Towards AI
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Author(s): Mohit Sewak, Ph.D. Originally published on Towards AI. Copyrighting the Clones: Is AI the Future Picasso or Just a Fancy Photocopier? Lets come straight to the point and kick things off with a place you know pretty well good ol USA! Section 1: Uncle Sam Says No Robots Allowed in Copyright Town (USA) Ah, America! Land of the free, home of the brave, and sticklers for human-made art.
Pickl AI
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Summary: Machine Learning’s key features include automation, which reduces human involvement, and scalability, which handles massive data. It uses predictive modelling to forecast future events and adaptiveness to improve with new data, plus generalization to analyse fresh data. Introduction: The Reality of Machine Learning Consider a healthcare organisation that implemented a Machine Learning model to predict patient outcomes based on historical data.
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FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Asked ChatGPT anything lately? Talked with a customer service chatbot? Read the results of Google's "AI Overviews" summary feature? If you've used the Internet lately, chances are, you've been consuming content created by a large language model.
Hacker News
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Figure was founded with the ambition to change the world.
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
Machine Learning Mastery
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Conventional LLMs had context length limit, which restricts the amount of information processed in a single user-model interaction, as one of their major limitations. Where do RAGs play into this?
insideBIGDATA
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
VAST Data today announced the addition of block storage to its data platform, completing what the company said is its vision for the VAST DataStore as a universal storage platform that now encompasses files, objects and blocks.
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FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Last month, DeepSeek turned the AI world on its head with the release of a new, competitive simulated reasoning model that was free to download and use under an MIT license. Now, the company is preparing to make the underlying code behind that model more accessible, promising to release five open source repos starting next week. In a social media post late Thursday , DeepSeek said the daily releases it is planning for its "Open Source Week" would provide visibility into "these humble building bl
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
A new organization, the Open-Source AI Foundation (O-SAIF) , has launched with a mission to end closed-source artificial intelligence contracts in civilian government agencies. The foundation argues that open-source AI promotes transparency, security, and responsible spending of taxpayer dollars , making it a necessary standard for government technology.
insideBIGDATA
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
For enterprise data teams, GenAI expectations are sky-high, and a new survey finds that management often leads the charge. A quarter of executives (25 percent) say their leaders will greenlight any project with AI as a core component, while the largest group (44 percent) are a bit more.
Analytics Vidhya
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Python has become the lingua franca for scientific computing and data visualization, thanks in large part to its rich ecosystem of libraries. One such tool that has been a favourite among researchers and practitioners alike is PyLab. In this article, we will delve into the world of PyLab, exploring its origins, features, practical use cases, […] The post A Quick Guide to PyLab appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
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?
Hacker News
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
After 14 years of trying and failing to gain a smartphone foothold, Amazon has announced it will discontinue its app store. Anyone who has content in Amazon's store will be able to access it for now, but all bets are off beginning on August 20, 2025. As part of the pull-back, the company is also discontinuing the Amazon Coins digital currency. The Amazon Appstore made waves when it launched in 2011 , offering an alternative to what at the time was known as the Android Market.
databricks
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Finetuning Embedding Models for Better Retrieval and RAG TL;DR: Finetuning an embedding model on in-domain data can significantly improve vector search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
insideBIGDATA
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO, February 20, 2025 — AI acceleration cloud complany Together AIannounced a $305 million Series B investment led by General Catalyst and co-led by Prosperity7.
Analytics Vidhya
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
If you’re working with AI/ML workloads(like me) and trying to figure out which data format to choose, this post is for you. Whether you’re a student, analyst, or engineer, knowing the differences between Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Apache Hudi can save you a ton of headaches when it comes to performance, scalability, and real-time […] The post Apache Iceberg vs Delta Lake vs Hudi: Best Open Table Format for AI/ML Workloads appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate
In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!
KDnuggets
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Enhance the array operational process with methods you may not have previously known.
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella emphasized the need for realistic expectations regarding artificial intelligence (AI) during a recent podcast interview , citing the lack of meaningful economic impact from current AI spending and hype. Microsoft CEO stresses need for realistic AI expectations Nadella’s remarks aimed at the tech industry advocate for a focus on measurable outcomes, asserting that success should be quantified by global economic growth rather than theoretical achievements of AI sy
insideBIGDATA
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
20th February 2025, London — Twin Path Ventures, a UK pre-seed investor in AI-first startups, has received support from British Business Investments for its strategy to invest in UK-based tech founders building and launching AI-powered solutions.
