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The Rise of Value-Driven Data Professionals in 2024

In 2024, data teams are facing a new reality of being ROI-driven and efficient, with funding and growth declining significantly in recent years. To navigate this, data professionals should seek feedback from stakeholders and address areas for improvement in order to align with business value.

Unlocking the Potential: LLMs' Tool Use and Reasoning Breakthroughs in 2023

ChatGPT, a large language model, has made significant progress in tool use and reasoning, with researchers equipping it with external tools like code interpreters and search engines, as well as exploring its internal reasoning capacities. The surge in language model papers in 2023 reflects the community's interest and the potential for practical applications.

Unleashing Midjourney v6: Exploring the Boundaries of Detail

Midjourney launched alpha version of image synthesis model, Midjourney v6, with fans noting more detail and a different approach to prompting. Critics still bristle about the controversial practice of training models using human-made artwork obtained without permission.

Streamlining Data Science Lifecycle Management with AWS and Wipro

Wipro's collaboration with AWS helps organizations overcome challenges in managing isolated data science solutions, offering automation, scalability, and model quality. By implementing Amazon SageMaker, Wipro addresses collaboration, scalability, MLOps, and reusability challenges for its customers.

Spain's No. 2 Mobile Carrier's Disaster: The Power of a Weak Password

Spain's second-biggest mobile operator, Orange España, experienced a major outage due to a security breach where an unknown party obtained a weak password and accessed an account managing the company's internet traffic. The breach occurred when the party logged into Orange's RIPE NCC account using the password "ripeadmin."

Unlocking the Power of LoRA: Navigating the Path to Parameter Efficiency

Discover how to achieve parameter efficiency in finetuning with LoRA, including strategies for adapting linear modules and optimizing learning rates. This article explores the deliberate design decisions that can enhance model performance, GPU memory utilization, and training speed, offering a nuanced understanding and greater control.

Closing the Gap: A Surgeon's Perspective on AI in Healthcare

The article discusses the growing disconnect between clinical practice and AI research in healthcare, emphasizing the lack of clinician participation and collaboration. It highlights the need for a practical approach in identifying actual problems and evaluating if AI can develop better solutions in healthcare.

AI Breathes New Life into Early Mickey Mouse: Exploring the Public Domain

AI experimenters have quickly taken advantage of three early Mickey Mouse cartoons entering the public domain in the US, using an AI model trained on those cartoons to create new still images of Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and Peg Leg Pete. While the results are sometimes garbled, this early experimentation showcases the potential of integrating public domain characters into the AI space.