Artificial intelligence

21 Sep 23

Developing the Next Generation of AI Assistant

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This sponsored article is brought to you by the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. If you’ve ever learned to cook, you know how daunting even simple tasks can be at first. It’s a delicate dance of ingredients, movement, heat, and techniques that newcomers need endless practice to master. But imagine…

21 Sep 23

SambaNova’s New Chip Means GPTs For Everyone

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Chips and talent are in short supply as companies scrabble to jump on the AI bandwagon. Startup SambaNova claims its new processor could help companies have their own large language model (LLM) up and running in just days. The Palo Alto-based company, which has raised more than $1 billion in…

20 Sep 23

Finding Battery Minerals With AI

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

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18 Sep 23

Nvidia Still on Top in Machine Learning; Intel Chasing

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Large language models like Llama2 and ChatGPT are where much of the action is in AI. But how well do today’s datacenter-class computers execute them? Pretty well, according to the latest set of benchmark results for machine learning, with the best able to summarize more than 100 articles in a…

12 Sep 23

‘World’s most accurate’ startup data platform to identify gaps in AI ecosystem

Computer & Information Technology

Today, the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, along with early-stage VC OpenOcean, released what they call “the world’s most accurate open access startup insights platform” — the O3. The platform is the result of three years of research from Oxford Saïd and 13 years of experience of…

11 Sep 23

Python Profiler Links to AI to Improve Code

Computer & Information Technology

Python continues its dominance as one of the top programming languages, yet it’s notorious for being sluggish, so some software developers resort to profilers—tools that run programs to determine which parts of the code are slow. But profilers can be frustrating, because they can slow programs down during the profiling…

07 Sep 23

The Secret to Nvidia’s AI Success

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Nvidia is riding high at the moment. The company has managed to increase the performance of its chips on AI tasks 1000-fold over the last 10 years, it’s raking in money, and it’s reportedly very hard to get your hands on its newest AI-accelerating GPU, the H100.How did Nvidia get…

06 Sep 23

Watch Out, That Hill Might Collapse!

Aerospace & Aeronautical

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Neural networks designed to analyze medical images may help predict where landslides are most likely to occur, a new study finds.Globally, landslides cause thousands of deaths and many billion dollars of damage each year,…

26 Aug 23

Why Today’s Chatbots Are Weird, Argumentative, and Wrong

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Long before most people began playing around with generative AI models like ChatGPT and DALL-E, Janelle Shane started documenting AI oddities. An optics researcher by training, she’s also held a long fascination in testing AIs’ ability to be, well, normal. With more and more people testing AI limits than ever…

26 Aug 23

This AI Can Tell What You’re Typing Based on the Sound

Computer & Information Technology

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. The messages you type can be decoded from the mere sound of your fingers tapping on the keys, according to a recent paper by researchers at Durham and Surrey Universities and the University of…