Amazon Workers Walk Out Over Layoffs and Broken Climate Promises
Malaise swept through the company after massive job cuts, mandatory return to the office, and surging emissions despite the company’s pledge to get greener.
Assessing political bias in language models
The language models behind ChatGPT and other generative AI are trained on written words that have been culled from libraries, scraped from websites and social media, and pulled from news reports and speech transcripts from across the world. There are 250 billion such words behind GPT-3.5, the model fueling ChatGPT, for instance, and GPT-4 is …
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WebSphere Application Server support
IBM continues to be committed to supporting your journey with the WebSphere platform. There is no planned end-of-support date for WebSphere 8.5.5 and 9.0.5. IBM intends on supporting these WebSphere releases beyond Oracle’s stated extended support date for Java 8. For more details, see the WebSphere Application Server traditional Lifecycle. The post WebSphere Application Server …
Amazon SageMaker XGBoost now offers fully distributed GPU training
Amazon SageMaker provides a suite of built-in algorithms, pre-trained models, and pre-built solution templates to help data scientists and machine learning (ML) practitioners get started on training and deploying ML models quickly. You can use these algorithms and models for both supervised and unsupervised learning. They can process various types of input data, including tabular, …
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Vectara aims to ground generative AI conversational search without hallucinations
AI powered conversational search platform Vectara has new capabilities aiming to improve generative AI for business data.Read More
Runaway AI Is an Extinction Risk, Experts Warn
A new statement from industry leaders cautions that artificial intelligence poses a threat to humanity on par with nuclear war or a pandemic.
Robot centipedes go for a walk
Researchers show how their multilegged walking robot can be steered by inducing a dynamic instability. By making the couplings between segments more flexible, the robot changes from walking straight to moving in a curved path. This work can lead to more energy-efficient and reliable robotic navigation of terrain.
Research team designs brain-inspired device for optoelectronic computing
Perfect recall, computational wizardry and rapier wit: That’s the brain we all want, but how does one design such a brain? The real thing is comprised of ~80 billion neurons that coordinate with one another through tens of thousands of connections in the form of synapses. The human brain has no centralized processor, the way …
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AI Fun
Welcome to the “AI Fun” page! This is your go-to spot for the latest and greatest posts about all things AI in the fun and entertainment sphere. We believe that AI isn’t just about serious research and complex algorithms – it’s also about exploring the lighter, more playful side of this revolutionary technology. Here, you’ll …