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New Study Reveals Data Management Is a Top Challenge in the AI Revolution  

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According to a new global study conducted by S&P Global Market Intelligence and commissioned by WEKA, the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) by enterprises and research organizations seeking to create new value propositions is accelerating, but data infrastructure and AI sustainability challenges present barriers to implementing it successfully at scale.

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Building Custom Q&A Applications Using LangChain and Pinecone Vector Database

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Introduction The advent of large language models is one of our time’s most exciting technological developments. It has opened up endless possibilities in artificial intelligence, offering solutions to real-world problems across various industries. One of the fascinating applications of these models is developing custom question-answering or chatbots that draw from personal or organizational data sources. […] The post Building Custom Q&A Applications Using LangChain and Pinecone

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Atari Tempest: Time-Lapse Photography (2016)

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Thought we'd try something different this week. For the record, I am definitely a 'point and click' photographer - my mobile phone has always been my camera of choice. The extent of my photography skills is using an image size optimiser for the pictures I post here on the blog.

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What is Responsible AI and Why Do We Need It?

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Introduction The infamous case of Microsoft’s AI chatbot Tay is a stark reminder of the potential pitfalls in AI deployment. Tay’s introduction to Twitter on March 23, 2016, showcased how AI when exposed to inappropriate content, can quickly devolve into generating offensive and harmful responses. In just a day, the chatbot transformed into a platform […] The post What is Responsible AI and Why Do We Need It?

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

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?

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W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring

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Sixty-nine (nice, but in Elvish) years ago this week, the godfather of high fantasy, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, published the first novel in a proposed three-volume epic “largely concerned with hobbits.

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Schools are teaching ChatGPT, so students aren’t left behind

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New York CNN — When college administrator Lance Eaton created a working spreadsheet about the generative AI policies adopted by universities last spring, it was mostly filled with entries about how to ban tools like ChatGPT.

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China, U.S. Test Intelligent-Drone Swarms in Race for Military AI Dominance

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The U.S. and China are accelerating research on how to integrate artificial intelligence into their militaries as part of a global race to take advantage of the fast-developing technology.

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AMD's 7900 XTX achieves better value for Stable Diffusion than Nvidia RTX 4080

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NVIDIA is absolutely dominating the AI conversation right and for good measure - their GPUs perform out-of-the-box and are a top choice for professionals and businesses that want to dabble […]

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AI and the tyranny of the data commons

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The myth of data as a non-rival resource needs to be abandoned. I am here to tell you the sad but true story of the demise of the sharing economy. Remember how we were told, back in the 1990s and 2000s, that we were contributing to the creation of the largest commons known to humanity?

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Onsen: A Peek into Japan’s Hot Springs

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Editor’s Note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a three-part article. We thank our avid reader “S” who suggested this topic and graciously helped with our research. Could a nation’s bathing culture be influenced by its geology?

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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Federal judge rules that AI art can't be copyrighted

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Stop trying to make AI copyrights happen. It is not going to happen. There has been a debate raging over whether or not work created by generative artificial intelligence can be copyrighted. Some judges have ruled no, of course not, that would be absurd; others have argued the opposite.

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MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code – CHM

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The Apple Macintosh combined brilliant design in hardware and in software. The drawing program MacPaint, which was released with the computer in January of 1984, was an example of that brilliance both in what it did, and in how it was implemented.

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17 Critical Skills For The AI “Techie”

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AI will gift us with more benefits and advantages than any other invention or discovery in history. But it will also require more skills and mastery than anything else.

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Executive Function Theft

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The phrase arrived in my head so completely formed and concrete that I couldn't believe it wasn't already established in the lexicon, but at least preliminary searches suggest it is not.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

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.

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Scientists Uncover Biological Echoes in Powerful AI Transformer Models

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"Having remained electrically silent for over a century of brain recordings, astrocytes are one of the most abundant, yet less explored, cells in the brain.

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Programming Language choices: Pascal, LOGO, Forth, Prolog, C (1986) [video]

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Training an RAF air traffic controller costs around £86,000. Lesley Judd tries out the multi-million-pound simulator at RAF Shawbury, and reports on a new micro-based training aid that will soon be installed in control towers around the country. How many languages do you speak? Most home micros come with only one - BASIC. It's fashionable to knock BASIC, so Fred Harris considers learning some other languages, like PASCAL, LOGO and C.

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Companies struggle to deploy AI due to high costs and confusion

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Behind the hype of generative AI, large companies are struggling to deploy the new technology — hitting cost and data management hurdles that are …

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Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush hush’

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For years, cops and other government authorities all over the world have been using phone hacking technology provided by Cellebrite to unlock phones and obtain the data within. And the company has been keen on keeping the use of its technology “hush hush.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

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.

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5 ways enterprise leaders can use large language models to unlock new possibilities

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It’s highly unlikely that you’ve missed the buzz surrounding generative AI, and specifically large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT.

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Amsterdam to use “noise cameras” against too loud cars

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Amsterdam has started the fight against noisy motorcycles and cars. On Friday, the city placed electric road signs in two places to warn road users if their vehicles are too loud. The warnings will eventually be replaced by “noise cameras,” which, like speed cameras, automatically send a fine to the offending driver, Parool reports.

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SheetGPT Revolutionizes Google Sheets with AI Integration

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In a significant leap forward for productivity and data analysis, SheetGPT has emerged as a transformative tool by seamlessly integrating artificial …

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Why old books smell so good

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The distinctive scent of old books comes from volatile organic compounds released as the materials decay over time. Scientists analyze these chemical clues to reveal secrets about a historical tome's age, condition, and past.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

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.

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How to use ChatGPT to automate affiliate marketing

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ChatGPT is disrupting a massive variety of different sectors and the world of online marketing is no exception.

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Welcome to Datasette Cloud

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Datasette Cloud is the new SaaS hosting platform for the Datasette open source project. It enables teams to create a private collaboration space, upload and share data securely with each other, and then selectively publish that data to the world.

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How Would You Learn Anything with ChatGPT Easily?

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Last Updated on August 20, 2023 by Editorial Team Author(s): Gencay I. Originally published on Towards AI. Start Learning Faster with ChatGPT: Explore How This AI Tool Can Help You. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Created with leonardo.ai Learning is the key to evolution. You should learn and then test the things you’ve learned to build a neural path in your mind.

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Electrical detection of RNA cancer biomarkers at the single-molecule level

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Early screening methods offer a promising avenue to reduce mortality rates of cancer, notably through the analysis of biomarkers in liquid biopsies. Biologists have shown how the electrical detection of nucleic acids at the single molecule level can facilitate such applications.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

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.

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A Framework For Efficiently Serving Your Large Language Models

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Last Updated on August 20, 2023 by Editorial Team Author(s): Zoumana Keita Originally published on Towards AI. Serve your large language models just like you would using OpenAI API but at no cost This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Photo by Austrian National Library on Unsplash There has been a lot of enthusiasm in the last couple of months around using Large Language Models.

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UCLA floor tiles decoded, pay homage to first internet message (2013)

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A hidden message left by a UCLA architect in 2011 was recently uncovered in Boelter Hall, where sharp-eyed passersby can spot a coded note in the pattern of floor tiles.

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Here Are the Top AI Stories You Missed This Week

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Take a quick look at the newest and weirdest happenings in AI. If you’re behind on what’s happening with the robot uprising, have no fear.

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Microsoft retracts AI-written article advising tourists to visit a food bank

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Microsoft reportedly published — and retracted — an AI-generated article that recommended people visit a Canadian food bank as a tourist attraction.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

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.