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Staff warn of risks to Alan Turing Institute

Staff at the UK's Alan Turing Institute warn credibility is at risk, with 90 staff voicing concerns to trustees about leadership. Senior departures and cost-cutting program raise doubts about the future of the national AI research body.

Mastering Continuous Action Control with DDPG

DDPG enhances AI-driven medical robotics by solving the challenge of continuous action control. The Actor-Critic framework in DDPG combines DPG and DQN to improve stability and performance in environments with continuous action spaces.

Master These 3 Skills for Data Science Success in 2025

Data scientists transitioning to leadership roles need business skills like finance fluency to drive impactful data initiatives. Understanding financial terms can help tailor insights, boost company success, and even negotiate better pay. Knowing your numbers opens doors to opportunities like tax rebates for R&D investments.

Decoding AI: Making Predictions Understandable

MIT researchers developed a system using large language models to convert complex AI explanations into plain language, improving user understanding. The system evaluates the quality of the narrative, allowing users to trust machine-learning predictions and customize explanations to meet specific needs.

Introducing Pixtral 12B on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Pixtral 12B, Mistral AI's cutting-edge vision language model, excels in text-only and multimodal tasks, outperforming other models. It features a novel architecture with a 400-million-parameter vision encoder and a 12-billion-parameter transformer decoder, offering high performance and speed for understanding images and documents.

Streamline Enterprise Automation with Amazon Q Business Plugins

Amazon Q Business uses generative AI to boost employee productivity with real-time data access and seamless integration with enterprise apps through plugins. Employees can perform actions and access non-indexed data across multiple applications using natural language, streamlining workflows and saving time.

Revolutionizing AI Content with Citation Tool

MIT CSAIL researchers developed ContextCite, a tool to enhance trust in AI-generated content by identifying external context sources. This tool helps users verify statements, trace errors back to sources, and detect hallucinated information.

The Persuasive Power of AI in Video

OpenAI's new tool, Sora, creates realistic video clips from prompts, raising concerns about the blurring line between reality and AI-generated content. Despite impressive visuals, witnessing the uncanny realism left the journalist feeling more melancholic than amazed.

Simplify Data Quality

Summary: Learn three zero-cost solutions to improve data quality efficiently. Utilize old-school database tricks, create custom dashboards, and generate data lineage with Python. Simplify processes and reduce complexity for better data quality outcomes.

Unbiased AI: Accuracy Preserved

MIT researchers developed a new technique to improve machine-learning model accuracy for underrepresented groups by removing specific data points. This method addresses hidden biases in training datasets, ensuring fair predictions for all individuals.