Hacker News

MAY 6, 2024

We were expecting the enforcement to begin this week, we posted a reminder last week. Google told us this change was coming in March, when Google announced multiple search enhancements , which also included the March 2024 core update. Danny Sullivan from Google told me , “we’re only doing manual actions right now.

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Hacker News

MARCH 22, 2024

Who and what will searchers see. Google will show AI overviews to a small subset of US users. These queries are often more complex, or involve questions where it may be helpful to get information from a range of web pages – like “how do I get marks off painted walls.” Like you were worried about that… Why we care.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 3, 2024

How do you choose what to read? What if you could take a test that magically guides you to the knowledge that interests you most? From local happenings to global events, understanding the torrent of information becomes manageable when we apply intelligent data strategies to our media consumption.

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Hacker News

MARCH 16, 2024

We tend to think of delusions as factually inaccurate. However, we don’t often consider how, by invalidating them, we also undermine the agency of those who hold them. How do we tell science from pseudoscience? What makes a novel a classic? Smith, Maria Balaska But what makes a belief delusional?

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide a bug in your home or car, tap your phone, and listen to what you said. If I hired that same private detective to put you under surveillance, I would get a different report: where you went, whom you talked to, what you purchased, what you did.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 23, 2024

Have you heard about the DPD chatbot swearing incident? Their computer program, designed to talk to customers, ended up doing something it wasn’t supposed to. So, he decided to see what else the chatbot could do. But soon, he got it to say bad things about DPD and even use swear words. Not really.

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Towards AI

MAY 12, 2024

When we think about large language models (LLM), we often imagine them as super-smart databases filled with internet knowledge, ready to answer any question we throw at them. But the reality is that they are clever assistants, able to understand what we tell them and help us figure things out.

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DrivenData Labs

MAY 18, 2023

In this post we sit down with Dr. Helen Yannakoudakis, a winner of the Hateful Memes competition and an Assistant Professor at King’s College London, Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge, and co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Kinhub. What areas are you particularly interested in? Data science is a broad field.

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DrivenData Labs

MARCH 26, 2024

One critical tool for understanding and improving the urgent challenges facing our world is Earth observation (EO) data, meaning data that is gathered in outer space about life here on Earth! Throughout the competition we received more than 130 submissions. What motivated you to choose this topic?

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Dataconomy

MAY 13, 2024

Bas Burger, CEO of BT Business, the segment handling corporate clients, stated: “We have all this data around when criminals try to attack, such as time of day, what type of attack, and we have suppliers to help us with the information … all data we enrich and then we have a piece of AI running across it.”

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 2, 2024

It has become pretty popular lately due to negative changes in nature, but what is climate tech, and what it means for the future of humanity? We will take a closer look at the concept and the profession and let you know about its importance in different fields of human life. So, what is climate tech, exactly?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

What were your goals? Recommended Resources: ISTE U Artificial Intelligence Course Leaders' Guide to Artificial Intelligence Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom Guides McClelland: One of the things that piqued my interest in the ISTE U course was that I didn't know much about using AI. The instructor was really supportive.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 19, 2023

When we use the internet, we leave a trail of data behind us. This data tells a story about us – what we like, what we do, and how we behave online. They can use it to show us personalized ads and make their products or services more appealing to us.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In the early stages of a startup your hypotheses about all the parts of your business model are your profound beliefs. I was an aggressive, young and a very tactical VP of marketing at Ardent , a supercomputer company – who really hadn’t a clue about the relationship between profound beliefs, customer discovery and strategy.

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MAY 18, 2023

In this post we sit down with Brett Mullins, a winner of the Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge and a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Name: Brett Mullins ¶ Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia ¶ Tell us a little about yourself. This paper is part of an emerging area called Formal XAI.

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Hacker News

MARCH 18, 2024

I hate having to use that word - "alleged" - because it's so inconclusive and I know it will leave people with many unanswered questions. But sometimes, "alleged" is just where we need to begin and over the course of time, proper attribution is made and the dots are joined. For my part, I've got 4.8M

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Meet Brilliant Labs AI glasses, aka Frame, the smart glasses that are promising to change the way we interact with the world. With Frame, you can do all sorts of cool things without lifting a finger—from finding information and translating languages to getting directions and more—all with just your voice. And the best part?

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Hacker News

JUNE 1, 2023

Which is what I thought the statement said. In my talk at the RSA Conference last month, I talked about the power level of our species becoming too great for our systems of governance. Surely we can spend the same effort on AI risk as we do on future pandemics. That’s a really low bar.”

