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Ai4 2023: Generative AI Testing Lessons from Hussein Mehanna of Cruise
The recent Ai4 conference featured a talk by Hussein Mehanna of Cruise titled "How Autonomous Vehicles Will Inform and Improve AI Model Testing." Some key takeaways are that systems should handle the "long tail," developers should measure model output quality, and developers should push their systems to fail.
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Inside InfluxDB 3.0: Exploring InfluxDB’s Scalable and Decoupled Architecture
InfluxData recently unveiled the system architecture for InfluxDB 3.0, its newest time-series DB. Its architecture encompasses four major components responsible for data ingestion, querying, compaction, and garbage collection and includes two main storage types. The architecture caters to operating the DB on-premise and natively on major cloud providers.
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New Google Cloud H3 Virtual Machine Series for High-Performance Computing Workloads in Preview
Recently Google launched a new H3 Virtual Machine (VM) Series designed for High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. The series of VMs are available in public preview for Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) users and offers 88 cores (Simultaneous multi-threading disabled) and 352 GB of memory.
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Jupyter AI Brings Generative AI to Notebooks
The open-source Project Jupyter, used by millions for data science and machine learning, has released Jupyter AI, a free tool bringing powerful generative AI capabilities to Jupyter notebooks.
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AI, ML, Data Engineering News Roundup: Jupyter AI, AudioCraft, OverflowAI, StableCode and Tabnine
The latest update, which covers developments until August 7, 2023, highlights significant accomplishments and statements made in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science. This week's major news involved Jupyter, Meta AI, Overflow, Stability AI and Tabnine.
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Ai4 2023 Panel Discussion: Generative AI in Business and Society
The recent Ai4 conference featured a panel discussion titled "Generative AI in Business and Society." Some key takeaways are that generative AI offers many opportunities for operational efficiency and product personalization, that companies need to balance privacy concerns with personalization, and they need to understand how generative AI is used across their organization.
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MySQL Changes Versioning Model, Adds Innovation and LTS Releases
Oracle recently announced a change in the versioning model for MySQL, introducing the MySQL Innovation and Long-Term Supported releases. The first innovation release is MySQL 8.1.0 , which includes InnoDB cluster read replicas.
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The Challenges of AI Product Development
Developing artificial intelligence (AI) products involves creating models and feeding data to train them, testing the models, and deploying them. Software engineers can support the adoption of AI and machine learning (ML) in companies by building an understanding of the technologies, encouraging experimentation, and ensuring compliance with regulations and ethical standards.
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Ai4 2023 Summary Day Two: AI Legal Issues, AI in Education & Deploying AI
Day Two of Ai4 2023 conference was held on August 9th, 2023, at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. This two-day event is organized by Fora Group and includes tracks focused on various industries, including automotive, financial, healthcare, and government. The day began with six mainstage presentations from leaders in AI technology.
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Semantic Kernel LLM Java SDK Now Available, Simplifying GenAI Integration
Microsoft has announced the availability of its Semantic Kernel software development kit (SDK) for Java, designed to mesh Large Language Models (LLMs) with popular programming languages, extending support beyond C# and Python.
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Ai4 2023 Summary Day One: AI-based Filmmaking, AI Responsible Use & Enterprise Adoption
Day One of Ai4 2023 conference was held on August 8th, 2023, at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. This two-day event is organized by Fora Group and includes tracks focused on various industries, including automotive, financial, healthcare, and government. The day began with six mainstage presentations from leaders in AI technology.
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Tabnine Chat: AI Code Assistant Using Natural Language Launches in Beta
Tabnine has recently announced the beta of Tabnine Chat to interact with Tabnine’s AI models using natural language. The chat application works inside the IDE, allows organizations to train on permissive code only, and can run on isolated environment deployment.
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Feature Engineering at AirBnb Using Chronon
To increase productivity and scalability when creating new features to use in machine learning models, AirBnb has built Chronon, a solution to create the infrastructure required to turn raw data into features for training and inference.
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MDN Introduces Web Development AI Help in Beta
Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) has released AI Help, a beta tool aiming to streamline web developers' interactions with the platform and provide problem-solving assistance. Only users with an MDN Plus account can access AI Help for now. So far, the community reaction has not been overly positive, and a number of GitHub issues have been reported.
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Meta Open Sourced AudioCraft, its Text-to-Music Generative AI
Meta has open sourced its text-to-music generative AI, AudioCraft, for researchers and practitioners to train their own models and help advance the state of the art.