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The Download: training robots with gen AI, and the state of climate tech
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. AI-generated images can teach robots how to act Generative AI models can produce images in response to prompts within seconds, and they’ve recently been used for everything from highlighting their own inherent bias…
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ChatGPT is the most searched AI tool by far, but number two is surprising
A new study looks at the AI tools people are searching for. While the expected name is at the top, the rest of the list is less predictable.
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How not to waste 34 hours a month in meetings
None of the participants will ever forget this meeting, that much is certain. The venue was the US Department of Defense, starring a new Secretary of State responsible for procurement, who was to lead her first meeting with suppliers and colleagues from her own company. When she entered the room, she was faced with 60…
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Researchers from UC Berkeley Present UnSAM in Computer Vision: A New Paradigm for Segmentation with Minimal Data, Achieving State-of-the-Art Results Without Human Annotation
Transformer-based Models in Segmentation tasks have initiated a new transformation in the Computer Vision realm. Meta’s Segment Anything Model has proven to be a benchmark due to its robust and exquisite performance. SAM has proven highly successful as supervised segmentation continues to gain popularity in fields such as medicine, defense, and industry. However, it still…
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AI on the mainframe? IBM may be onto something
CIOs have been moving workloads from legacy platforms to the cloud for more than a decade but the rush to AI may breathe new life into an old enterprise friend: the mainframe. At least IBM believes so. Rather than pull away from big iron in the AI era, Big Blue is leaning into it, with…
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STGformer: A Spatiotemporal Graph Transformer Achieving Unmatched Computational Efficiency and Performance in Large-Scale Traffic Forecasting Applications
Traffic forecasting is a fundamental aspect of smart city management, essential for improving transportation planning and resource allocation. With the rapid advancement of deep learning, complex spatiotemporal patterns in traffic data can now be effectively modeled. However, real-world applications present unique challenges due to the large-scale nature of these systems, which typically encompass thousands of…
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License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of Political Lawn Signs and Bumper Stickers
From Trump campaign signs to Planned Parenthood bumper stickers, license plate readers around the US are creating searchable databases that reveal Americans’ political leanings and more.
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Trump Is Getting Out the Vote Online Not IRL
Critics have pointed to the Trump’s quiet ground game as a reason his campaign might be flailing. But online? It’s a whole different story.
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Tres cosas que hay que hacer bien en la gestión de datos para proyectos de IA generativa
Según Kari Briski, vicepresidente de Modelos, Software y Servicios de IA en Nvidia, implementar con éxito la inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa depende de la gestión eficaz de los datos y de evaluar cómo los diferentes modelos trabajan juntos para servir a un caso de uso específico. Mientras que algunas organizaciones de élite como Nvidia utilizan…
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These 15 companies are innovating in climate tech
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. It’s finally here! We’ve just unveiled our 2024 list of 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch. This annual project is one the climate team at MIT Technology Review pours a lot of…