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Google Cloud Commits to Protect Customers for Generative AI Indemnification
Google Cloud has reaffirmed its commitment to its customers by integrating Duet AI and Vertex AI into their suite of products. They have also addressed the legal risks associated with generative AI by providing a two-pronged approach to intellectual property indemnity. This ensures that Google Cloud stands behind its services and protects customers from copyright…
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Meet FastEmbed: A Fast and Lightweight Text Embedding Generation Python Library
FastEmbed is a Python library that generates text embeddings. It eliminates the need for a co-occurrence matrix by using a random projection technique to map words into a high-dimensional space. It offers significant speed improvements compared to other methods like Word2Vec and GloVe, while maintaining accuracy. FastEmbed can be used for machine translation, text categorization,…
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Researchers from the University of Amsterdam and Qualcomm AI Presents VeRA: A Novel Finetuning AI Method that Reduces the Number of Trainable Parameters by 10x Compared to LoRA
The research introduces VeRA, a novel method that reduces the number of trainable parameters for language models while maintaining performance levels. By focusing on all linear layers and utilizing quantization techniques and a cleaned dataset, VeRA achieves enhanced instruction-following capabilities. The evaluation demonstrates VeRA’s superior performance compared to the conventional LoRA approach, making it a…
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Almost Half of Teachers Feel Unprepared for AI’s Role in Education, Calls for Support Grow
A report by Oxford University Press reveals that nearly 49% of teachers feel unprepared for the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on education. They call for more assistance in preparing students for an AI-driven future. The report emphasizes the need for government support in ensuring responsible and effective use of AI in schools. Nigel Portwood,…
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Google AI Presents PaLI-3: A Smaller, Faster, and Stronger Vision Language Model (VLM) that Compares Favorably to Similar Models that are 10x Larger
The Vision Language Model (VLM) is an advanced AI system that combines natural language understanding with image recognition. Researchers from Google have developed a new model called PaLI-3, which outperforms larger models in tasks like localization and text understanding. The study highlights the benefits of contrastive pre-training for VLMs and emphasizes the need for further…
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A New AI Study from MIT Shows How Deep Neural Networks Don’t See the World the Way We Do
Researchers have discovered that artificial neural networks designed to mimic human perception often exhibit invariances that do not match those found in human sensory perception. Model metamers, synthetic stimuli with similar activations to natural images or sounds, revealed significant differences between the invariances of computational models and human perception. This research highlights the challenges of…
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Researchers from UCSD and Microsoft Introduce ColDeco: A No-Code Inspection Tool for Calculated Columns
UCSD and Microsoft researchers have developed COLDECO, a tool for inspecting code generated by large language models (LLMs) in spreadsheets. This tool aims to address the challenge of accuracy and trust in LLM-generated code by providing end-user inspection features, such as decomposing the solution into intermediate helper columns and highlighting interesting cases in summary rows.…
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A New AI Research from China Proposes 4K4D: A 4D Point Cloud Representation that Supports Hardware Rasterization and Enables Unprecedented Rendering Speed
The research paper introduces 4K4D, a method for real-time view synthesis of dynamic 3D scenes at 4K resolution. It uses a 4D point cloud representation and acceleration techniques to improve rendering speed. 4K4D achieves state-of-the-art rendering quality and is 30 times faster than existing methods. However, it has limitations in storage requirements and establishing point…
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Google’s Pixel 8 phones incorporate advanced AI image editing features
Google’s Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones offer AI-powered image editing capabilities, allowing users to refine facial expressions and edit features in photos. The AI can blend facial expressions from other images in the camera roll to create the “Best Take.” The Magic Editor feature intelligently fills in removed elements in photos. While some…
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Researchers diagnose diabetes in seconds using voice recordings
Researchers at Klick Labs have developed a machine learning model that can detect Type 2 diabetes from a 6 to 10 second voice recording with up to 89% accuracy for women and 86% accuracy for men. The method analyzes acoustic features in the voice and can potentially transform diabetes screening. The researchers believe this technology…