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  • OpenAI Researcher Behind GPT-4.5 Forced to Leave US After Green Card Denial

    OpenAI Researcher Behind GPT-4.5 Forced to Leave US After Green Card Denial An OpenAI researcher was forced to leave the U.S. due to President Trump’s immigration policies—a move one colleague called “nuts.” Jose Antonio Lanz Go to decrypt.co

  • A Step-By-Step Guide To Powering Your Application With LLMs

    A Step-By-Step Guide To Powering Your Application With LLMs You might be wondering whether GenAI is just hype or external noise. I also thought this was hype, and I could sit this one out until the dust cleared. Oh, boy, was I wrong. GenAI has real-world applications. It also generates revenue for companies, so we expect…

  • LLM Evaluations: from Prototype to Production

    LLM Evaluations: from Prototype to Production Evaluation is the cornerstone of any machine learning product. Investing in quality measurement delivers significant returns. Let’s explore the potential business benefits. As management consultant and writer Peter Drucker once said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” Building a robust evaluation system helps you identify areas…

  • Did AI Just Give a Wild Preview of What the Future of Humanity Will Look Like?

    Did AI Just Give a Wild Preview of What the Future of Humanity Will Look Like? An X post went viral, showing a message by ChatGPT in weird symbols predicting how humans would live their lives in the future. Was it fake? Jose Antonio Lanz Go to decrypt.co

  • How to Benchmark DeepSeek-R1 Distilled Models on GPQA Using Ollama and OpenAI’s simple-evals

    How to Benchmark DeepSeek-R1 Distilled Models on GPQA Using Ollama and OpenAI’s simple-evals The recent launch of the DeepSeek-R1 model sent ripples across the global AI community. It delivered breakthroughs on par with the reasoning models from Meta and OpenAI, achieving this in a fraction of the time and at a significantly lower cost. Beyond…

  • An Existential Crisis of a Veteran Researcher in the Age of Generative AI

    An Existential Crisis of a Veteran Researcher in the Age of Generative AI I was a researcher fifteen years ago. A PhD candidate doing Research for long days. I was swamped with many articles, annotations, emails, bookmarks, etc. When I found a citation manager tool, Mendeley, I felt so relaxed. It was like I had…

  • STAT+: What’s an AI scaling law? We’ve found biology’s, says Profluent

    STAT+: What’s an AI scaling law? We’ve found biology’s, says Profluent You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s AI Prognosis newsletter, our subscriber-exclusive guide to artificial intelligence in health care and medicine. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Wednesday.  We’re going to dive into a wonky one today. As Ms. Frizzle would say,…

  • Enterprise AI: From Build-or-Buy to Partner-and-Grow

    Enterprise AI: From Build-or-Buy to Partner-and-Grow Not long ago, a cooperation partner casually approached me with an AI use case at their organization. They wanted to make their onboarding process for new staff more efficient by using AI to answer the repetitive questions of newcomers. I suggested a practical chat approach that would integrate their…

  • AI Agents Processing Time Series and Large Dataframes

    AI Agents Processing Time Series and Large Dataframes Intro Agents are AI systems, powered by LLMs, that can reason about their objectives and take actions to achieve a final goal. They are designed not just to respond to queries, but to orchestrate a sequence of operations, including processing data (i.e. dataframes and time series). This…

  • Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) — An Introduction

    Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) — An Introduction The model hallucinated! It was giving me OK answers and then it just started hallucinating. We’ve all heard or experienced it. Natural Language Generation models can sometimes hallucinate, i.e., they start generating text that is not quite accurate for the prompt provided. In layman’s terms, they start making…

  • Relax, You’re Still Better at Playing ‘Doom’ Than AI

    Relax, You’re Still Better at Playing ‘Doom’ Than AI ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini can do quite a bit—but they still struggle to play video games, including the classic shooter Doom. Jason Nelson Go to decrypt.co

  • Kling 2.0 Review: State of the Art AI Video Quality

    Kling 2.0 Review: State of the Art AI Video Quality The latest version of the Kling AI video generator has plenty of improvements in motion, camera control, and coherence. Jose Antonio Lanz Go to decrypt.co

