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27 May

Winamp: new music platform and source code release – gHacks Tech News

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Winamp used to be a popular audio player for Windows. Things went quiet after its heyday and rights changed hands several times in that period. Veteran users of the player had big hopes when a comeback of the player was announced in 2021. After a, mostly, bug fix release in 2022, a new Winamp Player was announced for release in 2023. The release turned things around significantly, as it was launched as as web-based application and not a traditional desktop app. Even worse, the web-based player did not support playing local files. Everything seemed to be designed to push the…

27 May

Research Highlights Jul-Aug 2023: Llama 2, Flash-Attention 2, and More

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Every month is a busy month for LLM research. However, this month has been particularly interesting due to the release of new state-of-the-art base models, such as Meta's Llama 2 model suite. Double kudos: this new iteration of Llama models comes without any major restrictions and a very detailed 77-page report on arXiv!I am still compiling all my notes and thoughts after reading through this 77-pager for the next main issue of this newsletter -- coming soon! However, in the meantime, I wanted to share some of the main takeaways in the monthly Research Highlights (next to many other interesting…

27 May

Eat a rock a day, put glue on your pizza: how Google’s AI is losing touch with reality

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Google has rolled out its latest experimental search feature on Chrome, Firefox and the Google app browser to hundreds of millions of users. “AI Overviews” saves you clicking on links by using generative AI — the same technology that powers rival product ChatGPT — to provide summaries of the search results. Ask “how to keep bananas fresh for longer” and it uses AI to generate a useful summary of tips such as storing them in a cool, dark place and away from other fruits like apples. But ask it a left-field question and the results can be disastrous, or even…

27 May

China Creates $47.5 Billion Chip Fund to Fuel Self-Resilience

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China has set up the country’s largest-ever semiconductor investment fund to propel development of the domestic chip industry, the latest effort from Beijing to achieve self-sufficiency as the US seeks to restrict its growth. Source link lol

27 May

Data Machina #238

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Non-stop AI Innovation Every Single Week. Well yeah, thats’s right: There is no single week without something new, exciting, or amazing happening in AI. This is a selection of interesting, cool stuff that happened in the last 7 days or so:OpenAI introduced new, faster, and more efficient embedding models. Buried in the blog announcement, it says: “the new embedding models were trained with a technique that allows developers to shorten embeddings without the embedding losing its concept-representing properties.” Well - for some reason- it seems the blog fails to mention that the technique is called Matryoshka Representation Learning (paper, repo),…

27 May

It’s Time To Be More Strategic About AI In Customer Service

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Generative AI has topped the list of customer inquiries and conversations that I have been having this year — no surprises there! Interestingly, at least half of them have been about AI in customer service and chatbots, virtual assistants, and knowledge bots for customers, which seem top of mind for most customer service leaders. This makes us wonder if this is the limit of what AI can do for customer service. I think not. These are the most obvious and simplest use cases that need the least amount of disruption in existing customer service operations, seen as easily done and…

27 May

One year update: book submitted; TIME 100; Sep 21 online workshop

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It’s almost exactly a year since we launched this newsletter and began writing our book. Earlier this week, we turned in our manuscript to our publisher! It’s now in the hands of peer reviewers.In the book, we dig into the ideas behind generative AI, tackle fears around artificial general intelligence, explain the scientific and ethical limitations of predictive AI, categorize the many types of AI harms, explore why AI has failed to fix social media, analyze how AI hype and misinformation are created and amplified, and argue that many AI problems in fact reflect problems with capitalism requiring deeper reforms.…

27 May

Improving Text2SQL Performance with Ease on Databricks

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Want to raise your LLM into the top 10 of Spider, a widely used benchmark for text-to-SQL tasks? Spider evaluates how well LLMs can convert text queries into SQL code.For those unfamiliar with text-to-SQL, its significance lies in transforming how businesses interact with their data. Instead of relying on SQL experts to write queries, people can simply ask questions of their data in plain English and receive precise answers. This democratizes access to data, enhancing business intelligence and enabling more informed decision-making.The Spider benchmark is a widely recognized standard for evaluating the performance of text-to-SQL systems. It challenges LLMs to…

27 May

How to manage a team of AI agents

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Hey all, its been a awhile. I took time off for honeymoon and the resulting backlog of work. To those who joined the enterprise-ready AI event, thank you for making it awesome! The interest was staggering. Ashish and I will share the key takeaways soon. If you’d like to be the first to know of future events, consider subscribing! The user experience of ChatGPT & similar products is that it requires a human to pilot. Its works as a collaborator that needs live instructions. A different way to experience AI is that of fully autonomous AI agents, large language model…

27 May

Unleashing the power of generative AI: Verisk’s journey to an Instant Insight Engine for enhanced customer support | Amazon Web Services

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This post is co-written with Tom Famularo, Abhay Shah and Nicolette Kontor 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 over 20 countries, Verisk helps build resilience for individuals, communities, and businesses. The company is committed to ethical and responsible AI development, with human oversight and transparency. Verisk is using generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance operational efficiencies and profitability for insurance clients while adhering to its ethical AI principles. Verisk’s FAST platform is a leader in the life insurance and…