Microsoft is pioneering a 'training-time provenance' approach to trace the influence of specific data sources on AI-generated content, aiming to ethically compensate contributors of valuable training data used in AI models, in collaboration with technologist Jaron Lanier and his 'data dignity' concept.
Demystifying Reinforcement Learning: A Mathematical Odyssey' offers a comprehensive yet accessible exploration of the mathematical foundations underpinning reinforcement learning, guiding readers through fundamental concepts, algorithms, and techniques spanning value iteration, policy iteration, Monte Carlo methods, temporal-difference learning, value function approximation, policy gradient methods, and actor-critic methods.
git-who, a command-line tool, unveils authorship insights in Git repositories by summarizing contributions, annotating file trees with author information, and displaying commit timelines, offering powerful filtering and configuration options beyond git blame's file-level view.
A bizarre glitch caused the word 'yes' to be replaced with 'forks' in some online surveys, including a Pew Research Center survey in 2024, due to a browser auto-translation error, but Pew ensured data quality by assessing the issue's scale and comparing response patterns.
Introducing 'fd', a powerful and intuitive replacement for the 'find' command, offering parallelized directory traversal, smart case-sensitivity, colored output, and the ability to execute commands on search results, making file searching faster and more efficient.
Reviving contemplative reading, where books are savored as carriers of civilization, and research as leisure, with intentional curiosity and playful exchange of ideas, is proposed as the key to restoring cultural coherence amidst the fragmentation caused by the decline of deep reading and writing.
PwC has signed a groundbreaking deal to become the first enterprise reseller of OpenAI's ChatGPT, integrating the AI technology into its workforce and services, and positioning itself as a leader in AI adoption and scaling for clients.
In a groundbreaking discovery that challenges cosmic evolution models, two teams of astronomers have detected oxygen in JADES-GS-z14-0, the most distant known galaxy, suggesting galaxies formed and matured much faster than expected in the early Universe, with ALMA playing a crucial role.
Perplexity, an AI search startup, proposes an ambitious $30-50 billion bid to acquire TikTok's U.S. operations, rebuild its algorithm transparently and integrate its search capabilities, seeking funding at an $18 billion valuation.
The New York Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI for up to $450 billion, claiming ChatGPT was trained on millions of its copyrighted articles, potentially reshaping AI training and journalism.