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Heard on the Street – 11/15/2023

insideBIGDATA

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

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Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI

Analytics Vidhya

In a surprising turn of events, OpenAI, the leading artificial intelligence research lab, has announced the termination of its co-founder and CEO, Sam Altman. This unexpected decision, announced on November 17, 2023, has sent ripples through the tech industry, raising questions about the future of the organization and its AI research. Chief technology officer Mira […] The post Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Data Intelligence Platforms

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The observation that "software is eating the world" has shaped the modern tech industry. Today, software is ubiquitous in our lives, from the.

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Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI

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In a sudden move, Altman is leaving after a ‘deliberative review process’ by the company’s board. Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI, the company announced on Friday. “Mr.

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The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management

Speaker: Conrado Morlan

In this engaging and witty talk, we’ll explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, we’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in decision-making, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation. Attendees will leave with practical tools and actionable insights, motivated to embrace AI and leverage its potential in their work. 🦸 🏢 Key objectives:

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The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences

Hacker News

Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling patterns have revealed ties to graph theory and prime numbers, awing mathematicians.

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Microsoft Unveils first AI chip: Maia 100 Chip and Cobalt CPU

Analytics Vidhya

In a groundbreaking move at the annual Ignite conference, Microsoft unveiled the highly anticipated Maia 100 chip and Cobalt CPU. This strategic initiative aims to seize control of technology, establishing dominance in the fiercely competitive AI computing market. CEO Satya Nadella outlined ambitious plans to harness the power of these innovative chips.

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DeepMind and YouTube release Lyria, a gen-AI model for music, and Dream Track to build AI tunes

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Back in January, Google made some waves — soundwaves, that is — when it quietly released some research on AI-based music creation software that built tunes based on word prompts.

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Summing columns in remote Parquet files using DuckDB

Hacker News

vivym/midjourney-messages on Hugging Face is a large (~8GB) dataset consisting of 55,082,563 Midjourney images - each one with the prompt and a URL to the image hosted on Discord.

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IBM named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Process Automation Software, Q4 2023

IBM Journey to AI blog

Forrester Research just released “The Forrester Wave™: Digital Process Automation Software, Q4 2023: The 15 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up” by Craig Le Clair with Glenn O’Donnell, Renee Taylor-Huot, Lok Sze Sung, Audrey Lynch, and Kara Hartig and IBM is proud to be recognized as a Leader. IBM named a Leader In the report, Forrester Research evaluated 15 digital process automation (DPA) providers against 26 criteria in three categories: Current offering,

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GraphCast: AI model for faster and more accurate global weather forecasting

DeepMind

We introduce GraphCast, a state-of-the-art AI model able to make medium-range weather forecasts with unprecedented accuracy

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Provide Real Value in Your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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Sam Altman ousted as OpenAI’s CEO

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Sam Altman has been fired from OpenAI, Inc., the 501(c)(3) nonprofit that acts as the governing body for OpenAI, the AI startup behind ChatGPT, DALL-E 3, GPT-4 and other highly capable generative AI systems. He’ll both leave the company’s board of directors and step down as CEO.

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Emu Video and Emu Edit, our latest generative AI research milestones

Hacker News

Today, we’re announcing new research into controlled image editing based solely on text instructions and a method for text-to-video generation based on diffusion models.

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An introduction to Wazi as a Service

IBM Journey to AI blog

In today’s hyper-competitive digital landscape, the rapid development of new digital services is essential for staying ahead of the curve. However, many organizations face significant challenges when it comes to integrating their core systems, including Mainframe applications, with modern technologies. This integration is crucial for modernizing core enterprise applications on hybrid cloud platforms.

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Serving a PyTorch Model with FastAPI and Docker

Towards AI

Last Updated on November 18, 2023 by Editorial Team Author(s): Marcello Politi Originally published on Towards AI. Learn how to develop a complete Machine Learning ServicePhoto by SpaceX on Unsplash Working on personal Machine/Deep Learning projects is very enjoyable. In the evenings, in front of the laptop, you code things you like, you read interesting papers, and you don’t have any deadlines to meet.

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Entity Resolution: Your Guide to Deciding Whether to Build It or Buy It

Adding high-quality entity resolution capabilities to enterprise applications, services, data fabrics or data pipelines can be daunting and expensive. Organizations often invest millions of dollars and years of effort to achieve subpar results. This guide will walk you through the requirements and challenges of implementing entity resolution. By the end, you'll understand what to look for, the most common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid, and your options.

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ChatGPT parent company OpenAI fires CEO Sam Altman

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CNN — OpenAI, the company behind the viral chatbot ChatGPT, fired its CEO and founder, Sam Altman, on Friday. His stunning departure sent shockwaves through the budding AI industry.

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Microsoft is a minority owner of OpenAI Global LLC

Hacker News

We designed OpenAI’s structure—a partnership between our original Nonprofit and a new capped profit arm—as a chassis for OpenAI’s mission: to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) that is safe and benefits all of humanity.

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Data for Good: Galapagos sea turtle recognition

SAS Software

Can we use Computer Vision (CV) to recognize the identity of over 500 Galapagos sea turtles by using just an image? This was the question asked of SAS by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s (UNC) Center for Galapagos Studies. Literature suggests that it should be [.] The post Data for Good: Galapagos sea turtle recognition appeared first on SAS Blogs.