  • The $89 OmiGPT Aims to Be a Smarter AI Wearable

    The $89 OmiGPT Aims to Be a Smarter AI Wearable Unlike Rabbit and Humane, OmiGPT is holding off on its AI wearable device’s consumer launch to prove real-world value first. Jason Nelson Go to decrypt.co

  • Load-Testing LLMs Using LLMPerf

    Load-Testing LLMs Using LLMPerf Deploying your Large Language Model (LLM) is not necessarily the final step in productionizing your Generative AI application. An often forgotten, yet crucial part of the MLOPs lifecycle is properly load testing your LLM and ensuring it is ready to withstand your expected production traffic. Load testing at a high level…

  • When Physics Meets Finance: Using AI to Solve Black-Scholes

    When Physics Meets Finance: Using AI to Solve Black-Scholes DISCLAIMER: This is not financial advice. I’m a PhD in Aerospace Engineering with a strong focus on Machine Learning: I’m not a financial advisor. This article is intended solely to demonstrate the power of Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) in a financial context. When I was 16,…

  • Google’s New AI System Outperforms Physicians in Complex Diagnoses

    Google’s New AI System Outperforms Physicians in Complex Diagnoses Imagine going to the doctor with a baffling set of symptoms. Getting the right diagnosis quickly is crucial, but sometimes even experienced physicians face challenges piecing together the puzzle. Sometimes it might not be something serious at all; others a deep investigation might be required. No…

  • The Good-Enough Truth

    The Good-Enough Truth Could Shopify be right in requiring teams to demonstrate why AI can’t do a job before approving new human hires? Will companies that prioritize AI solutions eventually evolve into AI entities with significantly fewer employees? These are open-ended questions that have puzzled me about where such transformations might leave us in our quest for…

  • Big changes coming to federal health IT regulator?

    Big changes coming to federal health IT regulator? You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. Buried in a leaked draft budget from the Trump administration is an ask that may alarm (or…

  • Vivago’s HiDream Image Generator Beats Major Players, Makes Open-Source AI Great Again

    Vivago’s HiDream Image Generator Beats Major Players, Makes Open-Source AI Great Again Vivago’s little-known AI model beats Stable Diffusion, ranks just behind ChatGPT and ByteDance’s Mogao in blind tests. So, how did it do? Jose Antonio Lanz Go to decrypt.co

  • An Unbiased Review of Snowflake’s Document AI

    An Unbiased Review of Snowflake’s Document AI As data professionals, we’re comfortable with tabular data… Tabular data. Image by Author. We can also handle words, json, xml feeds, and pictures of cats. But what about a cardboard box full of things like this? (Image by Annie Spratt, Unsplash) The info on this receipt wants so…

  • Plotly’s AI Tools Are Redefining Data Science Workflows 

    Plotly’s AI Tools Are Redefining Data Science Workflows  Is there anything more frustrating than building a powerful data model but then struggling to turn it into a tool stakeholders can use to achieve their desired outcome? Data Science has never been short on potential but is also never short on complexity. You can refine algorithms…

  • Layers of the AI Stack, Explained Simply

    Layers of the AI Stack, Explained Simply This is the first in a multi-part series on creating web applications with Generative Ai integration. Table of Contents Introduction The Virtues of the Application Layer Thick Wrappers The Return of Clippy Getting Stuff Done While You Sleep Introduction The AI space is a vast and complicated landscape. Matt…

  • How a Philosopher Who Criticized Trump and Musk Turned Out to Be an AI Experiment

    How a Philosopher Who Criticized Trump and Musk Turned Out to Be an AI Experiment An Italian publisher used AI to create a fictional Hong Kong philosopher whose critique of Trump and Musk became a sensation. Vince Dioquino Go to decrypt.co

  • Sesame  Speech Model:  How This Viral AI Model Generates Human-Like Speech

    Sesame  Speech Model:  How This Viral AI Model Generates Human-Like Speech Recently, Sesame AI published a demo of their latest Speech-to-Speech model. A conversational AI agent who is really good at speaking, they provide relevant answers, they speak with expressions, and honestly, they are just very fun and interactive to play with. Note that a…

  • Learnings from a Machine Learning Engineer — Part 6: The Human Side

    Learnings from a Machine Learning Engineer — Part 6: The Human Side In my previous articles, I have spent a lot of time talking about the technical aspects of an Image Classification problem from data collection, model evaluation, performance optimization, and a detailed look at model training. These elements require a certain degree of in-depth expertise, and they (usually) have well-defined…

