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26 May

When consumers would prefer a chatbot over a person

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIArtificial Intelligence; Communications; Neural Interfaces; Internet; Retail and Services; Consumerism; Sports; Bioethics

Actually, sometimes consumers don't want to talk to a real person when they're shopping online, a new study suggests. In fact, what they really want is a chatbot that makes it clear that it is not human at all. In a new study, researchers at The Ohio State University found that people preferred interacting with chatbots when they felt embarrassed about what they were buying online -- items like antidiarrheal medicine or, for some people, skin care products. "In general, research shows people would rather interact with a human customer service agent than a chatbot," said Jianna Jin, who led…

26 May

Llemma: An Open Language Model For Mathematics

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ArXiv | Models | Data | Code | Blog | Sample Explorer Today we release Llemma: 7 billion and 34 billion parameter language models for mathematics. The Llemma models were initialized with Code Llama weights, then trained on the Proof-Pile II, a 55 billion token dataset of mathematical and scientific documents. The resulting models show improved mathematical capabilities, and can be adapted to various tasks through prompting or additional fine-tuning. Llemma models show strong performance on benchmarks that test a model's ability to solve mathematical problems without external tools. For example, here is a Llemma 34B solution to a MATH…

26 May

Interviewed by AI Coffee Break with Letitia • David Stutz

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Letitia is a PhD student at Heidelberg University in the Natural Language Processing group working on vision-language models. On top of her research, she is running a YouTube channel covering Ai papers and developments. So it was a pleasure to be interviewed for her channel about my PhD research on adversarial robustness: Source link lol

26 May

Starburst to release its Iceberg-based lakehouse as a managed service – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIPaul Gillin, SiliconANGLE, Starburst to release its Iceberg-based lakehouse as a managed service

Starburst Data Inc., which sells a commercial version of the open-source Trino distributed query engine, today announced a fully managed Icehouse data lake on its Galaxy cloud. Icehouse is an open-source lakehouse that combines Trino and Apache Iceberg storage. A lakehouse is a new type of data architecture that combines the flexibility of data lakes with the performance of data warehouses. Iceberg is an open-source data table format designed for data warehouses and data lakes that supports SQL tables on large amounts of storage. Iceberg’s schema evolution feature allows the data structure of tables to change over time. It keeps…

25 May

Google Gemini Cheat Sheet (Formerly Google Bard): What Is Google Gemini, and How Does It Work?)

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Gemini is Google’s artificial intelligence ecosystem, including a chatbot that generates responses to user-provided natural language prompts. In response to a prompt, Gemini can pull information from the internet and present a response. The large language model behind Gemini delivers the response in natural language — in contrast to a standard Google search, where a result consists of a snippet of information or a list of links. Google announced Gemini (as Bard) in February 2023 after OpenAI and Microsoft both garnered attention for AI chatbot systems. And in May 2023, AI advancements featured prominently in Google’s I/O event. On Feb.…

25 May

Cats purrfectly demonstrate what it takes to trust robots

stp2y0 CommentsGenAILanguage Acquisition; Spirituality; Child Development; Cats; Animals; Behavioral Science; Robotics Research; Engineering; Engineering and Construction; Robotics; Artificial Intelligence; Video Games

Would you trust a robot to look after your cat? New research suggests it takes more than a carefully designed robot to care for your cat, the environment in which they operate is also vital, as well as human interaction. Cat Royale is a unique collaboration between Computer Scientists from the University of Nottingham and artists at Blast Theory who worked together to create a multispecies world centred around a be-spoke enclosure in which three cats and a robot arm coexist for six hours a day during a twelve-day installation as part of an artist-led project. The installation was launched…

25 May

How the Foundation Model Transparency Index Distorts Transparency

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Stanford’s Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM) recently released a new piece of work called the Foundation Model Transparency Index (FMTI), which sets out to score all large language models (LLMs) on the different aspects of transparency around building and deploying a model. Work on understanding the transparency of LLMs is crucial to building trust and creating realistic evaluation standards for this extremely powerful technology. However, the FMTI makes many claims that are misleading concerning both the spirit and facts around transparency of LLMs, and is detrimental to recent progress in transparency. Our core issues are: The FMTI misleadingly…

25 May

ArXiv Pre-Print “Evaluating AI Systems under Uncertain Ground Truth: a Case Study in Dermatology” • David Stutz

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ArXiv Pre-Print “Evaluating AI Systems under Uncertain Ground Truth: a Case Study in Dermatology” In supervised machine learning, we usually assume access to ground truth label for evaluation. In many applications, however, these ground truth labels are derived from expert opinions. Disagreement among these experts is typically ignored using simple majority voting or averaging. Unfortunately, this can have severe consequences by over-estimating performance or mis-guiding model selection. In our work presented in this article, we tackle this problem by introducing a statistical framework for aggregating expert opinions. Abstract For safety, AI systems in health undergo thorough evaluations before deployment, validating…

25 May

PeerDB raises $3.6M to accelerate PostgreSQL data movement – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIMike Wheatley, PeerDB raises $3.6M to accelerate PostgreSQL data movement, SiliconANGLE

Startup PeerDB Inc., which has built a data movement platform specifically for open-source PostgreSQL database management systems, said today it has closed on a seed funding round worth $3.6 million. Leading the investment was 8VC, and it was joined by Y Combinator, Wayfinder Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Flex Capital, Rogue Capital, Pioneer Fund, Orange Collective and several angel investors. PeerDB says its data movement platform is designed to improve on the capabilities of existing data pipelines that were never designed for Postgres databases. Existing data movement and extract, transform and load or ETL tools often prioritize the sheer number of connectors…

25 May

AI Seoul Summit: 4 Key Takeaways on AI Safety Standards and Regulations

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The AI Seoul Summit, co-hosted by the Republic of Korea and the U.K., saw international bodies come together to discuss the global advancement of artificial intelligence. Participants included representatives from the governments of 20 countries, the European Commission and the United Nations as well as notable academic institutes and civil groups. It was also attended by a number of AI giants, like OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Google DeepMind. The conference, which took place on May 21 and 22, followed on from the AI Safety Summit, held in Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, U.K. last November. One of the key aims was…