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Zoom knots itself a legal tangle over use of customer data for training AI models

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The recent terms & conditions controversy sequence goes like this: A clause added to Zoom’s legalese back in March 2023 grabbed attention on Monday after a post on Hacker News claimed it allowed the company to use customer data to train AI models “with no opt out” Cue outrage on social media.

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AI-powered building design platform BeamUP emerges from stealth with $15M

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If teams don’t do their due diligence, they risk omitting from design documents important mechanical equipment, like exhaust fans and valves, for example, or failing to size electrical circuits appropriately for loads. They’re also becoming huge carbon hogs, consuming roughly 40% of all energy used on the planet.

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

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A generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) uses causal autoregressive updates to make prediction. Training LLMs requires colossal amount of compute time, which costs millions of dollars. Training LLMs requires colossal amount of compute time, which costs millions of dollars. We’ll outline how we cost-effectively (3.2

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8 big IT failures of 2023

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We’ve gathered eight instances of big tech failures that struck companies and other organizations in 2023. The company used software from two different vendors for the purposes of “interoperability testing, validation and customer proofs of concept, training and customer support.”

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Depressed? This algorithm can tell from the tone of your voice

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Kintsugi is a startup that wants to put technology to work on the problem. Kintsugi is attempting to use technology to build a machine learning model with many more samples than any individual clinician could see in a lifetime. Our neural network model has been trained on tens of thousands of depressed voices. go undiagnosed.

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

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AI is an imperfect technology, but one task at which it excels is identifying patterns in vast amounts of data. by training the platform on historical accounting data and processes from tens of thousands of public companies. Simply put, it’s low-hanging fruit. Hagerup and Roil say that they built the first iteration of Vic.ai

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Daily Crunch: Fairly stagnant since April launch, Coinbase NFT sales volume is under $700K

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The only thing important about that is the “Friday” part – and we are eager and curious to see what this weekend has in store for us, because this week had many of our colleagues using expletives in their reporting, case in point this report by Natasha and Amanda describing all of the tech layoffs we’ve seen this week. Big Tech Inc.