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AI Surveillance: Crime Detection on London Underground

AI surveillance software was used to monitor thousands of people on the London Underground, looking for aggressive behavior, weapons, and unsafe situations. Transport for London tested 11 algorithms, generating over 44,000 alerts, marking the first time AI and live video footage were combined for real-time alerts to staff.

Unleashing the Power of PCA: Simplifying Data Analysis and Machine Learning with C#

The article "Principal Component Analysis (PCA) from Scratch Using the Classical Technique with C#" in Microsoft Visual Studio Magazine explains how PCA can reduce the number of columns in a dataset and its applications in machine learning algorithms. It also discusses the difficulty of computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors and provides a demo using a subset of the Iris dataset.

Enhancing Movie Recommendations: Unraveling Unstructured Data with LLMs and Controlled Vocabularies

Recommender systems generate significant revenue, with Amazon and Netflix relying heavily on product recommendations. This article explores the use of controlled vocabularies and LLMs to improve similarity models in recommender systems, finding that a controlled vocabulary enhances outcomes and building a genre list using an LLM is easy but creating a detailed taxonomy is challenging.

Meta Takes Action: Labeling AI-Generated Content for Transparency

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, plans to label AI-generated images from other companies like OpenAI and Google to enhance transparency on platforms like Facebook and Instagram. The move comes during a contentious US election year and is part of a larger effort to establish standards for labeling content created using generative AI models.