  • The Basis of Cognitive Complexity: Teaching CNNs to See Connections

    The Basis of Cognitive Complexity: Teaching CNNs to See Connections Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information. Paulo freire One of the most heated discussions around artificial intelligence is: What aspects of human learning is it capable of capturing? Many authors suggest that artificial intelligence models do not possess the same…

  • Deb8flow: Orchestrating Autonomous AI Debates with LangGraph and GPT-4o

    Deb8flow: Orchestrating Autonomous AI Debates with LangGraph and GPT-4o Introduction I’ve always been fascinated by debates—the strategic framing, the sharp retorts, and the carefully timed comebacks. Debates aren’t just entertaining; they’re structured battles of ideas, driven by logic and evidence. Recently, I started wondering: could we replicate that dynamic using AI agents—having them debate each…

  • STAT+: What’s new in STAT’s Generative AI Tracker? (spoiler: AI agents)

    STAT+: What’s new in STAT’s Generative AI Tracker? (spoiler: AI agents) You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s AI Prognosis newsletter, our subscriber-exclusive guide to artificial intelligence in health care and medicine. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Wednesday.  As a STAT+ subscriber, you have access to our STAT trackers — including our…

  • A Data Scientist’s Guide to Docker Containers

    A Data Scientist’s Guide to Docker Containers For a ML model to be useful it needs to run somewhere. This somewhere is most likely not your local machine. A not-so-good model that runs in a production environment is better than a perfect model that never leaves your local machine. However, the production machine is usually…

  • Avoiding Costly Mistakes with Uncertainty Quantification for Algorithmic Home Valuations

    Avoiding Costly Mistakes with Uncertainty Quantification for Algorithmic Home Valuations When you’re about to buy a home, whether you’re an everyday buyer looking for your dream house or a seasoned property investor, there’s a good chance you’ve encountered automated valuation models, or AVMs. These clever tools use massive datasets filled with past property transactions to…

  • How I Would Learn To Code (If I Could Start Over)

    How I Would Learn To Code (If I Could Start Over) According to various sources, the average salary for Coding jobs is ~£47.5k in the UK, which is ~35% higher than the median salary of about £35k. So, coding is a very valuable skill that will earn you more money, not to mention it’s really fun.…

  • Creating an AI Agent to Write Blog Posts with CrewAI

    Creating an AI Agent to Write Blog Posts with CrewAI Introduction I love writing. You may notice that if you follow me or my blog. For that reason, I am constantly producing new content and talking about Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. I discovered this passion a couple of years ago when I was just…

  • OpenAI Makes ChatGPT Free for Millions of North American College Students

    OpenAI Makes ChatGPT Free for Millions of North American College Students Students at accredited U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities can access the premium version of ChatGPT for free. Callan Quinn Go to decrypt.co

  • AI Restores Speech to Paralyzed Stroke Survivor After Decades of Silence

    AI Restores Speech to Paralyzed Stroke Survivor After Decades of Silence University of California researchers used a brain-computer interface to turn brain signals into real-time speech. Jason Nelson Go to decrypt.co

  • The Case for Centralized AI Model Inference Serving

    The Case for Centralized AI Model Inference Serving As AI models continue to increase in scope and accuracy, even tasks once dominated by traditional algorithms are gradually being replaced by Deep Learning models. Algorithmic pipelines — workflows that take an input, process it through a series of algorithms, and produce an output — increasingly rely…

  • AI in Social Research and Polling

    AI in Social Research and Polling This month, I’m going to be discussing a really interesting topic that I came across in a recent draft paper by a professor at the University of Maryland named M. R. Sauter. In the paper, they discuss (among other things) the phenomenon of social scientists and pollsters trying to employ…

  • Agentic AI: Single vs Multi-Agent Systems

    Agentic AI: Single vs Multi-Agent Systems We’ve seen this shift the last few years from building rigid programming systems to natural language-driven workflows, all made possible with more advanced large language models. One of the interesting areas into these Agentic Ai systems is the difference between building a single versus multi-agent workflow, or perhaps the…

