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Microsoft’s Copilot AI Gets a Voice, Vision, and a ‘Hype Man’ Persona
Powered by OpenAI’s latest models, Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is becoming a lot more handy—and wants to be an “encouraging” digital coworker.
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Microsoft’s AI Boss Wants Copilot to Bring ‘Emotional Support’ to Windows and Office
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is overseeing an overhaul that gives Copilot an empathetic voice, the ability to see, and more advanced reasoning skills.
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Google Releases FRAMES: A Comprehensive Evaluation Dataset Designed to Test Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Applications on Factuality, Retrieval Accuracy, and Reasoning
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has been a transformative approach in natural language processing, combining retrieval mechanisms with generative models to enhance factual accuracy and reasoning capabilities. RAG systems excel in generating complex responses by leveraging external sources and synthesizing the retrieved information into coherent narratives. Unlike traditional models that rely solely on pre-existing knowledge, RAG systems…
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DataPelago aims to save enterprises significant $$$ with universal data processing
DataPelago has just emerged from stealth but is already claiming to deliver a five-fold reduction in query/job latency while providing significant cost benefits.Read More
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Chromebooks Are Getting a New Button and Google AI Features
Google software updates are coming, plus two new laptops—including Samsung’s first Galaxy Chromebook Plus.
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Happy IEEE Day!
Happy IEEE Day! IEEE Day commemorates the first gathering of IEEE members to share their technical ideas in 1884. First celebrated in 2010, IEEE Day marks its 15th anniversary this year. Worldwide celebrations demonstrate the ways thousands of IEEE members in local communities join together to collaborate on ideas that leverage technology for a better…
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The Download: smart glasses, and tiny AI models
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. The coolest thing about smart glasses is not the AR. It’s the AI. In case you missed the memo, we are barreling toward the next big consumer device category: smart glasses. At its…
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EU taps AI experts to develop compliance framework for AI regulations
The European Commission has appointed a group of AI specialists to outline how businesses should comply with forthcoming AI regulations. The group includes prominent figures like AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, former UK government adviser Nitarshan Rajkumar, and Stanford University fellow Marietje Schaake. They will oversee four working groups, each focusing on different aspects of AI…
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Hurricane Helene Will Send Shockwaves Through the Semiconductor Industry
Downpours at Spruce Pine, North Carolina have taken the biggest known deposit of high-purity quartz offline, leaving the global tech supply chain potentially starved of an ingredient vital for making microchips.
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RanDumb: A Simple Yet Powerful AI Approach to Exemplar-Free Continual Learning
Continual learning is a rapidly evolving area of research that focuses on developing models capable of learning from sequentially arriving data streams, similar to human learning. It addresses the challenges of adapting to new information while retaining previously acquired knowledge. This field is particularly relevant in scenarios where models must perform well on multiple tasks…