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WordLlama Released on Hugging Face: An Open Source, Fast, Lightweight (16MB) NLP Toolkit for Tasks like Fuzzy-Deduplication, Similarity and Ranking Optimized for CPUs
The release of WordLlama on Hugging Face marks a pivotal moment in natural language processing (NLP). This advanced language model is designed to offer developers, researchers, and businesses a highly efficient and accessible tool for various NLP applications. Its release is especially timely, given the increasing demand for AI-driven solutions across industries, from automated customer…
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Why virologists are getting increasingly nervous about bird flu
Bird flu has been spreading in dairy cows in the US—and the scale of the spread is likely to be far worse than it looks. In addition, 14 human cases have been reported in the US since March. Both are worrying developments, say virologists, who fear that the country’s meager response to the virus is…
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ChatWithYourDocs Chat App: A Python Application that Allows You to Chat with Multiple Docs Formats like PDF, WEB Pages and YouTube Videos
In today’s digital age, we are inundated with vast amounts of text content from various sources, including news articles, research papers, social media posts, and more. This unstructured text data, such as natural language text, is not organized in a structured format like databases. This makes it challenging to process and analyze using traditional data…
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Seed-Music: A Comprehensive AI Framework for Enhanced Music Generation and Editing with Controlled Artistic Expression and Multi-Modal Inputs
Music generation has evolved significantly, integrating vocal and instrumental tracks into cohesive compositions. Pioneering works like Jukebox demonstrated end-to-end generation of vocal music, matching input lyrics, artist styles, and genres. AI-driven applications now enable on-demand creation using natural language prompts, making music generation more accessible. The field encompasses symbolic domain and audio domain generation, each…
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Online Casino Workers Went on Hunger Strike Over Working Conditions
Protests against online gaming company Evolution have gone to extremes in Europe—and are reverberating in the US.
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The Outrageous Scheme to Capture and Sell Greenland’s Meltwater
A startup says shipping meltwater from Greenland’s glaciers internationally will boost the local economy and could help ease water pressures in arid regions—but what does that actually mean for the world?
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¿Comprenden los consejos de administración su nuevo papel en la ciberseguridad?
Julie Ragland fue CIO de la empresa de fabricación de vehículos Navistar, y ha ocupado puestos de liderazgo de TI en Adient y Johnson Controls. Para Ragland, que también forma parte de varios consejos de administración de agencias estatales y organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro, una de las mayores responsabilidades de los consejos de administración…
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Content Creators in the Adult Industry Want a Say in AI Rules
A group that includes sex workers, sex tech businesses, and sex educators has demanded a seat at the table to shape AI regulations that they say could lead to discrimination against them.
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Is Unchecked Churn Holding Back Your AI Performance? This AI Paper Unveils CHAIN: Improving Deep Reinforcement Learning by Reducing the Chain Effect of Value and Policy Churn
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) faces a critical challenge due to the instability caused by “churn” during training. Churn refers to unpredictable changes in the output of neural networks for states that are not included in the training batch. This problem is particularly troublesome in reinforcement learning (RL) because of its inherently non-stationary nature, where policies…
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Qwen 2.5 Models Released: Featuring Qwen2.5, Qwen2.5-Coder, and Qwen2.5-Math with 72B Parameters and 128K Context Support
The Qwen team from Alibaba has recently made waves in the AI/ML community by releasing their latest series of large language models (LLMs), Qwen2.5. These models have taken the AI landscape by storm, boasting significant capabilities, benchmarks, and scalability upgrades. From 0.5 billion to 72 billion parameters, Qwen2.5 has introduced notable improvements across several key…