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NYT Connections bot uses AI to highlight each day’s top mistakes
03 Sep

NYT Connections bot uses AI to highlight each day’s top mistakes

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, the from The New York Times, isn’t exactly easy. In fact, the solve rate dips below 50 percent some days. To help highlight where players are going wrong, a new bot is employing AI to they’re using for the most common mistakes every day.For the uninitiated, Connections is a word/logic game that the paper of record debuted last year. Every day, you're presented with a grid of 16 words that you have to split into four categories. There’s only one solution and after four mistakes, the game is over. However, there’s some trickiness afoot. There are often red herrings…
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Training A Public FLUX Style LoRA — All Process Will Be Shared
03 Sep

Training A Public FLUX Style LoRA — All Process Will Be Shared

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I started training a public LoRA style (2 seperate training each on 4x A6000). Experimenting captions vs non-captions. So we will see which yields best results for style training on FLUX. Generated captions with multi-GPU batch Joycaption app. I am showing 5 examples of what Joycaption generates on FLUX dev. Left images are the original style images from the dataset. I used my multi-GPU Joycaption APP (used 8x A6000 for ultra fast captioning) : https://www.patreon.com/posts/110613301 I used my Gradio batch caption editor to edit some words and add activation token as ohwx 3d render : https://www.patreon.com/posts/108992085 The no caption dataset…
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AI E-Mail Event Booking Agent
01 Sep

AI E-Mail Event Booking Agent

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This is a submission for the Nylas Challenge: AI Expedition. What I Built and Why As a member of the strata council, I regularly handle reservations for the amenity room. While the current volume of bookings isn’t overwhelming, it does come with its own set of challenges—negotiating time slots, enforcing reservation rules, ensuring the completion of PDF forms, verifying them, and then manually booking the room. With more residents moving into our building, I began to think about automating this process. However, communicating new methods, such as using specific URLs for reservations, might not work for everyone. That's when the…
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AWS AI Practitioner Exam: My Experience, Study Plan, and Resources
31 Aug

AWS AI Practitioner Exam: My Experience, Study Plan, and Resources

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The AWS Certified Artificial Intelligence Practitioner exam, currently in its beta phase, is designed for individuals eager to demonstrate their understanding of AI and machine learning concepts using AWS services. I recently took this beta exam to test my knowledge and contribute to the shaping of its final version. My motivation stemmed from a desire to stay ahead in the ever-evolving field of AI and enhance my career prospects in cloud-based AI solutions. In this article, I’ll share my experience with the beta exam, outline the preparation strategies that worked for me, and discuss the resources I found most beneficial.…
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Comcast Xfinity customers can get a year of Perplexity Pro AI for free
31 Aug

Comcast Xfinity customers can get a year of Perplexity Pro AI for free

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If you have an account with Comcast Xfinity, then you also have a year-long subscription to the Perplexity Pro AI answer engine. Perplexity announced the special deal on Threads. Perplexity Pro differs from the company's free option by allowing unlimited quick answers from a choice of AI models, including GPT-4o, Claude-3 and Sonar Large. Engadget hasn’t reviewed the service, but if you’re already paying for Xfinity, free seems like a good price for you to make up your own mind on its value.All you have to do to get your free year of Perplexity is to log into your Xfinity…
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ChatGPT has doubled its weekly active users to 200 million
30 Aug

ChatGPT has doubled its weekly active users to 200 million

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ChatGPT now has 200 million weekly active users, according to OpenAI. That represents a doubling of the weekly audience of 100 million the company announced last November. A representative from the company told Engadget that API usage has also doubled since the July release of GPT-4o mini.User numbers aren't the only big growth OpenAI has seen over the past year. CEO Sam Altman reportedly told employees this summer that the company's annualized revenue — which takes a monthly revenue figure and stretches it out over a whole year — had reached $3.4 billion, up from $1.6 billion at the end…
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OpenAI and Anthropic agree to share their models with the US AI Safety Institute
29 Aug

OpenAI and Anthropic agree to share their models with the US AI Safety Institute

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OpenAI and Anthropic have agreed to share AI models — before and after release — with the US AI Safety Institute. The agency, established through an executive order by President Biden in 2023, will offer safety feedback to the companies to improve their models. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hinted at the agreement earlier this month.The US AI Safety Institute didn’t mention other companies tackling AI. But in a statement to Engadget, a Google spokesperson told Engadget the company is in discussions with the agency and will share more info when it’s available. This week, Google began rolling out updated chatbot…
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Watch out, there’s a new AI pin in town that can transcribe all your conversations
29 Aug

Watch out, there’s a new AI pin in town that can transcribe all your conversations

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I’m not gonna sugarcoat it. Standalone AI devices have harder . They are, as one might say, . Heck, the on . However, the show must go on, so here’s another AI pin that will likely cause Marques Brownlee’s hair to fall out when it officially launches.The Plaud NotePin that plagued rival products by limiting the scope. This thing isn’t a purported digital assistant that will streamline every aspect of modern life. It’s a note-taking device, albeit one with some AI bells and whistles.The NotePin automatically records and transcribes conversations, and that’s pretty much it. I could see this being…
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Gemini will soon generate AI images of people again with the upgraded Imagen 3
29 Aug

Gemini will soon generate AI images of people again with the upgraded Imagen 3

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Google’s generative AI tools are getting some of the boosts the company previewed at Google I/O. Starting this week, the company is rolling out the next-gen version of its Imagen image generator, which reintroduces the ability to generate AI people (after an embarrassing controversy earlier this year). Google’s Gemini chatbot also adds Gems, the company’s take on bots with custom instructions, similar to ChatGPT’s custom GPTs.Google’s Imagen 3 is the upgraded version of its image generator, coming to Gemini. The company says the next-gen AI model “sets a new standard for image quality” and is built with guardrails to avoid…
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