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Aug 16, 2023

Why downsizing large language models is the future of generative AI

Posted by in categories: business, economics, robotics/AI

Smaller language models can be based on a billion parameters or less—still pretty large, but much smaller than foundational LLMs like ChatGPT and Bard. They are pre-trained to understand vocabulary and human speech, so the incremental cost to customize them using corporate and industry-specific data is vastly lower. There are several options for these pre-trained LLMs that can be customized internally, including AI21 and Reka, as well as open source LLMs like Alpaca and Vicuna.

Smaller language models aren’t just more cost-efficient, they’re often far more accurate, because instead of training them on all publicly available data—the good and the bad—they are trained and optimized on carefully vetted data that addresses the exact use cases a business cares about.

That doesn’t mean they’re limited to internal corporate data. Smaller language models can incorporate third-party data about the economy, commodities pricing, the weather, or whatever data sets are needed, and combine them with their proprietary data sets. These data sources are widely available from data service providers who ensure the information is current, accurate, and clean.

Aug 16, 2023

Transparent Holographic video glass wall by Glimm

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, computing, holograms

Transparent Holographic video glass wall with 4k resolution.
Glimm has made for one of her clients a transparent video wall called as well holographic video wall indoor with holographic content and video s for indoor location.
The video wall exist of 8 panels of 55 inch TOLED displays which we have combined all together and hide the transformers and graphic cards in a small aluminium frame.
The resolution is 4K and the display is of glass in the glass.
Technology explaining :
TOLED stands for Transparent Organic Light-Emitting Diode. It is a display technology that combines the benefits of both OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) and transparent displays.
In TOLED, each pixel of the display consists of a thin layer of organic materials that emit light when an electric current passes through them. These organic materials are sandwiched between transparent electrodes, typically made of indium tin oxide (ITO), which allow light to pass through.
One of the key advantages of TOLED is its transparency. When the display is not actively emitting light, it appears transparent, allowing users to see through it. This property makes TOLED suitable for applications where transparency is desired, such as in heads-up displays, smart windows, or augmented reality devices or in retail designs, advertisement or create a large TOLED video wall or Hologram 2D 3D.
TOLED also offers the benefits of OLED technology, including high contrast ratios, wide viewing angles, and fast response times. The organic materials used in TOLED displays can emit light directly, eliminating the need for a separate back lighting system, which contributes to their thin and lightweight design.
Besides the Transparent OLED technology we produce as well Transparent LED displays or Transparent LCD displays.
How to combine TOLED displays together?
1. Ensure compatibility: Make sure the Transparent OLED displays you are using are compatible with each other in terms of resolution, interface, and electrical requirements.
2. Physical alignment: Align the displays physically to create a larger display area. This typically involves arranging the displays side by side or in a grid formation. Use appropriate mounting brackets or frames to secure them in place.
3. Connection: Connect the displays together using the necessary cables or connectors. The specific connection method depends on the interface supported by the TOLED displays. Common interfaces include HDMI, Display Port, or other proprietary interfaces.
4. Synchronization: If required, synchronize the displays to ensure coordinated content across all the panels. This may involve configuring the displays through software or hardware synchronization methods. Consult the manufacturer’s instructions or documentation for guidance on synchronization options.
5. Display control: Depending on the setup and software capabilities, you may need to adjust display settings, such as resolution, refresh rate, or color calibration, to optimize the combined TOLED display.
6. Content management: Use appropriate software or programming techniques to distribute and display content across the combined TOLED displays. This could involve treating them as a single large display or as individual screens, depending on your requirements.

By following these steps, you can effectively combine multiple TOLED displays to create a larger and visually cohesive display area.

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Aug 16, 2023

Google’s AI search experience adds AI-powered summaries, definitions and coding improvements

Posted by in categories: economics, internet, robotics/AI

Google today is rolling out a few new updates to its nearly three-month-old Search Generative Experience (SGE), the company’s AI-powered conversational mode in Search, with a goal of helping users better learn and make sense of the information they discover on the web. The features include tools to see definitions of unfamiliar terms, those that help to improve your understanding and coding information across languages, and an interesting feature that lets you tap into the AI power of SGE while you’re browsing.

The company explains that these improvements aim to help people better understand complicated concepts or complex topics, boost their coding skills and more.

One of the new features will let you hover over certain words to preview their definitions and see related images or diagrams related to the topic, which you can then tap on to learn more. This feature will become available across Google’s AI-generated responses to topics or questions related to certain subjects, like STEM, economics, history and others, where you may encounter terms you don’t understand or concepts you want to dive deeper into for a better understanding.

Aug 16, 2023

Drawing Stuff: AI Can Really Cook! How Far Can It Go?

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

We’ve seen a lot about large learning models in general, and a lot of that has been elucidated at this conference, but many of the speakers have great personal takes on how this type of process works, and what it can do!

