Fri.Oct 25, 2024

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AI is helping brands avoid controversial influencer partnerships  

AI News

Influencer partnerships can be great for brands looking to pump out content that promotes their products and services in an authentic way. These types of engagements can yield significant brand awareness and brand sentiment lift, but they can be risky too. Social media stars are unpredictable at the best of times, with many deliberately chasing controversy to increase their fame.

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Enhancing Workplace Safety With AI-Based Material-Handling Automation

Aiiot Talk

Material-handling activities can be dangerous because they require repetitive tasks that may cause strain or injuries. Additionally, employees must learn specifics such as proper lifting techniques and ergonomic posture principles to increase their chances of staying safe on the job. Understandably, many executives wonder if there is an easier, more effective way.

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10 Best AI SDR Tools (October 2024)

Unite.AI

The landscape of sales development is undergoing a transformation, powered by artificial intelligence that's redefining how businesses connect with potential customers. AI SDRs (Sales Development Representatives) have emerged as sophisticated systems that automate and enhance the traditional role of human SDRs, handling everything from initial prospecting and lead qualification to scheduling appointments and managing follow-ups.

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US Copyright Office Grants DMCA Exemption for Ice Cream Machines

Extreme Tech

What a delicious decision.

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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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AI in the Clinical Setting: Understanding Nurses’ Skepticism and Finding the Way Forward

Unite.AI

As a result of widespread burnout and labor shortages, the ever-changing healthcare space is always searching for the ‘next big thing’ to support workforce enablement, and AI is currently the leading contender. AI adoption is becoming increasingly prevalent in clinical settings and is here to stay, with industry executives reporting it is the most exciting and most improved technology for a fourth consecutive year.

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Ajay Kumar, CEO of SLK Software – Interview Series

Unite.AI

Ajay Kumar is the CEO of SLK Software. Ajay is passionate about making a positive client impact while leading P&L’s across all verticals of SLK. An industry veteran, Ajay brings an entrepreneurial conviction, to grow and scale the business performance and give back to the community. SLK's AI-powered platforms and accelerators are designed to automate and streamline processes, helping businesses reach the market more quickly.

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IBM Developers Release Bee Agent Framework: An Open-Source AI Framework for Building, Deploying, and Serving Powerful Agentic Workflows at Scale

Marktechpost

In recent years, AI-driven workflows and automation have advanced remarkably. Yet, building complex, scalable, and efficient agentic workflows remains a significant challenge. The complexities of controlling agents, managing their states, and integrating them seamlessly with broader applications are far from straightforward. Developers need tools that not only manage the logic of agent states but also ensure reliable traceability, scalability, and efficient memory management.

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Samsung Is Finally Upgrading the Galaxy A Series Camera After 5 Years: Leak

Extreme Tech

Samsung might even provide Android updates for six years.

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Zhipu AI Releases GLM-4-Voice: A New Open-Source End-to-End Speech Large Language Model

Marktechpost

In the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, one of the most persistent challenges has been bridging the gap between machines and human-like interaction. Modern AI models excel in text generation, image understanding, and even creating visual content, but speech—the primary medium of human communication—presents unique hurdles. Traditional speech recognition systems, though advanced, often struggle with understanding nuanced emotions, variations in dialect, and real-time adjustments.

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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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G.Skill and Kingston Both Hit 12,000 MT/s DDR5 Speeds on Intel Arrow Lake

Extreme Tech

None of us will see these speeds in our gaming PCs any time soon, though.

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20 GitHub Repositories to Master Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Marktechpost

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a rapidly growing field that deals with the interaction between computers and human language. As NLP continues to advance, there is a growing need for skilled professionals to develop innovative solutions for various applications, such as chatbots, sentiment analysis, and machine translation. To help you on your journey to mastering NLP, we’ve curated a list of 20 GitHub repositories that offer valuable resources, code examples, and pre-trained models.

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120 Astronomers Urge FCC to Look at Effects of Satellite Constellations on Space, Environment

Extreme Tech

'We should look before we leap.

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This AI Paper from Meta AI Unveils Dualformer: Controllable Fast and Slow Thinking with Randomized Reasoning Traces, Revolutionizing AI Decision-Making

Marktechpost

A major challenge in AI research is how to develop models that can balance fast, intuitive reasoning with slower, more detailed reasoning in an efficient way. Human cognition operates by using two systems: System 1, which is fast and intuitive, and System 2, which is slow but more analytical. In AI models, this dichotomy between the two systems mostly presents itself as a trade-off between computational efficiency and accuracy.

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Agentic AI Explained: Smarter Conversations, Better Experiences

AI has transformed how enterprises deliver customer service, enabling faster engagement, problem-solving, and cost savings. However, traditional AI Agents often rely on rigid conversation flows, risking customer trust when conversations stray from predefined paths. These limitations prevent businesses from fully realizing AI’s potential for cost-efficiency and productivity.

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Webb Telescope Spots First Brown Dwarfs Outside Our Galaxy

Extreme Tech

The space telescope peered into the Small Magellanic Cloud to identify these sub-stellar objects.

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Salesforce AI Research Introduces a Novel Evaluation Framework for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Systems based on Sub-Question Coverage

Marktechpost

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems blend retrieval and generation processes to address the complexities of answering open-ended, multi-dimensional questions. By accessing relevant documents and knowledge, RAG-based models generate answers with additional context, offering richer insights than generative-only models. This approach is useful in fields where responses must reflect a broad knowledge base, such as legal research and academic analysis.

