Sun.Dec 08, 2024

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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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Retrieval Interleaved Generation: Transforming AI with Real-Time Insights

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized how we interact with artificial intelligence, offering impressive capabilities in understanding and generating human-like text. However, despite their strengths, a critical limitation remains: LLMs often generate factually incorrect information, especially when it comes to numerical or statistical data.

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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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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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Precision in Motion: Why Process Optimization Is the Future of Manufacturing

Speaker: Jason Chester, Director, Product Management

In today’s manufacturing landscape, staying competitive means moving beyond reactive quality checks and toward real-time, data-driven process control. But what does true manufacturing process optimization look like—and why is it more urgent now than ever? Join Jason Chester in this new, thought-provoking session on how modern manufacturers are rethinking quality operations from the ground up.

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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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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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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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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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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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Smart Tools & Strong Teams: A People-First Approach to AI in Sales

Speaker: Matt Sunshine, CEO at The Center for Sales Strategy

AI isn’t replacing salespeople—it’s empowering them. The most forward-thinking sales organizations are using AI to enhance human performance rather than eliminate it. From coaching and messaging to prospecting and pipeline accountability, artificial intelligence is giving managers and SDRs the new tools they need to work smarter, sell better, and close more.

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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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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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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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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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AI-Enabled Robotics Software for Manufacturing Automation: Speeding Time-to-Value

Robots are a cornerstone of a smart factory, automating a wide range of manufacturing tasks that are monotonous, physically straining, or even hazardous. However, real-world robotics deployments have not lived up to the revolutionary potential the industrial sector had originally envisioned. Robot implementations are typically confined to specific applications, carry high costs, and are time-consuming.

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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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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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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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New Research-Backed Strategies to Empower Managers as Culture & Engagement Leaders

Speaker: Beth Sunshine, SVP, Up Your Culture

When culture isn’t consistently lived out across the organization, engagement suffers—and it often starts with a disconnect at the top. In this session, Beth Sunshine, SVP of Up Your Culture at The Center for Sales Strategy, will reveal how HR and executive leaders can close the gap between vision and execution by equipping frontline and mid-level managers to become culture carriers.

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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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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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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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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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The AI Productivity Shift: Whats Working & Whats Next

85% of teams are using AI, but only 27% report clear productivity gains. Why? Because most are still stuck in surface-level adoption. In this expert panel, top voices in workplace strategy and remote innovation—Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Phil Kirschner, Nadia Harris, and Eryn Peters—reveal how leading teams are cutting digital noise, training AI to fit their workflows, and building cultures that embrace change.

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Meet DataLab: A Unified Business Intelligence Platform Utilizing LLM-Based Agents and Computational Notebooks

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Business intelligence (BI) faces significant challenges in efficiently transforming large data volumes into actionable insights. Current workflows involve multiple complex stages, including data preparation, analysis, and visualization, which require extensive collaboration among data engineers, scientists, and analysts using diverse specialized tools.

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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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Critic-RM: A Self-Critiquing AI Framework for Enhanced Reward Modeling and Human Preference Alignment in LLMs

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Reward modeling is critical in aligning LLMs with human preferences, particularly within the reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) framework. Traditional reward models (RMs) assign scalar scores to evaluate how well LLM outputs align with human judgments, guiding optimization during training to improve response quality. However, these models often need more interpretability, are prone to robustness issues like reward hacking, and fail to leverage LLMs’ language modeling capabil

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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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Speeding Robotics Automation with AI

The $53 trillion manufacturing economy in the US is undergoing a major automation paradigm shift due to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thanks to new practical frameworks, automation projects that were once impossible or inefficient to implement are now being fast-tracked, and robotics automation is becoming increasingly relevant to a growing number of users and scenarios.

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Noise-Augmented CAM (Continuous Autoregressive Models): Advancing Real-Time Audio Generation

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Autoregressive models are used to generate sequences of discrete tokens. The next token is conditioned by the preceding tokens in a given sequence in the approach. Recent research showed that generating sequences of continuous embeddings autoregressively is also feasible. However, such Continuous Autoregressive Models (CAMs) generate these embeddings similarly sequentially, but they face challenges such as a decline in generation quality over extended sequences.

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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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This AI Paper from UC Santa Cruz and the University of Edinburgh Introduces CLIPS: An Enhanced CLIP Framework for Learning with Synthetic Captions

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Web-crawled image-text datasets are critical for training vision-language models, enabling advancements in tasks such as image captioning and visual question answering. However, these datasets often suffer from noise and low quality, with inconsistent associations between images and text that limit the capabilities of the models. This limitation prevents achieving strong and accurate results, particularly in cross-modal retrieval tasks.