For example, here we have Yoon Kim talking about statistical objects, and the use of neural networks (transformer-based neural networks in particular) to use next-word prediction in versatile ways. He uses the example of the location of MIT:

“You might have a sentence like: ‘the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private land grant research university’ … and then you train this language model (around it),” he says. “Again, (it takes) a large neural network to predict the next word, which, in this case, is ‘Cambridge.’ And in some sense, to be able to accurately predict the next word, it does require this language model to store knowledge of the world, for example, that must store factoid knowledge, like the fact that MIT is in Cambridge. And it must store … linguistic knowledge. For example, to be able to pick the word ‘Cambridge,’ it must know what the subject, the verb and the object of the preceding or the current sentence is. But these are, in some sense, fancy autocomplete systems.”

Aug 16, 2023

Amazon is making its own chips to offer generative AI on AWS

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The company aims for low-cost, high-throughput chips that allow users to work with its web services on the cloud.

Even as the world looks to Microsoft and Google to reveal the next big thing in the generative artificial intelligence (AI) field, Jeff Bezos-founded Amazon has been silently working to let its customers work directly with the technology. In an unmarked building in Austin, Texas, Amazon engineers are busy developing two types of microchips that will be used to train and run AI models, CNBC

The world took notice of generative AI when OpenAI launched ChatGPT last year. Microsoft, which has partnered with OpenAI previously, was quick to use its association with the company and incorporate the features of the AI model into its existing products.

Aug 16, 2023

Scientists find way to create solar power from common chromium

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, solar power, sustainability

Chromium compounds could soon replace the rare and expensive metals osmium and ruthenium.

Scientists have found a way to make solar panels and phone screens from readily available chromium. This is according to a report.

The article highlights how a major breakthrough sees material “almost as rare as gold” replaced by everyday components, significantly reducing “the price of manufacturing the technology that relies on it.”

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Aug 16, 2023

Scientists engineer cooperation in cancer cells to activate apoptosis mechanisms

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

Scientists at Stanford University have found a way to induce cell death in cancer cells with a method that could be effective in around 50% of cancers. In a paper, “Rewiring cancer drivers to activate apoptosis,” published in Nature, the team describes a new class of molecules called transcriptional/epigenetic CIPs (TCIPs) that can activate apoptosis with the help of cancer growth gene expressions within the cancer cells.

The researchers designed small molecules that bind specific transcriptional suppressors to transcription activators. The most potent molecule created, TCIP1, works by linking that bind BCL6 to those that bind transcriptional activators BRD4.

One of the components that makes cancer cells cancerous is that they ignore signals from surrounding healthy tissues to stop growing and to initiate apoptosis or cell death. The apoptosis pathways still exist but are actively blocked in certain types of cancer where the transcription factor B cell lymphoma 6 (BCL6) binds to the promoters of apoptosis and suppresses their expression through .

Aug 16, 2023

Merging physical and digital tools to build resilient supply chains

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

Organizations are building resilient supply chains with a “phygital” approach, a blend of digital and physical tools. In recent years, the global supply chain has been disrupted due to the covid-19 pandemic, geopolitical volatility, overwhelmed legacy systems, and labor shortages. The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), an industrial advocacy group, warns the disruption isn’t over— NAM’s spring 2023 survey found 90% of respondents saw significant (52.5%) or partial (39%) supply chain disruption during the past two years. Just 0.5% of respondents reported no disruption at all. Digitization presents an opportunity to overcome supply chain disruption by making data flow more efficiently, using technology and data standards to break barriers between disparate systems.

“Phygital merges two worlds together, where standards provide an interoperable system of defined data structures,” says Melanie Nuce-Hilton, senior vice president of innovation and partnerships at GS1 US, a member of GS1, a global not-for-profit supply chain standards organization. “The approach is intended to deliver multiple benefits—improved supply chain visibility for traceability and inventory management, better customer experiences across online and offline interactions, and the potential for better circularity and waste reduction by maintaining linkages between products and their data throughout their lifecycle,” she says.

Aug 16, 2023

Creating the next wave of computing beyond large language models

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Presented by VAST Data

With access to just a sliver of the 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created every day, AI produces what often seem like miracles that human intellect can’t match — identifying cancer on a medical scan, a viable embryo for IVF, new ways of tackling climate change and the opioid crisis and on and on. However, that’s not true intelligence; rather, these AI systems are just designed to link data points and report conclusions, to power increasingly disruptive automation across industries.

While generative AI is trending and GPT models have taken the world by storm with their astonishing capabilities to respond to human prompts, do they truly acquire the ability to perform reasoning tasks that humans find easy to execute? It’s important to understand that the current AI the world is working with has little understanding of the world it exists in, and is unable to build a mental model that goes beyond regurgitating information that is already known.

Aug 16, 2023

Sharp resolution, big samples: ExA-SPIM microscope accelerates brain imaging

Posted by in categories: innovation, neuroscience

An innovative microscopy technique bridges the gap between field of view and resolution.