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AI – Monday, January 27, 2025: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary The first link today is to an update from The Futurum Group about the advanced semiconductor AI accelerator market. Everything else is about Generative AI. It’s easy to say that GenAI is over-hyped (it is), dominates the…

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Quantum – Wednesday, January 8, 2025: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary So, maybe quantum computing stocks won’t keep going up forever. Recent comments from Jim Cramer and Jensen Huang have taken the shine off the huge recent increases. It appears that each believes Practical Quantum Advantage is many…

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AI – Monday, November 18, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary Large Language Models (LLMs) don’t continuously learn, and David Linthicum covers this ground well in his YouTube video in the Generative AI and Models section. I strongly recommend that you watch it. I think today’s LLM +…

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AI – Monday, October 28, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary Today’s links provide several points of view on topics related to Generative AI. Are open source LLMs (large language models) better than proprietary ones? In fact, is “open source” the right way of making these models available…

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AI, Agents, and Skynet – Tuesday, October 22, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

  Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary Most of the links today concern AI agents, autonomous processes acting in the background on your behalf, or so you think. The comparison to Skynet from the Terminator movies is pretty clear, though no one wants…

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AI – Saturday, October 12, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses Introducing canvas: A new way of working with ChatGPT to write and code | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/introducing-canvas/ (Thursday, October 3, 2024) “We’re introducing canvas, a new interface for working with ChatGPT on writing and coding projects that go…

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AI – Monday, October 7, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses NVLM: Open Frontier-Class Multimodal LLMs – NVIDIA ADLR https://research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/NVLM-1/ Authors: Wenliang Dai; Nayeon Lee; Boxin Wang; Zhuolin Yang; Zihan Liu; Jon Barker; Tuomas Rintamaki; Mohammad Shoeybi; Bryan Catanzaro; and Wei Ping (Tuesday, September 17, 2024) “We introduce…

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AI – Saturday, September 21, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses High-Level Explanations: Agentic AI Deep-Dive https://deepgram.com/learn/agentic-ai-explained Author: Tife Sanusi (Friday, September 13, 2024) “Agentic AI is the next step in AI’s evolution. The new technology is being actively sought after with organizations from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory,…

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AI – Wednesday, September 18, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses Audible to Start Generating AI Voice Replicas of Select Audiobook Narrators – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-09/amazon-s-audible-to-create-ai-voice-replicas-of-select-audiobook-narrators Author: Ashley Carman (Monday, September 9, 2024) “Narrators who opt in will be able to construct their voice replicas for free. Afterward, they…

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AI Chipsets – Monday, September 16, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI Chipsets. General News, Articles, and Analyses Inside Maia 100: Revolutionizing AI Workloads with Microsoft’s Custom AI Accelerator https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-infrastructure-blog/inside-maia-100-revolutionizing-ai-workloads-with-microsoft-s/ba-p/4229118 Author: Sherry Xu (Tuesday, August 27, 2024) “At Hot Chips 2024, Microsoft shared specifications on Maia 100, Microsoft’s first-generation custom AI accelerator designed specifically…

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AI – Friday, September 13, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses Video game actors’ strike: 80 games adopt SAG-AFTRA AI terms, union says – Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-09-05/video-game-actors-strike-sag-aftra-ai-artificial-intelligence Author: Christi Carras (Friday, September 6, 2024) “SAG-AFTRA says 80 video games have agreed to abide by its proposed AI…

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AI – Thursday, September 5, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. The Root Causes of Failure for Artificial Intelligence Projects and How They Can Succeed: Avoiding the Anti-Patterns of AI | RAND https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2680-1.html Authors: Ryseff, James; De Bruhl, Brandon; and Newberry, Sydne J. (Tuesday, August 13, 2024)…

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Coding with and for AI and Quantum Computing – Monday, September 02, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Coding with and for AI and Quantum Computing. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. Software expertise powers up quantum computing – Physics World https://physicsworld.com/a/software-expertise-powers-up-quantum-computing/ (Wednesday, August 21, 2024) “Combining research excellence with a direct connection to the National Quantum Computing Centre, the Quantum…

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AI – Friday, August 30, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. Anthropic publishes the ‘system prompts’ that make Claude tick | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/26/anthropic-publishes-the-system-prompt-that-makes-claude-tick/ Author: Kyle Wiggers (Monday, August 26, 2024) “Anthropic has published the system prompts for Claude, its family of generative AI models. They instruct the…

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