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Maps say this place doesn’t exist. But that’s not true

Maps say this place doesn’t exist. But that’s not true

You may think of the places that remain uncharted by maps as very distant or rural areas. In reality, thriving, bustling communities of millions are not captured in any data source.  In fact, places all around the world have yet to be fully mapped, which is a huge problem. With the increase in climate-related disasters, this lack of data poses serious risks to the most vulnerable populations, especially in the global south. Gaps in data mean gaps in service delivery and gaps in disaster response. Here’s how you can join 600,000 volunteers worldwide and help communities put their citizens, roads,…
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Numenta Unveils NuPIC 2.0

Numenta Unveils NuPIC 2.0

A breakthrough for AI, NuPIC empowers enterprises to easily deploy robust generative AI applications on commodity CPUs Numenta Inc., the world leader in deploying large AI models on CPUs, announced version 2.0 of its flagship product, the Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing (NuPIC). NuPIC empowers companies to deploy large language models (LLMs) on CPUs, offering an efficient, scalable, and secure solution. With a focus on flexibility and real-world applications, NuPIC makes it easy for businesses to choose and deploy the right model for the right task. Whether customers want to run an existing model, fine-tune models with their proprietary data,…
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How Microsoft sees its Models-as-a-Service feature democratizing access to AI

How Microsoft sees its Models-as-a-Service feature democratizing access to AI

Join us in returning to NYC on June 5th to collaborate with executive leaders in exploring comprehensive methods for auditing AI models regarding bias, performance, and ethical compliance across diverse organizations. Find out how you can attend here. Today’s tools make it easy to build AI-powered applications. But a complex area most, if not all, developers want to avoid is having to sort out how to host the models being used. It’s one thing to choose between OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Meta’s Lllama 3, Google’s Gemini or the many open-source models out in the marketplace. It’s quite another to deploy it. Such…
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Building a better sarcasm detector

Building a better sarcasm detector

Oscar Wilde once said that sarcasm was the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence. Perhaps that is due to how difficult it is to use and understand. Sarcasm is notoriously tricky to convey through text -- even in person, it can be easily misinterpreted. The subtle changes in tone that convey sarcasm often confuse computer algorithms as well, limiting virtual assistants and content analysis tools. Xiyuan Gao, Shekhar Nayak, and Matt Coler of Speech Technology Lab at the University of Groningen, Campus Fryslân developed a multimodal algorithm for improved sarcasm detection that examines multiple aspects of…
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How to use Google Slides, Google’s free slideshow presentation maker

How to use Google Slides, Google’s free slideshow presentation maker

Google Slides is a presentation program that's part of Google Workspace, a group of productivity apps that also includes Gmail, Google Sheets, Goole Docs, Google Meet, and more. Workspace has more than 3 billion users worldwide. With Google Slides, users can create, present, and collaborate via online presentations from various devices. You can present during Google Meet calls directly from Slides and embed charts from Google Sheets. You can also add YouTube videos to Slides presentations. Google recently announced plans to add artificial intelligence features like its Gemini AI tool to its Workspace programs, which include Slides. Users will be able to use…
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Self-Driving Cars vs. Coding Copilots

Self-Driving Cars vs. Coding Copilots

Back in the mid-2010s, the world of autonomous vehicles was making great progress, and it seemed that we would soon be ushered around in cars that drove themselves, leaving us free to spend our time how we wanted. That obviously hasn’t happened, but instead, we’ve been treated to a form of AI we weren’t expecting: generative AI-powered copilots. Following the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, the world of generative AI has been on a tear. Every company seems to be investing in large language models (LLMs) to build one of the two most visible forms of GenAI: chatbots and…
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Adobe introduces AI-powered eraser to Lightroom

Adobe introduces AI-powered eraser to Lightroom

Say goodbye to photobombs. Adobe is introducing an AI-driven Generative Remove feature to its Lightroom photo editor. This feature simplifies the removal of unwanted elements like that annoying person in the background. Currently in public beta, it works seamlessly across the Lightroom ecosystem on mobile, desktop, and web platforms.Streamlined editing with Firefly AILightroom's Generative Remove effortlessly replaces unwanted elements using Adobe's Firefly AI engine. Paint over the area you want to remove, and Lightroom sends this information to Adobe's Firefly servers, which process the data and return the edited image. In contrast to Adobe Photoshop's Reference Image feature, which allows…
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OpenAI secures key partnership with Reddit

OpenAI secures key partnership with Reddit

OpenAI has secured a deal to access real-time content from Reddit through the platform’s data API.  This allows OpenAI to incorporate conversations from Reddit into ChatGPT and other new products, echoing a previous agreement that the platform had with Google, reportedly valued at $60 million. The partnership enables OpenAI to better sample the datasets on which their models are trained, allowing AI systems to become more precise and context-aware. For human communication and natural language processing, this means models like ChatGPT can stay continually updated with one of the vastest collections of public discourse available, enabling them to respond more effectively. As part of this collaboration, Reddit will be…
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What ScarJo v. ChatGPT Could Look Like in Court

What ScarJo v. ChatGPT Could Look Like in Court

It doesn’t matter whether a person’s actual voice is used in an imitation or not, Rothman says, only whether that audio confuses listeners. In the legal system, there is a big difference between imitation and simply recording something “in the style” of someone else. “No one owns a style,” she says.Other legal experts don’t see what OpenAI did as a clear-cut impersonation. “I think that any potential ‘right of publicity’ claim from Scarlett Johansson against OpenAI would be fairly weak given the only superficial similarity between the ‘Sky’ actress' voice and Johansson, under the relevant case law,” Colorado law professor…
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