Thu.Jul 06, 2023

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Power to the Data Report Podcast: AI Washing

insideBIGDATA

Hello, and welcome to the “Power-to-the-Data Report” podcast where we cover timely topics of the day from throughout the Big Data ecosystem. I am your host Daniel Gutierrez from insideBIGDATA where I serve as Editor-in-Chief & Resident Data Scientist. Today’s topic is "AI Washing," an aspect of today's significant hype cycle surrounding artificial intelligence.

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Getting Started with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction In this era of Generative Al, data generation is at its peak. Building an accurate machine learning and AI model requires a high-quality dataset. The quality assurance of the dataset is the most critical task, as poor data causes inaccurate analytics and unidentified predictions that can affect the entire repo of any business and […] The post Getting Started with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Essential data engineering tools for 2023: Empowering for management and analysis

Data Science Dojo

Data engineering tools are software applications or frameworks specifically designed to facilitate the process of managing, processing, and transforming large volumes of data. These tools provide data engineers with the necessary capabilities to efficiently extract, transform, and load (ETL) data, build data pipelines, and prepare data for analysis and consumption by other applications.

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How is AI Technology Transforming Recycling?

Analytics Vidhya

The global waste crisis is reaching alarming proportions. The World Bank estimates solid waste production will increase by 73% to 3.88 billion tonnes by 2050. Plastic waste, in particular, poses a significant challenge, with over 8.3 billion tonnes produced from the 1950s to 2015. However, a UK start-up called Greyparrot is harnessing the power of […] The post How is AI Technology Transforming Recycling?

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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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Introduction to Safetensors

KDnuggets

Introducing a new tool that offers speed, efficiency, cross-platform compatibility, user-friendliness, and security for deep learning applications.

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AI-Generated Content Can Put Developers at Risk

Analytics Vidhya

In recent events, the popular gaming platform, Steam, has taken a firm stance against AI-generated content that may infringe on copyright laws. Several developers have faced rejection and frustration as they attempted to publish games featuring AI-generated assets on the platform. This has sparked a debate in the gaming community about using AI technology and […] The post AI-Generated Content Can Put Developers at Risk appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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RAPIDS: Use GPU to Accelerate ML Models Easily

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction As Artificial Intelligence (AI) grows continuously, the demand for faster and more efficient computing power is increasing. Machine learning (ML) models can be computationally intensive, and training the models can take longer. However, by using GPU parallel processing capabilities, it is possible to accelerate the training process significantly.

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The Executive’s Guide to Data, Analytics and AI Transformation, Part 6: Allocate, monitor and optimize costs

databricks

This is part six of a multi-part series to share key insights and tactics with Senior Executives leading data and AI transformation initiatives.

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The Dark Side of Driverless Cars: Invasion of Privacy

Analytics Vidhya

The advent of self-driving cars has long been hailed as the future of transportation, promising safer and more efficient journeys. However, as driverless technology becomes a reality in cities like San Francisco, the truth behind this utopian vision appears quite different. Reports suggest that the always-on surveillance cameras embedded in these vehicles may pose a […] The post The Dark Side of Driverless Cars: Invasion of Privacy appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Why Our Databases Are Changing

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

As the rise of modern, cloud-native distributed relational databases from cloud providers or independents continues to grow, what can we expect next?

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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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AI has many obstacles in its way

Dataconomy

Like any emerging technology, there are numerous challenges in artificial intelligence that need to be addressed before AI can be widely adopted and its full potential realized. These challenges span various aspects of AI development, deployment, and utilization, collectively posing obstacles to its seamless integration into businesses and society. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a prominent and trending topic in contemporary times due to several compelling reasons.

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GPT-4 API general availability and deprecation of older models in the Completions API

Hacker News

GPT-3.5 Turbo, DALL·E and Whisper APIs are also generally available, and we are releasing a deprecation plan for older models of the Completions API, which will retire at the beginning of 2024.

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OpenAI makes GPT-4 generally available

Flipboard

OpenAI today announced the general availability of GPT-4, its latest text-generating model, through its API. Starting this afternoon, all existing OpenAI API developers “with a history of successful payments” can access GPT-4.

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Godot 4.1 is here, smoother, more reliable, and with plenty of new features

Hacker News

Four months after the release of Godot 4.0, we are excited to bring you Godot 4.1 — an update with a focus on stability, performance, and polish.

