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Mastering Machine Learning Math

Maths skills are crucial for research-based roles at companies like Deepmind and Google Research, while industry roles require less depth. Higher education correlates with higher earnings in machine learning.

Unleashing AI Factories' Profit Power

AI factories are reshaping the economics of modern infrastructure by producing valuable tokens at scale. Throughput, latency, and goodput are key metrics in creating engaging user experiences and maximizing revenue potential per token.

Supercharge Your Models: The Power of Ensembling

Bagging and boosting are essential ensemble techniques in machine learning, improving model stability and reducing bias in weak learners. Ensembling combines predictions from multiple models to create powerful models, with bagging reducing variance and boosting iteratively improving on errors.

AlphaEvolve: Revolutionizing Algorithms

Google DeepMind introduced AlphaEvolve, an AI system that evolves code, discovering new algorithms for coding and data analysis. Using Genetic Algorithms and Gemini Llm, AlphaEvolve prompts, mutates, evaluates, and breeds code for optimal solutions.

Socrates: AI Innovation by Qualtrics

Qualtrics pioneers Experience Management (XM) with AI, ML, and NLP capabilities, enhancing customer connections and loyalty. Qualtrics's Socrates platform, powered by Amazon SageMaker, drives innovation in experience management with advanced ML technologies.

AI Friend: Can Zuckerberg Solve Loneliness?

Mark Zuckerberg promotes AI for friendships, envisioning a future where people befriend systems instead of humans. Online discussions about relationships with AI therapists are becoming more common, blurring the line between real and artificial connections.

GOP Pushes for 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations

US Republicans seek to block state laws regulating AI for 10 years in budget bill, aiming to prevent guardrails on automated decision-making systems. Proposed provision in House bill would restrict any state or local regulation of AI models or systems unless to facilitate deployment.

AI learns to talk like humans

Study finds AI agents can develop human-like social norms when communicating in groups, like humans. Research by City St George’s, University of London and IT University of Copenhagen.