Artificial Intelligence
The paper presents a study on using conditional generation from diffusion models for tasks in music production, such as audio continuation, inpainting, and regeneration, creating transitions between tracks, and transferring styles, by applying guidance during the sampling process at 44.1kHz stereo audio quality.
This article examines public transport systems in Budapest, Berlin, Stockholm, and Toronto using GTFS data and data science tools to analyze and visualize public transport patterns and insights for urban planning. The author addresses GTFS’s universality, noting city-specific manual validations, and explores topics like stop locations, departure times, spatial distributions, transport modes, and route shapes…
The Metal.jl Framework provides Julia users on macOS the ability to utilize the GPU for better performance in scientific computing and machine learning. It tackles macOS’s transition to M-series chips, offering solutions amidst compatibility challenges. Users can harness the GPU’s parallel processing via Metal.jl for tasks like matrix multiplication and machine learning with Flux, improving…
This article lists over 15 AI tools for developers as of December 2023, highlighting their key features. These tools assist in coding, debugging, generating documentation, managing snippets, creating AI agents, designing visuals, and more. They include GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, Notion AI, Stepsize, Mintlify, Pieces for Developers, LangChain, You.com, AgentGPT, Jam.dev, Durable, Leap AI, AssemblyAI,…
To transition to data analytics from another field, pursue relevant education or training, gain practical experience, and engage with the data science community through platforms like Towards Data Science.
Getir, established in 2015, is a leading ultrafast grocery delivery company with a multinational presence. Utilizing Amazon SageMaker and AWS Batch, they reduced model training time by 90% and improved operational efficiency. Their data science team developed a product category prediction pipeline with an 80% accuracy rate, aiding commercial teams in inventory management and competitive…
Researchers discovered that language models like GPT-3.5 Turbo could inadvertently reveal their training data when prompted to repeat simple words, leaking sensitive content, personal information, and copyrighted material. The technique, known as a divergence attack, had a success rate of 3% and poses a significant security risk. Companies have been notified, with the web version…
Pika Labs, an AI video generator startup, has caused a stir with its product, Pika 1.0, leading to a stock increase for Sunyard Technology, a firm with familial ties to co-founder Demi Guo. The startup raised $55 million and aims to democratize video creation, despite broader industry challenges.
Developed by an international research team, PepCNN is a deep learning model that predicts protein-peptide binding with higher accuracy than previous tools. Using structural, sequence, and language model features, it excels in specificity, precision, and AUC metrics for better drug discovery and understanding protein-peptide interactions. Further improvements are planned using DeepInsight technology.
NeRF models scenes in 3D and learns from various viewpoints to create photorealistic images. Researchers from Sungkyunkwan University improved efficiency with a mask strategy, reducing memory requirements and increasing speed. Point-based rendering enhancements and ongoing research promise to further advance realistic 3D applications. Credit goes to the researchers and is shared via various online AI…
Researchers released MediTron, an open-source medical LLM suite with 7B and 70B parameter variants, excelling in benchmarks and tailored for tasks like medical QA. It uses an extensive medical dataset for training but requires further testing before clinical deployment to ensure safety.
Microsoft researchers developed MAIRA-1, a model combining a chest X-ray-specific image encoder with a fine-tuned language model to generate accurate radiology reports. It leverages data augmentation and evaluation metrics tailored to clinical relevance to improve report quality. Future enhancements may include incorporating study histories to reduce inaccuracies.
Researchers from Northeastern University, MIT, and an independent researcher developed Concept Sliders for text-to-image diffusion models, allowing fine-grained image control and editing. This method enables manipulation of visual concepts that are usually hard to describe in words and offers a practical, disentangling solution for more precise image customization through open-source code and trained sliders.
Artists seeking copyright infringement claims against Stability AI and others have refiled their lawsuit with seven additional plaintiffs. The original case was dismissed, but Judge William Orrick allowed for an amended resubmission. The updated lawsuit uses comments by Stability AI’s CEO and concerns over derivative works and AI’s use of copyrighted data to bolster its…
PGXMAN is a package manager for Postgres extensions, streamlining installation, update, and management processes. It handles dependencies automatically, saving developers time and effort. Installation is easy via pip, and a supportive community further enhances its utility. For more information, visit https://pgxman.com/.
Researchers from Microsoft and Georgia Tech developed TongueTap, a wearable tech interface that uses tongue gestures to control devices without hands or eyes. It combines data from IMUs and PPG sensors in headsets for gesture recognition with 80-94% accuracy, promising improvements for AR interactions.
RAGs, an application by Streamlit, simplifies GPT pipeline creation and deployment with an intuitive interface. The latest version, RAGs v2, enhances user experience with features for building and customizing ChatGPTs, managing RAG pipelines, and supporting multiple large language models. To use it, install with ‘pip,’ create pipelines, deploy, and query via command line. It’s a…
The study by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Amazon, and Yale explores Chain-of-Thought reasoning in language models, examining its impact on the development and reliability of language agents. It investigates CoT techniques and verification methods, offering insights for both new and seasoned researchers in language intelligence.
UC Berkeley researchers have developed ALIA, an innovative language-guided image augmentation technique that improves dataset variety and classification model performance in fine-grained image tasks without extensive fine-tuning. It uses natural language to generate domain-specific image edits and employs filtering to maintain visual consistency, showing a significant enhancement over traditional methods in experiments.
Porto Alegre’s council passed a law written entirely by ChatGPT on stolen water meter charges, unveiled by Councilman Ramiro Rosário after unanimous approval. His nondisclosure aimed to provoke AI usage debates in legislation, amidst similar AI legislative efforts globally, stirring discussions on transparency and AI’s future role in governance.