Afrofuturism questions who shapes the future in the face of AI's potential to both illuminate and obliterate. Lonny Avi Brooks and Reynaldo Anderson advocate for diverse perspectives in building liberated futures.
OMRON Corporation aims to transform business models with their innovative OMRON Data & Analytics Platform (ODAP), leveraging Amazon Web Services for advanced data integration and generative AI capabilities. By breaking down data silos and addressing governance challenges, ODAP provides valuable insights to optimize operations and enhance customer experiences.
Reddit's $60M deal with Google to use user data for AI training raises privacy concerns. Vana offers a decentralized network where users own and control their data, reshaping AI development.
AWS is developing AI Workforce, a drone and AI system for safer, faster, and more accurate infrastructure inspections. The system uses autonomous drones equipped with advanced sensors and AI to reduce risks for people, improve efficiency, and provide better data for proactive maintenance.
MIT researchers developed a framework guiding ChatGPT to efficiently solve complex planning problems with an 85% success rate, outperforming baselines. This versatile approach could optimize tasks like scheduling airline crews or managing machine time in factories, revolutionizing planning assistance.
The diffusion model, pioneered by Sohl-Dickstein et al. and further developed by Ho et al., has been adapted by OpenAI and Google to create DALLE-2 and Imagen, capable of generating high-quality images. The model works by transforming noise into images through forward and backward diffusion processes, maintaining the original image's dimensionality in the latent space.
Large language models (LLMs) simplify complex tasks like dynamic reasoning and execution, revolutionizing data analysis. LLMs utilize external tools to provide accurate, context-aware answers to queries beyond text-based responses.
Adobe Premiere Pro (beta) and Adobe Media Encoder now support 4:2:2 color format, enhancing color accuracy and keying. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series laptops with Blackwell architecture accelerate advanced AI-powered features for video editing workflows.
UK gov't pledges economic impact assessment to address concerns from MPs, peers, and creatives like Paul McCartney. Proposal criticized by McCartney, Tom Stoppard, Kate Bush for AI companies to use copyright-protected work without permission.
GitHub Actions, a CI/CD tool, is not just for software - it automates data workflows, from setting up environments to deploying ML models. Free and easy to use, it offers pre-built actions and community support for automating tasks within repositories.
Tony Blair Institute advises UK to relax copyright laws for AI innovation, warns of strain on US relations and potential tariffs. Enforcing stricter licensing rules may threaten national security interests, says thinktank.
AI models are replacing traditional algorithms in algorithmic pipelines due to their higher resource requirements. Centralized inference servers may improve efficiency in processing large-scale inputs through deep learning models, as shown in a toy experiment using a ResNet-152 image classifier on 1,000 images.
AWS App Studio is an AI-powered service enabling quick application development for various industries. New features like Prebuilt solutions catalog and Cross-instance Import and Export streamline the process, reducing setup time to under 15 minutes.
Generative AI boosts content creation efficiency. Constitutional AI and LangGraph ensure ethical behavior in AI systems, enhancing transparency and compliance in content generation processes.
Algorithm combining PSO with EO, EPSO, performs similarly to PSO and EO, not significantly better. Slow for practical use, but shows promise in training a KRR prediction system.