  • Graph Neural Networks Part 3: How GraphSAGE Handles Changing Graph Structure

    Graph Neural Networks Part 3: How GraphSAGE Handles Changing Graph Structure In the previous parts of this series, we looked at Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) and Graph Attention Networks (GATs). Both architectures work fine, but they also have some limitations! A big one is that for large graphs, calculating the node representations with GCNs and…

  • A Simple Implementation of the Attention Mechanism from Scratch

    A Simple Implementation of the Attention Mechanism from Scratch Introduction The Attention Mechanism is often associated with the transformer architecture, but it was already used in RNNs. In Machine Translation or MT (e.g., English-Italian) tasks, when you want to predict the next Italian word, you need your model to focus, or pay attention, on the…

  • Understanding the Tech Stack Behind Generative AI

    Understanding the Tech Stack Behind Generative AI Understanding the Tech Stack Behind Generative AI When ChatGPT reached the one million user mark within five days and took off faster than any other technology in history, the world began to pay attention to artificial intelligence and AI applications. And so it continued apace. Since then, many…

  • Elon Musk Folds X Into xAI, Creating a $113 Billion Juggernaut

    Elon Musk Folds X Into xAI, Creating a $113 Billion Juggernaut The merger between Elon Musk’s X and xAI creates a closed loop of 600 million user inputs, model training, and distribution. Jason Nelson Go to decrypt.co

  • The Art of Hybrid Architectures

    The Art of Hybrid Architectures In my previous article, I discussed how morphological feature extractors mimic the way biological experts visually assess images. This time, I want to go a step further and explore a new question:Can different architectures complement each other to build an AI that “sees” like an expert? Introduction: Rethinking Model Architecture…

  • AI Agents from Zero to Hero — Part 3

    AI Agents from Zero to Hero — Part 3 Intro In Part 1 of this tutorial series, we introduced AI Agents, autonomous programs that perform tasks, make decisions, and communicate with others.  In Part 2 of this tutorial series, we understood how to make the Agent try and retry until the task is completed through…

  • Japanese-Chinese Translation with GenAI: What Works and What Doesn’t

    Japanese-Chinese Translation with GenAI: What Works and What Doesn’t Authors Alex (Qian) Wan: Alex (Qian) is a designer specializing in AI for B2B products. She is currently working at Microsoft, focusing on machine learning and Copilot for data analysis. Previously, she was the Gen AI design lead at VMware.Eli Ruoyong Hong : Eli is a…

  • Talk to Videos

    Talk to Videos Large language models (LLMs) are improving in efficiency and are now able to understand different data formats, offering possibilities for myriads of applications in different domains. Initially, LLMs were inherently able to process only text. The image understanding feature was integrated by coupling an LLM with another image encoding model. However, gpt-4o…

  • AI Agents from Zero to Hero — Part 2

    AI Agents from Zero to Hero — Part 2 Intro In Part 1 of this tutorial series, we introduced AI Agents, autonomous programs that perform tasks, make decisions, and communicate with others.  Agents perform actions through Tools. It might happen that a Tool doesn’t work on the first try, or that multiple Tools must be…

  • Automate Supply Chain Analytics Workflows with AI Agents using n8n

    Automate Supply Chain Analytics Workflows with AI Agents using n8n Why build things the hard way when you can design them the smart way? As a Supply Chain Data Scientist, I’ve explored various frameworks like LangChain and LangGraph to build AI agents using Python. Leveraging LLMs with LangChain for Supply Chain Analytics — A Control Tower Powered by…

  • Attractors in Neural Network Circuits: Beauty and Chaos

    Attractors in Neural Network Circuits: Beauty and Chaos The state space of the first two neuron activations over time follows an attractor. What is one thing in common between memories, oscillating chemical reactions and double pendulums? All these systems have a basin of attraction for possible states, like a magnet that draws the system towards certain…

  • The Ultimate AI/ML Roadmap For Beginners

    The Ultimate AI/ML Roadmap For Beginners AI is transforming the way businesses operate, and nearly every company is exploring how to leverage this technology. As a result, the demand for AI and machine learning skills has skyrocketed in recent years. With nearly four years of experience in AI/ML, I’ve decided to create the ultimate guide…

  • A Clear Intro to MCP (Model Context Protocol) with Code Examples

    A Clear Intro to MCP (Model Context Protocol) with Code Examples As the race to move AI agents from prototype to production heats up, the need for a standardized way for agents to call tools across different providers is pressing. This transition to a standardized approach to agent tool calling is similar to what we…

