs (PB-LLM) is a cutting-edge technique for achieving extreme low-bit quantization in LLMs without sacrificing language reasoning capabilities. PB-LLM strategically filters salient weights during binarization, reserving them for higher-bit storage. Moreover, it introduces post-training quantization (PTQ) and quantization-aware training (QAT) methods to recover the reasoning capacity of quantized LLMs.

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Ukrainian AI attack drones may be killing without human oversight

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Ukraine is using drones equipped with artificial intelligence that can identify and attack targets without any human control, in the first battlefield use of autonomous weapons or "killer robots"

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Researchers from Princeton and Meta AI Introduce MemWalker: A New Method that First Processes the Long Context into a Tree of Summary Nodes

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Adopting the Transformer architecture with self-attention and increases in model size and pre-training data has led to significant progress in large language models (LLMs). Users want to use longer input sequences during inference more frequently as LLMs improve capacity. As a result, there is an increasing need for services that facilitate the analysis of lengthy texts, such as legal or scientific studies, and the management of lengthy conversations.

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Computers Are Learning to Smell

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AI could revolutionize our understanding of one of the most mysterious human senses. You know the smell of warm, buttered popcorn. A crisp autumn day. The pungent, somewhat sweet scent that precedes rain. But could you begin to describe these aromas in detail? Or compare them?

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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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Woman’s Experimental Bionic Hand Is Fused to Her Bone and Nervous System

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The bionic hand has recovered the woman's ability to sense pressure and texture and also reduced the amount of phantom pain she's experienced post-amputation.

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Google adds AI image generation to Search — but there’s a catch

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Google’s AI image generator for the masses is here… sort of.

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Meet DiffPoseTalk: A New Speech-to-3D Animation Artificial Intelligence Framework

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Speech-driven expression animation, a complex problem at the intersection of computer graphics and artificial intelligence, involves the generation of realistic facial animations and head poses based on spoken language input. The challenge in this domain arises from the intricate, many-to-many mapping between speech and facial expressions. Each individual possesses a distinct speaking style, and the same sentence can be articulated in numerous ways, marked by variations in tone, emphasis, and ac

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Future of AI and Data Science – How to Secure A Bright Career?

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Gain insight into the future of data science and artificial intelligence to get clarity of both the fields that help you make career in data science and AI.

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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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Microsoft Researchers Introduce SpaceEvo: A Game-Changer for Designing Ultra-Efficient and Quantized Neural Networks for Real-World Devices

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In the realm of deep learning, the challenge of developing efficient deep neural network (DNN) models that combine high performance with minimal latency across a variety of devices remains. The existing approach involves hardware-aware neural architecture search (NAS) to automate model design for specific hardware setups, including a predefined search space and search algorithm.

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Psychologists use machine learning to unveil unexpected links between positive communication and romantic outcomes

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Research published in Sexual and Relationship Therapy reveals that while positive communication enhances satisfaction in couples, the effects vary based on factors like age and type of communication. Some combinations, surprisingly, can even decrease sexual satisfaction.

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SpaceX Says Direct to Cell Service Will Launch in 2024

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It will start with texting, with voice and data service coming in 2025.

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Connect/Enterprise: Building Products With Generative AI

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If one thing is certain about generative AI, it’s that no one knows exactly how it will play out from a product or user experience perspective. Which interfaces will win out? Which tasks will be augmented by large language models (LLMs), and which ones will be completely upended by them? How will creative AI models change our expectations of what we can do with computers?

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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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Can One AI Model Master All Audio Tasks? Meet UniAudio: A New Universal Audio Generation System

Marktechpost

A key aspect of generative AI is audio generation. In recent years, the popularity of generative AI has led to increasingly diverse and emerging needs in audio production. For example, text-to-sound and text-to-music technologies are projected to produce audio based on human requests for speech synthesis (TTS), voice conversion (VC), singing voice synthesis (SVS), and voice conversion (VC).

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AI in Higher Ed: Using What We Already Know About Good Teaching Practices

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How is AI currently utilized in higher education? As of fall 2023, we are still in the early stages of figuring out what AI integration means for higher ed. In some classrooms, such as my own, we talk about what AI can and can’t do. We look at examples of output from large language models (LLMs) and critique how well it did with the responses. Next semester, my students will spend time working with prompt writing, reflecting on LLM output and reflecting on when knowledge and learning matter vers

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Using geometry and game theory to master the M&M guessing game

SAS Software

October 13 is National M&M Day in the US. It’s a time to reignite the debate about whether you can taste the difference between the different colored chocolate-filled candies. If you’re like me, equally as enjoyable as eating M&Ms is taking a crack at how many of them are in [.

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1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock to Buy Before It Soars 150%, According to Wall Street

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This beaten-down company is growing rapidly and is expected to deliver terrific gains in the coming year.

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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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Webb Telescope Spies Stunning Star Formation in Neighboring Galaxy

Extreme Tech

Astronomers have turned the space observatory to focus on the NGC 346, a large star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

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Researchers Use AI to Decode the First Word on an Ancient Scroll Burned by Vesuvius

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In the year 79, AD Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying both Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Sets Another Speed Record: 394,736 MPH

Extreme Tech

Parker is the fastest spacecraft ever, and it's not giving up the crown any time soon.

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