Knowledge Copilots
24 May

Knowledge Copilots

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Generational features essays on the business of AI and spotlights outstanding AI companies and products. This essay began as a personal side project building knowledge graphs but evolved into an extensive exploration of knowledge copilots, retrieval augmented generation, and user experience. The main takeaway is that for knowledge intensive tasks, use multiquery RAG and thoughtful UX.A knowledge copilot is a user’s thought partner, optimized for retrieving information from a knowledge base, reasoning through context, and synthesizing responses. It is much more than a wrapper around foundation models for generating copy or poems. For instance, a business analyst synthesizing the latest…
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What OpenAI’s deal with News Corp means for journalism (and for you)
24 May

What OpenAI’s deal with News Corp means for journalism (and for you)

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OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, and News Corp, the international media conglomerate, have signed a deal that will let OpenAI use and learn from News Corp’s content. In practical terms, this means when a user asks ChatGPT a question, the results might be informed by previous reporting in News Corp outlets, including Australian mastheads such as The Australian and The Daily Telegraph. It’s unclear whether the agreement includes only editorial or also opinion content. OpenAI has licensed News Corp content because generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a ravenous beast: it needs data to learn from and generate useful outputs in…
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Datorios enhances data streaming visibility to support more reliable real-time AI systems – SiliconANGLE
24 May

Datorios enhances data streaming visibility to support more reliable real-time AI systems – SiliconANGLE

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Streaming data observability startup Datorios Ltd. today announced the immediate availability of a new real-time observability platform for the big-data processing framework Apache Flink. With the new platform, companies will benefit from what the startup claims are previously unseen insights relating to streaming data processing. These insights can aid in the creation of new, real-time artificial intelligence systems that can be fully audited to ensure they don’t misbehave, the startup said. Datorios’ founders say they have applied years of experience in the research and development of real-time military intelligence systems to create their new product, with the end goal being…
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Data Machina #249
24 May

Data Machina #249

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Generative AI Music. In the last year or so, Generative AI Music has improved massively. Although early days, today you can generate some pretty decent, short duration music of all kinds with AI. If you like creating music and AI, here is a list of interesting Generative AI music stuff.Facebook AIR MusicGen. Probably one of the pioneering models in AI quality music generation. MusicGen has sparked a whole universe of MusicGen derivative models of all kinds, and it’s the model behind many musicgen apps. The model is based on a single stage auto-regressive Transformer model, and unlike Google LM, MusicGen…
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Which technologies will enable a cleaner steel industry?
24 May

Which technologies will enable a cleaner steel industry?

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Decarbonizing the steel industry is a crucial challenge to overcome if the world is going to meet its climate goals. Steel production contributes around 11% of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, making it one of the heaviest polluting industries and a heavy-emitting sector of focus for the First Movers Coalition, an initiative seeking to aggregate demand for near-zero emissions products and services across some of the world’s most polluting industries.The coalition’s mission is to drive investment and accelerate the scaling of the breakthrough technologies required to make these products by demonstrating a credible demand signal for highly decarbonized products.But how can…
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24 May

Avatier Identity & Access Management for IBM i Environments

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Avatier, a leading provider of identity management solutions, is proud to announce its integration with IBM Power Servers (formerly AS/400) to deliver a groundbreaking identity management experience for IBM i environments. This collaboration brings forth a new era of efficiency, security, and productivity, empowering organizations to streamline operations and optimize performance seamlessly. Avatier is announcing this at POWERUp 2024 Expo in Fort Worth, Texas this week. Avatier’s Identity Management Platform (Avatier Identity Anywhere) is tailored to support IBM i environments, providing comprehensive solutions that simplify operations, enhance security, and boost productivity. The integration offers a range of capabilities, including self-service password reset, user…
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On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models
24 May

On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models

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This post is authored by Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Daniel E. Ho, Percy Liang, and Arvind Narayanan. The paper has 25 authors listed here.Last October, President Biden signed the Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI. It tasked the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) with preparing a report on the benefits and risks of open foundation models—foundation models with widely available model weights (such as Meta's Llama 2 and Stability's Stable Diffusion). There is widespread disagreement about the impact of openness on society, which the NTIA must sort through. Last week, the NTIA released a list of over…
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Same AI + Different Deployment Plans = Different Ethics
24 May

Same AI + Different Deployment Plans = Different Ethics

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This month I will address an aspect of the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics that I think many people don't fully appreciate. Namely, the ethics of a given algorithm can vary based on the specific scope and context of the deployment being proposed. What is considered unethical within one scope and context might be perfectly fine in another. I'll illustrate with an example and then provide steps you can take to make sure your AI deployments stay ethical. Why Autonomous Cars Aren't Yet Ethical For Wide Deployment There are limited tests of fully autonomous, driverless cars happening around…
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Ines Montani at QCon London: Economies of Scale Can’t Monopolise the AI Revolution
24 May

Ines Montani at QCon London: Economies of Scale Can’t Monopolise the AI Revolution

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During her presentation at QCon London, Ines Montani, co-founder and CEO of explosion.ai (the maker of spaCy), stated that economies of scale are not enough to create monopolies in the AI space and that open-source techniques and models will allow everybody to keep up with the "Gen AI revolution". Montani opened her presentation by asking for a show of hands to identify the open-source users in the audience. The vast majority of the audience raised their hand, easily demonstrating that open-source is ubiquitous ("it would be easier to ask who doesn’t use open-source’"). She pointed out the multiple benefits of the…
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