  • From Fuzzy to Precise: How a Morphological Feature Extractor Enhances AI’s Recognition Capabilities

    From Fuzzy to Precise: How a Morphological Feature Extractor Enhances AI’s Recognition Capabilities Introduction: Can AI really distinguish dog breeds like human experts? One day while taking a walk, I saw a fluffy white puppy and wondered, Is that a Bichon Frise or a Maltese? No matter how closely I looked, they seemed almost identical.…

  • Build Your Own AI Coding Assistant in JupyterLab with Ollama and Hugging Face

    Build Your Own AI Coding Assistant in JupyterLab with Ollama and Hugging Face Jupyter AI brings generative AI capabilities right into the Jupyter interface. Having a local AI assistant ensures privacy, reduces latency, and provides offline functionality, making it a powerful tool for developers. In this article, we’ll learn how to set up a local…

  • Swedish Film ‘Watch the Skies’ Set for US Release With AI ‘Visual Dubbing’

    Swedish Film ‘Watch the Skies’ Set for US Release With AI ‘Visual Dubbing’ The actors’ on-screen performances are matched to re-recorded English-language dialogue using lip-syncing powered by generative AI. Stephen Graves Go to decrypt.co

  • Evolving Product Operating Models in the Age of AI

    Evolving Product Operating Models in the Age of AI In a previous article on organizing for AI (link), we looked at how the interplay between three key dimensions — ownership of outcomes, outsourcing of staff, and the geographical proximity of team members — can yield a variety of organizational archetypes for implementing strategic AI initiatives,…

  • Google’s Data Science Agent: Can It Really Do Your Job?

    Google’s Data Science Agent: Can It Really Do Your Job? On March 3rd, Google officially rolled out its Data Science Agent to most Colab users for free. This is not something brand new — it was first announced in December last year, but it is now integrated into Colab and made widely accessible. Google says…

  • Elon Musk’s Grok AI Is Turning Against Him, Telling X Users He Spreads Misinformation

    Elon Musk’s Grok AI Is Turning Against Him, Telling X Users He Spreads Misinformation X’s chatbot Grok, built to be “truth-seeking,” is telling users That Elon Musk is the world’s biggest source of disinformation and suggesting that Trump might be a Russian asset. Jose Antonio Lanz Go to decrypt.co

  • Which AI Actually Is the Best at ‘Being Human?’

    Which AI Actually Is the Best at ‘Being Human?’ We compared four leading AI companions (ChatGPT, Gemini, Hume and Sesame) across different dimensions of human-like interaction. Your next AI BFF may not be from one of the big AI companies Jose Antonio Lanz Go to decrypt.co

  • The Impact of GenAI and Its Implications for Data Scientists

    The Impact of GenAI and Its Implications for Data Scientists GenAI systems affect how we work. This general notion is well known. However, we are still unaware of the exact impact of GenAI. For example, how much do these tools affect our work? Do they have a larger impact on certain tasks? What does this…

  • Microsoft to Integrate AI into Xbox With Copilot for Game Assistance

    Microsoft to Integrate AI into Xbox With Copilot for Game Assistance Microsoft’s AI Copilot is launching on Xbox, positioning it as a way to help gamers with gameplay tips, updates, and more. Jason Nelson Go to decrypt.co

  • When AI Models Are Pressured to ‘Behave’ They Scheme in Private, Just like Us: OpenAI

    When AI Models Are Pressured to ‘Behave’ They Scheme in Private, Just like Us: OpenAI OpenAI study finds punishing AI for “bad thoughts” teaches it to hide intentions rather than improve behavior Jose Antonio Lanz Go to decrypt.co

  • China’s Manus AI Challenges OpenAI’s $200 Agent—If You Can Get an Invite

    China’s Manus AI Challenges OpenAI’s $200 Agent—If You Can Get an Invite A new autonomous AI agent platform claims benchmark superiority over Deep Research, even as skeptics question its legitimacy. Jose Antonio Lanz Go to decrypt.co

  • Platform-Mesh, Hub and Spoke, and Centralised | 3 Types of data team

    Platform-Mesh, Hub and Spoke, and Centralised | 3 Types of data team Introduction In the “ever rapidly changing landscape of Data and AI” (!), understanding data and AI architecture has never been more critical. However something many leaders overlook is the importance of data team structure. While many of you reading this probably identify as the data…

