Back to Basics Week 4: Advanced Topics and Deployment
KDnuggets
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Welcome back to Week 4 of KDnuggets’ "Back to Basics" series. This week, we will dive into more advanced topics such as neural networks and deployment.
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Shaping the Future of Work: Insights from Meta’s Arpit Agarwal
Analytics Vidhya
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the workplace, with remote work becoming a lasting norm. In this episode of Leading with Data, Arpit Agarwal from Meta discusses how the future of work involves virtual reality, enabling remote collaboration that mirrors in-person experiences. Arpit shares insights from his journey, emphasizing pivotal moments and the challenges of analytics […] The post Shaping the Future of Work: Insights from Meta’s Arpit Agarwal appeared first on Analytics Vi
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Heard on the Street – 11/27/2023
insideBIGDATA
NOVEMBER 27, 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.
Large language models are zero-shot reasoners – Using a pre-trained language model
Data Science Dojo
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Zero-shot reasoning is the ability of a large language model to generate responses without any prior specific training. Zero-shot prompting involves posing a question or task to the model without providing any specific context or examples. To put it simply, it involves providing a single question or instruction to a large language model without any additional context or examples.
What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?
Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate
Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.
How Jensen Huang's Nvidia is powering the A.I. revolution
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
The company’s C.E.O. bet it all on a new kind of chip. Now that Nvidia is one of the biggest companies in the world, what will he do next?
Unpacking the hype around OpenAI’s rumored new Q* model
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
If OpenAI's new model can solve grade-school math, it could pave the way for more powerful systems.
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The 6 next big things in AI and data for 2023
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
These innovations are putting AI to work right now, in areas ranging from customer service to video production to software engineering. One year ago, the appearance of OpenAI’s ChatGPT set off an AI arms race among Big Tech companies.
After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
The long-running publication has come to an end.
GenAI Could Transform How Health Care Works
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Consider how Napster, the networked file sharing system, upended the music industry. The emergence of generative AI language models like ChatGPT, has much in common with this Napster-initiated inflection point: a breakthrough technology with breathtakingly fast adoption, appropriation of other people’s data (OPD), and predictions of doom and obsolescence.
Section 702 Surveillance Reauthorization May Get Slipped Into ‘Must-Pass’ NDAA
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Congressional leaders are discussing ways to reauthorize Section 702 surveillance, including by attaching it to the National Defense Authorization Act, Capitol Hill sources tell WIRED.
Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data
Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage
There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.
The legal framework for AI is being built in real time, and a ruling in the Sarah Silverman case should give publishers pause
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
That an AI model was trained on copyrighted material does not make all of the model’s outputs a copyright violation. When the comedian Sarah Silverman sued Meta over its AI model LLaMA this summer, it was pretty big news. (And that is, of course, kind of the point.
Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.
How Companies Can Build Trustworthy AI Assistants
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
The journey of the AI assistant is already well underway. We’re seeing the evolution to agent take shape in three phases: assistant, concierge, and agent. This evolution is exciting and promises to make our lives much easier — eliminating mundane tasks and helping us become more productive. But anyone who has ever had an assistant knows that the relationship only works if there is trust.
It's Still Very Funny That 1,000 People Gave Tesla $250,000 For A Roadster Six Years Ago
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
The Tesla Semi launch event was held on November 16th, 2017, exactly six years ago last week. At the end of that launch event, Elon Musk had a signature “one more thing” that was the unveiling of the incredible second-generation Tesla Roadster. Back then the car was promised to be delivered in 2020, which obviously… Read more.
How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control
Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives
Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri
OpenAI's Chaos Linked to Super Powerful New AI It Secretly Built
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
OpenAI's latest AI could represent a "tremendous leap" forward.
$10M AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
XTX Markets is launching a new $10mn challenge fund, the Artificial Intelligence Mathematical Olympiad Prize (AI-MO Prize). The fund intends to spur the development of AI models that can reason mathematically, leading to the creation of a publicly-shared AI model capable of winning a gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).
How AI 'sees' the world – what happened when we trained a deep learning model to identify poverty
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
To most effectively deliver aid to alleviate poverty, you have to know where the people most in need are.
An Ancient Art Form Topples Assumptions about Mathematics
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
The sand drawings of Vanuatu follow principles from a branch of mathematics known as graph theory
Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work
Speaker: Frank Taliano
Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.
Your pitch deck needs to be machine-readable
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Keep the machines in mind; they are more pervasive than you might think. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
The horror of logging in only to find everything since May has vanished
Elon Musk’s xAI will launch ‘Grok’ chatbot this week: Here’s what to expect
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
xAI, the company Elon Musk founded to take on OpenAI and other startups racing in the elusive AI space, is set to launch its first offering ‘Grok’ this week.
How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
AI Can Fix Your DeFi Smart Contracts, Researchers Claim
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Lightning Cat is an AI model trained to catch blockchain problems before they can be exploited by armies of bots and hackers.
Prettier $20k Bounty was Claimed
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Prettier, a JavaScript code formatter, has seen an incredible adoption thanks to its careful handling of the very, very, long tail of ways people can write code. At this point, the formatting logic has been solid and after our work on [ternaries]([link] lands, it will be in a happy state.
AI can predict when massive rogue waves will strike next
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Scientists train an AI on 700 years' worth of ocean data to build an equation that can predict when these "maritime monsters" will strike.
Meta Designed Products to Capitalize on Teen Vulnerabilities, States Allege
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Newly unredacted documents in complaint by attorneys general show Meta conversations about age, product design and potential harms
Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting
Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street
In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.
‘Make it more’: generative AI memes explode onto the internet
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Memes have been around since the earliest days of the consumer world wide web — those of us with birth years beginning with “19” will likely recall the dancing baby, dancing hamsters, and “You’re the man now, dog,” among others.
Simplifying Transformer Blocks
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
A simple design recipe for deep Transformers is to compose identical building blocks. But standard transformer blocks are far from simple, interweaving attention and MLP sub-blocks with skip connections & normalisation layers in precise arrangements. This complexity leads to brittle architectures, where seemingly minor changes can significantly reduce training speed, or render models untrainable.
OpenAI’s board might have been dysfunctional–but they made the right choice. Their defeat shows that in the battle between AI profits and ethics, it’s no contest
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
OpenAI employees may not like the board’s retort that allowing the company to be destroyed would be consistent with the mission–but they saw it this way.
Nutrient found in beef and dairy improves immune response to cancer
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Scientists at UChicago discover that trans-vaccenic acid (TVA), a fatty acid found in beef, lamb, and dairy products, improves the ability of immune cells to fight tumors.
The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide
Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring
Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?
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