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How Do Gen AI systems Learn? Researchers Have a Magic Tool to Understand AI – Harry Potter
27Dec By adminNo Comments
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How Do Gen AI systems Learn? Researchers Have a Magic Tool to Understand AI – Harry Potter

[ad_1]  More than two decades after J.K. Rowling introduced the world to a universe of magical creatures, forbidden forests and a teenage wizard, Harry Potter is finding renewed relevance in a very different body of literature: AI research. A growing number of researchers are using the best-selling Harry Potter books to experiment with generative artificial intelligence technology, citing the series' enduring influence in popular culture and the wide range of language data and complex wordplay within its pages.  Reviewing a list of studies and academic papers referencing Harry Potter offers a snapshot into cutting-edge AI research — and some of the thorniest questions facing the technology.  In perhaps the most notable recent example, Harry, Hermione and Ron star in a paper titled “Who'...
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How Amazon Is Going After Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Ambitions
17Nov By adminNo Comments
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How Amazon Is Going After Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Ambitions

[ad_1] Amazon is the driving force behind a trio of advocacy groups working to thwart Microsoft's growing ambition to become a major cloud computing contractor for governments, a Bloomberg analysis shows. The groups — the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE), the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing and the Alliance for Digital Innovation — want to convince policymakers that Microsoft has improperly locked customers into Azure, its cloud computing service, choking off its rivals and hindering the advancement of technology within the government and beyond. These groups have dozens of members. But Amazon is the biggest funder for two of them and the largest company, measured by revenue, that funds another. Spokespeople for the groups say no single company determine...
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Microsoft launches AI text-to-speech avatar at Ignite 2023
16Nov By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft launches AI text-to-speech avatar at Ignite 2023

[ad_1] In the last few months, Microsoft has embarked on a mission to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) in its suite of products, ranging from consumer-focused Microsoft Office to Copilot 365 for businesses. At its latest Ignite 2023 conference, the technology giant announced several new AI-based products such as Copilot Studio, and Windows AI Studio, while also renaming Bing Chat to simply Copilot. The company also launched a text-to-speech avatar program called Azure AI Speech which can help create talking avatar videos. It is being rolled out in the public preview. Know all about this new feature. Microsoft Azure AI SpeechThe Azure AI Speech is a text-to-speech avatar that allows you to convert text into a 2D video of a human-like speaking avatar. Microsoft says the Neural tex...
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Microsoft AI researchers accidentally leaked 38TB data online; Includes passwords, secret keys, more
19Sep By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft AI researchers accidentally leaked 38TB data online; Includes passwords, secret keys, more

[ad_1] Cybersecurity is a big concern in 2023 for both individuals and enterprises, and it seems even big technology companies aren't safe from the prying eyes of hackers and cybercriminals. In a shocking development, almost 38TB of data was leaked online, albeit accidentally. While companies these days have several data protection policies and safeguards against data leaks from external threat actors in place, this data leak allegedly involved Microsoft employees. Here's what happened.In a blog post, Microsoft announced that researchers at cloud security firm Wiz discovered that Microsoft's AI division researchers accidentally leaked 38TB of data while contributing to a GitHub repository involving the development of open-source AI models. Microsoft has emphasized that no customer data ...
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Microsoft to discontinue Azure Kinect DK; know how you can still get it
22Aug By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft to discontinue Azure Kinect DK; know how you can still get it

[ad_1] For those who are using the Microsoft Azure Kinect developer kit, there is bad news. Microsoft is discontinuing it. Microsoft Kinect was first released in 2010 and after 7 years of launch, Microsoft stopped manufacturing depth the camera and microphone before resuming it again.Discontinuing Azure Kinect DKAfter discontinuing Kinect in 2017, Microsoft relaunched it in 2019. It is a connected depth camera that allowed enterprises to manufacture AI vision solutions. It came with a depth sensor, high definition 4K camera, and an array of 7 microphones. According to a blog post by Microsoft, they will be discontinuing Azure Kinect later this year. The blog post informed that users can continue to use their developer kit without any disruption. However, if you ever wanted to have a Kin...
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Microsoft’s Azure Slowdown Offsets Optimism About AI Growth
27Jul By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft’s Azure Slowdown Offsets Optimism About AI Growth

