University of South Australia revives viva voce tradition to enhance student knowledge testing. Oral exams adapt to combat AI challenges in academia, fostering authentic assessment.
Jeff Jarvis, former TV critic and online media leader, warns of internet regulation affecting freedoms in his new book, The Web We Weave. He emphasizes the dangers of moral panic and the need to reclaim the web from tech bros to prevent stifling regulations.
Google DeepMind and the Royal Society host AI for Science Forum in London after AI breakthroughs in Nobel prizes. Experts optimistic about energy and drug production advancements, but also wary of potential misuse.
Amazon Bedrock Flows simplifies generative AI workflow development without code. Thomson Reuters and Dentsu Creative praise its flexibility and productivity gains.
Implementing a non-recursive C# decision tree regression system without pointers, using TreeNode. Unique design for training and prediction accuracy.
Amazon DataZone enables organizations to establish data governance at scale, promoting self-service analytics and innovative ML projects. Financial institutions can leverage Amazon DataZone for effective marketing campaigns, ensuring secure access to customer datasets.
Amazon Q Business, powered by generative AI, boosts productivity by answering questions and completing tasks from enterprise systems. Use AWS IAM Identity Center for seamless user access management across multiple Amazon Q Business applications in AWS Organizations.
New technology like Generative AI faces challenges like previous tech. Progress is made with small steps, like climbing Mount Everest.
Amazon invests additional $4bn in AI startup Anthropic, bringing total to $8bn. AWS to be official cloud provider, highlighting big tech's generative AI investments.
MIT researchers have developed a more efficient algorithm for training AI systems to make better decisions in complex tasks with variability, such as traffic control. The new method improves performance by strategically selecting tasks, making it 5-50 times more efficient than standard approaches, ultimately enhancing the AI agent's performance.
MIT AVT Consortium leads research on how drivers interact with emerging vehicle tech, aiming to shape future transportation through data-driven insights on consumer behaviors and system performance. Recent J.D. Power study shows modest increase in public readiness for AVs, but trust in AI remains crucial for broader adoption, highlighting the need for reliable and intuitive systems.
Amazon Bedrock offers top FMs from leading AI companies through a single API for building generative AI applications securely. Users can customize FMs, integrate with AWS services, and deploy agents without managing infrastructure.
White House science advisor Arati Prabhakar discusses U.S. leadership in science and technology, focusing on cancer prevention, climate change, and AI. Prabhakar emphasizes the importance of sustaining global research leadership and accelerating technology movement into the market.
LLM debates utilize synthetic ground truth data to train more powerful language models, outperforming existing methods. Amazon Bedrock facilitates invoking various LLM techniques for improved factual consistency in decision-making processes.
MIT, Google, and Purdue University develop Tree-D Fusion, merging AI and tree-growth models to create 3D urban tree models. Predictive capabilities could revolutionize urban forest management with proactive planning for climate change adaptation.