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Frugality meets Accuracy: Cost-efficient training of GPT NeoX and Pythia models with AWS Trainium

AWS Machine Learning - AI

A generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) uses causal autoregressive updates to make prediction. Variety of tasks such as speech recognition, text generation, and question answering are demonstrated to have stupendous performance by these model architectures. We’ll outline how we cost-effectively (3.2 billion in Pythia.

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Vic.ai raises $52M, shows that automating accounting processes can be profitable

TechCrunch

by training the platform on historical accounting data and processes from tens of thousands of public companies. The training data set contained accounting documents and corresponding journal entries that were reviewed by accountants at consultancy firms, including PricewaterhouseCoopers. Hagerup says that Vic.ai

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Accenture to invest $3 billion in AI

CIO

Beyond the raw investment of money, Accenture said that its data and AI practice will double in size, from 40,000 to 80,000, “through a mix of hiring, acquisitions and training.” And Bain and Company announced a similar AI deal with OpenAI in February, with Coca-Cola as the first client. Hiring, IT Consulting Services, Technology Industry

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Performance Appraisals Update

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Impediments of Performance Appraisals. The research on performance appraisal shows that they: Demotivate employees. 70% of content is about the manager, not the employee, and the remainder often does not accurately reflect employee performance because the manager does not really know day to day what happens (the team does).

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Detecting Speech and Music in Audio Content

Netflix Tech

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

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ChatGPT, Author of The Quixote

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

TL;DR LLMs and other GenAI models can reproduce significant chunks of training data. Specific prompts seem to “unlock” training data. Generative AI Has a Plagiarism Problem ChatGPT, for example, doesn’t memorize its training data, per se. This is the basis of The New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI.

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Be Human Lead Human with Dr. Jennifer Nash

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 241: In this podcast episode, Dr. Jennifer Nash discusses the challenge to lead human and prioritize people, while also driving performance. She emphasizes the importance of leaders having the skillset to lead people effectively, as many leaders are trained in functional areas but lack the necessary tools to lead individuals.