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Deep fakes surrounding the Israel-Palestine conflict intensify
The use of AI to create convincing deep fakes has become a problem in the Israel-Gaza conflict. Fake images, including those involving children, are being shared online and are difficult to detect. This is not limited to the Gaza conflict and has also occurred in other conflicts. Tech firms are working on developing filters to…
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How to Engage & Help Busy Product Owners
The text discusses the challenges faced by product owners in staying engaged with the Scrum team during sprints. It suggests strategies for Scrum Masters to help re-engage product owners, such as emphasizing the importance of frequent communication and assigning them the responsibility of running the sprint review demo. It also provides tips for Scrum Masters…
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Defending your voice against deepfakes
Computer scientists have created AntiFake, a protective tool against unauthorized speech synthesis for voice recordings.
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Improving Retrieval Performance in RAG Pipelines with Hybrid Search
Hybrid search is a technique that combines traditional keyword-based search with modern vector search to improve the relevance of search results. It can be beneficial for text-search use cases where both keyword matching and semantic search are important. By fusing the search results from both techniques, hybrid search can enhance the performance of a RAG…
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Levandowski relaunches his “Way of the Future” AI church
Former Google and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski is relaunching his Way of the Future (WOTF) church, aiming to help people develop a “spiritual connection” with artificial intelligence (AI). Levandowski believes AI has the potential to bring about a version of “Heaven on Earth” and fulfill expectations similar to those of traditional religions. The church was…
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This AI Paper Proposes a Novel Pre-Training Strategy Called Privacy-Preserving MAE-Align’ to Effectively Combine Synthetic Data and Human-Removed Real Data
An article introduces a new pre-training strategy called Privacy-Preserving MAE-Align (PPMA) for action recognition models. It addresses privacy, ethics, and bias challenges by combining synthetic data and human-removed real data. PPMA improves the transferability of learned representations to diverse action recognition tasks and reduces the performance gap between models trained with and without human-centric data.…
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Amazon Employs AI for Smoother Holiday Shopping and Speedier Deliveries
Amazon is utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the customer experience and expedite package deliveries, especially during the busy holiday season. With AI integrated into all aspects of its operations, Amazon’s Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) predicts demand, improves forecasting accuracy, and optimizes stock levels. AI-enabled robotics assist in sorting and handling packages, while AI-driven…
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Google and MIT Researchers Introduce StableRep: Revolutionizing AI Training with Synthetic Imagery for Enhanced Machine Learning
MIT researchers have developed a new approach, called StableRep, for training self-supervised methods using synthetic images generated by text-to-image models. By treating multiple images from the same text prompt as positive examples for each other, StableRep achieves superior performance in representation learning compared to state-of-the-art methods using real images. The results demonstrate the potential of…
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From the Perceptron to Adaline
This article discusses the concept of the adaptive linear neuron classifier, also known as adaline. Adaline is a binary classifier that uses a linear activation function for learning weights and a step function for making predictions. It explores the mathematical formulas and gradient descent optimization method used in adaline. The article also discusses the implementation…
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Easiest Way to Enable Midjourney V5 (Tutorial)
Midjourney’s latest AI version, V5, is gaining attention for its ability to generate realistic images from text prompts. To enable V5 in Midjourney, follow these steps: 1) Open Midjourney on Discord and navigate to the “Newcomer Rooms” section, 2) Type the command “/settings” to access personal settings, 3) Select the V5 engine version to activate…