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Geologists wary of Chinese chatbot bias

Chinese-funded GeoGPT chatbot raises concerns among geologists for potential censorship and bias, developed with IUGS support. Aimed at global south researchers, it leverages vast data to enhance understanding of earth sciences.

Emotional AI: The Pitfalls of 80% Anger, 2% Sadness

Hume, a Manhattan-based startup, has developed the world's first voice AI with emotional intelligence, raising concerns over potential misuse and bias in the field of AI that reads feelings. Testing the limits of this technology involves expressing emotions like love through text, highlighting the potential dangers of emotional AI.

Unlocking the Brain: CLIP and LLaVA

Recent multimodal transformer networks like CLIP and LLaVA are compared to the brain in terms of attention. Vision transformers perform pre-attentive visual processing similar to the brain, but struggle with complex tasks. The brain's bidirectional activity allows for conscious top-down attention and automatic feedback, enhancing perception and cognition.

Enhancing Reliability: Evaluating Retrieval Augmented Generation with Amazon Bedrock

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances large language models by incorporating external knowledge sources, improving performance across various applications. Challenges include retrieving relevant knowledge, avoiding hallucinations, and integrating retrieval and generation components efficiently. Evaluation of RAG applications is crucial for trustworthiness, performance improvement, and r...

The Atomic Human: A Terminator Returns

AI expert Neil Lawrence's new book, The Atomic Human, delves into AI myths, including Terminator references. The study challenges techbro arrogance, contrasting biblical creation with AI consciousness.

Mastering EDA: 11 Essential Steps

Summary: Communicate with stakeholders to set analysis goals, align expectations, and develop research questions for effective exploratory data analysis. Identify knowns and unknowns to build a strong foundation for your analysis process.