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insideBIGDATA Latest News – 9/21/2023

insideBIGDATA

In this regular column, we’ll bring you all the latest industry news centered around our main topics of focus: big data, data science, machine learning, AI, and deep learning. Our industry is constantly accelerating with new products and services being announced everyday. Fortunately, we’re in close touch with vendors from this vast ecosystem, so we’re in a unique position to inform you about all that’s new and exciting.

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How Generative AI is disrupting data practices

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Sponsored Content By Bill Hammond, Event Director, Big Data London Generative AI has created a shift in how we interact with and utilise data, with Read more »

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insideBIGDATA Latest News – 9/22/2023

insideBIGDATA

In this regular column, we’ll bring you all the latest industry news centered around our main topics of focus: big data, data science, machine learning, AI, and deep learning. Our industry is constantly accelerating with new products and services being announced everyday. Fortunately, we’re in close touch with vendors from this vast ecosystem, so we’re in a unique position to inform you about all that’s new and exciting.

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Machine Learning Evaluation Metrics: Theory and Overview

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High-level exploration of evaluation metrics in machine learning and their importance.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

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

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Suppressing negative thoughts may be good for mental health after all

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Researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit trained 120 volunteers worldwide to suppress thoughts about negative events that worried them, and found that not

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The WebP 0day

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Early last week, Google released a new stable update for Chrome. The update included a single security fix that was reported by Apple's Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) team.

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Traditional AI vs Generative AI

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Helping beginners understand the difference between traditional AI and generative AI.

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Cisco pulled out of SentinelOne acquisition after due diligence

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The global IT giant was on the verge of acquiring the cybersecurity firm when it discovered inaccuracies in its ARR, which SentinelOne ultimately announced when it published its first quarter results in early June

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AI startup Gizmo raises $3.5M by using gamified quizzes and flashcards to make learning fun

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Gizmo, a generative AI learning startup that uses gamified quizzes to engage learners, today announced $3.5 million in seed funding from NFX, Ada Ventures, and Capital T. The company will use the funding to scale its platform globally, hire more engineers and roll out new features.

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The Definitive Entity Resolution Buyer’s Guide

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.

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Wine's True Origins Are Finally Revealed

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Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Generative AI Is Breathing New Life Into Classic Computer Games

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Generative AI has the potential to revolutionize every creative industry, and the gaming industry is no exception. Game worlds are getting richer, more immersive, and in many ways closer to being simulations of our own "real" world.

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STAT+: They carry a gene for ALS but aren’t sick. What does medical research owe them?

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Nine months after her mom died of ALS, Jean Swidler walked into a doctor’s office at Columbia University and asked to learn her own fate. A genetic counselor swabbed her cheek or took a blood sample — Swidler can’t remember which — and called the next month. Gently, the counselor told her she had the same mutation as her mom.

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Adding AI to Web3 will spark a Cambrian explosion of innovation — but not anytime soon

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Blockchain and AI's synergistic combination will create technology beyond today’s wildest imagination. But true AI-Web3 integration remains a difficult affair.

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Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor

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Since its launch in 2017, Harness, the software delivery platform founded by AppDynamics founder and CEO Jyoti Bansal, expanded from being continuous code deployment to covering continuous integration, feature flags, cloud cost management, security testing orchestration, chaos engineering and more. But even though it focused heavily on GitOps, it never offered its own Git repositories.

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Major new Bing AI features revealed during the Microsoft Surface event

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See the biggest announcements, including AI image generation powered by DALL-E 3. Microsoft has more updates to share about its AI chatbot that's setting the bar for what can be done with search.

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Lead poisoning causes more death, IQ loss than thought: study

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Lead poisoning has a far greater impact on global health than previously thought, potentially contributing to over five million deaths a year and posing a similar threat to air pollution, modeling research suggested Tuesday.

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AI Showdown, Part 2: ChatGPT, Claude, Bing, And Bard Tackle Blogging

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In my last article, Part 1 of the AI Showdown series, I shared my surprise when speaking with a prospect who hadn’t heard of Claude or Bard, two of the major generative AI tools making news. That surprise led me to organize this AI showdown.

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Luiz André Barroso has died

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Brazilian engineer Luiz André Barroso, who ripped up the rulebook at Google, has died. His radical ideas for data centers laid the foundations for cloud computing.

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The Download: what’s next for supercomputers, and electrifying everything

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Plus: ChatGPT is moving into image making This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on …

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Digging In: Why Don’t Americans Eat Mutton?

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“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 a meat eater, I enjoy the flavor and texture of lamb. But I’d love to try mutton. I know that in other parts of the world, lamb and mutton are more economical and popular to raise than cattle,” she writes.

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AI Companies Desperately Hiring Authors and Poets to Fix Their Crappy Writing

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Dead Poets Society It's an open secret that generative AI is terrible at coming up with original and creative writing.

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Technique for 3D printing metals at the nanoscale reveals surprise benefit

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Late last year, Caltech researchers revealed that they had developed a new fabrication technique for printing microsized metal parts containing features about as thick as three or four sheets of paper.

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IBM TechXchange underscores the importance of AI skilling and partner innovation

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Generative AI and large language models are poised to impact how we all access and use information. But as organizations race to adopt these new technologies for business, it requires a global ecosystem of partners with industry expertise to identify the right enterprise use-cases for AI and the technical skills to implement the technology. During TechXchange , IBM’s premier technical learning event in Las Vegas last week, IBM Partner Plus members including our Strategic Partners, reseller

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“The Poet Is a Man Who Feigns”

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Portuguese modernist Fernando Pessoa channeled a grand, glorious chorus of writers—heteronyms, he called them—robust inventions of his unique imagination.

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Op-ed: What writers can learn from mathematicians about working with AI

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September is usually filled with weary groanings and anxious energy as summer comes to its official end. But this year has found a new level of anguish, for in just a few months’ time, artificial intelligence tools have moved from novel party tricks to automated all-purpose machines.

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Volvo to cease production of diesel cars in a few months

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Volvo Cars said on Tuesday that it will end production of any remaining diesel models by early 2024 as it heads towards becoming an all-electric carmaker.

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YouTube reveals powerful new AI tools for content creators – and we’re scared, frankly

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YouTube has announced a whole bunch of AI-powered tools (on top of its existing bits and pieces) that are designed to make life easier for content …

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Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Splunk is taking the next step in our journey to realize our vision for the future of security and observability by joining forces with Cisco.

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Cisco to buy Splunk in $28B bid to secure enterprises in AI era

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Estimated to be worth $28 billion, Cisco's planned acquisition of Splunk will form one of the world's largest software vendors that will look to help …

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