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Asteroid hunters say they’ve found 27,500 new prospects in search for space rocks

GeekWire

The weeks-long database search was conducted by the Asteroid Institute , a program of the nonprofit B612 Foundation , in partnership with UW’s DiRAC Institute and Google Cloud. ” THOR runs on a cloud-based, open-source platform known as ADAM (“Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping”).

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Meredith Whittaker wants to keep your digital conversations private

Vox

Lauren Tamaki for Vox Whittaker, the president of Signal, is also asking hard questions about artificial intelligence. In a recent paper , she and her co-authors explained why “open source” AI isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Whittaker’s experience as an internal dissenter stretches back to her time working at Google.

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Meredith Whittaker wants to keep your digital conversations private

Vox

Lauren Tamaki for Vox Whittaker, the CEO of Signal, is also asking hard questions about artificial intelligence. In a recent paper , she and her co-authors explained why “open source” AI isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Whittaker’s experience as an internal dissenter stretches back to her time working at Google.

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Should you build or buy generative AI?

CIO Business Intelligence

Fine-tuning applies to both hosted cloud LLMs and open source LLM models you run yourself, so this level of ‘shaping’ doesn’t commit you to one approach. That will start with using the Copilot features Microsoft is introducing in many products, including in Cloud for Nonprofit. “It

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‘The dark matter is just sitting there’: What’s standing in the way of AI for life sciences

GeekWire

And that gets in the way of taking full advantage of using artificial intelligence technology. A panel of researchers discussed challenges to adopting AI tools in life sciences at the Intelligent Applications Summit hosted by Madrona Venture Group in Seattle last week.

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The West is testing out a lot of shiny new military tech in Ukraine

Vox

As Ukraine turned a corner 10 days ago with a military offensive that retook territory from Russia, former Google CEO billionaire Eric Schmidt was meeting with senior Ukrainian officials. Satellites, drones, artificial intelligence, and cyber capabilities have been central to the war since the first days of Russia’s invasion.

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Silicon Valley’s AI frenzy isn’t just another crypto craze

Vox

Generative AI — or the new artificial intelligence that can create original content, including essays, fine art, and software code — is the talk of the town in Silicon Valley. And open source generative AI firm Stability AI says it has paying clients in the film industry who use its software to autogenerate images.

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