Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) have limited math foundation, leading to lower prestige and limited research topics compared to classical algorithms. EAs face barriers due to simplicity, resulting in fewer rigorous studies and less exploration potential.
Murex, a Paris-based trading software company, is testing NVIDIA's Grace Hopper Superchip for faster and more energy-efficient risk calculations. Grace Hopper offers significant performance improvements, including a 4x reduction in energy consumption and a 7x increase in speed for XVA calculations.
Anthropic AI explores extracting interpretable features using Sparse Autoencoders, aiming to break down 'polysemanticity' in neural networks. Prof. Tom Yeh's handiworks beautifully explain the workings of these mechanisms.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.