Sun.Dec 08, 2024

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Google CEO: AI development is finally slowing down—'the low-hanging fruit is gone’

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI development may feel slower in 2025 and tech companies will "need deeper breakthroughs" than today's chatbots to get ahead.

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Hugging Face Releases FineWeb2: 8TB of Compressed Text Data with Almost 3T Words and 1000 Languages Outperforming Other Datasets

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The field of natural language processing (NLP) has grown rapidly in recent years, creating a pressing need for better datasets to train large language models (LLMs). Multilingual models, in particular, require datasets that are not only large but also diverse and carefully curated to capture the nuances of many different languages. Existing resources like CC-100, mC4, CulturaX, and HPLT provide useful starting points but come with notable drawbacks.

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Sal Khan wants an AI tutor for every student: here's how it's working at an Indiana high school

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Anderson Cooper headed back to school with Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, and creator of the AI tutor Khanmigo. The tool is helping students and teachers alike, and evaluating Cooper's middle school essay.

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What are Hallucinations in LLMs and 6 Effective Strategies to Prevent Them

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In large language models (LLMs), hallucination refers to instances where models generate semantically or syntactically plausible outputs but are factually incorrect or nonsensical. For example, a hallucination occurs when a model provides erroneous information, such as stating that Addison’s disease causes bright yellow skin when, in fact, it causes fatigue and low blood pressure.

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AI in Marketing & Sales: Today’s Tools, Tomorrow’s Potential

Speaker: Kevin Burke

AI is reshaping marketing and sales, empowering professionals to work smarter, faster, and more effectively. This webinar will provide a practical introduction to AI, focusing on its current applications, transformative potential, and strategies for successful implementation in your organization. Using real-world examples and actionable insights, we’ll examine how businesses are leveraging AI to increase efficiency, enhance personalization, and drive measurable results.

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How Alex Karp helped turn Palantir into the West's AI arms dealer

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The way Palantirs CEO sees it, the AI race is about no less than the future of liberal democracy. Alex Karp, the chief executive of Palantir, knows his products can be dangerous.

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What We Got Right And Wrong In Our 2024 AI Predictions

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At this time last year, we published a list of 10 predictions about what would happen in the world of artificial intelligence in 2024. To keep ourselves honest, with 2024 now coming to a close, lets revisit these predictions to see how things actually played out.

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Decoding the Hidden Computational Dynamics: A Novel Machine Learning Framework for Understanding Large Language Model Representations

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In the rapidly evolving landscape of machine learning and artificial intelligence, understanding the fundamental representations within transformer models has emerged as a critical research challenge. Researchers are grappling with competing interpretations of what transformers representwhether they function as statistical mimics, world models, or something more complex.

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Why Embodied Intelligence Is The Next Frontier Of AI

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World Labs, an embodied intelligence startup co-founded by AI scientist and Stanford Professor Fei-Fei Li, has introduced a 3D worlds generator that redefines how AI processes and utilizes spatial information.

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Artificial Lawyer’s 2025 Predictions – Part One

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This years Artificial Lawyer predictions are different: fewer people, longer insights. Part One’s predictions include: Sacha Kirk of Lawcadia, Ed Walters of vLex, and Richard.

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AI for Paralegals: Everything You Need to Know (and How to Use It Safely)

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Ready to cut through the AI hype and learn exactly how to use these tools in your legal work? Join this webinar to get practical guidance from attorney and AI legal expert, Joe Stephens, who understands what really matters for legal professionals! What You'll Learn: Evaluate AI Tools Like a Pro 🔍 Learn which tools are worth your time and how to spot potential security risks before they become problems.

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Will AI Transform Standardized Testing?

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Heres a multiple-choice question: Which of the following have educators said is a problem with current state standardized tests? a.

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The Power of Active Data Curation in Multimodal Knowledge Distillation

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AI advancements have led to the incorporation of a large variety of datasets for multimodal models, allowing for a more comprehensive understanding of complex information and a substantial increase in accuracy. Leveraging their advantages, multimodal models find applications in healthcare, autonomous vehicles, speech recognition, etc. However, the large data requirement of these models has led to inefficiencies in computational costs, memory usage, and energy consumption.

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Art and A.I.: Parallel Worlds, Bound Together

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This personal reflection is part of a series called Turning Points, in which writers explore what critical moments from this year might mean for the year ahead. You can read more by visiting the Turning Points series page.

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Adaptive Attacks on LLMs: Lessons from the Frontlines of AI Robustness Testing

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The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing at a rapid rate; specifically, the Large Language Models have become indispensable in modern AI applications. These LLMs have inbuilt safety mechanisms that prevent them from generating unethical and harmful outputs. However, these mechanisms are vulnerable to simple adaptive jailbreaking attacks.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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At AWS re:Invent 2024, AI innovations fall across markets - SiliconANGLE

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Attending AWS re:Invent 2024 was like watching a forest grow and decay at 10,000-times time-lapse speed. With each major breakthrough release falling, Amazon Web Services Inc.

