With ‘Ragnarök,’ ‘God of War’ Keeps Growing Up
Once a mainstay in arguments about how soulless and bloody video games could be, the franchise is now a star of narrative design.
Here’s How Robert Jordan Built The Wheel of Time
Historian Michael Livingston explores the real-world myths and legends the author used to construct his epic fantasy series.
Storytelling Will Save the Earth
Emotional resonance, not cold statistics, will bring home the scale of the climate crisis—and the need for action.
Trump’s Twitter Ban Was Unfair, but Not for the Reason You Think
If Twitter had implemented its rules uniformly, other world leaders would have been banned too.
An AI-based platform to enhance and personalize e-learning
Researchers at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid have recently created an innovative, AI-powered platform that could enhance remote learning, allowing educators to securely monitor students and verify that they are attending compulsory online classes or exams.
Foundry au service de la décentralisation, différenciation, déconcentration de la donnée
(Scroll down for English translation below) De nouvelles infrastructures digitales savamment déployées pourraient-elles rendre les villes plus responsables, durables, efficaces et agréables ? C’est l’idée que poursuivent, depuis près de quinze ans [1], les instigateurs des smart cities ou villes des intelligences. De Marseille à Paris, en passant par Dijon, Lyon, Chartes, Toulouse, Grenoble, Nice, Angers …
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New and Improved Embedding Model
We are excited to announce a new embedding model which is significantly more capable, cost effective, and simpler to use. The new model, text-embedding-ada-002, replaces five separate models for text search, text similarity, and code search, and outperforms our previous most capable model, Davinci, at most tasks, while being priced 99.8% lower. Read documentation Embeddings …
Do you need coding skills to build a chatbot?
Virtual assistants are valuable, transformative business tools that offer a compelling ROI while improving the customer experience. By 2030, conversational AI chatbots and virtual assistants will handle 30% of interactions that would have otherwise been handled by a human agent—up from 2% in 2022.[i] So why haven’t more companies adopted this solution? Due to the …
LightOn Lyra-fr model is now available on Amazon SageMaker
We are thrilled to announce the availability of the LightOn Lyra-fr foundation model for customers using Amazon SageMaker. LightOn is a leader in building foundation models specializing in European languages. Lyra-fr is a state-of-the-art French language model that can be used to build conversational AI, copywriting tools, text classifiers, semantic search, and more. You can …
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Efficient PyTorch training with Vertex AI
Vertex AI provides flexible and scalable hardware and secured infrastructure to train PyTorch based deep learning models with pre-built containers and custom containers. For model training with large amounts of data, using the distributed training paradigm and reading data from Cloud Storage is the best practice. However, training with data on the cloud such as …