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27 May

Pikmin Bloom has been helping me meet my outdoor walking goals for years

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Over the past few years, I’ve developed a peaceful little routine to make up for time spent cooped up inside working on sunny days: after I’ve closed my laptop for the day, I throw my sneakers on, open Pikmin Bloom on my phone, and go for a long walk to clear my head and plant virtual flowers with the 'min.Pikmin Bloom was released for Android and iOS in 2021 by Pokémon Go developer Niantic and Nintendo as another “go outside and touch grass” app, and I’ve been playing it pretty regularly since then. Only recently, when the app announced some…

27 May

Ahead of AI #11: New Foundation Models

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In this edition of the newsletter, we direct our attention to one of the most prominent highlights of the summer: the release of the Llama 2 base and chat models, as well as CodeLlama, the latest highlights in the open-source AI large language model (LLM) landscape.Additionally, we delve into the leaked GPT-4 model details, discussing an analysis of its performance over time and covering emerging alternatives to the prevalent transformer-based LLMs.OpenAI announced its new finetuning API this week, designed to train the GPT-3.5-turbo on custom data sets. This new offering might further fuel the ongoing conversations around closed, proprietary AI…

27 May

Productivity soars in sectors of global economy most exposed to AI, says report

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The sectors of the global economy most heavily exposed to artificial intelligence (AI) are witnessing a marked productivity increase and command a significant wage premium, according to a report.Boosting hopes that AI might help lift the global economy out of a 15-year, low-growth trough, a PwC study found productivity growth was almost five times as rapid in parts of the economy where AI penetration was highest than in less exposed sectors.PwC said that in the UK, one of the 15 countries covered by the report, job postings that require AI skills were growing 3.6 times faster relative to all job…

27 May

Release notes for Deephaven version 0.32.0 | Deephaven

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Deephaven Community Core version 0.32.0 is the first release of 2024! We bring in the new year with a new calendar API, bug fixes, and quality-of-life improvements. Let's dive into what's new.Deephaven's calendar API has been significantly revamped:The built-in calendar query library has been completely reworked. It is now consistent with the rest of the time library and is based on Java time types.The Python API has been trimmed down. The smaller API makes it easier to keep table operations fast by avoiding accidental Python/Java boundary crossings.Stay tuned for a blog that explores the new calendar API and its benefits…

27 May

OpenAI’s content deal with the FT is an attempt to avoid more legal challenges – and an AI ‘data apocalypse’

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OpenAI’s new “strategic partnership” and licensing agreement with the Financial Times (FT) follows similar deals between the US tech company and publishers such as Associated Press, German media giant Axel Springer and French newspaper Le Monde. OpenAI will licence the FT’s content to use as training data for its products, including successors to its AI chatbot ChatGPT. The AI systems developed by OpenAI are exposed to this data to help them improve their performance in terms of use of language, context and accuracy. The FT will receive an undisclosed payment as part of the deal. This is happening against a…

27 May

An Introduction to Post-Quantum Cryptography Algorithms – EE Times

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//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> The rise of quantum computing paints a significant challenge for the cryptography we rely on today. The modern encryption standards we currently use to safeguard sensitive data and communications, such as DSA, public key RSA and those based on elliptic curves, will eventually be broken by quantum computers. Estimates vary on when, but at current rates of improvement, this is predicted by some to happen towards the end of the next decade. Michele Mosca, co-founder of the Institute for Quantum Computing at Canada’s University of Waterloo, has estimated that there…

27 May

How LotteON built dynamic A/B testing for their personalized recommendation system | Amazon Web Services

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This post is co-written with HyeKyung Yang, Jieun Lim, and SeungBum Shim from LotteON. LotteON is transforming itself into an online shopping platform that provides customers with an unprecedented shopping experience based on its in-store and online shopping expertise. Rather than simply selling the product, they create and let customers experience the product through their platform. LotteON has been providing various forms of personalized recommendation services throughout the LotteON customer journey and across its platform, from its main page to its shopping cart and order completion pages. Through the development of new, high-performing models and continuous experimentation, they’re providing customers…

27 May

Is the future of AI open or closed? Watch today’s Princeton-Stanford workshop

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By Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Percy Liang, Arvind NarayananPerhaps the biggest tech policy debate today is about the future of AI, especially foundation models and generative AI. Will AI be open or closed? Will we be able to download and modify these models, or will a few companies control them? The stakes couldn’t be higher. A closed path could lead to a concentration of power never before seen in the history of capitalism, especially if AI turns out to have a transformative effect on the economy. On the other hand, open models might be easier for bad actors to misuse. Today,…

27 May

Fine Tuning Qwen 1.5 for Coding

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In this article, we will be fine tuning the Qwen 1.5 model for coding. Nowadays, there are several chat based LLMs available online. Sometimes, the options are so vast, that choosing a model mostly falls upon personal preference and the task to be accomplished. However, most of the chat based models are fine tuned on a general SFT (Supervised Fine Tuning) dataset. The smaller chat based LLMs (or SLMs [Small Language Models]) do not perform so well on task specific objectives, like coding, out of the box. Fine tuning the base models according to the task is a much better…

27 May

Introduction to Time Series Analysis with Python

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Introduction:Time series analysis is a powerful tool for studying and predicting patterns in data that change over time. With the increasing availability of data and advancements in technology, it has become an essential skill for data analysts and researchers across various fields. Python, being a versatile and popular programming language, offers a wide range of tools and libraries for time series analysis. In this article, we will discuss the advantages, disadvantages, and features of conducting time series analysis with Python. Advantages:Python offers a user-friendly and efficient environment for time series analysis, as it allows for easy data manipulation, visualization, and…