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How Anthropic’s new ‘computer use’ ability could further AI automation
Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet large language model has gained a new ability: operating a computer. The new ability, which the company is calling “computer use,” is currently in beta test. It enables developers to instruct Claude 3.5 Sonnet, through the Anthropic API, to read and interpret what’s on the display, type text, move the cursor,…
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15 Fundamental Mathematics Theories Needed to Understand AI
Mathematics is the cornerstone of artificial intelligence. These theories provide the framework for developing intelligent systems capable of learning, reasoning, and making decisions. From the statistical foundations of machine learning to the complex algorithms powering neural networks, mathematics plays a pivotal role in shaping the capabilities and limitations of AI. Here are 15 essential mathematical…
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Understanding RAG III: Fusion Retrieval and Reranking
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Google Is Now Watermarking Its AI-Generated Text
The chatbot revolution has left our world awash in AI-generated text: It has infiltrated our news feeds, term papers, and inboxes. It’s so absurdly abundant that industries have sprung up to provide moves and countermoves. Some companies offer services to identify AI-generated text by analyzing the material, while others say their tools will “humanize“ your…
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This AI Paper Introduces a Unified Perspective on the Relationship between Latent Space and Generative Models
In recent years, there have been drastic changes in the field of image generation, mainly due to the development of latent-based generative models, such as Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) and Mask Image Models (MIMs). Reconstructive autoencoders, like VQGAN and VAE, can reduce images into smaller and easier forms called low-dimensional latent space. This allows these…
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Character AI clamps down following teen user suicide, but users are revolting
As a result of these changes, Character AI appears to be deleting certain user-made custom chatbot characters abruptly.Read More
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Google DeepMind is making its AI text watermark open source
Google DeepMind has developed a tool for identifying AI-generated text and is making it available open source. The tool, called SynthID, is part of a larger family of watermarking tools for generative AI outputs. The company unveiled a watermark for images last year, and it has since rolled out one for AI-generated video. In May,…
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The global view of gaming from a huge external development firm | Gilles Langourieux interview
Founded in 2004, Virtuos has grown into a big company when it comes to the production of games. As an external developer, Virtuos’ team of 3,800 professional game devs can supplement the teams at game studios and publishers as they finish their games. The Singapore-based company has a big presence in Asia and it has…
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VCs love using the AI meeting notepad Granola, so they gave it $20M
Granola’s notepad app has become a popular tool among venture capitalists who use it to record meetings and augment notes using AI technology. That made it easier for the startup to raise funds from a crowd of investors for its $20 million Series A — something the team managed to do in about a week.…
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This Engineer Became a Star in Technology Publishing
Donald Christiansen, who transformed IEEE Spectrum from a promising but erratic technology magazine into a repeat National Magazine Award winner, died on 2 October 2024, at the age of 97, in Huntington, N.Y. After growing up in Plainfield, N.J., Don joined the U.S. Navy during World War II as an 18-year-old. He served aboard the…