Mon.Sep 04, 2023

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IT Leaders Craving Insights on Generative AI Use, Finds New Snow Software SaaS Management Survey

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Snow Software, a leader in technology intelligence, unveiled new data suggesting IT leaders are grappling with anxiety over the risks of generative AI despite continued confidence in their software-as-a-service (SaaS) security posture. The latest study, which surveyed 1,000 IT leaders, looks at shifting challenges and opportunities facing IT leaders managing SaaS.

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Why Google AI’s cutting-edge and revolutionary method for personalized text generation with large language models (LLMs) is making waves?

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The rise of AI-based technologies has led to increased interest in individualized text generation. Generative systems that can produce personalized responses that take into account factors such as the audience, creation context, and information needs are in high demand. Google AI’s text generation Understanding individualized text generation Researchers have investigated the creation of customized text in a variety of settings, including reviews, chatbots, and social media.

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What’s New for Shared Clusters in Unity Catalog

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We are thrilled to announce great enhancements to onboard more workloads to Unity Catalog clusters in shared access mode, Databricks' highly efficient, secure.

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Here’s why you are seeing an orange ChatGPT icon

Dataconomy

If you see an orange ChatGPT icon instead of the standard green, it’s an indication that something’s different with the system’s current status or functionality. This article will shed light on the color nuances of the orange ChatGPT icon, delve into the various editions of ChatGPT, and explain the likely causes for this color shift.

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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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ReAct, Reasoning and Acting augments LLMs with Tools!

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Blending reasoning with action, AI takes a bold new step toward replicating human intelligence.

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Beyond data: Cloud analytics mastery for business brilliance

Dataconomy

The modern corporate world is more data-driven, and companies are always looking for new methods to make use of the vast data at their disposal. Cloud analytics is one example of a new technology that has changed the game. It’s not simply a trend; it’s a game-changer. Let’s delve into what cloud analytics is, how it differs from on-premises solutions, and, most importantly, the eight remarkable ways it can propel your business forward – while keeping a keen eye on the potential

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Bigjpg is a lifesaver for your everyday image upscaling tasks

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Bigjpg is changing the way we approach image upscaling, making it easier than ever to enhance photo quality for both professionals and casual users alike. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the straightforward process of using Bigjpg to upscale an image. If you’re looking to amplify the impact of your social media presence, a visually appealing, high-resolution photo is essential.

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Nougat: Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents

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Scientific knowledge is predominantly stored in books and scientific journals, often in the form of PDFs. However, the PDF format leads to a loss of semantic information, particularly for mathematical expressions. We propose Nougat (Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents), a Visual Transformer model that performs an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) task for processing scientific documents into a markup language, and demonstrate the effectiveness of our model on a new dataset of s

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How A.I. Could Reincarnate Your Dead Grandparents -- or Wipe Out Your Kids

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Two experts on artificial intelligence, Ray Kurzweil and Eliezer Yudkowsky see wildly different outcomes from the revolutionary technology — a chance for immortality or doomsday

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The remarkable fossil that changed our understanding of the human story

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The explosive discovery of a tiny, enigmatic hominin in an Indonesian cave in 2003 captivated the world. Now, 20 years later, scientists are still struggling to understand the hobbit’s place in the human family tree.

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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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New AI-generated COVID drug enters Phase I clinical trials: ‘Effective against all variants’

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Artificial intelligence is increasingly moving into the health care arena and helping to streamline medical processes — including the creation of new drugs.

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TV Museum Will Die in 48 Hours Unless Sony Retracts YouTube Copyright Strikes

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The advent of the internet and its subsequent development in the mainstream have given rise to a perpetual, collaborative, global recording machine that would’ve been unimaginable 40+ years ago. Back then, videotape recording machines were cutting edge and a type developed by Sony was fighting for its life. Since Sony’s Betamax-format recorders were able to record TV shows, studios including Universal and Disney sought to hold Sony liable for users’ alleged copyright infringeme

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What OpenAI Really Wants

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The young company sent shock waves around the world when it released ChatGPT. But that was just the start. The ultimate goal: Change everything. Yes.