[ad_1] Microsoft Corp. posted tepid quarterly sales growth and forecast a continued slowdown in its Azure cloud-services business, overshadowing optimism about customer interest in new artificial intelligence-powered products. Shares were down about 3% Wednesday morning in New York.While overall results in the period ended June 30 topped analysts' projections, Azure revenue growth slipped to 27%, excluding currency impacts, from 31% in the previous quarter. The world's largest software maker projected that Azure gains would slow further in the current quarter, and said it would boost spending to expand data centers for new cloud services — while expecting only a gradual increase in AI revenue. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella has unveiled an array of new AI programs — based on mode...
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5 things you should know about Meta’s ChatGPT-rival, AI platform LLaMA
19Jul By adminNo Comments
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5 things you should know about Meta’s ChatGPT-rival, AI platform LLaMA

[ad_1] Facebook's parent company Meta might have been late to the AI party, but it has still managed to make a grand entry. Yesterday night, the company announced that its large language platform LLaMA will be made open-source and entirely free for research and commercial purposes, taking a similar approach to OpenAI's ChatGPT. The move was announced during Microsoft's Inspire event, where Meta also revealed its partnership with Microsoft, and extended its support for products such as Azure and Windows. And these are the 5 important things you should know about Meta's AI platform.1. What is LLaMA?In February, Meta announced its LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) platform, a large language model built on 65 billion parameters. At the time of its announcement, Meta revealed that the pla...
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AI appreciation day: 5 major moments involving AI in 2023
16Jul By adminNo Comments
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AI appreciation day: 5 major moments involving AI in 2023

[ad_1] The field of artificial intelligence has been in existence since 1956 when the science was officially recognized. Throughout the decades, we have progressively seen its usage in machine learning, analytics, big data, deep learning methods, and eventually in large language models. While many of us grew familiar with AI through the rise of generative AI, we have been using it every time we Google something, use a modern smartphone, or go to a social media platform. However, it cannot be denied that in 2023, AI has seen a massive surge in technological breakthroughs virtually entering every facet of our lives. On this AI appreciation day, we take a look at 5 times when AI dominated the headlines in 2023. OpenAI launches GPT-4OpenAI won the AI race in 2022 after releasing the one-of-...
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Have a home in any cricket centre? List it on MakeMyTrip; big surge seen in homestays
6Jul By adminNo Comments
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Have a home in any cricket centre? List it on MakeMyTrip; big surge seen in homestays

[ad_1] For Indians, cricket is not just a game but a deep-rooted passion that can be seen whenever the Men in Blue play or for that matter when IPL tournament takes place. Whenever given the opportunity, die-hard cricket fans travel to far-away states and even countries to watch their favourite cricketers and teams play. With ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 being held in India this year, the excitement has elevated to a new level. Not just fans, even businesses look to take advantage in all possible ways. And now, MakeMyTrip is planning to capitalize on this by increasing the inventory of homestay properties that it has across select cities to match the demand of the upcoming cricket season that is expected to bring loads of fans to these places.Demands of the cricket seasonParikshit C...
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Microsoft Build 2023: Day 2 features sessions across AI copilot, Microsoft Azure, more
24May By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft Build 2023: Day 2 features sessions across AI copilot, Microsoft Azure, more

[ad_1] The Microsoft Build 2023 opened with a band when CEO and Chairman Satya Nadella took the stage for the opening keynote session and announced that Microsoft is taking a big step towards copilots. Copilots are essentially the AI-powered assistive chatbot technology that Microsoft has built for its platforms through a collaboration with OpenAI. Nadella announced that the copilots will now enter various Microsoft offerings including Edge, Windows 11, and Microsoft 365 as well as a copilot stack that will enable developers to make apps and plugins for the Microsoft platform. And that was just the keynote session. Now we are arriving on Day 2, and the fixtures continue to get more insightful and interesting.On day 2 of the developer conference, Microsoft is featuring a number of live s...
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