  • From Fuzzy to Precise: How a Morphological Feature Extractor Enhances AI’s Recognition Capabilities

    From Fuzzy to Precise: How a Morphological Feature Extractor Enhances AI’s Recognition Capabilities Introduction: Can AI really distinguish dog breeds like human experts? One day while taking a walk, I saw a fluffy white puppy and wondered, Is that a Bichon Frise or a Maltese? No matter how closely I looked, they seemed almost identical.…

  • Apple’s Siri Won’t Get Smarter Soon as AI Upgrade Gets Delayed

    Apple’s Siri Won’t Get Smarter Soon as AI Upgrade Gets Delayed Apple confirmed that Siri’s AI upgrade is taking longer than planned, delaying key features planned for the voice assistant. Jason Nelson Go to decrypt.co

  • Using GPT-4 for Personal Styling

    Using GPT-4 for Personal Styling I’ve always been fascinated by Fashion—collecting unique pieces and trying to blend them in my own way. But let’s just say my closet was more of a work-in-progress avalanche than a curated wonderland. Every time I tried to add something new, I risked toppling my carefully balanced piles. Why this…

  • Image Captioning, Transformer Mode On

    Image Captioning, Transformer Mode On Introduction In my previous article, I discussed one of the earliest Deep Learning approaches for image captioning. If you’re interested in reading it, you can find the link to that article at the end of this one. Today, I would like to talk about Image Captioning again, but this time…

  • Generative AI Is Declarative

    Generative AI Is Declarative ChatGPT launched in 2022 and kicked off the Generative Ai boom. In the two years since, academics, technologists, and armchair experts have written libraries worth of articles on the technical underpinnings of generative AI and about the potential capabilities of both current and future generative AI models. Surprisingly little has been…

  • How Developers Are Solving AI’s Financial Limitations with Blockchain

    How Developers Are Solving AI’s Financial Limitations with Blockchain Developers are integrating AI with blockchain, allowing autonomous humanoid robots to manage digital assets. Jason Nelson Go to decrypt.co

  • Deep Research by OpenAI: A Practical Test of AI-Powered Literature Review

    Deep Research by OpenAI: A Practical Test of AI-Powered Literature Review “Conduct a comprehensive literature review on the state-of-the-art in Machine Learning and energy consumption. […]” With this prompt, I tested the new Deep Research function, which has been integrated into the OpenAI o3 reasoning model since the end of February — and conducted a state-of-the-art literature…

  • The Urgent Need for Intrinsic Alignment Technologies for Responsible Agentic AI

    The Urgent Need for Intrinsic Alignment Technologies for Responsible Agentic AI Advancements in agentic artificial intelligence (AI) promise to bring significant opportunities to individuals and businesses in all sectors. However, as AI agents become more autonomous, they may use scheming behavior or break rules to achieve their functional goals. This can lead to the machine…

  • Generative AI and Civic Institutions

    Generative AI and Civic Institutions Different sectors, different goals Recent events have got me thinking about AI as it relates to our civic institutions — think government, education, public libraries, and so on. We often forget that civic and governmental organizations are inherently deeply different from private companies and profit-making enterprises. They exist to enable…

  • Faster Than DeepSeek? Tencent Reignites AI War With Hunyuan Turbo S

    Faster Than DeepSeek? Tencent Reignites AI War With Hunyuan Turbo S Tencent’s new model doubles response speed while matching top performers like GPT-4o in reasoning tasks, intensifying the AI race between China and the U.S. Jose Antonio Lanz Go to decrypt.co

  • Vision Transformers (ViT) Explained: Are They Better Than CNNs?

