The Uncanny Rise of the World’s First AI Beauty Pageant
The idea of an AI beauty pageant might seem laughable or grotesque, depending on whom you ask. But the World AI Creator Awards reflects something deeper about modern influencer culture.
A technique for more effective multipurpose robots
MIT researchers developed a technique to combine robotics training data across domains, modalities, and tasks using generative AI models. They create a combined strategy from several different datasets that enables a robot to learn to perform new tasks in unseen environments.
New technique can automate data curation for self-supervised pre-training of AI datasets
A team of computer scientists and AI researchers from FAIR at Meta, INRIA, Université Paris Saclay and Google, has developed a possible means for automating data curation for self-supervised pre-training of AI datasets.
From gen AI 1.5 to 2.0: Moving from RAG to agent systems
As organizations mature in their use of gen AI, the game will be about obtaining the highest quality tokens, as quickly as possible.Read More
16 Best Festival Accessories and Gear (2024): Fanny Packs, Inflatable Couches, and More
No matter the genre or location, these gadgets will upgrade your experience.
Research vs. development: Where is the moat in AI?
Companies that build user-friendly tools, infrastructure for smooth AI integration and new LLM-powered products will be the winners.Read More
11 Best Bookshelf Speakers (2024): Active, Passive, and Hi-Fi
Soup up your sound with these active and passive speakers. We have picks for every budget.
CLIP meets Model Zoo Experts: Pseudo-Supervision for Visual Enhancement
Contrastive language image pretraining (CLIP) is a standard method for training vision-language models. While CLIP is scalable, promptable, and robust to distribution shifts on image classification tasks, it lacks object localization capabilities. This paper studies the following question: Can we augment CLIP training with task-specific vision models from model zoos to improve its visual representations? …
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Transforming Veteran Outreach
VA & Palantir improve care enrollment for Veterans exposed to toxic burn pits Toxic burn pit exposures prompted the passage of the PACT Act in August 2022. Named in honor of Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson, the Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act ensures disability benefits and access to VA healthcare for millions of Veterans …
Responsible AI can revolutionize tax agencies to improve citizen services
The new era of generative AI has spurred the exploration of AI use cases to enhance productivity, improve customer service, increase efficiency and scale IT modernization. Recent research commissioned by IBM® indicates that as many as 42% of surveyed enterprise-scale businesses have actively deployed AI, while an additional 40% are actively exploring the use of AI technology. …
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