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27 May

AI may be to blame for our failure to make contact with alien civilisations

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has progressed at an astounding pace over the last few years. Some scientists are now looking towards the development of artificial superintelligence (ASI) — a form of AI that would not only surpass human intelligence but would not be bound by the learning speeds of humans. But what if this milestone isn’t just a remarkable achievement? What if it also represents a formidable bottleneck in the development of all civilisations, one so challenging that it thwarts their long-term survival? This idea is at the heart of a research paper I recently published in Acta Astronautica. Could AI…

27 May

Linking In-context Learning in Transformers to Human Episodic Memory

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arXiv:2405.14992v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding the connections between artificial and biological intelligent systems can reveal fundamental principles underlying general intelligence. While many artificial intelligence (AI) models have a neuroscience counterpart, such connections are largely missing in Transformer models and the self-attention mechanism. Here, we examine the relationship between attention heads and human episodic memory. We focus on the induction heads, which contribute to the in-context learning capabilities of Transformer-based large language models (LLMs). We demonstrate that induction heads are behaviorally, functionally, and mechanistically similar to the contextual maintenance and retrieval (CMR) model of human episodic memory. Our analyses of…

27 May

Microsoft lists reasons why Windows 11 is better than Windows 10 but forgets to mention this – gHacks Tech News

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Windows 10 is a dying operating system. Microsoft plans to end support for Windows 10 in October 2025. While customers may extend support by up to three years, they have to pay Microsoft for that privilege. It should not come as a surprise that Microsoft's primary goal is to get customers to migrate to Windows 11. Existing PCs may be upgraded to Windows 11, and if that is not possible, Microsoft recommends to buy a new PC with Windows 11 instead. Microsoft published a comparison table to highlight the advantages that Windows 11 has over Windows 10. The list compares…

27 May

Introducing the REFORMS checklist for ML-based science

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See the REFORMS pre-print and checklist here.Every music producer is looking for the next hit song. So when a paper claimed that machine learning can predict hit songs with 97% accuracy, it would have been music to their ears. News outlets, including Scientific American and Axios, published pieces about how this "frightening accuracy" could revolutionize the music industry. Earlier studies have found that it is hard to predict if a song will be successful in advance, so this paper seemed to be a dramatic achievement. Unfortunately for music producers, we found that the study's results are bogus.The model presented in the…

27 May

Robots invited to help make wind turbine blades

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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have successfully leveraged robotic assistance in the manufacture of wind turbine blades, allowing for the elimination of difficult working conditions for humans and the potential to improve the consistency of the product. Although robots have been used by the wind energy industry to paint and polish blades, automation has not been widely adopted. Research at the laboratory demonstrates the ability of a robot to trim, grind, and sand blades. Those necessary steps occur after the two sides of the blade are made using a mold and then bonded…

27 May

Data Machina #236

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Mix, Bind & Merge OS Small AI Models FTW! Y2024: The year that open-source, small AI model-combos beat the big boys? The open source AI community and small AI startups are releasing a plethora of open-source, small AI models that are matching or -in some instances- even outperforming AI Titans’ huge models. I’m rooting for the open-source AI community!These new os small models are leveraging supper efficient techniques like quantisation and fine-tuning with QLoRA, and fine-tuning with DPO. There’s a whole new range of open-source tools like LLamaFactory designed to easily, efficiently fine-tune these os models.Using e.g. the free LM…

27 May

Apple Ushers In The Era Of Spatial Computing, Building On Computer Vision Advances

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Welcome to the frontier of technology, where the giants of Silicon Valley vie to turn science fiction into reality. For years, ambitious companies like Google and Microsoft have been venturing into spatial computing, each with varying degrees of success. For instance, Google Glass and Microsoft HoloLens have had their moment in the limelight, but neither fully captured the mainstream market. Now, enter Apple with its Vision Pro. This device promises to redefine our interaction with technology and usher in the long-anticipated era of spatial computing. But what sets Apple’s Vision Pro apart from its predecessors? While previous attempts at spatial…

27 May

AI Research Highlights June-July 2023: Long Contexts and Scaling Transformers to 1,000,000,000 Tokens

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In this article, I compiled and annotated 24 AI research highlights form June to July 2023. A lot of exciting developments are currently happening, once again, in the fields of natural language processing and computer vision!In addition, if you are curious about last month's highlights, you can find them here:AI Research Highlights In 3 Sentences Or Less (May-June 2023)Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts (6 Jul, https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03172)In this paper, researchers investigated how well LLMs like ChatGPT perform in retrieving relevant information from different parts of its input context. It turns out that ChatGPT performs less well…

27 May

Amazon launches Q AI assistant alongside an AI app generator – SiliconANGLE

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Amazon Web Services Inc. today made its Amazon Q generative artificial intelligence assistant generally available for developers and business users that will allow them to debug code and automate business tasks. Alongside these announcements, the company also unveiled a new Amazon Q Apps feature, in preview, that will allow noncoders to create applications with conversational prompts. AWS unveiled Amazon Q in November in preview for developers and information technology professionals as an AI assistant that could provide help getting started on projects, building applications in AWS, researching best practices, coding new features, troubleshooting networking issues or getting recommendations. Since it resides within the same tools that professionals use, all of this can…

27 May

Accelerate GenAI App Development with New Updates to Databricks Model Serving

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Last year, we launched foundation model support in Databricks Model Serving to enable enterprises to build secure and custom GenAI apps on a unified data and AI platform. Since then, thousands of organizations have used Model Serving to deploy GenAI apps customized to their unique datasets.Today, we're excited to announce new updates that make it easier to experiment, customize, and deploy GenAI apps. These updates include access to new large language models (LLMs), easier discovery, simpler customization options, and improved monitoring. Together, these improvements help you develop and scale GenAI apps more quickly and at a lower cost. Databricks Model…