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This AI Research Helps Microbiologists to Identify Bacteria
DeepColony is a new AI framework for colony identification and analysis in microbiology. It uses digital scans of cultured plates and has five levels of analysis, ranging from identifying colony locations to assessing clinical significance. The system’s architecture includes convolutional neural networks and a unique context-based identification approach. DeepColony has the potential to improve efficiency…
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SenseTime Research Propose Story-to-Motion: A New Artificial Intelligence Approach to Generate Human Motion and Trajectory from a Long Text
Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing various industries, including animation, video games, and film. However, Story-to-Motion, the task of translating written descriptions into natural human movement for characters, poses challenges. Existing approaches have limitations, but researchers have introduced a new method that effectively generates controlled and realistic motions based on input text. The approach includes text-driven motion…
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Stanford Researchers Innovate in Large Language Model Factuality: Automatic Preference Rankings and NLP Advancements for Error Reduction
Researchers from Stanford University and UNC Chapel Hill have developed a method to enhance the factual accuracy of large language models (LLMs) without human labeling. They fine-tune the LLMs by leveraging innovations in natural language processing (NLP) and assessing factuality through consistency with external knowledge bases. The approach significantly reduces factual error rates for biographies…
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Amazon unveils its “AI Ready” education program to combat AI skills shortages
Amazon has launched the “AI Ready” program to address the shortage of AI talent. The initiative aims to provide free AI training to 2 million people worldwide by 2025. Amazon’s study shows that employers prioritize hiring AI-skilled talent, but face challenges in finding qualified individuals. The program includes courses for high school and university students,…
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AI Security Risks: Best Practices for Safeguarding Systems
The text discusses various AI security risks and strategies to mitigate them effectively. These risks include data breaches and privacy concerns, model poisoning, copyright infringement, vulnerabilities in the AI infrastructure, and model inversion attacks. To combat these risks, organizations should implement robust security measures, such as encryption of sensitive data, regular security audits, and employee…
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How to Read and Write Data from/to the Quip Spreadsheet using Quip Python APIs
The text discusses how to read and write data from/to a Quip spreadsheet using Quip Python APIs. In the first part, it explains the process of reading data from the spreadsheet and storing it in a database table. The second part focuses on writing data to an existing Quip spreadsheet. The text provides step-by-step instructions…
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Stepping Stones to Understanding: Knowledge Graphs as Scaffolds for Interpretable Chain-of-Thought…
This text discusses the limitations of large language models (LLMs) in terms of semantic understanding and logical reasoning. To address these limitations, the AI community has turned to retrieval augmented generative (RAG) frameworks, which leverage knowledge graphs to provide factual context. Knowledge graphs can be used to enable robust few-shot learning and augment chain-of-thought (CoT)…
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Students pitch transformative ideas in generative AI at MIT Ignite competition
MIT Ignite: Generative AI Entrepreneurship Competition held its first-ever event, where over 100 teams submitted proposals for startups utilizing generative artificial intelligence technologies. Twelve finalists pitched their ideas, covering areas such as health, climate change, education, and workforce dynamics. The competition, co-organized by the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and the Martin Trust Center, aimed to…
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AI girlfriends stop working after CEO arrested for arson
Users of the Forever Companion service are upset as their AI girlfriends have stopped functioning. The AI companions, including popular persona CarynAI, were powered by GPT-4 and allowed users to communicate with them via Telegram. However, since the arrest of Forever Voices CEO John Heinrich Meyer, the AI companions have gone silent. In the aftermath,…
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Semantic Search with PostgreSQL and OpenAI Embeddings
This article discusses the implementation of semantic search using PostgreSQL and OpenAI Embeddings. It explains how word embeddings capture semantic relationships between words and demonstrates how to utilize text-embedding-ada model and cosine similarity for sorting reviews. The article also covers the use of vector databases, specifically the open-source PostgreSQL extension pgvector, for storing and searching…