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CRoP: A Context-wise Static Personalization Method for Robust and Scalable Human-Sensing AI Models in Healthcare and Real-World Scenarios
Human-sensing applications such as activity recognition, fall detection, and health monitoring have been revolutionized by advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies. These applications can significantly impact health management by monitoring human behavior and providing critical data for health assessments. However, due to the variability in individual behaviors, environmental factors, and the physical…
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Want to Buy a Smart Glass Door? It Just Got a Little Bit Cheaper
Can’t decide between clear or frosted glass? Home Depot’s Smart Glass door, available starting today, lets you have both for a reasonable price.
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Microsoft researchers propose framework for building data-augmented LLM applications
From explicit fact retrieval to hidden rationales, all you need to know about data-augmented LLM applications.Read More
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Google’s Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Voice Transfer for Dysarthric Speakers
In recent years, Voice Transfer (VT) technology has made notable strides, particularly in applications such as Text-to-Speech (TTS), Voice Conversion (VC), and Speech-to-Speech Translation. However, achieving high-quality zero-shot or one-shot voice transfer, especially for unseen speakers, remains a significant challenge. In a new paper Zero-shot Cross-lingual Voice Transfer for TTS, a Google research team presents…
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California AI bill veto could allow smaller devs, models to ‘flourish’
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s veto of SB 1047 has been hailed by some industry veterans as good for open source innovation.Read More
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OctoAI Snapped Up by Nvidia
OctoAI, a Seattle AI startup that allowed users to run a variety of foundation models while shielding them from the complexity of the underlying infrastructure, has been acquired by GPU giant Nvidia. Rumors have swirled about a possible acquisition since mid-September, when The Information broke the story that the two companies were in “advanced talks”…
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The journey to fully autonomous AI agents and the venture capitalists funding them
Today’s so-called AI agents will be surpassed by programs that have far greater control of the decisions made in corporate processes.
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MIT spinoff Liquid debuts non-transformer AI models and they’re already state-of-the-art
The startup from MIT’s CSAIL says its Liquid Foundation Models have smaller memory needs thanks to a post-transformer architecture.Read More
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AMPLIFY: Leveraging Data Quality Over Scale for Efficient Protein Language Model Development
Protein language models (pLMs), trained on protein sequence databases, aim to capture the fitness landscape for property prediction and design tasks. While scaling these models has become common, it assumes that the source databases accurately reflect the fitness landscape, which may not be true. Understanding protein function was historically tied to predicting structure based on…
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Big Data Career Notes for September 2024
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details. Check in each month for an updated list and you may even come across someone you know, or better yet,…