insideBIGDATA
AUGUST 31, 2023
Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Data Science Dojo
AUGUST 31, 2023
Approximately 313 million people speak Arabic, making it the fifth most-spoken language globally. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has made significant strides in the field of artificial intelligence and language technology by launching a large Arabic language model. This development involves the creation of advanced AI software, such as Jais, an open-source Arabic Large Language Model (LLM) with high-quality capabilities.
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KDnuggets
AUGUST 31, 2023
The Burtch Works 2023 Data Science & AI Professionals salary report is here, and includes insightful data such as hiring and marketplace trends, compensation changes over time, and salary data. Get your copy here.
Analytics Vidhya
AUGUST 31, 2023
Introduction In the swiftly evolving Generative AI landscape, a new era has arrived. This transformative shift brings unprecedented advancements to AI applications, with Chatbots at the forefront. These AI-powered conversational agents simulate human-like interactions, reshaping communication for businesses and individuals. The term “Gen AI Era” emphasizes advanced AI’s role in shaping the future. “Unlocked potential” […] The post Building A Model From Scratch
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
KDnuggets
AUGUST 31, 2023
Buckle up for the Generative AI gold rush! Will BigTech rule with its picks and shovels? Which startups will strike it rich? Will “copilot for X” be the business strategy to hit pay dirt? How can startups dig moats to keep out other prospectors? And will the US once again have the richest gold seams?
Analytics Vidhya
AUGUST 31, 2023
Introduction The transition from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4 in the generative artificial intelligence (AI) realm marks a transformative leap in language generation and comprehension. GPT-4, short for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4,” is the culmination of iterative advancements, harnessing improved architecture and training methods. While GPT-3.5 showcased impressive prowess in comprehending context and producing coherent text, GPT-4 […] The post Generative AI’s Shift From GP
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Analytics Vidhya
AUGUST 31, 2023
In a significant stride towards combating the surge of misleading content, Google has introduced an innovative solution that brings a new layer of defense against the onslaught of deepfakes. This pioneering endeavor employs invisible watermarks, like secret shields, on images created using AI technology. The watermarking tool, named “SynthID,” is a product of the innovative […] The post Google Watermarks AI-Generated Images to Shield Against Deepfakes appeared first on Analytic
KDnuggets
AUGUST 31, 2023
These are my predictions based on my personal experiences, recent research and reports from leading platforms.
Analytics Vidhya
AUGUST 31, 2023
Google has unleashed a game-changing innovation set to redefine how Indians and Japanese explore the vast realm of information. Building upon the immense capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI), Google’s newly introduced AI-powered search tool, known as the Search Generative Experience (SGE), is primed to elevate the search experience to unparalleled heights.
KDnuggets
AUGUST 31, 2023
And why you should learn how to use them to filter Python sequences more elegantly.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
databricks
AUGUST 31, 2023
For a limited time, we are offering 20% off our public instructor-led training with the code: dU0ChfGA1 Value of Databricks Training The explosion.
Hacker News
AUGUST 31, 2023
Oxygen-28 might prompt physicists to revamp theories of how atomic nuclei are structured. Oxygen-28 might prompt physicists to revamp theories of how atomic nuclei are structured.
AUGUST 31, 2023
Given the staggering pace of generative AI development, it’s no wonder that so many executives are tempted by the possibilities of AI, concerned about finding and retaining qualified workers, and humbled by recent market corrections or missed analyst expectations. They envision a future of work without nearly as many people as today. But this is a miscalculation.
Hacker News
AUGUST 31, 2023
California Forever is a California company backed by California investors that's proposing to build a new walkable community, a large solar farm, and an agriculture and open space green belt on 60,000 acres in eastern Solano County.
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
AUGUST 31, 2023
A view showing the parts of the world covered by SATLAS using images from Sentinel-2 satellites. | Image: Allen Institute for AI A first-of-its-kind map of renewable energy projects and tree coverage around the world launched today, and it uses generative AI to essentially sharpen images taken from space. It’s all part of a new tool called Satlas from the Allen Institute for AI, founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Hacker News
AUGUST 31, 2023
A new technique analysing modern genetic data suggests that pre-humans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals. A new technique analysing modern genetic data suggests that pre-humans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals.
AUGUST 31, 2023
Need a place to shout into the void about AI? There's a new form for you to fill out. Meta, the maker of Facebook and Instagram, introduced a new form that lets you ask, pretty please, for the company not to use your data to train its AI models. Sort of.
Hacker News
AUGUST 31, 2023
Child safety group Heat Initiative plans to launch a campaign pressing Apple on child sexual abuse material scanning and user reporting. The company issued a rare, detailed response on Thursday.
Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst
We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.
AUGUST 31, 2023
It’s not only programming, journalism and content moderation that OpenAI is seeking to revolutionize with the use of its landmark large language models (LLM) GPT-3, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.
Hacker News
AUGUST 31, 2023
Weâre releasing a guide for teachers using ChatGPT in their classroomâincluding suggested prompts, an explanation of how ChatGPT works and its limitations, the efficacy of AI detectors, and bias.
AUGUST 31, 2023
Habana's new Gaudi HPU (Habana Processing Unit) has been show to eat Nvidia's lunch when training Visual-Language (VL) models, showcasing a fast-changing AI acceleration landscape that likely won't be
Hacker News
AUGUST 31, 2023
Animated Knots is the world's leading site for learning how to tie knots of any kind. From Boating Knots, Fishing Knots and Climbing Knots to how to tie a Tie, or even Surgical Knots — we’ve got it covered.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
AUGUST 31, 2023
Deploying a large language model on your own system can be surprisingly simple—if you have the right tools. Here's how to use LLMs like Meta's new Code Llama on your desktop.
Hacker News
AUGUST 31, 2023
European Union regulators had in July opened an antitrust investigation into Microsoft's bundling of Teams with other Office products, citing anti-competitive concerns.
AUGUST 31, 2023
"I realize it's not going to happen overnight, but the little things — reaching up to my chin, being able to touch my other hand, rub my cheek when I …
Hacker News
AUGUST 31, 2023
This blogpost explains and argues the claim that Ad-hoc polymorphism (Type-classes in Haskell/Scala/Purescript, Traits in Rust, Interfaces in Go/Java) makes code less type-safe.In other words: ad-hoc polymorphism makes it so that sometimes, after a refactor, code that is wrong and would not type-check without it, now still type-checks.
Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science
Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.
AUGUST 31, 2023
The threat in question is called a "prompt injection" attack, and it involves the large language models that power chatbots. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a warning this week about the growing danger of “prompt injection” attacks against applications built using AI.
Hacker News
AUGUST 31, 2023
Discover why the best coffee equipment is so good: Bialetti's Moka Express, the AeroPress, a Porlex ceramic burr grinder, and the Fellow Stagg EKG kettle.
AUGUST 31, 2023
Nearly 20% of the top 1000 websites in the world are blocking crawler bots that gather web data for AI services, according to new data from …
Hacker News
AUGUST 31, 2023
Tribes and communities along the Klamath River wait anxiously to see what the future holds. “Once a river is dammed, is it damned forever?” experts ask.
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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.
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