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AI Researchers Issue Warning: Treat AI Risks as Global Priority
Does artificial intelligence represent an existential threat to humanity along the lines of nuclear war and pandemics? A new statement signed by AI scientists and other notable figures says it should be treated as such. Read more…
Six Ways to Bolster Your Data and AI Team In a Down Economy
With persistent inflation threatening to tip the economy into a recession, many companies have taken up defensive positions. While it doesn’t signal the end of big data analytics and AI projects, it may be a sign that Read more…
Beyond the Moat: Powerful Open-Source AI Models Just There for the Taking
ChatGPT and GPT-4 models get all the headlines these days. But if you look around, you’ll find capable open source models you can run yourself, for free, with no restrictions, with excellent performance. A Google resea Read more…
Anaconda Bolsters Data Literacy with Moves Into Education
With 35 million active users, Anaconda is among the most widely used data science software packages in the world. Good luck finding a Python-loving data scientist who is not familiar with it. But now the company behind t Read more…
ChatGPT Brings Ethical AI Questions to the Forefront
Many companies have taken a relatively slow and methodical approach to working through AI ethics and transparency questions up to this point. Without any national regulations to adhere to, there is no hurry, after all. B Read more…
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UC Berkeley Envisions a Data-driven Future with New College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
The University of California at Berkeley has announced it will establish a new college on its campus for the first time in over 50 years. UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society will meet the univ Read more…
AI Experts Aim to Combat Tax Loopholes Costing Billions
A collaborative team of AI and law experts from Johns Hopkins University is working to develop an artificial intelligence system capable of identifying tax loopholes more effectively than tax accountants. The aim is to r Read more…
Analyzing the AI Landscape: Stanford’s 2023 AI Index Offers a Comprehensive View
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has released its 2023 Artificial Intelligence Index which analyzes AI’s impact and progress. The data-driven report is a deep dive into topics rel Read more…
Accenture Report Highlights Tech Trends Merging the Digital and Physical
Accenture’s latest Technology Vision 2023 report contains insights into how key technologies are converging to merge the digital and physical worlds. Though the digital world has grown by leaps and bounds, it has yet t Read more…
Has GPT-4 Ignited the Fuse of Artificial General Intelligence?
Following the release of GPT-4, Microsoft AI researchers have published a paper suggesting that the OpenAI language model demonstrates “sparks” of artificial general intelligence (AGI). GPT-4 is OpenAI’s latest Read more…
This Just In
REDLANDS, Calif., June 2, 2023 — Students across the nation learn about environmental and social concerns every day not just in the classroom, but from the communities in which they live. Read more…
LONDON, May 26, 2023 – Carruthers and Jackson, a leading global data consultancy firm, has announced the final sponsor partners for this year’s Carruthers and Jackson Summer School for Data Leaders. Read more…
May 12, 2023 — As large-scale experiments generate an ever-increasing amount of scientific data, automating research tasks, such as data transfers and analysis, is critical to helping scientists sort through the results to make new discoveries. Read more…
May 9, 2023 — In a new study in Nature Machine Intelligence, researchers Bojian Yin and Sander Bohté from the HBP partner Dutch National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) demonstrate a significant step towards artificial intelligence that can be used in local devices like smartphones and in VR-like applications, while protecting privacy. Read more…
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 5 May 2023 – Today, at the virtual Backdoor Attacks and Defenses in Machine Learning (BANDS) workshop during The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), participants in the IEEE Trojan Removal Competition presented their findings and success rates at effectively and efficiently mitigating the effects of neural trojans while maintaining high performance. Read more…