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Important notice: 2024 annual dues adjustment
Starting March 1, 2024, certain membership levels will have a slight increase in dues, transitioning from the temporary COVID-19 pandemic reduction to aid the community. This adjustment was announced in a post on Agile Alliance.
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Chinese researchers unveil a robot toddler named “Tong Tong”
The Frontiers of General Artificial Intelligence Technology Exhibition in Beijing unveiled a virtual robot toddler named Tong Tong, developed by the Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence. Tong Tong exhibits human-like abilities and behaviors, mirroring those of a 3-4 year old child. Chinese researchers aim to create thousands of powerful autonomous robots by 2025.
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Symmetry could solve sparse dataset woes, says MIT researchers
MIT researchers have revealed how utilizing symmetry in datasets can reduce data needed for training models. They employed Weyl’s law, a century-old mathematical insight, to simplify data input into neural networks. This breakthrough has potential implications in computational chemistry and cosmology, and it was presented at the December 2023 Neural Information Processing Systems conference.
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The Post-Industrial Summit 2024: Entering the era of AI transformation
The Post-Industrial Summit 2024, hosted by the Post-Industrial Institute and SRI International in Menlo Park, CA on February 28-29, explores AI’s transformative impact on businesses. With insights from executives and experts from leading organizations, the summit focuses on responsible and ethical AI implementation, frameworks for next-generation AI, and the larger economic context driving AI advancement.…
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Deep active learning – a new approach to model training
Deep active learning combines traditional neural network training with strategic data sample selection, leading to improved model performance, efficiency, and accuracy in various applications.
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Google’s Gemini is now in everything. Here’s how you can try it out.
Google is launching Gemini, its large language model, across its products, offering a subscription plan for Gemini Ultra. It is replacing its ChatGPT rival with Bard, powered by Gemini. Gemini outperforms GPT-4 and is integrated into various tools. Google is focusing on global expansion and ensuring safety through features like SynthID watermarks.
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The next chapter of our Gemini era
Gemini is being expanded to more Google products.
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CMU Researchers Introduce OWSM v3.1: A Better and Faster Open Whisper-Style Speech Model-Based on E-Branchformer
Speech recognition technology continually seeks advancements in algorithm and models for improved accuracy and efficiency across languages and dialects. Carnegie Mellon University and Honda Research Institute Japan introduce OWSM v3.1, leveraging the E-Branchformer architecture to achieve better results than its predecessor. This innovation sets a new standard in open-source speech recognition.
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This Survey Paper from Seoul National University Explores the Frontier of AI Efficiency: Compressing Language Models Without Compromising Accuracy
This survey from Seoul National University explores the challenges and advancements in optimizing language models. It highlights the significant impact of low-cost compression algorithms in reducing model size without sacrificing performance, thus promoting accessibility and sustainability. The study emphasizes the need for continued innovation in compression techniques to unlock the full potential of language models…
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Pioneering Large Vision-Language Models with MoE-LLaVA
A new breakthrough in artificial intelligence has been achieved with MoE-LLaVA, a pioneering framework for large vision-language models (LVLMs). It strategically activates only a fraction of its parameters, maintaining manageable computational costs while expanding capacity and efficiency. This innovative approach sets new benchmarks in balancing model size and computational efficiency, reshaping the future of AI…