A cheap Ukrainian drone managed to take out an $18 million Russian military helicopter: reports

A cheap Ukrainian drone managed to take out an $18 million Russian military helicopter: reports

Ukraine's military took out a Russian Mi-28 military helicopter using a cheap remote-controlled aerial drone, according to reports.Sources from Ukraine's SBU intelligence agency told Ukrainian outlets Suspline and the Kyiv Post that Ukrainian special forces used a first-person view (FPV) remotely-guided drone to take down the helicopter in Kursk Oblast in Russia.This is where Russia's defense ministry said Ukrainian forces had this week launched a rare cross-border attack.Russia said a state of emergency had been declared in Kursk following Tuesday's cross-border raid. It said the raid involved 1,000 Ukrainian troops, 11 tanks, and more than 20 armored combat vehicles.Footage published by…
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Good Luck Selling Your AI Startup

Good Luck Selling Your AI Startup

There is no wilder time than the present to build a company around artificial intelligence. The server bills are astronomical, for one. Also the market for talent is red hot, and you’ll end up paying through the nose for good people. Even if you do get funding, staff up, get the product off the ground, and start making headway in a crowded field, there’s the specter of Big Tech looming overhead. The hypercarnivorous raptors of Silicon Valley—Google, Apple, Amazon, and Meta—will fix their steely eyes on the plump prey of your best employees and your intellectual property.But they can’t just buy…
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A TVD neural network closure and application to turbulent combustion

A TVD neural network closure and application to turbulent combustion

arXiv:2408.03413v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trained neural networks (NN) have attractive features for closing governing equations, but in the absence of additional constraints, they can stray from physical reality. A NN formulation is introduced to preclude spurious oscillations that violate solution boundedness or positivity. It is embedded in the discretized equations as a machine learning closure and strictly constrained, inspired by total variation diminishing (TVD) methods for hyperbolic conservation laws. The constraint is exactly enforced during gradient-descent training by rescaling the NN parameters, which maps them onto an explicit feasible set. Demonstrations show that the constrained NN closure model usefully…
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Eye On AI: Following in Microsoft’s Footsteps, Google Seems Ready To Test Regulators In AI Race

Eye On AI: Following in Microsoft’s Footsteps, Google Seems Ready To Test Regulators In AI Race

This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. As the generative AI race gets hotter and hotter, it seems like Big Tech is begging the government to get more involved. Just a couple weeks ago we discussed Microsoft’s machinations to try to avoid more antitrust scrutiny, even as it announces deal after deal in the AI space. This includes its very unusual relationship with generative AI startup Inflection AI which is now being referred for an initial merger investigation in the U.K. Well, there was more this week — this…
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FacialPulse: An Efficient RNN-based Depression Detection via Temporal Facial Landmarks

FacialPulse: An Efficient RNN-based Depression Detection via Temporal Facial Landmarks

arXiv:2408.03499v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Depression is a prevalent mental health disorder that significantly impacts individuals' lives and well-being. Early detection and intervention are crucial for effective treatment and management of depression. Recently, there are many end-to-end deep learning methods leveraging the facial expression features for automatic depression detection. However, most current methods overlook the temporal dynamics of facial expressions. Although very recent 3DCNN methods remedy this gap, they introduce more computational cost due to the selection of CNN-based backbones and redundant facial features. To address the above limitations, by considering the timing correlation of facial expressions, we propose a…
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Unlocking the Non-Native Language Context Limitation: Native Language Prompting Facilitates Knowledge Elicitation

Unlocking the Non-Native Language Context Limitation: Native Language Prompting Facilitates Knowledge Elicitation

arXiv:2408.03544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual large language models (MLLMs) struggle to answer questions posed in non-dominant languages, even though they have already acquired the relevant knowledge from their dominant language corpus. In contrast, human multilinguals can overcome this issue by invoking the relatively rich knowledge acquired from native language texts through Positive Native Language Transfer (PNLT). Inspired by this, we analogize the dominant language of MLLMs to the native language of human multilinguals, and propose Native Language Prompting (NatLan) to simulate the PNLT observed in human multilinguals. It explicitly creates native language contexts for MLLMs to facilitate the elicitation…
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The Morning After: Humane AI Pins are being returned faster than the company can sell them

The Morning After: Humane AI Pins are being returned faster than the company can sell them

Humane’s universally derided AI Pin (“”) is not exactly flying off store shelves, according to internal sales documents published by The Verge. Worse, returns are apparently outpacing purchases. The company had once hoped to sell 100,000 in the first year — but there are only around 7,000 units out in the wild. In our review, we had issues with reliability, how slow it was to process requests, its price and its poor battery life. Its shelf life may be even worse.— Mat SmithThe biggest stories you might have missed​​You can get these reports delivered daily direct to your inbox. Subscribe…
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Trump and MAGA world are going after Walz for his handling of 2020 riots. Old audio shows Trump praising it.

Trump and MAGA world are going after Walz for his handling of 2020 riots. Old audio shows Trump praising it.

However, recently unearthed audio shows that Trump complimented Walz at the time.He can be heard praising Walz for his response, expressing full agreement with his actions, and even describing Walz, now Kamala Harris' running mate, as an "excellent guy."Since Walz was announced as the Democratic vice-presidential nominee on Tuesday, Trump and those in his orbit — loosely known as MAGA world — have taken issue with his response to the unrest.In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, Trump shared an image that said "Tim Walz let Minnesota burn."At a rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota, last month, Trump said: "Every voter in…
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