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insideBIGDATA AI News Briefs Bulletin Board

insideBIGDATA

Welcome insideBIGDATA AI News Briefs Bulletin Board, our timely new feature bringing you the latest industry insights and perspectives surrounding the field of AI including deep learning, large language models, generative AI, and transformers. We’re working tirelessly to dig up the most timely and curious tidbits underlying the day’s most popular technologies.

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The United Arab Emirates' takeover of African forests

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As the oil-rich country hosts COP28, an Emirati company has signed agreements in Liberia, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe to convert part of their land into carbon credits – acts of 'greenwashing' and 'colonialism,' some NGOs say.

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Mistral, French A.I. Start-Up, Is Valued at $2 Billion in Funding Round

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The company has publicly released its latest technology so people can build their own chatbots. Rivals like OpenAI and Google argue that approach can be dangerous.

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A Warrant Showing the U.S. Government Is Monitoring Push Notifications

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The findings come on the heels of a letter from Senator Ron Wyden warning that governments are demanding data related to push notifications from Apple and Google.

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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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China's livestream shopping is booming, fueling new tech such as avatars and AI

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Livestreaming is cementing itself as a growing sales channel in China, driving new tech products such as virtual human streamers and mobile data packages.

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Ratatui

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Rust library that's all about cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs) - GitHub - ratatui-org/ratatui: Rust library that's all about cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs)

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Inert pesticide ingredients in may be more toxic to bees than scientists thought

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Inert ingredients are added for purposes other than killing pests and are not required under federal law to be tested for safety or identified on pesticide labels.

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Spotify slashes staff to move faster into AI – and Wall Street loves it

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New York CNN — Spotify made a name for itself in the audio-streaming business through its hyper-personalized user experience, thanks to artificial intelligence and a team of 9,800 staffers at the end of 2022.

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John Carmack and John Romero reunited to talk DOOM on its 30th Anniversary

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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the launch of Doom, id Software co-founders John Carmack and John Romero reunited to talk about the legendary FPS.

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ChatGPT-created letters of recommendation are nearly indistinguishable from human-authored letters, study finds

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In a novel study, academic physicians struggled to distinguish between AI-generated and human-authored recommendation letters, indicating AI's potential in easing administrative burdens but also raising ethical and integrity concerns. Despite biases in perception, the actual quality of AI-written letters matched those of humans, challenging the efficacy of traditional practices in the digital age.

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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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Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) Internet Service: RFC 9330

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This document describes the L4S architecture, which enables Internet applications to achieve low queuing latency, low congestion loss, and scalable throughput control. L4S is based on the insight that the root cause of queuing delay is in the capacity-seeking congestion controllers of senders, not in the queue itself. With the L4S architecture, all Internet applications could (but do not have to) transition away from congestion control algorithms that cause substantial queuing delay and instead

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One UI 6.1 leak reveals it's a massive update full of Pixel-inspired AI features

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Samsung is borrowing some of the best AI features from Pixel phones. Over the weekend, a long list of One UI 6.1 features leaked via tipster Benit Bruhner Pro on X (formerly Twitter).

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First tomato ever grown in space, lost 8 months ago, found by NASA astronauts

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Astronauts in the International Space Station said they found the rogue fruit, dispelling claims that astronaut Frank Rubio ate it.

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Leverage These AI Techniques to Stay Ahead in 2024

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Ways for founders to get ahead of generative AI pitfalls in the New Year. It's been a year since generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) hit the mainstream, and public discourse on this AI subset has dominated ever since.

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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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Raspberry Pi releases PCIe FFC connector specifications, new HAT+ standard

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Raspberry Pi has released two new specifications one for the PCIe FFC connector and related cable and the other for the new Raspberry Pi HAT+ (HAT Plus)

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Major retailers use AI to slash number of clothing returns when shopping online

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One company is making a splash in the retail space by using artificial intelligence to cut the number of online shopping-related item returns.

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What can you do with an Einstein (aperiodic monotile)?

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Earlier this year, mathematicians discovered a unique shape. Now do-it-yourselfers have found ingenious ways to put it to use.

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AI-Written Homework Is Rising. So Are False Accusations.

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The rise of ChatGPT in schools led to an influx of unproven AI detectors. But results have shown this approach may have more consequences than benefits.

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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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Could We Stop Yellowstone from Erupting with a Giant Geothermal Power Plant?

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It’s become fairly common knowledge that Yellowstone National Park, in addition to being incredibly beautiful, is sitting on top of an enormous supervolcano that catastrophically erupts every few hundred thousand years.

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The new, sci-fi ways AI will radically redesign airports

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Someday you might be able to check into your flight from your car. Airports today are shaped like dumbbells. One end of the dumbbell is for ticketing and checked bags. The opposite end is where the gates are located along with restaurants and shops.

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Is RISC-V ready for HPC? Evaluating the 64-core Sophon SG2042 RISC-V CPU

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The Sophon SG2042 is the world's first commodity 64-core RISC-V CPU for high performance workloads and an important question is whether the SG2042 has the potential to encourage the HPC community to embrace RISC-V. In this paper we undertaking a performance exploration of the SG2042 against existing RISC-V hardware and high performance x86 CPUs in use by modern supercomputers.

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Europe, a laggard in AI, seizes the lead in its regulation

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TWO THINGS European lawmakers should get credit for are stamina and an extraordinary tolerance for bad food.

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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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What is a zero refractive index material?

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I'm currently writing a textbook on Electromagnetic Waves for my graduate optics students. I was reading up on zero refractive index materials for a chapter section and thought it would be fun to write a popularized account of their fascinating and counterintuitive properties!

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Open-source generative AI startup Mistral AI raises $415M in funding - SiliconANGLE

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French generative artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI announced today it has closed on its second bumper funding round of the year, raising 385 million euros, or around $415 million, in a deal

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Sliding Doors: That Time GM Fumbled Its Chance to Launch the First Minivan

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Chevy Nomad II Chevrolet. If you’re a millennial, there’s a good chance you’ve spent time in the original Dodge Caravan. In 1984, Chrysler dropped an absolute smash hit with the first-generation Caravan, which not only became one of the most popular family cars in the country but pioneered the American minivan concept as we know it today.

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ChatGPT struggles to answer medical questions, new research finds

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CNN — ChatGPT might not be a cure-all for answers to medical questions, a new study suggests.

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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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The First Costume Book: 1562

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Desprez’s 121 engravings illustrate garbs supposedly found the world over in 1562, worn by humans and monsters alike.

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You'll soon be able to use DALL-E 3 for free in Microsoft Copilot

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Copilot is Microsoft’s big answer to the ongoing AI chatbot hype, and with over a year behind its efforts, the widely available chatbot is set to …

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Fuzzy Finding with Emacs Instead of Fzf

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fzf is a popular tool among command line hackers. But if you're an Emacs user, it's hard to use as it requires an interactive terminal. What if you could use Emacs to do the fuzzy finding instead of fzf?

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3 Ways AI Is Shaking Up The E-Commerce Space

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One of the biggest innovations to shopping came about in 1872, with the founding of the first mail-order company. Prior to that, you had no other choice but to visit a store in person—or at least send someone out with a shopping list.

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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.