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Medical-evidence giant Cochrane battles funding cuts and closures

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The group that helped to revolutionize medical practice has lost key funding and is reorganizing — moves that concern some researchers. The group that helped to revolutionize medical practice has lost key funding and is reorganizing — moves that concern some researchers.

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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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The Barriers and Opportunities for Generative AI in Corporate Workplaces

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How corporations can implement generative AI successfully and safely. Companies of all sizes have become accustomed to using predictive AI to achieve a range of outcomes, such as anticipating risk, developing new products and forecasting buying behaviors.

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The Battle over Books3 Could Change AI Forever

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Copyright activists are on a mission to wipe a popular generative AI training set from the internet. Success could alter the industry—and who controls it.

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This Neural Net Maps Molecules to Aromas

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Sensory sciences have come a long way in explaining how some physical phenomena—a particular wavelength of light, for example, or a column of air …

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When tech says ‘no’

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The tech industry always has a reason why any new laws or regulations are bad - indeed, so does any industry. They always say that! The trouble is, sometimes it’s true, and some laws are (or would be) disasters. So which is it? Well, there are three ways that people say ‘NO!

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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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Should AI be permitted in college classrooms? 4 scholars weigh in

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One of the most intense discussions taking place among university faculty is whether to permit students to use artificial intelligence in the …

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ZFS for Dummies

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As mentioned on previous posts, I have spent the past few weeks dealing with a ZFS crash on my FreeNAS install. Because of that, not only was I forced to learn how to troubleshoot ZFS, but I also had to learn how to setup new volumes and come up with new backup strategies (between a few other things).

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How one elite university is approaching ChatGPT this school year

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Why Yale never considered banning the technology. For many people, the start of September marks the real beginning of the year.

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I built a plane spotter for my son in minutes

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My son is 18 months old, and he loves spotting planes in the sky. Every time he hears a plane engine sound, he starts looking up. The moment he spots it, he usually points his finger at it, and says something like “Hmm!” or “Pane!” So since he likes them so much, and I know that plane positions are publicly available data, I figured it’d be a fun Sunday hack to make a script that gives us an alert every time a plane is overhead, so we can run out and find it.

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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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Shared Clusters in Unity Catalog for the win: Introducing Cluster Libraries, Python UDFs, Scala, Machine Learning and more

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We are thrilled to announce that you can run even more workloads on Databricks’ highly efficient multi-user clusters thanks to new security and g.

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The Usefulness of a Memory Guides Where the Brain Saves It

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New research finds that the memories useful for future generalizations are held in the brain separately from those recording unusual events.

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How to get a handle on shadow AI

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By allowing the use of AI tools proven to be safe, but requiring them to be used within explicit guidelines, you can alleviate both employee frustration and organizational risk.

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Extreme El Niño weather switched off South American's carbon sink

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Tropical forests in South America lose their ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere when conditions become exceptionally hot and dry, according to new research.

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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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OpenAI Plugs ChatGPT Into Canva to Sharpen Its Competitive Edge in AI

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Now ChatGPT Plus users can "talk" to Canva directly from OpenAI's bot, making their workflow easier.

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Is macOS’s new XProtect behavioural security preparing to go live?

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Apple released its first update to its new behavioural security protection in XProtect Behaviour Service on 8 August, and again on 1 September. Here are the details.

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Machine learning for chemistry: Basics and applications

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In a review published in Engineering, scientists explore the burgeoning field of machine learning (ML) and its applications in chemistry. Titled "Machine Learning for Chemistry: Basics and Applications," this comprehensive review aims to bridge the gap between chemists and modern ML algorithms, providing insights into the potential of ML in revolutionizing chemical research.

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Multiple Notepad++ Flaws Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code

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Several Buffer Overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in Notepad++ that can be exploited by threat actors for malicious purposes.

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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.