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Should we make our most powerful AI models open source to all?

Vox

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Meta has been a leader in making AI open source. The AI cybersecurity researcher Jeffrey Ladish told me that his nonprofit, Palisade Research, has tested how difficult this workaround is as part of efforts to better understand risks from AI systems. That’s the good news.

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Tech-savvy dad launches open-source platform to save children with rare diseases – including his son

GeekWire

APRIL 2, 2021

As his son is now approaching his third birthday, Ramesh is working with researchers in pursuit of a gene therapy to correct Raghav’s rare condition, and he is spearheading a first-of-its-kind effort to help others do the same. Researchers estimate there are more than 6,000 different rare diseases. Click to enlarge.).

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Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model

Vox

JULY 28, 2023

But more importantly, its open source nature adds new urgency to an important ethical debate over who should control AI — and whether it can be made safe. Zuckerberg also made the case for why it’s better for leading AI models to be “open source,” which means making the technology’s underlying code largely available for anyone to use.

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OpenAI can translate English into code with its new machine learning software Codex

The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

AI research company OpenAI is releasing a new machine learning tool that translates the English language into code. The software is called Codex and is designed to speed up the work of professional programmers, as well as help amateurs get started coding. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. It’s most proficient, though, in Python.

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CDH Users: If you have done impactful things with data please share how what and why

CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. Research VP, Gartner. Merv Adrian is a Research Vice President following RDBMS, NoSQL, Hadoop and other big data technologies as digital business transforms assumptions about how to activate and leverage unused information assets. Principal Analyst, Software – Enterprise Solutions, Ovum.

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Which Government, Non-Profit and NGO Have Big Data/CDH Lessons Learned To Share?

CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. Research VP, Gartner. Merv Adrian is a Research Vice President following RDBMS, NoSQL, Hadoop and other big data technologies as digital business transforms assumptions about how to activate and leverage unused information assets. Principal Analyst, Software – Enterprise Solutions, Ovum.

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Allen Institute hits 20 years on the frontier of bioscience, and Seattle will be all aglow

GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

(GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Twenty years after Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen created the bioscience research center that bears his name, Seattle’s Allen Institute is still pushing out into new frontiers. But this weekend, the nonprofit institute — and its hometown — are taking a little time to celebrate.

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Top 3 Cyber Predictions in 2023 and How You Can Prepare

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 17, 2023

Compounding the problem is how software for cars is made. For example, in 2021 researchers showed how to hack a Tesla using a drone. A typical car is a mix of open source, OEM, and custom code. The new generation of software security tools work differently and forgo the scanning approach all together.

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

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From left: Cyrus Biotechnology CEO Lucas Nivon, Microsoft researcher Jonathan Carlson, Deepcell CEO Maddison Masaeli, and moderator Chris Picardo, a Madrona venture partner. ” Protein rings hallucinated by AI-powered software from the UW’s Institute for Protein Design. GeekWire Photo / Charlotte Schubert).

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The Data Impact Awards: This is the “academy awards” of data solutions

CTOvision

OCTOBER 16, 2014

The awards honor innovative, mature, and results-oriented use cases for CDH, the world’s most popular open source Hadoop-based distribution and key component of the Cloudera Enterprise platform. Government, Nonprofit, & NGO. ? Merv Adrian, Research Vice President, Gartner. ? Arizona State University. ?

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Seattle mayor expands tech tool built with Google to streamline benefit program application process

GeekWire

JULY 12, 2023

The City received pro-bono support from the Google.org Fellowship program , a part of Google’s philanthropic arm that provides technical expertise to help nonprofits and civic entities solve technical challenges. Smart Cities Connect named CiviForm one the 50 most transformative smart projects of 2023.

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Should you build or buy generative AI?

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 14, 2023

As a ‘taker,’ you consume generative AI through either an API, like ChatGPT, or through another application, like GitHub Copilot, for software acceleration when you do coding,” he says. 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.

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Why it matters that IBM is getting out of the facial recognition business

Vox

JUNE 10, 2020

Researchers have for years warned about the problems with facial recognition. Activists and researchers have sounded the alarm for years about facial recognition technology’s myriad problems, including its racial and gender biases and privacy risks. Lluis Gene / AFP via Getty Images. Now Big Blue is ditching the tech.

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How this tech engineer is using his son’s rare disease as inspiration to disrupt drug development

GeekWire

MAY 12, 2021

Ramesh, who works for Amazon as a software engineering manager, was so excited to welcome his little boy. RELATED: Tech-savvy dad launches open-source platform to save children with rare diseases – including his son. Researchers estimate there are more than 6,000 different rare diseases, including the one that afflicts Raghav.

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Facebook’s war against one of the internet’s worst conspiracy sites

Vox

JUNE 25, 2020

It’s through some of these domains that Natural News content can still end up being shared on Facebook, the researchers found. Meanwhile, researchers at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue say that it flagged several pages and groups that have frequently shared Natural News content to Facebook, but those pages and groups remain up.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

Karuri-Sebina also serves as a director for the Southern Africa node of the Millennium Project and an associate of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation. Njonjo works as Lead Consultant for LongView Consult , a socio-economic research and policy analysis firm that she founded in 2014. Twitter: @geci. Twitter: @raya_bid.

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The exciting new AI transforming search — and maybe everything — explained

Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

And the open-source model Stable Diffusion can generate detailed and specific images in all kinds of styles from text prompts. It can help developers make software. This is a demonstration of its abilities as well as a source of even more data for OpenAI’s models to learn from. Design platform Canva has one , too.

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

Vox

MARCH 6, 2023

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. billion into 110 deals toward generative AI startups — a record high for investment in the field, according to a recent report from business research firm CB Insights.

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Should we make our most powerful AI models open source to all?

Tech-savvy dad launches open-source platform to save children with rare diseases – including his son

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Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model

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OpenAI can translate English into code with its new machine learning software Codex

CDH Users: If you have done impactful things with data please share how what and why

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Allen Institute hits 20 years on the frontier of bioscience, and Seattle will be all aglow

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The Data Impact Awards: This is the “academy awards” of data solutions

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Facebook’s war against one of the internet’s worst conspiracy sites

List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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