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The Download: Geoffrey Hinton’s Nobel Prize, and multimodal AI
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Geoffrey Hinton, AI pioneer and figurehead of doomerism, wins Nobel Prize Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist whose pioneering work on deep learning in the 1980s and 90s underpins all of the most powerful…
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Adobe wants to make it easier for artists to blacklist their work from AI scraping
Adobe has announced a new tool to help creators watermark their artwork and opt out of having it used to train generative AI models. The web app, called Adobe Content Authenticity, allows artists to signal that they do not consent for their work to be used by AI models, which are generally trained on vast…
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ESA Launches Probe to Revisit Asteroid Crime Scene
The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is en route to assess how NASA’s 2022 DART mission impacted the asteroid Dimorphos. DART smashed into the asteroid at a little over 6 kilometers per second, sending out a cloud of debris and slowing it slightly. Hera’s detailed post-collision survey aims to tell us just how efficient the…
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From risk to reward: Mastering the art of adopting emerging technologies
One of the greatest things about working in technology is the surprise advancements that take the industry by storm. Things like: The personal computer The internet The cloud Blockchain The Internet of Things (IoT) Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) One of the worst things about working in technology is the surprise advancements that take the industry…
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CareYaya’s QuikTok is AI phone companion for lonely aging adults
CareYaya Health Technologies has launched QuikTok, an AI phone companion targeted at lonely older adults.Read More
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Q-CTRL raises $59M for quantum computing software
Q-CTRL has raised $113 million for its latest funding round for building quantum computing infrastructure software.Read More
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Vectorize debuts agentic RAG platform for real time enterprise data
Vectorize launches with agentic RAG platform and $3.6M in funding to help enterprises more easily connect to real time data.Read More
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LLaVA-Critic: An Open-Source Large Multimodal Model Designed to Assess Model Performance Across Diverse Multimodal Tasks
The ability of learning to evaluate is increasingly taking on a pivotal role in the development of modern large multimodal models (LMMs). As pre-training on existing web data reaches its limits, researchers are shifting towards post-training with AI-enhanced synthetic data. This transition highlights the growing importance of learning to evaluate in modern LMMs. Reliable AI…
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The 12 Best Wi-Fi Routers, Tested and Reviewed by Experts (2024)
Don’t suffer the buffer. These WIRED-tested systems will deliver reliable internet across your home whatever your needs or budget.
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From Prediction to Reasoning: Evaluating o1’s Impact on LLM Probabilistic Biases
Large language models (LLMs) have gained significant attention in recent years, but understanding their capabilities and limitations remains a challenge. Researchers are trying to develop methodologies to reason about the strengths and weaknesses of AI systems, particularly LLMs. The current approaches often lack a systematic framework for predicting and analyzing these systems’ behaviours. This has…