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Prompting GPT-4 To Extract Data From Map Images: Does it Work Well?

Towards AI

Last Updated on November 14, 2023 by Editorial Team Author(s): John Loewen, PhD Originally published on Towards AI. Analysis and interpretation of choropleth map imagesDall-E 2: An impressionist painting in vivid, bright colours, of a map of the world One of the relatively new capabilities of GPT-4 is the ability to extract quantitative data from images — including charts AND maps.

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The Project Clinic: Assessing Project Health, Planning, and Execution

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar

Picture your projects as patients, each with its own unique rhythm and pulse, thriving under your care 🥼 🩺 Step into the role of an innovative project doctor in our upcoming webinar! This session is your guide to evaluating the health of your projects through Waterfall and Agile practices like Scrum and Kanban. We’ll explore the vital signs of project success through the lens of the “iron triangle” metrics, using deliverables as tracers.

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Who is Mira Murati, OpenAI’s new interim CEO?

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In a surprising move, OpenAI today abruptly fired Sam Altman, its CEO and a member of its board of directors, and installed CTO Mira Murati as interim CEO. But who, exactly, is Mira Murati?

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Most Americans are oblivious to 'forever chemicals' and risks, research finds

Hacker News

Texas A&M AgriLife scientists conducting the first generalized U.S. study on public awareness of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, found most Americans do not know what the substances are or have knowledge of any potential associated risks.

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Unmasking the faces of fraud to protect your data

SAS Software

Stu Bradley discusses the importance of education, diligence and analytics in the fight against fraud.

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In-depth Understanding of XGBoost Introduction in Machine Learning

Towards AI

Last Updated on November 13, 2023 by Editorial Team Author(s): Amit Chauhan Originally published on Towards AI. Algorithm to improve the speed and performancePhoto by Alex Chumak on Unsplash What is machine learning? It is a technique to learn patterns from the data and make predictions. The machine learning algorithms implementation is data-based. As with time, we see the evolution of algorithms and some algorithms like SVM, Random Forest, or Gradient Boosting gives better result mostly on ever

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Demystifying DAPs: A Practical Guide to Digital Adoption Success

Speaker: Pulkit Agrawal

Digital Adoption Platforms (DAPs) are revolutionizing the way organizations interact with and optimize their software applications. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, DAPs have become essential tools for enhancing user engagement and software efficiency. This session is your guide into the robust world of DAPs, exploring their origins, evolution, and the current trends shaping their development.

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The Sudden Fall of Sam Altman

Flipboard

What it means that the world’s most powerful AI executive is out of a job Earlier this year, I asked Sam Altman whether decisions made by OpenAI’s leaders might one day lead to unemployment among the masses. “Jobs are definitely going to go away, full stop,” he told me.

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Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

Hacker News

Half-Life is back and better than ever. Alongside interviews with the original developers, the game is now available with the Uplink mini-campaign, Steam Deck support, updated graphics settings, new multiplayer maps, and some bonus restored goodies.

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Carrier pigeon vs. internet upload speeds

FlowingData

In some rural areas, upload speeds are crawlingly slow, which can make it difficult to send things on the internet. In some cases, a carrier pigeon might even be faster. For The Washington Post, Janice Kai Chen did the math so you know which one to use : Racing pigeons clock an average of 40 miles per hour and typically race up to 400 miles, roughly from D.C. to Boston, according to the American Racing Pigeon Union.

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Top 6 Kubernetes use cases

IBM Journey to AI blog

Kubernetes , the world’s most popular open-source container orchestration platform , is considered a major milestone in the history of cloud-native technologies. Developed internally at Google and released to the public in 2014, Kubernetes has enabled organizations to move away from traditional IT infrastructure and toward the automation of operational tasks tied to the deployment, scaling and managing of containerized applications (or microservices ).

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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.

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Microsoft is finally making custom chips — and they’re all about AI

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The Azure Maia 100 and Cobalt 100 chips are the first two custom silicon chips designed by Microsoft for its cloud infrastructure. The rumors are true: Microsoft has built its own custom AI chip that can be used to train large language models and potentially avoid a costly reliance on Nvidia.

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The night train revolution has been hailed as an alternative to airplanes

Hacker News

Night trains have been making a resurgence across Europe after decades of decline, raising the prospect of more sustainable ways of criss-crossing the continent as travelers look to find alternatives to flying.

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LangChain Cheatsheet — All Secrets on a Single Page

Towards AI

Last Updated on November 16, 2023 by Editorial Team Author(s): Ivan Reznikov Originally published on Towards AI. The created onepager is my summary of the basics of LangChain. In this article, I’ll go through sections of code and describe the starter package you need to ace LangChain. Currently, this onepager is the only cheatsheet covering basics on Langchain.

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How to accelerate your data monetization strategy with data products and AI

IBM Journey to AI blog

Data monetization is a business capability where an organization can create and realize value from data and artificial intelligence (AI) assets. A value exchange system built on data products can drive business growth for your organization and gain competitive advantage. This growth could be internal cost effectiveness, stronger risk compliance, increasing the economic value of a partner ecosystem, or through new revenue streams.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr