Neuroscientist introduces spatstat for spatial analysis of cell distribution in the brain. Point pattern analysis (PPA) allows for detailed examination of cell spatial distribution, offering reproducible insights.
Anthropic's recent paper delves into Mechanistic Interpretability of Large Language Models, revealing how neural networks represent meaningful concepts via directions in activation space. The study provides evidence that interpretable features correlate with specific directions, impacting the output of the model.
Big tech's datacentres are major contributors to global greenhouse emissions, overshadowing commercial flights. Research shows energy-guzzling technologies like ChatGPT have significant environmental costs.
AI-powered Media Analysis and Policy Evaluation solution by AWS simplifies video extraction and evaluation for advertising and educational tech companies. Advanced content moderation ensures brand safety and compliance, while also enhancing user engagement and ad performance.
Key learnings for data scientists and managers: 1. Tell a story with data tailored to your audience. 2. Business acumen sets apart good from great data scientists, driving maximum impact for stakeholders.
OpenAI's report reveals AI used for disinformation campaigns from Russia, China, Israel, and Iran, but failed to reach large audiences. Generative AI models were employed to create and post propaganda across social media platforms.
Salesforce faces potential $48bn market value loss amid concerns over low revenue growth forecast and competition from rival AI offerings. Shares dropped 18% after disappointing quarterly results below expectations for the first time in 15 years.
Vitech partners with Amazon Bedrock to create VitechIQ, an AI-powered chatbot for internal documentation retrieval. Amazon Bedrock offers fully managed Knowledge Bases for AI-driven chatbots like VitechIQ.
AI may enable real interspecies communication, as Tel Aviv University joins $10m Coller Dolittle Challenge. Scientists invited to create two-way conversations with animals in groundbreaking competition.
An AI-generated graphic depicting refugee tents in Rafah becomes viral during Israel-Gaza war, with over 45m shares on Instagram. The image also gains traction on TikTok and Twitter, reaching millions of views and retweets.
Major tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Meta form UALink group to develop new AI accelerator chip interconnect standard, challenging Nvidia's NVLink dominance. UALink aims to create open standard for AI hardware advancements, enabling collaboration and breaking free from proprietary ecosystems like Nvidia's.
A LightGBM regression model predicts income accuracy within intervals, demonstrating the model's effectiveness with synthetic data. The model showcases accuracy for various income ranges, highlighting the importance of specifying target value proximity for correct predictions.
OpenAI faces backlash from Scarlett Johansson over new chatbot Sky resembling Her character. South Korea hosts second global AI summit; Alan Turing Institute report examines AI's impact on elections. Alex Hern discusses AI developments with Madeleine Finlay on BBC News.
Meta AI's Llama, a popular large language model, faces challenges in training but can achieve comparable quality with proper scaling and best practices on AWS Trainium. Distributed training across 100+ nodes is complex, but Trainium clusters offer cost savings, efficient recovery, and improved stability for LLM training.
AI agents like ChatGPT are proving AI's human-level competence. Agent Engineering Framework aims to design effective AI agents.