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12 Sep

How Can Data Centers Stay Cool to Keep AI Racks from Overheating? | TechRepublic

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Data centers are known to be hot. They are getting hotter, and the trend is accelerating. Can the latest cooling technologies such as liquid cooling keep up? Find out in this TechRepublic Premium feature from Drew Robb. Featured text from the download: REMEMBER THE FUNDAMENTALS Those implementing liquid cooling are advised to pay attention to the fundamentals of cooling. Otherwise, they may be wasting money. Imagine the scenario where expensive liquid cooling is implemented, yet throughout the rest of the data center, cold air is allowed to mix with hot air, and the air conditioning system is forced to work…

12 Sep

OpenAI’s ‘Strawberry’ Model Performs Complex Equations

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On Sept. 12, OpenAI revealed a preview of its new model, OpenAI o1, designed to handle complex tasks such as writing code, solving math problems and performing deep reasoning. It is the first of the long-rumored next-generation AI family known as “Strawberry.” ChatGPT Plus, Team users, and developers with OpenAI API usage Tier 5 can now access the preview version of the full model, o1-preview. These users can also access o1-mini — a smaller, faster version of the o1 model that is particularly effective at coding. As a smaller model, the tech giant says it is “80% cheaper than o1-preview,…

12 Sep

Researchers discover building blocks that could ‘revolutionize computing’

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A research team at University of Limerick has made a major discovery by designing molecules that could revolutionise computing. The researchers at UL's Bernal Institute have discovered new ways of probing, controlling and tailoring materials at the most fundamental molecular scale. The results have been used in an international project involving experts worldwide to help create a brand-new type of hardware platform for artificial intelligence that achieves unprecedented improvements in computational speed and energy efficiency. The research has just been published in the scientific journal Nature. The UL team, led by Damien Thompson, Professor of Molecular Modelling at UL and…

12 Sep

Reinforcement Learning From Human Feedback (RLHF) For LLMs

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Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) unlocked the full potential of today’s large language models (LLMs). By integrating human judgment into the training process, RLHF ensures that models not only produce coherent and useful outputs but also align more closely with human values, preferences, and expectations. The RLHF process consists of three steps: collecting human feedback in the form of a preference dataset, training a reward model to mimic human preferences, and fine-tuning the LLM using the reward model. The last step is enabled by the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm. Alternatives to RLHF include Constitutional AI where the model…

11 Sep

Microscale robot folds into 3D shapes and crawls

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Cornell University researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter in size that are printed as a 2D hexagonal "metasheet" but, with a jolt of electricity, morph into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawl. The robot's versatility is due to a novel design based on kirigami, a cousin of origami, in which slices in the material enable it to fold, expand and locomote. The team's paper, "Electronically Configurable Microscopic Metasheet Robots," published Sept. 11 in Nature Materials. The paper's co-lead authors are postdoctoral researchers Qingkun Liu and Wei Wang. The project was led by Itai Cohen, professor of physics. His…

11 Sep

Apple Intelligence Promises Better AI Privacy. Here’s How It Actually Works

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Apple is making every production PCC server build publicly available for inspection so people unaffiliated with Apple can verify that PCC is doing (and not doing) what the company claims, and that everything is implemented correctly. All of the PCC server images are recorded in a cryptographic attestation log, essentially an indelible record of signed claims, and each entry includes a URL for where to download that individual build. PCC is designed so Apple can't put a server into production without logging it. And in addition to offering transparency, the system works as a crucial enforcement mechanism to prevent bad…

10 Sep

Copilot Cheat Sheet (Formerly Bing Chat): The Complete Guide

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Microsoft has made a deliberate and undeniable commitment to the integration of generative artificial intelligence into its line of services and products. One of the most prominent examples of this integration is Copilot in Bing, which expands on the open-sourced foundation of ChatGPT and adds large language model capabilities to Microsoft Edge and Bing searches in the form of a ready to use chatbot. What is Copilot with Bing? Copilot is an additional feature of the Bing search engine that allows you to search for information on the internet; it was previously called Bing Chat. Searches in Copilot in Bing…

10 Sep

Apple Intelligence Cheat Sheet: A Complete Guide for 2024

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Apple has played the long game with its generative AI features, opting not to rush into adding AI copilots to devices like rival Microsoft has done. Instead, Apple’s upcoming generative AI features aim to fulfill the promise Siri made over a decade ago — a humanlike assistant that can make using devices more intuitive — while also adding well-known generative AI capabilities like image generation on smartphones. What does Apple Intelligence do? Apple Intelligence is an umbrella term for various generative AI features that can operate on Apple devices. It includes: Generative writing tools. Automatic summarization. Smart prioritization of notifications…

10 Sep

Gartner: The Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2025

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Rapid advancements in AI, computing, and human-machine interaction are the key drivers behind this year’s list of 10 technologies that Gartner believes IT leaders should closely monitor in 2025. Gene Alvarez, Gartner’s distinguished vice president analyst, revealed a list of technology trends likely to cause disruption in the next two to 10 years during the IT Symposium/Xpo in Australia on Sept. 10. Based on research and analyses, he said the list includes only technologies and trends that “are so significant C-level executives are saying we need to do something about this.” 1. Turning AI into decision-making agents Gartner expects Agentic…

10 Sep

People facing life-or-death choice put too much trust in AI, study finds

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In simulated life-or-death decisions, about two-thirds of people in a UC Merced study allowed a robot to change their minds when it disagreed with them -- an alarming display of excessive trust in artificial intelligence, researchers said. Human subjects allowed robots to sway their judgment despite being told the AI machines had limited capabilities and were giving advice that could be wrong. In reality, the advice was random. "As a society, with AI accelerating so quickly, we need to be concerned about the potential for overtrust," said Professor Colin Holbrook , a principal investigator of the study and a member…