Career Notes for May 2024

Career Notes for May 2024

(metamorworks/Shutterstock) In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details. Check in each month for an updated list and you may even come across someone you know, or better yet, yourself! Matt Garman Matt Garman AWS announced that starting June 3, Matt Garman will be its new CEO, replacing Adam Selipsky, who announced his resignation earlier in the month. Garman joined AWS as a college intern in 2005 when he was still in college,…
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GraphCast: AI model for faster and more accurate global weather forecasting

GraphCast: AI model for faster and more accurate global weather forecasting

Research Published 14 November 2023 Authors Remi Lam on behalf of the GraphCast team Our state-of-the-art model delivers 10-day weather predictions at unprecedented accuracy in under one minuteThe weather affects us all, in ways big and small. It can dictate how we dress in the morning, provide us with green energy and, in the worst cases, create storms that can devastate communities. In a world of increasingly extreme weather, fast and accurate forecasts have never been more important.In a paper published in Science, we introduce GraphCast, a state-of-the-art AI model able to make medium-range weather forecasts with unprecedented accuracy. GraphCast…
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Empowering Data Teams with Snowplow for First-Party Digital Event Data Collection

Empowering Data Teams with Snowplow for First-Party Digital Event Data Collection

With more and more customer interactions moving into the digital domain, it's increasingly important that organizations develop insights into online customer behaviors. In the past, many organizations relied on third-party data collectors for this, but growing privacy concerns, the need for more timely access to data and requirements for customized information collection are driving many organizations to move this capability in-house. Using customer data infrastructure (CDI) platforms such as Snowplow coupled with the real-time data processing and predictive capabilities of Databricks, these organizations can develop deeper, richer, more timely and more privacy-aware insights that allow them to maximize the potential…
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Windows 11’s Start Menu could soon show information in a floating sidebar – gHacks Tech News

Windows 11’s Start Menu could soon show information in a floating sidebar – gHacks Tech News

Microsoft introduced support for what it calls Start Menu Companions in a recent Windows 11 beta build. This feature adds a sidebar to the Start Menu that display information, for instance from widgets. The last major overhaul of the Windows Start menu launched with the release of Windows 11. Microsoft removed several features of the Windows 10 Start menu, including support for live tiles and customization options. It did introduce the split design that shows pinned apps at the top and recommendations at the bottom. I called the Windows 11 Start menu barely usable back in 2021 when it first…
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An interview with the most prolific jailbreaker of ChatGPT and other leading LLMs

An interview with the most prolific jailbreaker of ChatGPT and other leading LLMs

Time's almost up! There's only one week left to request an invite to The AI Impact Tour on June 5th. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to explore various methods for auditing AI models. Find out how you can attend here. Around 10:30 am Pacific time on Monday, May 13, 2024, OpenAI debuted its newest and most capable AI foundation model, GPT-4o, showing off its capabilities to converse realistically and naturally through audio voices with users, as well as work with uploaded audio, video, and text inputs and respond to them more quickly, at lower cost, than its prior…
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GPTs are GPTs

GPTs are GPTs

Foundation models are at an inflection point of becoming general purpose technologies. New general purpose technologies create opportunities for companies to build products that transform how we work and live. Think of generational companies like Microsoft, Google, and Apple shape our daily lives. This is why I’m starting Generational - a publication chronicling the most consequential AI trends and the companies driving it. OpenAI’s Generative Pretrained Transformers (GPTs) models is a specific class of foundation models, which are intelligent adaptable models comparable to humans. General Purpose Technologies (GPTs) are technologies that affect entire economies and meaningfully alter how have we…
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Huge Power Demand for AI Is Keeping Polluting Coal Plants Alive

Huge Power Demand for AI Is Keeping Polluting Coal Plants Alive

"We need more energy, not less."Ripped Out of RetirementAI, which proponents say is humanity's future, is keeping the power infrastructure in the United States woefully in the past.As The Financial Times reports, the power demand required to keep energy-guzzling AI models running is moving back the country's plans to retire heavily polluting and non-renewable coal energy.According to the FT, major coal producers including AlliantEnergy have already moved sustainability goals by at least a few years. Electric utility company FirstEnergy also scrapped its 2030 goals entirely in February over demand concerns, as Bloomberg reported at the time.The moving of goalposts comes…
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UALink: Google, Microsoft, Meta and More to Develop AI Chip Components

UALink: Google, Microsoft, Meta and More to Develop AI Chip Components

AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, Meta and Microsoft are combining their expertise to create an open industry standard for an AI chip technology called Ultra Accelerator Link. The setup will improve high-speed and low latency communications between AI accelerator chips in data centres. An open standard will advance artificial intelligence/machine learning cluster performance across the industry, meaning that no singular firm will disproportionately capitalise on the demand for the latest and greatest AI/ML, high-performance computing and cloud applications. Notably absent from the so-called UALink Promoter Group are NVIDIA and Amazon Web Services. Indeed, the Promoter Group…
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