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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D to Offer Up to 5.3GHz Boost Clock

Extreme Tech

It's much higher than those of its Zen 4 predecessor.

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Distill Your LLMs and Surpass Their Performance

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In her presentation at InfoQ Dev Summit, Ines Montani provided the audience with practical solutions for using the latest state-of-the-art models in real-world applications and distilling their knowledge into smaller and faster components.

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The AI Productivity Shift: How 3,000 Pros And 140K Users Are Transforming Work

Hubstaff’s new report, The AI Productivity Shift, highlights how 3,000+ professionals and 140,000+ users are transforming the way they work with AI. Adoption is high—85% are using AI—and the potential is just beginning. Teams that integrate AI into daily workflows report 77% faster task completion, 70% improved focus, and stronger results across the board.

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Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU: One Step Forward, One Step Back

Extreme Tech

It's worse than Raptor Lake in gaming but faster in some compute workloads—making it far from a slam-dunk upgrade for most.

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Can AI Agents Transform Information Retrieval? This AI Paper Unveils Agentic Information Retrieval for Smarter, Multi-Step Interactions

Marktechpost

One of the fundamental challenges in IR is that the classic systems are not designed to handle dynamic, multi-step tasks. Current IR frameworks rely on an immutable, predefined architecture that enables only single-step interactions; users must explicitly revise queries to get the desired results. Conventional models thus lag far behind as users increasingly request systems that are more sophisticated and context-sensitive for tasks that require real-time decision-making or iterative reasoning.

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Unlocking FHIR for Data and AI in a Meaningful Way

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Discover how the Databricks and XponentL partnership is allowing customers to unlock their FHIR needs. Learn more about dbignite. Imagine you’re feeling.

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Decoding Similarity: A Framework for Analyzing Neural and Model Representations

Marktechpost

To determine if two biological or artificial systems process information similarly, various similarity measures are used, such as linear regression, Centered Kernel Alignment (CKA), Normalized Bures Similarity (NBS), and angular Procrustes distance. Despite their popularity, the factors contributing to high similarity scores and what defines a good score remain to be determined.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Microsoft's Windows 11 Virtual Machines Have Vanished Into Thin Air, Nowhere to Be Seen

Extreme Tech

Microsoft’s Windows 11 dev environment VMs expired and went offline for download on Oct. 23, seemingly because of technical issues.

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CMU Researchers Propose API-Based Web Agents: A Novel AI Approach to Web Agents by Enabling them to Use APIs in Addition to Traditional Web-Browsing Techniques

Marktechpost

AI agents have become essential tools for navigating web environments and performing online shopping, project management, and content browsing. Typically, these agents simulate human actions, such as clicks and scrolls, on websites primarily designed for visual, human interaction. Although practical, this method of web navigation poses limitations for machine efficiency, especially when tasks involve interacting with complex, image-heavy interfaces.

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New Framework Improves Multi-Modal AI Performance Across Diverse Tasks

NYU Center for Data Science

Multi-modal AI models often perform worse than uni-modal models, contrary to expectations. A new framework developed by researchers at CDS aims to resolve this paradox. CDS PhD student Taro Makino , along with fellow NYU PhD student Divyam Madaan , CDS Professor of Computer Science and Data Science Kyunghyun Cho , and Sumit Chopra from the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, proposed a novel approach for supervised multi-modal learning called inter- & intra-modality modeling (I2M2) that capture

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Can LLMs Follow Instructions Reliably? A Look at Uncertainty Estimation Challenges

Marktechpost

Large Language Models (LLMs) have potential applications in education, healthcare, mental health support, and other domains. However, their accuracy and consistency in following user instructions determine how valuable they are. Even small departures from directions might have serious repercussions in high-stakes situations, such as those involving delicate medical or psychiatric guidance.

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Prospect, Personalize, Profit: The New Way Sales & Marketing Teams Are Aligning with AI

Speaker: Kevin Burke, Founder & Managing Director at Digital One and AI & Automation Consultant

AI and automation are currently transforming the way sales and marketing teams operate. Generative AI crafts personalized outreach at scale, while conversational AI bots are engaging prospects in real time. Robotic process automation streamlines manual workflows by triggering tasks the moment a prospect takes a key action, and advanced AI analytics surface hidden patterns in the pipeline, improve forecasting, and help teams make data-driven decisions with confidence.

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EU AI Act: Key Implications and What Companies Must Know

Viso.ai

The European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) is the first comprehensive legal framework to regulate the design, development, implementation, and use of AI systems within the European Union. The primary objectives of this legislation are to: Ensure the safe and ethical use of AI Protect fundamental rights Foster innovation by setting clear rules— most importantly for high-risk AI applications The AI Act brings structure into the legal landscape for companies that are directly or ind

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LongPiBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark that Explores How Even the Top Large Language Models have Relative Positional Biases

Marktechpost

Accurate assessment of Large Language Models is best done with complex tasks involving long input sequences. Input sequence can exceed even 200,000 tokens in complex tasks such as repository analysis and information retrieval.LLMs, in response, have evolved, too, to accommodate context lengths of up to 1 million tokens. While examining the performance of capable LLMs on tasks involving long context lengths, researchers noticed a few underlying problems.

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12 AI Insight Talks to Help Improve Your Company’s AI Game at ODSC West

ODSC - Open Data Science

At the AI Expo and Demo Hall as part of ODSC West next week, you’ll have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with representatives from industry-leading organizations like Plot.ly, Google, Snowflake, Microsoft, and plenty more. These organizations and others will be showcasing their latest products and services that can help you implement AI in your organization or improve your processes that are already in progress.