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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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OpenAI makes GPT-4 generally available

Flipboard

OpenAI today announced the general availability of GPT-4, its latest text-generating model, through its API. Starting this afternoon, all existing OpenAI API developers “with a history of successful payments” can access GPT-4.

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Scaling Transformers to 1B Tokens

Hacker News

Scaling sequence length has become a critical demand in the era of large language models. However, existing methods struggle with either computational complexity or model expressivity, rendering the maximum sequence length restricted. In this work, we introduce LongNet, a Transformer variant that can scale sequence length to more than 1 billion tokens, without sacrificing the performance on shorter sequences.

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AI Visualizes Drivers Based on Car Brands, Reveals Stereotypes Pushed by Technology

Flipboard

Recent experiments with AI generators have highlighted the incredible bias that exists in the technology. Recently, the automotive website Rerev decided to conduct its own test on the stereotypes pushed by AI. To do so, they asked ChatGPT to describe the average owner of 10 popular car brands.

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Tor’s history of D/DoS attacks and future strategies for mitigation

Hacker News

I'm investigating the applicability of the IETF's DDoS Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) specifications[1] to the needs of privacy-preserving overlay networks, including VPNs but with particular interest in Tor. Specifically, now that the July 2022 D/DoS attack has finally come to a close, I'm wondering about: 1. the history, frequency, and magnitude of D/DoS attacks against the Tor network; 2. when these have taken the form of Tor traffic versus lower-level attacks on Tor nodes and

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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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There’s One Hard Question My Fellow Doctors and I Will Need to Answer Soon

Flipboard

When faced with a particularly tough question on rounds during my intern year, I would run straight to the bathroom. There, I would flip through the medical reference book I carried in my pocket, find the answer and return to the group, ready to respond.

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Understanding Cybersecurity Frameworks: NIST, ISO, and More

Hacker News

"Tailoring Cybersecurity Frameworks to Meet Organizational Needs" In an era where digital threats continuously evolve, organizations worldwide must prioritize the implementation of robust cybersecurity measures to safeguard their critical data and systems.

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Ukraine gained advantage in war against Putin with custom-built AI: 'unprecedented testing ground'

Flipboard

Ukraine has developed and implemented its own artificial intelligence (AI) platforms under the most stringent conditions to create something beyond what Western militaries have considered possible.

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Demystifying Text Data with the Unstructured Python Library

Hacker News

Why I'm using the unstructured Python library to handle complex text data while building a private AI assistant, and also explaining its benefits and why it's the perfect fit for my use case.

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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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“Data Art”: 120 Charts That Might Change Your Perspective On Things

Flipboard

Struggling to make sense of complicated information? Maybe a visual makeover with an eye-catching chart or graph will help! And if you have doubts about its effectiveness, allow us to introduce you to a subreddit called Data Art.

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Imagination GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6

Hacker News

Since its launch in 1992 OpenGL® has been used extensively by software developers for PCs and workstations to create high-performance, visually compelling graphics applications.

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The Final Merging of Humans and Their Media Has Begun

Flipboard

In late May, Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a company developing brain implants for digital connection, received FDA approval for its first human clinical trial. With this news, it’s clear that the next and ultimate step in how humans interact with media—human-computer hybridization—is rapidly approaching. This leaves us little time to fully contemplate the consequences of the current advancements.

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Webb Telescope detects most distant active supermassive black hole

Hacker News

Researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The galaxy, CEERS 1019, existed about 570 million years after the big bang, and its black hole is less massive than any other yet identified in the early universe.

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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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AI Is Coming for Our Jobs, But Which Ones?

Flipboard

Worried about artificial intelligence taking your job? You might have good reason, especially if you work in healthcare, according to a new report from web-hosting company Hostinger.

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Exit Hector, Again and Again: How Different Translators Reveal the ‘Iliad’ Anew

Hacker News

Over the years, some 100 people have translated the entire “Iliad” into English. The latest of them, Emily Wilson, explains what different approaches to one key scene say about the original, and the translators.

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Twitter backtracks on strict login requirements

Dataconomy

It appears that Twitter is already reversing some of the controversial judgments it has made in recent days. Users of Twitter started to notice that some information was once more available to visitors who were not signed into an account on Wednesday. Twitter login requirements are no longer an issue. Twitter has quietly lifted these limitations after asking users to check in in order to access tweets for days.

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More green spaces linked to slower biological aging

Hacker News

More green spaces were associated with slower biological aging, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. People who lived near more green spaces were biologically 2.5 years younger, on average, than those who live near less greenness.

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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.