insideBIGDATA
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Anyscale, the AI infrastructure company built by the creators of Ray, the world’s fastest-growing open-source unified framework for scalable computing, today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to further boost the performance and efficiency of large language model (LLM) development on Ray and the Anyscale Platform for production AI.
KDnuggets
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
If you're looking for a hands-on experience with a detailed yet beginner-friendly tutorial on implementing Linear Regression using Scikit-learn, you're in for an engaging journey.
insideBIGDATA
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Kinetica, the speed layer for generative AI and real-time analytics, announced a native Large Language Model (LLM) combined with Kinetica’s innovative architecture that allows users to perform ad-hoc data analysis on real-time, structured data at speed using natural language. Unlike with public LLMs, no external API call is required and data never leaves the customer’s environment.
KDnuggets
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
A practical walkthrough for random forests in Python.
Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk
Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. They're often developing using prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning (up to and including Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)), typically in that order. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are le
insideBIGDATA
SEPTEMBER 18, 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 Current brings together the best content for data science professionals from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Hello Windows Insiders, Today we are beginning to roll out an update for the Paint app to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels (version 11.2308.18.0 or higher). With this update, we are introducing support for layers and transparency!
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
A New York Times article this morning, titled “How to Tell if Your AI Is Conscious,” says that in a new report, “scientists offer a list of measurable qualities” based on a “brand-new” science of consciousness.
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Wiz Research found a data exposure incident on Microsoft’s AI GitHub repository, including over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages – all caused by one misconfigured SAS token
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
An ex-Google employee who is concerned that tech giants – including his former employer – are trying to "monopolize" artificial intelligence in order to consolidate their economic power has launched a new open-sourced AI protocol, which he says will allow anyone with the right skills to build their …
Advertisement
Are you thinking of adding enhanced data matching and relationship detection to your product or service? Do you need to know more about what to look for when assessing your options? The Senzing Entity Resolution Buyer’s Guide gives you step-by-step details about everything you should consider when evaluating entity resolution technologies. You’ll learn about use cases, technology and deployment options, top ten evaluation criteria and more.
DeepMind
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
We've released a catalogue of ‘missense’ mutations where researchers can learn more about what effect they may have. Missense variants are genetic mutations that can affect the function of human proteins. In some cases, they can lead to diseases such as cystic fibrosis, sickle-cell anaemia, or cancer. The AlphaMissense catalogue was developed using AlphaMissense, our new AI model which classifies missense variants.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
In enterprise healthcare, there are many “Jobs to be Done” (JTBD) for AI. To this end, we present the first part of the 6th episode of the Digital Health Go-to-Market Playbook series –Commercializing AI in Healthcare. This piece, Part A, uses Clay Christensen’s Jobs to be Done lens, along with an assessment of viable product wedges and business models, to share what we see as the most promising applications of AI in enterprise healthcare.
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
You've probably heard of the famous 'thank you for playing Wing Commander' story. It claims that a programmer on the original Wing Commander was stuck getting an error message when the game unloaded its memory during a quit. Pressed for time, instead of fixing the issue he simply hex edited the memory manager's error reporting to print 'thank you for playing Wing Commander' instead.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
An internet watchdog is sounding the alarm over the growing trend of sex offenders collaborating online to use open source artificial intelligence to generate child sexual abuse material.
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Today we’re expanding the list of devices that can run Tailscale, bringing secure remote networking to the Apple TV. The newly released tvOS 17 offers support for VPNs, and we’re proud to say Tailscale is among the first to use this new feature. You can now add your Apple TV directly to your tailnet, unlocking three powerful new use cases that we’re excited to share.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Amid the generative AI eruption, innovation directors are bolstering their business’ IT department in pursuit of customized chatbots or LLMs. They want ChatGPT but with domain-specific information underpinning vast functionality, data security and compliance, and improved accuracy and relevance.
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Many consumers buying over-the-counter omega-3 fatty acid supplements may be getting rancid pills, according to a new study published Sept. 7 by researchers at the George Washington University. Derived from plants (algae) as well as seafood (fish, krill, etc.) , omega-3 supplements—sometimes labeled as fish oil—are often taken because of research that suggests they may provide health benefits.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
From fraud detection to agricultural crop monitoring, a new wave of tech startups has emerged, all armed with the conviction that their use of AI will address the challenges presented by the modern world.
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
In a virtual reality study that sheds light on the intricacies of human-robot interactions, researchers have discovered that humans are capable of experiencing empathic embarrassment when witnessing robots go through embarrassing situations.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
In a sea of helpful AI tools, these three are easy to use, powerful, and reasonably priced. There are the three Rs that consistently keep me from getting real work done each day: research (on the web), replying (to email), and records (of meetings).
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
On September 14, the final day of the 2023 legislative session, the California Senate finally passed Senate Bill 362. Also known as the "Delete Act," the new law is designed to provide consumers in the most populous US state a new right to privacy against the commercial interests of data.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
As part of the learning curve with AI and LLMs, experiment all you want, but take the results with some skepticism, especially if you’re using it to write your code.
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Autoworker pay at "The Big Three" works on a tiered system, where more recent hires start at lower rates of pay than more tenured workers.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Suleyman gave his opinion on the state of AI in an interview with MIT Technology Review last week. He said the first wave of AI was classification, with deep learning classifying types of input data such as images and audio. The second, current AI wave is generative, which takes that.
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
OpenRA is an open source project that recreates and modernizes classic real time strategy games, like Red Alert, Command & Conquer, and Dune 2000.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Writer, the three-year-old San Francisco startup that has, since its inception, focused on building out a secure generative AI platform for enterprises to help them across functions, announced it has raised $100 million in Series B funding today, in a round led by ICONIQ Growth with participation …
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
For many, many years we’ve detailed how big pharma companies, who only care about the monopoly rents they can receive on medicine while under patent, have concocted all sorts of scams and schemes to avoid having to compete with generic versions, even after their patents have expired (or been invalidated).
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
If you're wondering about the AI tool everyone's been buzzing about, you're not alone. In the past few decades, communication technology has evolved at an incredible pace. The latest innovation making headlines? ChatGPT, the AI-powered large language model, developed by OpenAI.
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
A pioneering study has shed new light on North African humid periods that have occurred over the past 800,000 years and explains why the Sahara Desert was periodically green.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Media technologists see promise in generative AI harnessed to be tools, not replacements, for local reporters. Mark Talkington runs a lean operation at the Palm Springs Post, a small, bootstrapped local news outlet he started two-and-a-half years ago to cover the nuts and bolts of local government.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
289 
Let's personalize your content