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Flipboard

JUNE 17, 2023

People will use AI for every possible purpose: the good, the bad, and the evil. We’ve heard a lot about the evil, but there’s also a tremendous amount of good that can be done with AI as a tool. At some point, do we think of these things as entities that are peers of ours that we share this Earth with?

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Flipboard

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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.

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Flipboard

MARCH 18, 2023

The people behind OpenAI have written that they think the best way to handle powerful AI systems is to develop and release them as quickly as possible, and that’s certainly what they’re doing. Also on Tuesday, I sat down with Holden Karnofsky, the co-founder and co-CEO of Open Philanthropy, to talk about AI and where it’s taking us.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 7, 2024

The “Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” has sparked intense debate among US lawmakers, tech giants, and the public alike. "This bill is not a ban, and it’s not really about @tiktok_us. What is the bill about? What did TikTok say about the bill?

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. As Rick Rubin said in his recent book The Creative Act , “If we’re aiming to create works that are exceptional, most rules don’t apply.” We had teenagers but not adults. No such guide exists.

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Flipboard

JANUARY 5, 2024

With the technology itself evolving rapidly, establishing a framework for examining its implications is critical; we need to know what questions to ask, and to continue asking, even as the answers continuously change. Here are three methods our team has been using. To advance the teaching and learning experience.

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Towards AI

APRIL 7, 2024

We might not even get a signal of why or where our model fails. But how can we ensure that the model does not fail silently? Well, we cannot. But we can reduce the probability. But we can reduce the probability. We must build a prototype and iterate to identify issues and improvements. They will not.

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Flipboard

DECEMBER 17, 2023

AI use is skyrocketing in the workplace, with over half of companies now employing generative AI tools to enhance productivity and creativity, despite concerns about regulation and job loss. The 2024 Workplace will see employees using AI, ChatGPT and similar generative AI applications much more frequently.

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Flipboard

OCTOBER 16, 2023

What is Neuralink for? Launched in 2016, the company revealed in 2019 that it had created flexible “threads” that can be implanted into a brain , along with a sewing-machine-like robot to do the implanting. million people are living with paralysis in the US alone. We have to prepare ourselves for what’s coming.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

“Why can we only get lamb in the US, as opposed to mutton?” That’s what Bobbie Kramer, a veterinarian near Portland, Oregon, was wondering when she responded to our recent call for reader questions about where their food comes from. “As What happens to the mutton-aged sheep here?”

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JULY 11, 2023

Dear NewPipe community and other beloved creatures, You might have already noticed this: Searching “NewPipe” via Google will yield plenty information about the project, but a link to the official website is missing. The team is currently discussing what to do about the situation. Regards, Schabi

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Flipboard

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Computers are really good at doing tedious things. We don’t have to do all the tedious stuff. We can let the computer do it. And then we can interpret the answer and think about what it tells us about the decisions we need to make.” We can let the computer do it.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Located in the Caribbean, the country, home to about 15,000 people, has a unique and suddenly in-demand resource. I started out doing an email business, because there wasn’t any email or Internet on this island. He said, there’s nobody running.ai, do you want to run.ai? And we got it back. And we’re doing it locally.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 12, 2024

As crazy as it sounds, we are here to list the best humanoid robot for sale alternatives in 2024. Yes, you heard us right, humanoid robots straight out of sci-fi movies are ready to walk among us! Imagine having your own personal robot that can do everything from making breakfast to playing chess with you.

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Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Developers and researchers face a number of complex problems that require deep understanding and solutions – we will talk about this with Egger Mielberg, the founder of Arllecta. What criteria do they fail to meet? Neural networks do not have a true understanding of context.

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Chatbots Life

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

As we gear up for the much-anticipated Chatbot Conference this November, we find ourselves constantly driven by one central purpose: to serve the vibrant community of professionals, enthusiasts, and enterprises navigating the rich landscape of Conversational AI and LLMs. Share your suggestions and questions on our Google Form.

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Hacker News

APRIL 8, 2024

In fact, we have been dealing with those in Rails for years now as well. But once you see “trees everywhere” it is hard not to think about optimising using trees. When we look at our React components, we will see it output a tree of rendered components (how exactly it “outputs” is not relevant for the conversation).

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O'Reilly Media

MARCH 26, 2024

We have many current and future copyright challenges: training may not infringe copyright, but legal doesn’t mean legitimate—we consider the analogy of MegaFace where surveillance models have been trained on photos of minors, for example, without informed consent. Because, in some sense, hallucination is all LLMs do.

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 13, 2023

During a special pre-event interaction, we delved into the perspective of JJ Asghar, a Developer Advocate at IBM. We invite you to join us in exploring JJ’s insights and forecasts as they shape the course of what promises to be an unforgettable experience at Global DevSlam: 1. Thank you for having me!

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