Analytics Vidhya
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
In the rapidly evolving digital world of today, being able to use artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming essential for survival. Businesses may now improve customer relations, optimize processes, and spur innovation with the help of large language models, or LLMs. However, how can this potential be realised without a lot of money or experience? LLM […] The post Top 12 Free APIs for AI Development appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
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Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.
KDnuggets
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Develop AI applications, test them, and deploy on the cloud using user-friendly MLOps tools and straightforward methods.
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
AI is good at pattern recognition but struggles with reasoning. Meanwhile, human cognition is deeply rooted in logic and coherence. What if we could combine the best of both worlds the raw processing power of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the structured, rule-based thinking of symbolic AI? This is the goal behind Neurosymbolic AI , a new approach that merges deep learning with coherence-driven inference (CDI).
AWS Machine Learning Blog
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Large language models (LLMs) excel at generating human-like text but face a critical challenge: hallucinationproducing responses that sound convincing but are factually incorrect. While these models are trained on vast amounts of generic data, they often lack the organization-specific context and up-to-date information needed for accurate responses in business settings.
Analytics Vidhya
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Microsoft’s OmniParser V2 is a cutting-edge AI screen parser that extracts structured data from GUIs by analyzing screenshots, enabling AI agents to interact with on-screen elements seamlessly. Perfect for building autonomous GUI agents, this tool is a game-changer for automation and workflow optimization. In this guide, well cover how to install OmniParser V2 locally, its […] The post How to Run Microsoft’s OmniParser V2 Locally?
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
databricks
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
As part of our commitment to help upskill the current and future workforce, we are excited to announce new, free courses to help professionals learn.
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Artificial intelligence is supposed to follow the rulesbut what happens when it figures out how to bend them instead? A new study by researchers at Palisade Research, “ Demonstrating Specification Gaming in Reasoning Models ,” sheds light on a growing concern: AI systems that learn to manipulate their environments rather than solve problems the intended way.
Machine Learning Mastery
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
This post is in six parts; they are: The Complexity of NER Systems The Evolution of NER Technology BERT's Revolutionary Approach to NER Using DistilBERT with Hugging Face's Pipeline Using DistilBERT Explicitly with AutoModelForTokenClassification Best Practices for NER Implementation The challenge of Named Entity Recognition extends far beyond simple pattern matching or dictionary lookups.
Analytics Vidhya
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Figure AI has just released the documentation and demos for its latest humanoid robot, Helix. Helix is built on a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) framework, designed to enable humanoid robots to reason and operate with human-like capabilities. This approach aims to tackle the challenge of scaling robotics from controlled industrial environments to the unpredictable, varied settings of […] The post Figure’s Helix: AI that Brings Human-Like Robots to your Home appeared first on Analytics
Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com
Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.
databricks
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
As we welcome the new year, we're thrilled to announce several new resources for R users on Databricks: a comprehensive developer guide, the.
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
OpenAI reported having 400 million weekly active users as of February 2025, a notable increase from 300 million in December 2024. The company’s chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, shared this information with CNBC as OpenAI seeks to position itself as a leading consumer technology entity. OpenAI reaches 400 million weekly users amid rising competition Usage of OpenAI’s platforms continues to grow rapidly, although the company has not disclosed specific numbers for paid subscripti
AWS Machine Learning Blog
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
This post is co-written with Sajin Jacob, Jerry Chen, Siddarth Mohanram, Luis Barbier, Kristen Chenowith, and Michelle Stahl from Verisk. Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) is a leading data analytics and technology partner for the global insurance industry. Through advanced analytics, software, research, and industry expertise across more than 20 countries, Verisk helps build resilience for individuals, communities, and businesses.
Analytics Vidhya
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Taking a project from concept to reality is no small feat. What’s even hard to imagine is if the final project will work how we want it to or not. With AI, we can now visualize, create, and even predict the outcomes of our projects with a precision that has never been seen before. From […] The post From Idea to Innovation: Using AI for Project Development appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
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