December, 2023

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A Comprehensive Guide to Implement HuggingFace Models Using Langchain

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Introduction Large Language Models have been the backbone of advancement in the AI domain. With the release of various Open source LLMs, the need for ChatBot-specific use cases has grown in demand. HuggingFace is the primary provider of Open Source LLMs, where the model parameters are available to the public, and anyone can use them […] The post A Comprehensive Guide to Implement HuggingFace Models Using Langchain appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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BYD Overtakes Tesla as Most Popular EV Maker

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Elon Musk once scoffed at the notion that BYD could compete with his company. Now, the automaker run by billionaire Wang Chuanfu is poised to be the new No. 1 in electric vehicles.

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A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless.

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New AI-generated digital replicas of real experts expose an unnerving policy gray zone. Washington wants to fix it, but it’s not clear how. Martin Seligman, the influential American psychologist, found himself pondering his legacy at a dinner party in San Francisco one late February evening.

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Tolkien Estate Wins Court Order to Destroy Fan's 'Lord of the Rings' Sequel

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Ruling that the fan’s unauthorized book violated copyright protections, a judge barred him from distributing it and ordered him to destroy all electronic and physical copies of it.

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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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Rite Aid Banned from Using AI Facial Recognition for Five Years

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Rite Aid will be prohibited from using facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes for five years to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the retailer failed t

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Korea to welcome 'digital nomads' with new visa starting Jan. 1

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Foreigners will be able to work remotely in Korea for up to two years with the new workcation visa that will be created next year, also being able to bring their families along.

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The High Price of Empty Office Space: Billions in Tax Breaks, with More to Come

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An analysis by THE CITY shows that long-ago luxury real estate deals from Hudson Yards to Times Square are costing dearly in reduced city tax collections. Now City Hall is rolling out still more tax relief, with little transparency.

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Five ways artificial intelligence is rapidly changing our world

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The reach of generative artificial intelligence (AI) skyrocketed this year as tech companies raced to get ahead of each other while regulators and lawmakers looked to add guardrails.

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In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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This December, if there's one tech New Year's resolution I'd encourage you to have, it's switching to the only remaining ethical web browser, Firefox. According to recent posts on social media, Firefox's market share is slipping. We should not let that happen.

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Malware abuses Google OAuth endpoint to ‘revive’ cookies, hijack accounts

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Multiple information-stealing malware families are abusing an undocumented Google OAuth endpoint named "MultiLogin" to restore expired authentication cookies and log into users' accounts, even if an account's password was reset. [.

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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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Microsoft’s Copilot app is now available on iOS

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The Microsoft Copilot app lets you ask questions, draft text, and generate images using AI. Just days after introducing a Copilot app on Android, Microsoft has rolled out an app for its AI chatbot on iOS and iPadOS. Both versions of the app are now available to download from the Apple App Store.

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The Most Important Technology of 2023 Wasn’t AI

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This was a breakout year for electric vehicles in America. One day in late November, I cradled a red Samsung flip phone in my hands as if it was a ruby gemstone. To me, it was just as precious.

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GitHub makes Copilot Chat generally available, letting devs ask questions about code

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Earlier this year, GitHub rolled out Copilot Chat, a ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot for organizations subscribed to Copilot for Business. Copilot Chat more recently came to individual Copilot customers — those paying $10 per month — in beta. And now, GitHub’s launching Chat in general availability for all users. As of today, Copilot Chat is available in […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Try This Brand New Analog Computer

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Once upon a time, if you cracked open the pages of IEEE Spectrum you could spot full-page advertisements for analog computers , boasting of their ease of use and even—in the case of one model built into a cart with wheels—their portability. Engineers connected potentiometers and op-amps to set up representations of knotty differential equations and read the solutions as varying output voltages.

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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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Operation Triangulation: The last (hardware) mystery

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Today, on December 27, 2023, we ( Boris Larin , Leonid Bezvershenko , and Georgy Kucherin ) delivered a presentation, titled, “Operation Triangulation: What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers”, at the 37th Chaos Communication Congress (37C3), held at Congress Center Hamburg. The presentation summarized the results of our long-term research into Operation Triangulation, conducted with our colleagues, Igor Kuznetsov , Valentin Pashkov , and Mikhail Vinogradov.

