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26 May

The Race to Buy TikTok Is On—but There Might Not Be a Winner

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This has done little to deter a growing list of other business moguls who have also expressed interest in acquiring the app, which has been under government scrutiny in the US for four years over alleged national security concerns stemming from its Chinese ownership. One of them is former Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, who said earlier this week he too was assembling a group of investors to make a bid for TikTok. He first hinted about the plan in March before the divestiture bill passed into law.Mnuchin told Bloomberg he understands that the Chinese government is unlikely to allow ByteDance…

26 May

Google DeepMind at ICLR 2024

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Research Published 3 May 2024 Developing next-gen AI agents, exploring new modalities, and pioneering foundational learningNext week, AI researchers from around the globe will converge at the 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), set to take place May 7-11 in Vienna, Austria.Raia Hadsell, Vice President of Research at Google DeepMind, will deliver a keynote reflecting on the last 20 years in the field, highlighting how lessons learned are shaping the future of AI for the benefit of humanity.We’ll also offer live demonstrations showcasing how we bring our foundational research into reality, from the development of Robotics Transformers to the…

26 May

The Reason That Google’s AI Suggests Using Glue on Pizza Shows a Deep Flaw With Tech Companies’ AI Obsession

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A sticky situation.Lost in the SauceGoogle Search now comes with fancy-schmancy "AI Overviews" — and predictably, they're already giving some pretty dumb answers. This latest one, though, really takes the cake — or shall we say pie.As shared in a screenshot on X-formerly-Twitter, someone looked up "cheese not sticking to pizza" on Google. The search engine's AI Overview authoritatively began that "cheese can slide off pizza for a number of reasons.""Here are some things you can try," it lectures. Its first suggestion is to mix in cheese into the sauce. Then, without so much as a warning, it recommends adding…

26 May

The second New England RLHF Hackers Hackathon

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Rekindling the spirit of collaboration, the New England RLHF Hackers (NERH) hosted their second hackathon at Brown University on October 8th, 2023. Stepping up from the success of our inaugural hackathon, this event was fueled by the same enthusiasm but with a fresh purpose: to brainstorm and formulate solutions to a myriad of existing challenges in reinforcement learning from human feedback. The NERH group is mainly comprised of collaborators and contributors from EleutherAI, with several members being integral parts of the Eleuther workforce. In light of our shared vision for a more transparent and inclusive RLHF community, we've decided to…

26 May

When the crowd leaves Trump’s hush-money trial, the judge spends his day in a very different kind of court

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For the past six weeks, the person in the chair has been the former president of the United States.It is padded and made from weathered leather. The former president, who is also the presumptive Republican nominee in the next presidential election, makes himself comfortable.He is flanked by a team of lawyers. Behind him are politicians from Washington, DC, paying fealty. Behind them, rows and rows of journalists sit for hours in hard, weathered wooden benches, shifting in their seats for a better look.But on this day, a Wednesday, the chair was filled with a succession of anxious New Yorkers who…

26 May

Data Machina #243

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Beyond GenAI & LLMs. GenAI & LLMs have literally kidnapped the DL/ML space, and pretty much sucked all the investment and top AI minds, as if there is nothing else under the sun. There are literally hundreds of GenAI models out there. Many of these GenAI models have questionable value or are a repeat-rinse-recycle of the same. Checkout this mega spreadsheet: An Annotated and Updated Directory of GenAI Models. So: Many DL/ML researchers are starting to question the LLM status quo: Shouldn’t we focus $ and brains in new, alt AI/DL paradigms beyond LLMs? And: Do we need so many…

26 May

Apple releases iOS 17.5.1 to fix Photo glitch that made deleted photos reappear – gHacks Tech News

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Apple has released a point update to fix the iOS 17.5 photo glitch. iOS 17.5.1 patches the bug that was causing deleted photos to be available again. As you may recall, the iOS 17.5 update was made available to users on May 14th. When users installed the update on their iPhones, they noticed that photos that they had previously deleted from their library, were now available again. Users began to worry whether this would cause their old photos to appear on devices that they had sold or given to others. Naturally, this caused quite an uproar among the Apple community,…

26 May

Evaluation of generative AI techniques for clinical report summarization | Amazon Web Services

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In part 1 of this blog series, we discussed how a large language model (LLM) available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart can be fine-tuned for the task of radiology report impression generation. Since then, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced new services such as Amazon Bedrock. This is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API. Amazon Bedrock also comes with a broad set of capabilities required to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and…

26 May

AI company developing software to detect hypersonic missiles from space

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WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency selected California-based EpiSci to develop a software tool capable of detecting hypersonic missiles in flight from satellite data, a challenging task given the extreme speeds of these weapons. Hypersonic missiles travel at speeds of at least Mach 5, which is five times the speed of sound, posing a significant challenge for current defense systems. The Space Development Agency (SDA), an organization within the U.S. Space Force, is building a network of satellites in low Earth orbit with the goal to provide global indications, warning, tracking, and targeting of advanced missile threats. As many as…

26 May

GameStop Jumps After Raising Nearly $1 Billion In Stock Sale

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GameStop Corp. shares rallied in late trading after the retail trader favorite announced it brought in nearly $1 billion from a share sale program. Source link lol