Sat.Mar 15, 2025

article thumbnail

Improving Recommender Systems & Search in the Age of LLMs

Eugene Yan

Model architectures, data generation, training paradigms, and unified frameworks inspired by LLMs.

328
328
article thumbnail

AI search tools are confidently wrong a lot of the time, study finds

Flipboard

AI search tools confidently spit out wrong answers at a high clip, a new study found. Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) conducted a study in which it fed eight AI tools an excerpt of an article and asked the chatbots to identify the "corresponding article’s headline, original publisher, publication date, and URL." Collectively, the study noted that the chatbots "provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries.

AI 176
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

OWL Agent 🦉: The #1 GAIA Open Source Alternative to Manus AI

Analytics Vidhya

Ever wondered how we can make AI projects more efficient without relying too much on human help? In AI, we often face tricky tasks that need lots of problem-solving and human input. But too much human involvement can slow things down. The same goes for large language models (LLMs). They’re great at solving complex problems, […] The post OWL Agent : The #1 GAIA Open Source Alternative to Manus AI appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

AI 190
article thumbnail

Study Finds That AI Search Engines Are Wrong an Astounding Proportion of the Time

Flipboard

This may come as a shock, but it turns out that an astounding proportion of AI search results are flat-out incorrect, according to a new study published by the Columbia Journalism Review. We hope you were sitting down. Conducted by researchers at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, the analysis probed eight AI models including OpenAI's ChatGPT search and Google's Gemini, finding that overall, they gave an incorrect answer to more than 60 percent of queries.

AI 181
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Build a Content Creator Agent with n8n Using No-Code

Analytics Vidhya

Imagine having a personal assistant that handles your tasks and creates content effortlessly. Building an AI agent might seem complex, but with n8n, anyone can do it – no coding needed! This no-code, low-code platform comes with built-in tools, smooth OpenAI integration, and ready-to-use templates, making agent building simple. You dont need to be a […] The post Build a Content Creator Agent with n8n Using No-Code appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

Analytics 175
article thumbnail

AI vehicle counters to provide better input on upper valley traffic flows

Flipboard

Each counter has a camera, operating 24/7, that captures both directions of traffic and an AI-processing unit that translates the video into data. This system is capable of counting the number of vehicles passing by and can distinguish vehicle types based on the Federal Highway Administration's 13 vehicle category classifications.

AI 123

More Trending

article thumbnail

The ChatGPT Edge: Why Regular People Are Embracing $200 AI Bills

Flipboard

Americans are turning to artificial intelligence to supercharge their work and hobbies. Theyre willing to pay for it too.

article thumbnail

Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This JWS Telescope discovery

Hacker News

The James Webb Space Telescope has found perhaps its most profound discovery to date. The uncovered preferred direction for galaxies supports the idea that the universe was born in a black hole.

182
182
article thumbnail

Baidu Releases Reasoning AI Model to Take On DeepSeek

Flipboard

Baidu Inc.

article thumbnail

Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials

Hacker News

Critical authentication bypass vulnerabilities were discovered in ruby-saml up to version 1.17.0. See how they were uncovered.

181
181
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself

Flipboard

The old teach a man to fish proverb, but for AI chatbots.

AI 181
article thumbnail

How to learn a new language like a baby

Hacker News

Reading too early may slow adults language learning progress.

163
163
article thumbnail

The Era Of Decentralized AI

Flipboard

Like most industries, the digital assets space is being reshaped by generative AI (GenAI). The intersection of arguably two of the most revolutionary technologies of our generationblockchain and artificial intelligenceis revolutionizing industries and reshaping how organizations operate.

AI 181
article thumbnail

For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids

Hacker News

Nigeria is pioneering the development of small, off-grid solar panel installations to bring reliable electricity to remote communities setting a model for other African countries

163
163
article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Bluesky users debate plans around user data and AI training

Flipboard

Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether they want their posts and data to be scraped for things like generative AI training and public archiving.

AI 181
article thumbnail

Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution with Neural Heat Fields

Hacker News

Thera offers an aliasing-free, arbitrary-scale super-resolution approach using neural heat fields. Explore state-of-the-art results and detailed methodology.

162
162
article thumbnail

Meet Roganbot: The AI Keeping Tabs On Joe Rogan’s Podcast Empire

Flipboard

In a media landscape increasingly dominated by marathon podcasts and sprawling digital conversations, a fundamental challenge has emerged for newsrooms and listeners everywhere how do people keep track of it all?

AI 180
article thumbnail

Extracting DNA from the air – DNA evidence of human occupancy in indoor premises

Hacker News

Humans constantly shed deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) into the surrounding environment. This DNA may either remain suspended in the air or it settles onto surfaces as indoor dust. In this study, we explored the potential use of human DNA recovered from air and dust to investigate crimes where there are no visible traces available—for example, from a recently vacated drugs factory where multiple workers had been present.

154
154
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

OpenAI Says DeepSeek Could ‘Be Compelled’ to Cause Harm, Calls for Ban

Flipboard

The ChatGPT firm has called for a ban on China-produced AI models 'that violate user privacy and create security risks such as the risk of IP theft.

AI 173
article thumbnail

'Microlightning' in water droplets may have sparked life on Earth

Hacker News

Comments

139
139
article thumbnail

Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail Warning—AI Attack Nightmare Is Coming True

Flipboard

Republished on March 16th with additional security industry analysis on the threat from semi-autonomous AI attacks and a new GenAI attack warning. Email users have been warned for some time that AI attacks and hacks will ramp up this year, becoming ever harder to detect.

AI 171
article thumbnail

Elderly patients can deteriorate in the ER. This team works to get them out

Hacker News

Comments

139
139
article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

The AI Copyright Battle: Why OpenAI And Google Are Pushing For Fair Use

Flipboard

Artificial intelligence powerhouses OpenAI and Google are aggressively lobbying the U.S. government to classify AI training on copyrighted data as "fair use.

article thumbnail

Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

Hacker News

A clean and minimal youtube frontend, without all the ads and whistles - christian-fei/my-yt

139
139
article thumbnail

Chip war: Chinese start-up aims to break Nvidia’s grip on AI with new model framework

Flipboard

A new artificial intelligence (AI) framework developed by teams associated with Chinas Tsinghua University is said to be able to reduce reliance on

article thumbnail

They're Close to My Body: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and Robin Finck (2020)

Hacker News

We possess nothing in this world other than the power to say I. This is what we must yield up to God. Simone Weil God break down the door You wont find the answers here Not the ones you came looking for.

139
139
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Meta powers ahead with conscious chip uncoupling with Nvidia as it tests its first in-house training AI-PU

Flipboard

Like many of Nvidias highest spending customers, Meta is looking to slash its reliance on the GPU makers expensive AI hardware by making its own

AI 166
article thumbnail

Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

Hacker News

Generate impressive-looking terminal output to look busy when stakeholders walk by - giacomo-b/rust-stakeholder

139
139
article thumbnail

What to Expect at Nvidia GTC 2025

Flipboard

Robots, quantum computing, and AIso much AI. Nvidias been on a roll this year, starting with the announcement and launch of its 5000 series GPUs.

AI 165
article thumbnail

Reviving the modprobe_path Technique: Overcoming search_binary_handler() Patch

Hacker News

Comments

136
136
article thumbnail

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?