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Building High-Quality and Trusted Data Products with Databricks

Building High-Quality and Trusted Data Products with Databricks

IntroductionOrganizations aiming to become AI and data-driven often need to provide their internal teams with high-quality and trusted data products. Building such data products ensures that organizations establish standards and a trustworthy foundation of business truth for their data and AI objectives. One approach for putting quality and usability at the forefront is through the use of the data mesh paradigm to democratize the ownership and management of data assets. Our blog posts (Part 1, Part 2) offer guidance on how customers can leverage Databricks in their enterprise to address data mesh's foundational pillars, one of which is "data as…
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Trying to tame AI: Seoul summit flags hurdles to regulation

The Bletchley Park artificial intelligence summit in 2023 was a landmark event in AI regulation simply by virtue of its existence.Between the event’s announcement and its first day, the mainstream conversation had changed from a tone of light bafflement to a general agreement that AI regulation may be worth discussing.However, the task for its follow-up, held at a research park on the outskirts of Seoul this week, is harder: can the UK and South Korea show that governments are moving from talking about AI regulation to actually delivering it?At the end of the Seoul summit, the big achievement the UK…
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AI products for kids promising friendship and learning? 3 things to consider

AI products for kids promising friendship and learning? 3 things to consider

Smart toys with internet connections and AI-enabled robots, with capacities for sophisticated social interactions with children, are widely available today. This is no doubt driven by rapid development in Artificial Intelligence, with impacts being widely felt. Companies are looking to enhance productivity and revenue, while governments are considering safety measures in their AI strategies. Child-focused AI products include: Parents and professionals working with children may feel pressure to purchase these or other products as alternatives to in-person activities like play dates, therapy or games — or wonder about their usefulness and potential roles in children’s lives. Before charging ahead to…
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AnalogCoder: Analog Circuit Design via Training-Free Code Generation

AnalogCoder: Analog Circuit Design via Training-Free Code Generation

arXiv:2405.14918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Analog circuit design is a significant task in modern chip technology, focusing on the selection of component types, connectivity, and parameters to ensure proper circuit functionality. Despite advances made by Large Language Models (LLMs) in digital circuit design, the complexity and scarcity of data in analog circuitry pose significant challenges. To mitigate these issues, we introduce AnalogCoder, the first training-free LLM agent for designing analog circuits through Python code generation. Firstly, AnalogCoder incorporates a feedback-enhanced flow with tailored domain-specific prompts, enabling the automated and self-correcting design of analog circuits with a high success rate. Secondly,…
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Empirical Ventures raises £8.25M for deep science

Empirical Ventures raises £8.25M for deep science

Empirical Ventures, founded by alumni of Bristol spinout Ziylo, has raised £8.25m for its deep science fund, S/EIS. The firm wants to raise a total of £10M to provide more support to early-stage deep science startups. Products backed by Empirical span from brain implants to robotic crop harvesters to vaccine temperature management. Their deep science criteria covers life sciences, advanced materials, photonics and quantum hardware, robotics and automation, agchem/tech and deeptech. The firm aspires to level up the UK’s deeptech landscape by leading due diligence applied to potential investments in deep science, thereby helping to de-risk early-stage investments for their…
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Is GPT-4 getting worse over time?

Is GPT-4 getting worse over time?

A new paper making the rounds is being interpreted as saying that GPT-4 has gotten worse since its release. Unfortunately, this is a vast oversimplification of what the paper found. And while the findings are interesting, some of the methods are questionable, so it’s worth digging into the details.One important concept to understand about chatbots is that there is a big difference between capability and behavior. A model that has a capability may or may not display that capability in response to a particular prompt.Chatbots acquire their capabilities through pre-training. It is an expensive process that takes months for the…
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Foundational nabs $8M to help developers fix data quality issues faster – SiliconANGLE

Foundational nabs $8M to help developers fix data quality issues faster – SiliconANGLE

Foundational Data Inc., a startup helping enterprises ensure their internal datasets are accurate, today announced that it has raised $8 million to finance growth initiatives.  Viola Ventures and Google LLC’s Gradient Ventures fund led the seed round. They were joined by executives from Meta Platforms Inc., Datadog Inc. and other major tech firms. Against the backdrop of the investment, Foundational Data today announced the general availability of its namesake platform for troubleshooting data quality issues.  Inaccuracies in business information are tricky to spot because their scope is often limited. In an analytics dashboard that contains multiple graphs, a pie chart…
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6 NATO countries are planning to build a ‘drone wall’ to defend themselves against Russia, reports say

6 NATO countries are planning to build a ‘drone wall’ to defend themselves against Russia, reports say

Six NATO countries are joining forces to create a "drone wall" to defend themselves against Russia, AFP news agency reported.Over the weekend, ministers from Finland, Norway, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania convened to discuss a coordinated system to help defend against Russian provocations and smuggling attempts, per the Financial Times."This is a completely new thing -- a drone wall stretching from Norway to Poland, and the goal is to use drones and other technologies to protect our borders," Lithuania's interior minister Agnė Bilotaitė reportedly told the Baltic News Service.Further details on when the wall could be in place and how…
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Dissecting Query-Key Interaction in Vision Transformers

Dissecting Query-Key Interaction in Vision Transformers

arXiv:2405.14880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-attention in vision transformers has been thought to perform perceptual grouping where tokens attend to other tokens with similar embeddings, which could correspond to semantically similar features in an image. However, contextualization is also an important and necessary computation for processing signals. Contextualization potentially requires tokens to attend to dissimilar tokens such as those corresponding to backgrounds or different objects, but this effect has not been reported in previous studies. In this study, we investigate whether self-attention in vision transformers exhibits a preference for attending to similar tokens or dissimilar tokens, providing evidence of perceptual…
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Gemma: Introducing new state-of-the-art open models

Gemma: Introducing new state-of-the-art open models

Responsible by designGemma is designed with our AI Principles at the forefront. As part of making Gemma pre-trained models safe and reliable, we used automated techniques to filter out certain personal information and other sensitive data from training sets. Additionally, we used extensive fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to align our instruction-tuned models with responsible behaviors. To understand and reduce the risk profile for Gemma models, we conducted robust evaluations including manual red-teaming, automated adversarial testing, and assessments of model capabilities for dangerous activities. These evaluations are outlined in our Model Card.We’re also releasing a new Responsible…
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