AI saving humans from the emotional toll of monitoring hate speech
01 Jun

AI saving humans from the emotional toll of monitoring hate speech

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A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a new machine-learning method that detects hate speech on social media platforms with 88 per cent accuracy, saving employees from hundreds of hours of emotionally damaging work. The method, dubbed the Multi-Modal Discussion Transformer (mDT), can understand the relationship between text and images as well as put comments in greater context, unlike previous hate speech detection methods. This is particularly helpful in reducing false positives, which are often incorrectly flagged as hate speech due to culturally sensitive language. "We really hope this technology can help reduce the emotional cost…
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U.K. Election Delays Chip Policies, Industry Innovation Endures – EE Times
01 Jun

U.K. Election Delays Chip Policies, Industry Innovation Endures – EE Times

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//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> Last week, key senior executives from the U.K.’s semiconductor industry all gathered at 10 Downing Street in London—the home of the country’s Prime Minister—to gain support for the launch of an independent semiconductor institute. Plenty of photos of the executives in front of the world-famous front door were posted all over social media. Then, just two days later outside the same door, the Prime Minister announced a general election for July 4, 2024. As a result, the Prime Minister spearheading that support is now no longer in office as parliament…
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Conformal Recursive Feature Elimination
01 Jun

Conformal Recursive Feature Elimination

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arXiv:2405.19429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unlike traditional statistical methods, Conformal Prediction (CP) allows for the determination of valid and accurate confidence levels associated with individual predictions based only on exchangeability of the data. We here introduce a new feature selection method that takes advantage of the CP framework. Our proposal, named Conformal Recursive Feature Elimination (CRFE), identifies and recursively removes features that increase the non-conformity of a dataset. We also present an automatic stopping criterion for CRFE, as well as a new index to measure consistency between subsets of features. CRFE selections are compared to the classical Recursive Feature Elimination…
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ElevenLabs moves beyond speech with AI-generated Sound Effects
01 Jun

ElevenLabs moves beyond speech with AI-generated Sound Effects

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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. After launching tools for text-to-speech and speech-to-speech synthesis, AI voice startup ElevenLabs is moving to the next target. The two-year-old startup founded by former Google and Palantir employees today announced the launch of a new text-to-sound AI offering called Sound Effects. Available starting today on the ElevenLabs website, Sound Effects uses the startup’s in-house foundation model and allows…
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A Full-duplex Speech Dialogue Scheme Based On Large Language Models
01 Jun

A Full-duplex Speech Dialogue Scheme Based On Large Language Models

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arXiv:2405.19487v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a generative dialogue system capable of operating in a full-duplex manner, allowing for seamless interaction. It is based on a large language model (LLM) carefully aligned to be aware of a perception module, a motor function module, and the concept of a simple finite state machine (called neural FSM) with two states. The perception and motor function modules operate simultaneously, allowing the system to simultaneously speak and listen to the user. The LLM generates textual tokens for inquiry responses and makes autonomous decisions to start responding to, wait for, or interrupt the user…
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Google Accuses Users of Exaggerating Problems With Its Disastrous AI Search Tool
01 Jun

Google Accuses Users of Exaggerating Problems With Its Disastrous AI Search Tool

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"Those AI Overviews never appeared."Fake NewsEver since Google rolled out its AI Overviews search feature to the masses earlier this month, it's earned its share of bad headlines, from erroneously telling people to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge to advising them to eat rocks.The situation had gotten so out of control, as Quartz reports, that mischief makers have been faking screenshots to make it seem like the new tech feature is doling out even more wacky responses to queries.For example, an X user posted a purported screenshot that read, "Doctors recommend smoking 2-3 cigarettes per day during pregnancy." This post…
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Veteran investor Paul Graham breaks down why Sam Altman left Y Combinator
01 Jun

Veteran investor Paul Graham breaks down why Sam Altman left Y Combinator

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been hit with a bout of bad press in the past few weeks, which has cast a shadow over his once-squeaky-clean image.  Amid these swirling dramas, legendary tech investor Paul Graham defended Altman by putting an old rumor to rest. Altman wasn't fired from his post as president of the famed startup accelerator, Y Combinator, Graham wrote in a post on X on Thursday. Graham cofounded the accelerator in 2005, and Altman served as its president from 2014 to 2019. According to Graham, Altman was simultaneously running OpenAI and Y Combinator until OpenAI announced the creation of…
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Career Notes for May 2024
01 Jun

Career Notes for May 2024

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(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
01 Jun

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

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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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