News by Dmytro Spodarets
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AI Asserting on Different Topics at Oxford Union Debate
The experiment was created to start a discussion about the ethics of the AI technology. The AI said that the only way to stop such thing becoming too authoritative is not to have AI at all. The Megatron LLB Transformer was created by the Applied Deep Research team at a computer chip firm Nvidia and based on earlier work by Google. The project itself was developed by post-graduate students studying Artificial Intelligence for Business at Oxford's [https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59687236] S
Jan 20, 2022
Benefits from Pathogenic Fungi in the Root Mycobiome
Perplexing microbial [https://phys.org/news/2021-12-differentiating-friends-foes-fungal-root.html] communities inhabit plants and inflect their development. Exclusively, roots host an expanded diversity of micro-organisms along with bacteria and fungi that straightforward affect plant health. It is a publication in Nature Communications, where Fantin Mesny and co-authors contribute novel insights into how these fungi conquer roots, why a lot of them are possibly harmful and what comprehends be
Jan 18, 2022
Sparse Data Foreseeing Laboratory Quakes
A special machine-learning concept created for sparse data reliably predicts fault slip in laboratory earthquakes [https://phys.org/news/2021-12-sparse-lab-quakes.html]. This can be essential for predicting fault slip and potentially earthquakes in the industry. The recent study by a Los Alamos National Laboratory team has evolved on their previous success using data-driven approaches that worked for slow-slip events in Earth but came up small on large-scale stick-slip faults that generated rel
Jan 14, 2022
Use of AI-generated Characters for Different Fields
To boost the potential of the technology, the researchers at MIT Media Lab and their colleagues at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Osaka University have built an open-source, convenient character generation pipeline [https://news.mit.edu/2021/ai-generated-characters-for-good-1216] that integrates AI models for facial gestures, voice, and motion. It can be used to create a variety of audio and video outputs. The pipeline also connects the resulting production to a traceable, co
Jan 13, 2022
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Jan 12, 2022
Bean Machine for AI Uncertainty by Meta
Meta (meaning Facebook) made an announcement of Bean Machine [https://research.facebook.com/blog/2021/12/introducing-bean-machine-a-probabilistic-programming-platform-built-on-pytorch/] . It is a probabilistic programming system that, formally, makes it easier to perform and learn about confusions in AI models. Bean Machine can be used to discover unobserved properties of a model via automatic, “uncertainty-aware” learning algorithms. Probabilistic modeling, the kind of the AI technique that Be
Jan 12, 2022
Finetuning of GPT-3 Is Now Officially Allowed, says OpenAI
OpenAI has announced that its customers now have the opportunity to create custom versions of GPT-3 [https://venturebeat.com/2021/12/14/openai-begins-allowing-customers-to-fine-tune-gpt-3/] , a model that can generate human-like text and code. The new GPT-3 fine-tuning capability enables customers to train GPT-3, to identify definitive patterns for tasks and workloads like content generation, classification, and text summarization in particular domains. The fine-tuned models demonstrate 2x acc
Dec 30, 2021
France Forces Clearview AI to Eliminate the Data
Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that has accumulated a huge database of almost 10 billion images by collecting selfies off the Internet so it had the opportunity to sell its identity-matching services to law administration, has been commanded with another order to delete people’s data. Franch CNIL found that Clearview [https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/16/clearview-gdpr-breaches-france/] doesn’t have an established base in Europe, and it is accessible for regulatory actions that transve
Dec 28, 2021
How ML and AI Work in the Travel Industry?
Since AI has started growing in various industries, large companies have been successfully implementing AI to improve customer experience in travel industry [https://insidebigdata.com/2021/12/11/ai-and-machine-learning-in-the-travel-industry-how-to-do-it-right/] as well. Hotel chain “Hyatt” has recently unveiled their new Intelligent Virtual Assistant. As reported, it allowed the company to save $4.4 million on customer care without sacrificing the quality of service its customers expected. I
Dec 27, 2021
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
This is most magical period of the year. So, even if you are a hardcore science guy, let’s give each other a chance to believe in something special! Data Phoenix team wishes you health, peace, love, and joy this holiday season and throughout 2022. We appreciate every single one of you and we hope that in 2022 we would expand our family of data enthusiasts even more.
Dec 24, 2021
MLCommons presents free datasets for speech recognition
MLCommons [https://mlcommons.org], an organization that aims to build free, open-source AI development tools and resources, has just released the People’s Speech Dataset [https://mlcommons.org/en/peoples-speech/] and the Multilingual Spoken Words Corpus [https://mlcommons.org/en/multilingual-spoken-words/]. This is huge, given the amount of work the team had to do to put it together. According to the MLCommons team, the People’s Speech Dataset is one of the world’s most complex English speech d
Dec 17, 2021
Accurate AI prediction even with a small number of experiments
NIMS, Asahi Kasei, Mitsubishi Chemical, Mitsui Chemicals and Sumitomo Chemical report [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/27660400.2021.1963641] to have used the chemical materials open platform framework to develop a new AI technique that increases the accuracy of ML-based predictions of material properties by using material structural data from only a small number of experiments. This technique is likely to expedite the development of various materials, including polymers. The AI t
Dec 16, 2021