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24 Aug

DeepMind workers urge Google to drop military contracts

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Google DeepMind workers have signed a letter calling on the company to drop contracts with military organizations, according to a report by Time. The document was drafted on May 16 of this year. Around 200 people signed the document, which amounts to five percent of the total headcount of DeepMind.For the uninitiated, DeepMind is one of Google’s AI divisions and the letter states that adopting military contracts runs afoul of the company’s own AI rules. The letter was sent out as internal concerns began circulating within the AI lab that the tech was allegedly being sold to military organizations via…

24 Aug

JoyCaption is amazing to caption training data. Advanced Gradio APP with batch processing and 1-click install

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Here a Hugging Face space that you can test it yourself : https://huggingface.co/spaces/fancyfeast/joy-caption-pre-alpha — still working I have been requested to make a Gradio app for this so i made an advanced app and 1-click installers It uses a clip siglip-so400m-patch14–384 and Meta-Llama-3.1–8B-Instruct as model and a fine tuned checkpoint for better captioning My app who wants to checkout : https://www.patreon.com/posts/110613301 It has batch folder captioning feature as well and auto save all captioned images and captions into outputs folder Also I have a very lightweight, super fast Gradio caption editor. Since I don’t like other existing apps, i self…

23 Aug

The DOJ files an antitrust suit against a software company for allegedly manipulating rent prices

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The Department of Justice and eight states’ attorney generals filed an antitrust lawsuit against rental software company RealPage on Friday, accusing it of using algorithms to drive up rent prices nationwide. The suit alleges RealPage’s software, YieldStar, gathers sensitive information from landlords and rental companies, which it feeds into algorithms that recommend prices and practices that limit competition and force renters to pay more.“Americans should not have to pay more in rent because a company has found a new way to scheme with landlords to break the law,” Attorney General Merrick Garland wrote in a DOJ press release.RealPage’s software reportedly…

22 Aug

Why i switched from ChatGPT, Cluade, Gemini and Perpleixty to AyeSoul?

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So, I Ditch the AI Juggling Act and Switched to AyeSoul Look, I'll be straight with you. I used to be that person with a million tabs open, bouncing between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Midjourney. It was like playing AI whack-a-mole, trying to figure out which tool was best for each task. Exhausting? You bet. Then I stumbled across AyeSoul.com. Game changer? Absolutely. The Old Way: AI Tool Hopping Here's how it used to go: Need creative writing? Fire up ChatGPT. Complex analysis? Claude Sonnet time. Quick fact-check? Hello, Gemini. Web search? Perplexity, you're up. Image generation? Midjourney, do…

21 Aug

A new AI support chatbot is available for hacked YouTube channels

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YouTube added a new AI assistant feature that allows users who have been hacked to recover their accounts and safeguard them from future invasions. An announcement for the new help feature appeared earlier today on Google’s support page for YouTube.The new “hacked channel assistant,” available on YouTube, will allow “eligible creators” a way to troubleshoot their accounts when they’ve been hacked. The feature can be accessed in the YouTube Help Center.The assistant will ask a series of questions to help affected users secure their Google login, undo anything the hacker may have done to their channel and secure their channel…

21 Aug

An ‘AI Scientist’ Is Inventing and Running Its Own Experiments

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At first glance, a recent batch of research papers produced by a prominent artificial intelligence lab at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver might not seem that notable. Featuring incremental improvements on existing algorithms and ideas, they read like the contents of a middling AI conference or journal.But the research is, in fact, remarkable. That’s because it’s entirely the work of an “AI scientist” developed at the UBC lab together with researchers from the University of Oxford and a startup called Sakana AI.The project demonstrates an early step toward what might prove a revolutionary trick: letting AI learn by…

21 Aug

Tech Spotlight: Daily Tech News

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Three authors have filed a class-action lawsuit against Anthropic, claiming the company used pirated versions of their books to train its AI chatbot, Claude. Recogni, backed by BMW, Bosch, and Mayfield, has introduced a new computing method that could make its AI training and inferencing chips smaller, faster, and more cost-effective. India's antitrust body flagged competition concerns over Reliance and Walt Disney's $8.5 billion merger, which would dominate cricket rights and impact the $28 billion media sector. The European Commission announced on Tuesday that it would impose additional duties of up to 36.3% on Chinese-made electric vehicles following its anti-subsidy…

21 Aug

OpenAI will now use content from Wired, Vogue and The New Yorker in ChatGPT’s responses

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Condé Nast, the media conglomerate that owns publications like The New Yorker, Vogue and Wired, has announced a multi-year partnership OpenAI to display content from Condé Nast titles in ChatGPT as well as SearchGPT, the company’s prototype AI-powered search engine. The partnership comes amid growing concerns over the unauthorized use of publishers’ content by AI companies. Last month, Condé Nast sent a cease-and-desist letter to AI search startup Perplexity, accusing it of plagiarism for using its content to generate answers.“Over the last decade, news and digital media have faced steep challenges as many technology companies eroded publishers’ ability to monetize…

20 Aug

Building a RAG Chatbot with LlamaIndex and eBay API Integration

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RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) is all the rage. And there's a good reason why. Like so many others, I instinctively felt an air of excitement at the beginning of the internet. The Browser Wars, Java vs Mocha. And then again in 2007 when the iPhone led a paradigm shift to how, where, and when we consume media. Just as I do now, In the rapidly advancing field of AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a crucial technique, enhancing the capabilities of large language models by integrating external knowledge sources. By leveraging RAG, you can build chatbots that generate responses informed by…

19 Aug

A beginner’s guide to the Flux-Schnell model by Black-Forest-Labs on Replicate

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This is a simplified guide to an AI model called Flux-Schnell maintained by Black-Forest-Labs. If you like these kinds of guides, you should subscribe to the AImodels.fyi newsletter or follow me on Twitter. Model overview flux-schnell is the fastest image generation model from Black Forest Labs, tailored for local development and personal use. It is a high-performing model that can generate high-quality images from text descriptions quickly. Compared to similar models like flux-pro and flux-dev, flux-schnell prioritizes speed over some advanced capabilities, making it a great choice for personal projects and rapid prototyping. Model inputs and outputs flux-schnell takes in…