—Anthony Albanese, Australia’s prime minister, explains the rationale behind his government’s plans to restrict social media access for teenagers and children, the Financial Times reports. The big story A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end…
Understanding multi-page documents and news videos is a common task in human daily life. To tackle such scenarios, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) should be equipped with the ability to understand multiple images with rich visually-situated text information. However, comprehending…
More companies are building with Speech AI than ever before, thanks to the increased accuracy, speed, and availability of Speech AI models. Companies across industries are integrating Speech AI to build next-generation meeting note-takers, digital advertising tools, conversation intelligence tools,…
Please spare a thought for artificial intelligence (AI). It may not have feelings yet but, if it did, it would feel devastated by all the nasty things people are saying about it. All it’s trying to do is take our…
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Some libraries have turned to another solution: controlled digital lending, or CDL, a process by which a library scans the physical books it already has in its collection, makes secure digital copies, and lends those out on a one-to-one “owned…
As befits a writer whose breakout work, Sapiens, was a history of the entire human race, Yuval Noah Harari is a master of the sententious generalisation. “Human life,” he writes here, “is a balancing act between endeavouring to improve ourselves and accepting…
Recently, researchers from the School of Computer Science & Technology, Soochow University, released a research paper titled ‘MemLong: Memory-Augmented Retrieval for Long Text Modeling’, where they successfully extended an LLM’s context window from 2k to 80k tokens on two-year-old desktop-grade…
FLUX.1 is all the rage these days, and for good reason. It’s a fast, powerful image generation model that’s easy to use and fine-tune, and it generates stunning images. Last week we brought you a guide to fine-tuning Flux with…
The first chapter of the AI snake oil book is now available online. It is 30 pages long and summarizes the book’s main arguments. If you start reading now, you won’t have to wait long for the rest of the…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A self-driving taxi has no passengers, so it parks itself in a lot to reduce congestion and air pollution. After being hailed, the taxi heads out to pick up its passenger—and tragically strikes a pedestrian in…
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), a technique that enhances the efficiency of large language models (LLMs) in handling extensive amounts of text, is critical in natural language processing, particularly in applications such as question-answering, where maintaining the context of information is crucial…