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Latest story• Jan 13, 2025

Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way.

A recent study contests Noam Chomsky's assertion that language models learn "impossible" languages as easily as real ones. Researchers created 12 impossible languages by modifying English text and found modern language models struggled more with these than regular English. The study, awarded at a linguistics conference, suggests language models could aid in understanding human language acquisition. This research...

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The Rise Of Large Database Models

Large database models (LDMs) are emerging as a new AI technology that analyzes enterprise data to uncover meaning within databases. LDMs enable semantic queries, allowing users to search for similar records or patterns without...

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Adobe's new bulk AI image tool can edit thousands of images in seconds

Adobe's Firefly GenAI suite now includes Bulk Create, allowing companies to edit thousands of images simultaneously for advertising campaigns. The feature automates tasks like background removal and resizing, aiming to streamline...

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Adobe’s new AI tool can edit 10,000 images in one click

Adobe is launching AI tools to streamline image and video editing. "Firefly Bulk Create" enables mass image resizing and background removal. Other features include automated video translation and lip-syncing, avatar creation, and...

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Evil Models and Exploits: When AI Becomes the Attacker

AI is revolutionizing cybersecurity, offering new tools for both defense and attack. Four key developments include agent-augmented hacking, Model Context Protocol, malicious AI models, and privacy risks from data regurgitation,...

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Meet Gordon: An AI Agent for Docker

Docker introduced Gordon, an AI agent integrated into Docker Desktop and CLI. Gordon assists with Docker-related tasks, offering optimized Dockerfiles, debugging help, and answers to Docker questions. Currently in beta, Gordon...

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Running LLMs on the Nintendo Switch

A Nintendo Switch can now run basic AI language models after extensive hacking and modifications. By installing a custom Linux distribution and backporting old software, the Switch's Nvidia Tegra X1 chip can process AI models at...

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How Gradient-Free Training Could Decentralize AI

Large language models are becoming more efficient through quantization and distillation, allowing them to run on low-power devices. This trend is widening the gap between resource-intensive training and lightweight inference,...

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SemHash – Fast Semantic Text Deduplication for Cleaner Datasets

SemHash is a tool for deduplicating datasets using semantic similarity, combining fast embedding generation and efficient similarity search. It offers single and multi-dataset deduplication, supports complex datasets like QA, and...

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AI founders will learn The Bitter Lesson

AI product development is repeating past mistakes in AI research. General, less constrained approaches consistently outperform specialized solutions as models improve. Current AI products often use vertical workflows and specific...

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It is now possible to generate 16 Megapixel (4096x4096) raw images with SANA 4K model using under 8GB VRAM and more

A major update to an AI image generation app introduces significant VRAM optimizations using Diffusers Pipeline. Users can now generate 4K images on 8GB GPUs, 2K on 6GB GPUs, and 1K on 4GB GPUs when enabling all four new...

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Prompting Your Way Around Those Frustrating Fallback Responses In Generative AI

Generative AI apps often use fallback responses to avoid answering certain prompts. These non-response responses can occur due to lack of relevant information or to sidestep controversial topics. Users can try rephrasing...

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It’s getting harder to measure just how good AI is getting

AI capabilities are advancing rapidly, with new models demonstrating impressive performance on complex tasks. Traditional benchmarks are becoming saturated as systems surpass human-level expertise in many areas. Progress now...

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Best Practices For Using AI To Develop Images

AI is transforming image creation for marketers, offering new opportunities and challenges. Getty Images' Chief Product Officer advises using commercially safe AI tools, ensuring transparency, and balancing AI-generated content...

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WhatsApp will soon let you create personalized AI chatbots

WhatsApp is developing a feature allowing users to create personalized AI chatbots within the app. Users will be able to define their chatbot's attributes, functions, and roles, with the option to focus on productivity,...

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Phrasly Review: Can It Really Make AI Content Sound Human?

Phrasly is an AI writing assistant that transforms AI-generated content into human-like text and helps bypass AI detection systems. It offers three main features: AI Humanizer, AI Detector, and AI Content Generator, with...

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Apple Intelligence isn’t helping Apple boost iPhone sales, says analyst

Apple's AI tools, dubbed Apple Intelligence, haven't substantially increased iPhone sales despite requiring newer hardware. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo notes that most iPhone owners aren't upgrading solely for AI features. Apple's...

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Experimental Setup For Large Language Model Video Generation

Google researchers have developed a new AI model for video tasks, trained on 1 billion image-text pairs and 270 million videos. It can perform text-to-video generation, frame prediction, inpainting, and outpainting without...

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161 years ago, a New Zealand sheep farmer predicted AI doom

Samuel Butler's 1863 letter predicted key artificial intelligence concerns, including machine consciousness and self-replication. His ideas influenced later science fiction and continue to resonate in modern AI debates, despite...

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Nvidia Nemotron Models Aim to Accelerate AI Agent Development

Nvidia introduces Llama Nemotron language models and Cosmos Nemotron vision models, optimized for AI agent workflows like customer support and fraud detection. The models come in Nano, Super, and Ultra sizes to suit different...

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Microsoft is apparently handing out big bonuses to prevent poaching of AI talent

Microsoft is intensifying efforts to retain key AI employees through retention bonuses and special compensation packages. Managers must now justify an employee's critical AI contributions and assess risks to AI projects if they...

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Researchers open source Sky-T1, a ‘reasoning’ AI model that can be trained for less than $450

Researchers at UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab released Sky-T1-32B-Preview, an open-source AI reasoning model trained for under $450. It competes with earlier OpenAI o1 versions on key benchmarks, outperforming it on some math...

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AI firms are buying unused YouTube footage to train LLMs

AI companies are purchasing exclusive, unused video content from digital creators to train their algorithms. This emerging trend offers creators a new revenue stream, with companies like OpenAI and Alphabet paying up to $4 per...

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Getting Started With CodeGate, an Intermediary for LLM Devs

CodeGate is an open-source security solution acting as an intermediary between developers and AI coding assistants. It encrypts sensitive information in prompts, protects privacy, and augments AI knowledge with current risk...

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