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23 May

The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From ‘Modern Day Slavery’

stp2y0 CommentsAIafrica, artificial intelligence, chatgpt, content moderation, crowdsourcing, joe biden, labor, meta, openai, social media

AI projects like OpenAI’s ChatGPT get part of their savvy from some of the lowest-paid workers in the tech industry—contractors often in poor countries paid small sums to correct chatbots and label images. On Wednesday, 97 African workers who do AI training work or online content moderation for companies like Meta and OpenAI published an open letter to President Biden, demanding that US tech companies stop “systemically abusing and exploiting African workers.”Most of the letter’s signatories are from Kenya, a hub for tech outsourcing, whose president, William Ruto, is visiting the US this week. The workers allege that the practices…

23 May

Webinar Replay – Space Loves AI: How AI promises to transform space operations

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For satellite operators, AI’s potential benefits are impossible to ignore. As Earth observation and communications constellations expand, AI tools promise to streamline operations, reduce on-orbit collisions and speed up analysis of remote sensing data. Opportunities and challenges for space-based AI with experts from the Aerospace Corporation, Stanford University’s Center for AEroSpace Autonomy Research (CAESAR), Magnestar, and Redwire Space were discussed. Panelists Mike Nemerouf, DirectorInnovation, Science and Technology Aerospace Corporation Al Tadros, CTORedwire Space Simone D’Amico, Co-founderStanford Center for AEroSpace Autonomy Research Moderator Debra WernerSenior Staff WriterSpaceNews Sponsored By Whether your mission requires persistent, high-resolution imagery or resilient communications, Redwire’s highly…

23 May

Building MLOps Capabilities at GitLab As a One-Person ML Platform Team

stp2y0 CommentsGenAI

Eduardo Bonet is an incubation engineer at GitLab, building out their MLOps capabilities. One of the first features Eduardo implemented in this role was a diff for Jupyter Notebooks, bringing code reviews into the data science process. Eduardo believes in an iterative, feedback-driven product development process, although he emphasizes that “minimum viable change” does not necessarily mean that there is an immediately visible value-add from the user’s point of view. While LLMs are quickly gaining traction, Eduardo thinks they’ll not replace ML or traditional software engineering but add to the capabilities. Thus, he believes that GitLab’s current focus on MLOps…

23 May

Generative AI Translation Startup DeepL Locks Up $300M

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Investors can’t get enough of different ways to use generative AI. Translation and language startup DeepL became the latest startup using generative AI to raise big, nabbing $300 million at a $2 billion post-money valuation in a round led by Index Ventures. The valuation is about double its previous $1 billion-plus valuation from January 2023. The round included participation from ICONIQ Growth, Teachers’ Venture Growth, IVP, Atomico and WiL (World Innovation Lab). The German startup language AI platform offers writing, editing and translation services for 63 markets and 32 languages for business use cases. The company said it has already…

22 May

Announcing General Availability of Liquid Clustering

stp2y0 CommentsViral Newsdata management, delta lake, liquid clustering

We’re excited to announce the General Availability of Delta Lake Liquid Clustering in the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Liquid Clustering is an innovative data management technique that replaces table partitioning and ZORDER so you no longer have to fine-tune your data layout to achieve optimal query performance. Liquid clustering significantly simplifies data layout-related decisions and provides the flexibility to redefine clustering keys without data rewrites. It allows data layout to evolve alongside analytic needs over time – something you could never do with partitioning on Delta. Since the Public Preview of Liquid Clustering at the Data and AI Summit last year, we’ve…

22 May

Beautiful dashboards in Python with first-class real-time integration | Deephaven

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from deephaven import ui, agg, empty_tablefrom deephaven.stream.table_publisher import table_publisherfrom deephaven.stream import blink_to_append_onlyfrom deephaven.plot import express as dxfrom deephaven import updateby as ubyfrom deephaven import dtypes as dhtstocks = dx.data.stocks().reverse()def set_bol_properties(fig): fig.update_layout(showlegend=False) fig.update_traces(fill="tonexty", fillcolor='rgba(255,165,0,0.08)')@ui.componentdef line_plot( filtered_source, exchange, window_size, bol_bands): window_size_key = { "5 seconds": ("priceAvg5s", "priceStd5s"), "30 seconds": ("priceAvg30s", "priceStd30s"), "1 minute": ("priceAvg1m", "priceStd1m"), "5 minutes": ("priceAvg5m", "priceStd5m")} bol_bands_key = {"None": None, "80%": 1.282, "90%": 1.645, "95%": 1.960, "99%": 2.576} base_plot = ui.use_memo(lambda: ( dx.line(filtered_source, x="timestamp", y="price", by="exchange" if exchange == "All" else None, unsafe_update_figure=lambda fig: fig.update_traces(opacity=0.4)) ), [filtered_source, exchange]) window_size_avg_key_col = window_size_key[window_size][0] window_size_std_key_col = window_size_key[window_size][1] avg_plot = ui.use_memo(lambda: dx.line(filtered_source, x="timestamp",…

22 May

Ghostbuster: Detecting Text Ghostwritten by Large Language Models

stp2y0 CommentsAIlarge language models, text generation

The structure of Ghostbuster, our new state-of-the-art method for detecting AI-generated text. Large language models like ChatGPT write impressively well—so well, in fact, that they’ve become a problem. Students have begun using these models to ghostwrite assignments, leading some schools to ban ChatGPT. In addition, these models are also prone to producing text with factual errors, so wary readers may want to know if generative AI tools have been used to ghostwrite news articles or other sources before trusting them. What can teachers and consumers do? Existing tools to detect AI-generated text sometimes do poorly on data that differs from…

22 May

OpenAI and Wall Street Journal owner News Corp sign content deal

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ChatGPT developer OpenAI has signed a deal to bring news content from the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, the Times and the Sunday Times to the artificial intelligence platform, the companies said on Wednesday. Neither party disclosed a dollar figure for the deal.The deal will give OpenAI access to current and archived content from all of News Corp’s publications. The deal comes weeks after the AI heavyweight signed a deal with the Financial Times to license its content for the development of AI models. Earlier this year, OpenAI inked a similar contract with Axel Springer, parent of Business Insider…

22 May

Documenting your PhD — Keeping Track of Meetings, Experiments and Decisions • David Stutz

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A PhD can be a difficult endeavour. While becoming an expert in tackling a specific problems, it is easy to lose track of things: Have I read this paper before? What was the paper saying? Why did we decide to change course? Why am I running these experiments? Who did I talk to at the last conference? Throughout my PhD, I learned that documenting these things made me significantly more effective with minimal overhead. In this article, I want to share some learnings around what and how to keep track of PhD work. Introduction In the beginning of my PhD,…

22 May

What I learned from looking at 900 most popular open source AI tools

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[Hacker News discussion, LinkedIn discussion, Twitter thread] Four years ago, I did an analysis of the open source ML ecosystem. Since then, the landscape has changed, so I revisited the topic. This time, I focused exclusively on the stack around foundation models. The full list of open source AI repos is hosted at llama-police. The list is updated every 6 hours. You can also find most of them on my cool-llm-repos list on GitHub. Table of contentsData…. How to add missing reposThe New AI Stack…. AI stack over time…….. Applications…….. AI engineering…….. Model development…….. InfrastructureOpen source AI developers…. One-person billion-dollar…