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The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for using its stories to train chatbots

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NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times is striking back against the threat that artificial intelligence poses to the news industry, filing a federal lawsuit Wednesday against OpenAI and Microsoft seeking to end the practice of using its stories to train chatbots.

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Crime-fighting AI robocop is keeping an eye on New York’s subway riders

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Riders on the subway in New York City might have noticed a new addition to the transit system: a robot named K5. K5 is a crime-fighting machine that is supposed to make the subway safer and more secure. But is it really a good idea to have a robot watching over us?

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UK becomes first G20 country to halve its carbon emissions

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A pretty major milestone has been achieved: Britain has become the first major country to halve its carbon emissions. The rapid pace of UK environmental progress means that our output is now below 319 million tonnes – half the 652 million tonnes at our 1970 peak.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Microsoft Copilot is now available as a ChatGPT-like app on Android

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You no longer need the Bing mobile app to access Copilot on Android devices. Microsoft has quietly launched a dedicated Copilot app for Android. The new app is available in the Google Play Store, offering access to Microsoft’s AI-powered Copilot without the need for the Bing mobile app.

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Tree plantations are not the environmental solution they’re purported to be

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Ecologist Thomas Crowther’s research inspired countless tree-planting campaigns, greenwashing, and attacks from scientists. Now he’s back with a new plan for nature restoration.

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AI’s Dreadful December: Lawsuits, plagiarism and child abuse images show the perils of training on data taken without consent.

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Three major news headlines in the past week have soured the generative AI party: a lawsuit from the NY Times, a new image model that copies frames from movies and the discovery of child abuse images in a popular dataset.

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Why British chocolate tastes the way it does

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For some, nothing that beats the sweet, creamy, slightly baked flavour of British chocolate, while others find it an affront to their tastebuds. But why does it taste that way at all?

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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GTA 5 source code reportedly leaked online a year after RockStar hack

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​The source code for Grand Theft Auto 5 was reportedly leaked on Christmas Eve, a little over a year after the Lapsus$ threat actors hacked Rockstar games and stole corporate data. [.

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Researchers uncover on/off switch for breast cancer metastasis

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New research from Stanford and the Arc Institute could lead to a new and more effective immunotherapy and help clinicians better predict patient response to existing medicines.

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AI’s big test: Making sense of $4 trillion in medical expenses

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Hospitals and insurers are adopting AI tools to process bills. Big bucks are at stake. Hospitals and insurers are racing to find new artificial intelligence tools to give them an edge in billing and processing their part of the $4 trillion in medical expenses Americans accrue each year.

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Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode

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A Linux developer has eschewed boring traditional landscape and portrait monitor orientations and is championing diagonal modes, with 22 degrees claimed to be the sweet spot.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Quantum Computing Is Finally Here. But What Is It?

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Four decades ago, computer engineers were theorizing that the mind-bending mechanics of quantum physics could be harnessed to make a new kind of computer that’s exponentially more powerful than conventional machines. A series of breakthroughs has now brought “quantum utility” within reach, with engineers showing off computers capable of calculations of a complexity that would confound the most powerful supercomputers.

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McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup

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Kytch, the company that tried to fix McDonald’s broken ice cream machines, has unearthed a 3-year-old email it says proves claims of an alleged plot to undermine their business.

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Preparedness Framework

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The study of frontier AI risks has fallen far short of what is possible and where we need to be. To address this gap and systematize our safety thinking, we are adopting the initial version of our Preparedness Framework. It describes OpenAI’s processes to track, evaluate, forecast, and protect against catastrophic risks posed by increasingly powerful models.

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Polar bear fur-inspired sweater is thinner than a down jacket – and just as warm

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The synthetic fibre is an aerogel coated with polyurethane and is flexible, washable and wearable. The synthetic fibre is an aerogel coated with polyurethane and is flexible, washable and wearable.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.