Author: Hunter
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Your Next AI Wearable Will Listen to Everything All the Time
The latest crop of AI-enabled wearables like Bee AI and Omi listen to your conversations to help organize your life. They are also normalizing embedded microphones that are always on. Read more
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Microsoft AI Just Fully Open-Sourced Phi-4: A Small Language Model Available on Hugging Face Under the MIT License
Microsoft has open-sourced Phi-4, a compact and efficient small language model, on Hugging Face under the MIT license. This decision highlights a shift towards transparency and collaboration in the AI community, offering developers and researchers new opportunities. What Is Microsoft Phi-4? Phi-4 is a 14-billion-parameter language model developed with a focus on data quality and… Read more
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Smoke, reflections and portals: Adobe’s TransPixar takes AI VFX to the next level
Adobe and HKUST researchers unveil TransPixar, a breakthrough AI system that creates transparent visual effects from text prompts.Read More Read more
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The X-ification of Meta
By abandoning fact-checkers and loosening its Hateful Conduct policy, Meta has made clear the future it wants for its platforms. Read more
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Gridware’s boxes literally listen to power lines to find outages
Gridware’s sensors listen for sounds that the company’s software has been trained to identify as different hazards to the grid. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read more
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Advancing Test-Time Computing: Scaling System-2 Thinking for Robust and Cognitive AI
The o1 model’s impressive performance in complex reasoning highlights the potential of test-time computing scaling, which enhances System-2 thinking by allocating greater computational effort during inference. While deep learning’s scaling effects have driven advancements in AI, particularly in LLMs like GPT, further scaling during training faces limitations due to data scarcity and computational constraints. Additionally,… Read more
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This AI Paper Introduces Semantic Backpropagation and Gradient Descent: Advanced Methods for Optimizing Language-Based Agentic Systems
Language-based agentic systems represent a breakthrough in artificial intelligence, allowing for the automation of tasks such as question-answering, programming, and advanced problem-solving. These systems, heavily reliant on Large Language Models (LLMs), communicate using natural language. This innovative design reduces the engineering complexity of individual components and enables seamless interaction between them, paving the way for… Read more
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How to install an LLM on MacOS (and why you should)
If you like the idea of AI but don’t want to share your content or information with a third party, you can always install an LLM on your Apple desktop or laptop. You’ll be surprised at how easy it is. Read more
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I tried Halliday’s AI smart glasses and they beat my Ray-Ban Metas in key ways
With a display that’s built into the frame – not the lens – these Halliday smart glasses are making quite a splash at CES 2025. Read more
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Microsoft makes powerful Phi-4 model fully open-source on Hugging Face
Phi-4 demonstrates that smaller, well-designed models can achieve comparable or superior results compared with larger models.Read More Read more