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Staff warn of risks to Alan Turing Institute

Staff at the UK's Alan Turing Institute warn credibility is at risk, with 90 staff voicing concerns to trustees about leadership. Senior departures and cost-cutting program raise doubts about the future of the national AI research body.

Memoir Translation: A Technical Odyssey

Utilizing GPT-3.5 and Unstructured APIs for efficient translation of Carmen Rosa's memoir from Spanish to English, preserving the narrative's essence. The technical implementation includes importing the book, translating with GPT-3.5, and exporting in Docx format using Unstructured's APIs.

Exploring OpenUSD for Robot Learning Advancements

Scalable simulations with OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse advance robotics development, enabling realistic testing and AI training in virtual environments. Companies like Cobot and Field AI are using Isaac Sim to validate robot performance and bootstrap AI models for diverse applications.

Mastering Continuous Action Control with DDPG

DDPG enhances AI-driven medical robotics by solving the challenge of continuous action control. The Actor-Critic framework in DDPG combines DPG and DQN to improve stability and performance in environments with continuous action spaces.

Enhancing Presentations with Multimodal Foundation Models

Two approaches to gain insights on multimodal data: embed first, infer later with Amazon Titan Multimodal Embeddings, and infer first, embed later with Anthropic’s Claude 3 Sonnet. Evaluation using SlideVQA dataset, providing concise responses to user questions.

Decoding AI: Making Predictions Understandable

MIT researchers developed a system using large language models to convert complex AI explanations into plain language, improving user understanding. The system evaluates the quality of the narrative, allowing users to trust machine-learning predictions and customize explanations to meet specific needs.

Streamline Enterprise Automation with Amazon Q Business Plugins

Amazon Q Business uses generative AI to boost employee productivity with real-time data access and seamless integration with enterprise apps through plugins. Employees can perform actions and access non-indexed data across multiple applications using natural language, streamlining workflows and saving time.

Introducing Pixtral 12B on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Pixtral 12B, Mistral AI's cutting-edge vision language model, excels in text-only and multimodal tasks, outperforming other models. It features a novel architecture with a 400-million-parameter vision encoder and a 12-billion-parameter transformer decoder, offering high performance and speed for understanding images and documents.

Unbiased AI: Accuracy Preserved

MIT researchers developed a new technique to improve machine-learning model accuracy for underrepresented groups by removing specific data points. This method addresses hidden biases in training datasets, ensuring fair predictions for all individuals.

Daniela Rus: John Scott Award Winner

MIT's Daniela Rus receives 2024 John Scott Award for groundbreaking robotics research, redefining the capabilities of robots beyond traditional norms. Rus's work focuses on developing explainable algorithms to create collaborative robots that can solve real-world challenges, emphasizing the synergy between the body and brain for intelligent machines.