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23 May

Scale AI

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I’m excited to share Generational’s inaugural growth & late-stage company briefing with a deep dive on Scale AI, blending analytical rigor with feature writing. Disclaimer: I have a financial interest in Scale. Don’t take this as investment advice.In this deep dive, you’ll learn insights from conversations with Scale’s customers, ex-employees, and competitors. I could do this thanks to Tegus, which centralizes expert calls into a single platform. Nothing beats primary research when it comes to understanding a company. If you’re curious about Tegus, try them out with this link.Scale AI accelerates the development of AI applications through services and software.…

23 May

Poking parts of Sonnet’s brain to make it less annoying

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In a groundbreaking new paper (actually groundbreaking, IMO), researchers at Anthropic have scaled up an interpretability technique called "dictionary learning" to one of their deployed models, Claude 3 Sonnet. The results provide an unprecedented look inside the mind of a large language model, revealing millions of interpretable features that correspond to specific concepts and behaviors (like sycophancy) and shedding light on the model's inner workings. In this post, we'll explore the key findings of this research, including the discovery of interpretable features, the role of scaling laws, the abstractness and versatility of these features, and their implications for model steering…

23 May

MongoDB Dev Ittycheria on the evolving AI landscape – SiliconANGLE

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The technology industry is undergoing a profound transformation, with artificial intelligence reshaping how businesses operate and interact with customers. The AI landscape is evolving at breakneck speed. As companies grapple with the rapid evolution of AI, they’re seeking solutions to navigate this new landscape effectively. MongoDB has emerged as a key player in this transformation, focusing on providing tools and expertise to help developers harness AI’s potential in building innovative applications. “We are in the business of helping developers use AI to build applications that transform a business,” said Dev Ittycheria (pictured), chief executive officer of MongoDB Inc. “Where will…

23 May

Microsoft Build 2024: Copilot AI Gains ‘Personal Assistant’ Capabilities

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Following the announcements of Copilot+ enabled AI PCs at the Microsoft Build developer event on May 20, Microsoft released new developer tools, enhancements to Microsoft Azure AI and new enterprise options for Copilot. GitHub Copilot received a lengthy list of new capabilities enabled by first- and third-party services. Meanwhile, reactions to the AI memory feature Recall include some backlash against its observation of all of the user’s activity. Recall, announced at Microsoft Build on May 20, makes any activity on a Microsoft AI PC searchable, allowing the user to ask natural language questions and receive answers from across all of…

23 May

Local Coworking Spaces Thrive Where WeWork Dared Not Go

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The white colonial revival church with its high steeple adds an idyllic architectural touch to the affluent town of Huntington, a Long Island suburb of New York City. But a sign grabs the eye from the road: “Coworking space,” it says. “Kind of like a WeWork. Was a church, but not anymore.”The former church may have been leveled and replaced with condos, had Michael Hartofilis not bought it and repurposed it as a coworking venue called Main Space that opened earlier this year. What was once a sanctuary with a high ceiling has been split into two floors of coworking…

23 May

Hugging Face Autotrain – Getting Started

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Autotrain is a no-code platform from Hugging Face to train, evaluate, and deploy machine learning and deep learning models. In this article, we will use Hugging Face Autotrain to train a Small Language Model (SLM). The Hugging Face Autotrain platform offers several functionalities for training: Computer Vision models Machine Learning models And LMs & LLMs However, in this article we will focus on training a language model for instruction following using the Autotrain platform. Although we can directly access Autotrain from their platform, we will use local installation. So, in way, we will use some code rather than the no-code…

23 May

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

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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,…

23 May

Numenta Unveils NuPIC 2.0

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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,…

23 May

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

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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…

23 May

Building a better sarcasm detector

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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…