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The Persuasive Power of AI in Video

OpenAI's new tool, Sora, creates realistic video clips from prompts, raising concerns about the blurring line between reality and AI-generated content. Despite impressive visuals, witnessing the uncanny realism left the journalist feeling more melancholic than amazed.

Revolutionizing AI Content with Citation Tool

MIT CSAIL researchers developed ContextCite, a tool to enhance trust in AI-generated content by identifying external context sources. This tool helps users verify statements, trace errors back to sources, and detect hallucinated information.

Sora: OpenAI's AI Video Generator Now Accessible in US

OpenAI's Sora, a text-to-video generator, now available to all in the US, creates AI video clips from written prompts. Users can see their prompts come to life, like a family of woolly mammoths in an open desert, through Sora's innovative technology.

Maximizing LLM Performance: The Power of Hybrid Models

Implementing Speculative and Contrastive Decoding enhances text generation quality and efficiency using large and small language models. Contrastive Decoding prioritizes tokens with the largest probability difference between models for high-quality outputs.

AI Saves Lives: Reducing Stillbirths in Malawi

The only hospital in the country using foetal safety software reduced baby fatalities by 82% in 3 years. A routine ultrasound at Area 25 health centre in Malawi's capital saved Ellen Kaphamtengo's baby from potential asphyxia.

Accelerate RAG Applications with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart & FAISS

Generative AI, especially Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), is transforming industries by providing personalized experiences through external knowledge sources. RAG applications on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart using Facebook AI Similarity Search (FAISS) optimize generative AI output with cost benefits and quicker iteration.

Enhancing GPS Accuracy: Mapping Kinematic Solutions

Geospatial datasets use dead reckoning to infer GPS locations between known points, impacting data quality and value. Telematics data from vehicles includes various signals like GPS location, speed, and more, with implications for data handling and analysis.

Building Decision Tree Regression with C# in Visual Studio

Article: 'Decision Tree Regression from Scratch Using C#' presents a demo on implementing decision tree regression without recursion or pointers. The accuracy of the model on training data is high, but overfitting is a challenge addressed by using ensemble techniques.

Trump Taps David Sacks as AI and Crypto 'Czar'

Trump nominates David Sacks, ex-PayPal COO, as White House AI and crypto czar, rewarding big donors with political power. Sacks, a Silicon Valley insider, hosted a fundraiser that brought in over $12m for the Trump campaign.