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Microsoft Research Introduces MarS: A Cutting-Edge Financial Market Simulation Engine Powered by the Large Market Model (LMM)

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Generative models have emerged as great tools for synthesizing complex data and enabling sophisticated industry predictions. In recent years, their application has expanded beyond NLP and media generation to fields like finance, where the challenges of intricate data streams and real-time analysis demand innovative solutions. Generative foundation models thrive on three primary elements: A large volume of high-quality training data Effective tokenization of information Auto-regressive training m

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The Impact of Data Governance on AI-Driven Business Decisions

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This article explores the critical role of data governance in ensuring the accuracy, compliance, and integrity of data throughout AI model development and deployment.

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Stability AI Releases Arabic Stable LM 1.6B Base and Chat Models: A State-of-the-Art Arabic-Centric LLMs

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Large language models (LLMs) have profoundly influenced natural language processing (NLP), excelling in tasks like text generation and language understanding. However, the Arabic languagewith its intricate morphology, varied dialects, and cultural richnessremains underrepresented. Many advanced LLMs are designed with English as their primary focus, leaving Arabic-centric models either overly large and computationally demanding or inadequate in addressing cultural subtleties.

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Trial Prep: What Attorneys Really Want (And How to Deliver It)

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Get ready to uncover what attorneys really need from you when it comes to trial prep in this new webinar! Attorney and law professor, Joe Stephens, J.D., will share proven techniques for anticipating attorney needs, organizing critical documents, and transforming complex information into compelling case presentations. Key Learning Objectives: Organization That Makes Sense 🎯 Learn how to structure and organize case materials in ways that align with how attorneys actually work and think.

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Cutting-edge AI digs through old maps to find lost oil and gas wells

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The United States is home to a staggering number of abandoned oil and gas wells, remnants of nearly two centuries of hydrocarbon extraction.

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Play at Making AI Agents — For Free

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If you’re looking to experiment with AI agents without making a commitment, Microsoft is offering a 30-day free trial. Heralded as the Next Big Thing in AI, AI agents — some of which will be called ‘AI employees’ as they grow increasingly more complex next year — can be programmed to perform a series of tasks for you, sans supervision.

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The Transformative Potential of AI: 6 Big Questions for Schools

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Stuart Briers for Education Week AI has the potential to help usher in a new, deeper breed of state standardized tests, but there are plenty of

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Bytedance AI Research Releases FullStack Bench and SandboxFusion: Comprehensive Benchmarking Tools for Evaluating LLMs in Real-World Programming Scenarios

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Code intelligence has grown rapidly, driven by advancements in large language models (LLMs). These models are increasingly utilized for automated programming tasks such as code generation, debugging, and testing. With capabilities spanning multiple languages and domains, LLMs have become crucial tools in advancing software development, data science, and computational problem-solving.

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Usage-Based Monetization Musts: A Roadmap for Sustainable Revenue Growth

Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O'Neill Stoll

Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng

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Can You Practically Learn to Code With ChatGPT?

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Want to learn coding without endless tutorials or costly courses? You might be tempted to skip the grind by using ChatGPT as your tutor.

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Exploring Cooperative Decision-Making and Resource Management in LLM Agents: Insights from the GOVSIM Simulation Platform

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As AI systems become integral to daily life, ensuring the safety and reliability of LLMs in decision-making roles is crucial. While LLMs have shown impressive performance across various tasks, their ability to operate safely and cooperate effectively in multi-agent environments still needs to be explored. Cooperation is critical in scenarios where agents work together to achieve mutual benefits, reflecting challenges humans face in collaborative settings.

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TikTok-Parent ByteDance, Now Nvidia's Largest Asian Chip Customer, Races Ahead Of Alibaba And Baidu To Dominate China's Generative AI Market: Report

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TikTok-parent ByteDance has reportedly become the largest buyer of Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) chips in Asia, outpacing rivals like Alibaba Group

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Trip Report - PyData Global 2024

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I attended PyData Global 2024 last week. Its a virtual conference, so I was able to attend it from the comfort of my home, although presentations seem to be scheduled to be maximally convenient, time-wise, for folks in the US East Coast and Western Europe, so some of them were a bit early for me.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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Understanding the science behind Hinton and Hopfield's Nobel Prize in physics

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British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton and co-laureate John Hopfield are set to receive the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday in Stockholm.

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Google DeepMind Researchers Advance Game AI: From Hallucination-Free Moves to Grandmaster Play

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Board games have long been pivotal in shaping AI, serving as structured environments for testing decision-making and strategy. Games like chess and Connect Four, with their distinct rules and varying levels of complexity, have enabled AI systems to learn dynamic problem-solving. The structured nature of these games challenges AI to anticipate moves, consider opponents strategies, and execute plans effectively.

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NVIDIA’s NVILA Beats GPT-4o Mini and Llama 3.2, Redefines Open Standards in Vision AI

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Recently, NVIDIA released a new family of open visual language models called NVILA, which focuses on optimised accuracy and efficiency.

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