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03 Jun

Oral history: how Tick Begg revolutionised braces and made 1920s Adelaide ‘the orthodontic centre of the world’

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In medieval Europe, barber-surgeons might cut your hair, shave your face, do a bit of blood-letting and tend to a broken limb.They might also pull a tooth out with a “pelican” – a crude beak-like shank – or lever it out with an iron “tooth key”. By the 17th century they might just knock it out with a steel punch elevator.It’s a winding, gruesome road from these early practitioners of dentistry to today’s world of 3D printing, artificial intelligence and robots that can create dental implants.The entrance to the Adelaide museum. Photograph: Sia Duff/The GuardianWayne Sampson, a dental historian and…
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Is Synthetic Data all We Need? Benchmarking the Robustness of Models Trained with Synthetic Images
03 Jun

Is Synthetic Data all We Need? Benchmarking the Robustness of Models Trained with Synthetic Images

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[Submitted on 30 May 2024] View a PDF of the paper titled Is Synthetic Data all We Need? Benchmarking the Robustness of Models Trained with Synthetic Images, by Krishnakant Singh and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:A long-standing challenge in developing machine learning approaches has been the lack of high-quality labeled data. Recently, models trained with purely synthetic data, here termed synthetic clones, generated using large-scale pre-trained diffusion models have shown promising results in overcoming this annotation bottleneck. As these synthetic clone models progress, they are likely to be deployed in challenging real-world settings, yet their suitability remains…
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SiC Valley: Italy’s Fully Integrated Breakthrough in Catania – EE Times
03 Jun

SiC Valley: Italy’s Fully Integrated Breakthrough in Catania – EE Times

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//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> STMicroelectronics (STMicro) has announced plans to construct the world’s first fully integrated silicon carbide (SiC) manufacturing facility in Catania, Sicily, Italy. This investment underscores the growing importance of SiC in the tech industry, mirroring Taiwan’s dominance in silicon manufacturing. Sicily’s emergence as a hub for SiC production not only showcases the region’s expertise but also contributes to semiconductor innovation on a global scale. The new facility is targeted to start production in 2026 and to ramp to full capacity by 2033, with up to 15,000 wafers per week at full…
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Elon Musk and Meta’s AI maestro Yann LeCun almost come to blows online – SiliconANGLE
03 Jun

Elon Musk and Meta’s AI maestro Yann LeCun almost come to blows online – SiliconANGLE

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Meta Platforms Inc. AI Chief Scientist Yann LeCun spent some time on the X platform over Memorial Day weekend dueling with its owner, the billionaire and devoted contrarian Elon Musk. The spat was centered around Musk’s (pictured) $24 billion venture, xAI, his generative artificial intelligence startup that he hopes will get ahead of the likes of OpenAI, Microsoft Corp., Google LLC and Meta, which are all now engaged in what could be termed the great scramble for the AI market a bit like colonizing countries once scrambled for physical space. The fight, it seems, isn’t going to be pretty. Musk wrote…
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An overview of Alteryx’s SparkED analytics program – SiliconANGLE
03 Jun

An overview of Alteryx’s SparkED analytics program – SiliconANGLE

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The enterprise is a fast-moving landscape. Companies often bemoan skill gaps and talent shortages but don’t actively engage in grassroots mentorship and skill impartation through academia. Bucking that trend is Alteryx Inc. Its SparkED Analytics Education Program exists to solve two key problems: shaping careers through analytics and mitigating the skills shortage in the data realm. “The SparkED Education Program really is at the center of solving that, connecting learners with customers,” said Jason Belland (pictured, left), vice president of the Global SparkED Education Program at Alteryx. “Today we’re working with over 1,200 universities across 55 countries. We’ve worked with almost…
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Is abortion rights your top issue? Here’s a guide to each 2024 candidate’s stance.
03 Jun

Is abortion rights your top issue? Here’s a guide to each 2024 candidate’s stance.

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The Supreme Court's landmark reversal of Roe v. Wade unleashed a torrent of emotions that upended the 2022 midterms. Two years later, abortion rights remain a major issue in the 2024 election.Polling at both the state and national level shows that abortion is likely President Joe Biden's best issue. But alone, it's unlikely to be enough to save him. Just look at Arizona: Advocates there are hoping to put a measure guaranteeing a right to an abortion until fetal viability, roughly 22 to 25 weeks of pregnancy, before voters this November. A recent CBS News-YouGov poll showed 65% of Arizonans…
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Extending the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark to French
03 Jun

Extending the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark to French

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arXiv:2405.20468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, numerous embedding models have been made available and widely used for various NLP tasks. Choosing a model that performs well for several tasks in English has been largely simplified by the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB), but extensions to other languages remain challenging. This is why we expand MTEB to propose the first massive benchmark of sentence embeddings for French. Not only we gather 22 existing datasets in an easy-to-use interface, but we also create three new French datasets for a global evaluation over 8 different tasks. We perform a large scale…
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Sam Altman Admits That OpenAI Doesn’t Actually Understand How Its AI Works
03 Jun

Sam Altman Admits That OpenAI Doesn’t Actually Understand How Its AI Works

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OpenAI has raised tens of billions of dollars to develop AI technologies that are changing the world.But there's one glaring problem: it's still struggling to understand how its tech actually works.During last week's International Telecommunication Union AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was stumped after being asked how his company's large language models (LLM) really function under the hood."We certainly have not solved interpretability," he said, as quoted by the Observer, essentially saying the company has yet to figure out how to trace back their AI models' often bizarre and inaccurate output and the…
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