weekend ai reads for 2024-08-30

In the report, the professor of network and complex systems from the Technical University of Denmark, and co-authors introduce an algorithm known as “life2vec,” which uses select details of an individual’s life — including income, profession, residence and health history — to determine life expectancy with 78% correctness.

To help reduce household food waste, Hellmann’s — best known for their tasty mayonnaise — released a Meal Reveal tool utilising AI to make delicious meals out of the ingredients already in your fridge.

Meet your Tolan: a friendly little alien you can talk to about whatever, and who can even help picture your ideas!

Why don’t they spend the time applying AI to something actually useful?

Their findings show that while LLMs can be very good at finding the rules of a task from solved examples, they are limited in following specific instructions. The findings can have important implications for how we use LLMs in applications that require reasoning.

And while it all moves faster than a human eye can read, it turns out that this blistering speed is just one of what are likely many precursors to the ability to build out networks of models that can satisfy some of the potential dream scenarios for language models.

Swings in product demand are fairly common in food manufacturing because retailers, such as grocery stores, frequently change their order sizes. The hope is that with AI, Kraft Heinz workers can recognize patterns and precisely address these demand fluctuations, boosting sales.

AI-complementary skills: My assessments are designed to evaluate and encourage the development of skills that complement AI capabilities, such as critical thinking and creative problem-solving. Even if students copy and paste texts into Claude, it still struggles to think laterally.

The Mark Cuban Foundation, an organization dedicated to empowering high school students through free bootcamps with an AI-centered curriculum, is proud to announce a new collaboration with Skillsoft’s Codecademy, a leading online learning platform for technology skills.

“Artificial intelligence, when made safe and reliable, represents an exciting opportunity to give our school leaders and teachers a helping hand with classroom life,” Morgan said.

A recent deep qualitative study of teachers found that teachers who used AI for both output (create a worksheet, develop a quiz) and to help with input (help me think through what makes a Great American novel, give me ways to explain positive and negative numbers) get more value than if they use AI for producing output alone.

For individuals, many of these changes free up existing project managers from busy work. This is great for them because it puts them in a position to focus on adding value. This new focus may also in turn lead to working in a more strategic rather than tactical manner, enabling project managers to move into positions of influence within their organizations.

This is going to be a deep dive, so you’ll want to read this on the web. Take your time, if investing in AI matters to you this is not one you’ll want to skip or skim.

GenAI allows us to add new features, and often faster than before. But GenAI has no value without an existing product to apply it to.

The failure of large language models to understand the concepts of letters and syllables is indicative of a larger truth that we often forget: These things don’t have brains. They do not think like we do. They are not human, nor even particularly humanlike.

Overall, Mindtrip — with its polished, dynamic interface that allowed me to cross-check details with maps, links and reviews — was my favorite. While it gave some good recommendations, Mindtrip needed more prompting than Vacay, which offered a wider variety of suggestions in more detail.

Noah Kravitz speaks with Anupam Singh, vice president of AI and growth engineering at Roblox, on how the company is using the technology to enhance virtual experiences with features such as automated chat filters and real-time text translation, which help build inclusivity and user safety.

This summer, I agreed to a literary experiment with Times Opinion: What is the difference between a story written by a human and a story written by artificial intelligence?

The crown jewel of the project, CogVideoX-5B, boasts 5 billion parameters and produces 720×480 resolution videos at 8 frames per second. While these specs may not match the bleeding edge of proprietary systems, CogVideoX’s open-source nature is its true innovation.