Items tagged with machine learning
A hot minute after the world started talking about GPU-powered neural networks, the conversation's quickly changed to neural networks powered by actual neurons. You can now order a literal bio-computer with 800,000 neurons inside, courtesy of Cortical Labs, for a cool $35,000. We talked about this topic before, but...
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A revolutionary/goofy-looking wireless forehead e-tattoo has been developed that can accurately estimate mental workloads in real-time, offering a significant leap forward for human-in-the-loop systems in high-stakes environments. This groundbreaking device, detailed in an article in the August 15 issue of Device by...
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Regular readers will probably know this already, but AMD's RDNA 4 GPUs are quite good at machine learning workloads. The company's FSR 4 AI-powered upscaler delivers excellent results, much closer to NVIDIA's DLSS in terms of image quality versus previous iterations of the technology. AMD isn't done trying to reverse...
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There's an old saying with social media: the users are the product. That used to mean that if you posted on a service like Reddit, then your data would be sold to advertisers, either individually or in aggregate. That has only become more true with the advent of AI, as companies race to acquire the data necessary to...
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Tenstorrent's name might not have quite the same cache that NVIDIA's does when it comes to AI acceleration yet, but the company's unique approach has a lot of benefits. Between a royalty-free RISC-V processor ISA and highly scalable AI accelerator designs, the company promises it can lower the total cost of ownership...
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Even though Slack proudly touts its Slack AI feature as helpful time-savers, users are questioning how the software gets its job done. One user pointed out just how invasive Slack AI can be, using Slack’s own words.
Slack, bought by Salesforce in 2021, advertises itself as an AI-powered platform for work which...
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ChatGPT and large language models are incredibly useful for a wide variety of things, but acting as a customer service representative on behalf of a company is not one of those things. Whether the models are selling Chevy Tahoes for $1 or imagining information about a shipping company, this technology is just not...
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Over the past few months, AI has surged onto the market and devices of all sorts, like Microsoft’s push onto Windows with Copilot. As such, it is no surprise that AI is one of the hot topics of CES2024, but so far, not much has particularly stood out as an appealing consumer product. However, that may have changed...
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On Halloween Eve, Apple's Scary Fast online event ushered in the era of the company's third-generation Arm64 processors, dubbed the M3 family. The company did hit a number of landmarks with its custom-built Mac processors, including using 3nm lithography, adding real-time ray tracing hardware to its GPU architecture...
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If you follow technology news much at all, you're probably familiar with the latest iteration of the GPT line of AI models, known simply as GPT-4. At its heart, GPT-4 is a large language model with billions of parameters, able to converse in many languages on almost any topic. GPT-4 is so smart that it can ace the...
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The semiconductor industry has come a long way since integrated circuits (ICs) were designed using a pen and heaps of graph paper. Modern chip architects make heavy use of electronic design automation (EDA) tools and software to wring out every bit of potential from billions of transistors, packed ever-more densely...
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New case studies indicate that scientists can detect an infection in cabernet sauvignon grapevines before showing any symptoms of the costly disease. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California says it can accurately spot signs of the grape disease that inflicts billions of dollars in annual crop damage by...
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A new study finds that robots can learn from other robots, much the same as humans learn from one another. The paper takes a deep dive into a new approach to growing an area of machine learning (ML) research known as Lifelong Learning (LL).
Humans have learned from one another since the beginning of time. Whether...
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The rise of AI is not in and of itself what's concerning. Rather, it's the eventual downfall of human civilization and whether the two will be related. Only time will tell. Either way, an artificial life after humans is apparently something AI 'thinks' about. In a post on Reddit, a user shared a short horror story...
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NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit: Starting At $199 (4GB), $299 (8GB) The new NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit offers a massive performance boost over the previous generation, at an affordable price point. More affordable than Jetson AGX Orin Low power and small form factor Huge improvement over Jetson...
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By now, you've probably read no end of articles about GPT-3 and its derivative model, ChatGPT. You may even have played with the AI yourself, whether using the OpenAI website directly, using Bing's new chat feature, or some other implementation. It's rather limited, as articles around the web have enjoyed pointing...
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ChatGPT is being incorporated into everything from Discord to Snapchat and virtually every platform in between. While this might be incredibly useful for day-to-day searches and some interactions, you also end up with some interesting implementations, such as ChatGPT on smartwatches. As misplaced as this may sound to...
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Scientists across multiple disciplines are working together in order to create biocomputers, where brain organoids serve as biological hardware. While brain organoids are not "mini-brains," the scientists say they share key aspects of brain function and structure essential for cognitive functions like learning and...
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The large language model (LLM) ChatGPT it making news everywhere lately. It has caused some concern for apparently being "too smart," and its addition in the latest Bing beta ha geenrated some interesting results, to say the least. ChatGPT can be a handy tool, but it currently has some significant limits, such as...
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai made it clear to investors, during Alphabet's Q4 2022 earnings call, that the tech giant is still an AI-first company. Pichai outlined how Google will "unlock" the potential of AI, including a hint that the technology will be coming to Google Search platforms sometime this year.
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From tweaking Tom Cruise to advancing deepfake detection with Intel, AI manipulation of photo, video, and audio sources is becoming more mainstream daily. Now, one company is taking this tech to Hollywood with the debut of TrueSync, a generative AI tool to change the dialogue in filmed content.
Announced on Twitter...
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Researchers at the University of Tel Aviv have developed a robot that can "smell" using an innovative biological sensor. The sensor transfers electrical information in response to the presence of an odor, which the robot is capable of detecting and interpreting. However, the technology is still lags far behind what of...
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