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31 Jul

Google Cracks Down on Explicit Deepfakes

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A few weeks ago, a Google search for “deepfake nudes jennifer aniston” brought up at least seven high-up results that purported to have explicit, AI-generated images of the actress. Now they have vanished.Google product manager Emma Higham says that new adjustments to how the company ranks results, which have been rolled out this year, have already cut exposure to fake explicit images by over 70 percent on searches seeking that content about a specific person. Where problematic results once may have appeared, Google’s algorithms are aiming to promote news articles and other non-explicit content. The Aniston search now returns articles…

31 Jul

Can ChatGPT-4o Be Trusted With Your Private Data?

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Open AI says this data is used to train the AI model and improve its responses, but the terms allow the firm to share your personal information with affiliates, vendors, service providers, and law enforcement. “So it’s hard to know where your data will end up,” says Love.OpenAI’s privacy policy states that ChatGPT does collect information to create an account or communicate with a business, says Bharath Thota, a data scientist and chief solutions officer of analytics practice at management consulting firm Kearney, which advises firms on managing and using AI data to power new revenue streams.Part of this data…

30 Jul

An open-source auto-interpretability pipeline for Sparse Autoencoder Features

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Background# We aim to decompose the internal representations of an LLM into human-interpretable features. There is a vast literature on interpreting activations of neurons, both in language models (Gandelsman et al. 2024, Gurnee et al. 2024) and vision models (Olah et al. 2020). While there is promising work on interpreting neurons, sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have been presented as a more interpretable lens through which to look at LLMs activations (Cunningham et al. 2023). SAEs transform dense activation vectors, whose components are generally all nonzero, into much higher dimensional sparse feature vectors, whose components are mostly zero. The intuition is that…

30 Jul

10 Best Business Email Providers for Small Businesses

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When you’re first starting out with your business, using a standard email like yourname@gmail.com is all well and good. But as your brand evolves, marketing needs change, and customer lists grow, you might have to step up your email game. To establish your credibility and make space for growth, you’ll need a professional business email address with a custom domain (for example, yourname@yourbusiness.com). The best way to do this is to use a business email provider like Gmail or Microsoft Outlook. Providers like these let you have a custom domain for your email address to make your emails more professional…

30 Jul

Managed PostgreSQL service provider Tembo raises $14M – SiliconANGLE

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Tembo Data Systems Inc., operator of a PostgreSQL managed service, today said it closed a $14 million Series A funding round that brings its total financing to $20.5 million. The company says it’s developer-focused, meaning it wants to simplify the task of installing and managing PostgreSQL as well as the more than 200 extensions in its ecosystem. Tembo’s strategy is to make as many extensions as possible available using a package manager and registry it built called Trunk. The company said its service is distinguished by a commitment to open-source software. “As open-source purists, we believe that further developing the…

30 Jul

Hopsworks wants to make a splash with the industry’s first AI data lakehouse – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIHopsworks wants to make a splash with the industry's first AI data lakehouse, Mike Wheatley, SiliconANGLE

Swedish data lakehouse company Hopsworks AB is pitching what it says is the industry’s “first unified platform for building batch, real-time and large language model” artificial intelligence systems. In the Hopsworks 4.0 release, the company is enhancing its flagship platform with multiple new capabilities designed to help AI systems leverage real-time data, including a new feature store and vector database index system. The release, which will become generally available “soon”, also adds native Python access and more granular fine-tuning features for LLMs. The updates will enable teams to build AI systems of unparalleled scale and support the most challenging AI…

30 Jul

Betamax blues: Hudi edging toward ‘also ran’ status in the data platform race – SiliconANGLE

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In announcing its Polaris Catalog last month, Snowflake Inc. Executive Vice President Christian Kleinerman said the product “extends Snowflake’s commitment to Apache Iceberg as the open standard of choice.” Statements like that raise the hackles of Apache Hudi adherents. They maintain their preferred open table format — whose name stands for Hadoop Upserts, Deletes and Incrementals — is superior to Iceberg and the open-source Delta Lake framework developed by Databricks Inc. But Hudi appears to be sliding toward “also ran” status in the data platform race as Iceberg surges. Developed at Uber Technologies Inc. and released to open source in…

30 Jul

Merging auto racing and high-tech data enables a faster ride for everyone – SiliconANGLE

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Few things move faster than the high-tech race cars traveling the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval. In May, American Josef Newgarden won his second consecutive Indy 500 with an average speed of 167.763 miles per hour. But Newgarden’s car may not have been the fastest thing at the old Brickyard on Memorial Day. That honor may belong to all the data flying around that day on the IMS’s millimeter-wave 5G nodes. Verizon Communications Inc. built the network and managed the head end of the distributed antenna system, or DAS. All other carriers bring their equipment and racks to connect to the…

30 Jul

Alluxio says it can achieve 97% GPU utilization across a distributed filesystem – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIAlluxio says it can achieve 97% GPU utilization across a distributed filesystem, Paul Gillin, SiliconANGLE

Alluxio Inc., which sells a high-performance open-source distributed filesystem, announced a set of enhancements that optimize the use of costly graphic processing units along with performance improvements that make its storage performance competitive with storage subsystems optimized for high-performance computing. Alluxio Enterprise AI Version 3.2 also adds a Python interface and improved cache management features. The company said these help organizations better utilize artificial intelligence training and inferencing infrastructure. Alluxio provides a single control point for businesses to data-intensive workloads across diverse infrastructures. Last fall, it overhauled its architecture to focus on AI training. “Since then we’ve seen that people…

30 Jul

Top 10 Artificial Intelligence Use Cases | TechRepublic

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The significance of artificial intelligence in our modern world cannot be overstated. It has become the bedrock upon which many industries and innovations rest. From healthcare, finance and education to entertainment and autonomous vehicles, the impact of AI in these areas has been nothing but revolutionary. This feature, written by Franklin Okeke for TechRepublic Premium, sheds light on the most notable use cases of AI, challenges and ethical concerns surrounding AI adoption and what the future holds for the technology. Featured text from the download: 8. FINANCIAL SERVICES AI is used in finance to optimize credit scoring, enhance regulatory compliance…