    Vision Transformers (ViT) Explained: Are They Better Than CNNs? 1. Introduction Ever since the introduction of the self-attention mechanism, Transformers have been the top choice when it comes to Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Self-attention-based models are highly parallelizable and require substantially fewer parameters, making them much more computationally efficient, less prone to overfitting, and…

  • AI Agents Ditch Human Talk, Switch to ‘Gibberlink’ in Viral Video

    AI Agents Ditch Human Talk, Switch to ‘Gibberlink’ in Viral Video A viral video shows two AI agents recognizing each other mid-call—then abandoning human speech for a secret machine-only language Jason Nelson Go to decrypt.co

  • When Optimal is the Enemy of Good: High-Budget Differential Privacy for Medical AI

    When Optimal is the Enemy of Good: High-Budget Differential Privacy for Medical AI Imagine you’re building your dream home. Just about everything is ready. All that’s left to do is pick out a front door. Since the neighborhood has a low crime rate, you decide you want a door with a standard lock — nothing too fancy,…

  • Breaking the Bottleneck: GPU-Optimised Video Processing for Deep Learning

    Breaking the Bottleneck: GPU-Optimised Video Processing for Deep Learning Deep Learning (DL) applications often require processing video data for tasks such as object detection, classification, and segmentation. However, conventional video processing pipelines are typically inefficient for deep learning inference, leading to performance bottlenecks. In this post will leverage PyTorch and FFmpeg with NVIDIA hardware acceleration…

  • Musk’s DOGE to Use AI in Federal Job Review: Report

    Musk’s DOGE to Use AI in Federal Job Review: Report AI could determine the fate of federal workers under Musk’s job evaluation plan, raising concerns of bias in the technology. Jason Nelson Go to decrypt.co

  • The Next AI Revolution: A Tutorial Using VAEs to Generate High-Quality Synthetic Data

    The Next AI Revolution: A Tutorial Using VAEs to Generate High-Quality Synthetic Data What is synthetic data? Data created by a computer intended to replicate or augment existing data. Why is it useful? We have all experienced the success of ChatGPT, Llama, and more recently, DeepSeek. These language models are being used ubiquitously across society…

  • AI Agents from Zero to Hero – Part 1

    AI Agents from Zero to Hero – Part 1 Intro AI Agents are autonomous programs that perform tasks, make decisions, and communicate with others. Normally, they use a set of tools to help complete tasks. In GenAI applications, these Agents process sequential reasoning and can use external tools (like web searches or database queries) when…

  • Zero Human Code: What I Learned from Forcing AI to Build (and Fix) Its Own Code for 27 Straight Days

    Zero Human Code: What I Learned from Forcing AI to Build (and Fix) Its Own Code for 27 Straight Days 27 days, 1,700+ commits, 99,9% AI generated code The narrative around AI development tools has become increasingly detached from reality. YouTube is filled with claims of building complex applications in hours using AI assistants. The…

  • The Future of Data: How Decision Intelligence is Revolutionizing Data

    The Future of Data: How Decision Intelligence is Revolutionizing Data In the past few years, technology and AI have evolved more than ever. As I read about the new concepts in tech and learn new skills and techniques each day, I feel in a state of limbo — there is so much content to consume and yet,…

  • Musk’s xAI Unveils Grok-3: More Power, But Is It Breaking New Ground?

    Musk’s xAI Unveils Grok-3: More Power, But Is It Breaking New Ground? With a 200,000-GPU cluster, xAI’s latest model tops benchmarks—but its demos feel more like catching up than leading the pack. Jose Antonio Lanz Go to decrypt.co

  • Elon Musk-Led Group Offers to Buy OpenAI for $97.4 Billion

    Elon Musk-Led Group Offers to Buy OpenAI for $97.4 Billion The tech billionaire’s latest unsolicited bid aims to put a wrench in Sam Altman’s plans to turn the AI powerhouse into a for-profit company. Jose Antonio Lanz Go to decrypt.co

  • Super Bowl Sweepstakes: Perplexity AI’s Million Dollar Question

    Super Bowl Sweepstakes: Perplexity AI’s Million Dollar Question AI search upstart, Perplexity, is throwing serious cash at a Super Bowl contest in the hopes of wooing new users. Jose Antonio Lanz Go to decrypt.co

  • Marvel’s Alleged AI Flub? Fans Spot Odd Hands in New Fantastic Four Poster

    Marvel’s Alleged AI Flub? Fans Spot Odd Hands in New Fantastic Four Poster Marvel Studios faces backlash online after fans allegedly spot AI-generated hands in the new Fantastic Four poster. Jason Nelson Go to decrypt.co

  • From Resume to Cover Letter Using AI and LLM, with Python and Streamlit

    From Resume to Cover Letter Using AI and LLM, with Python and Streamlit DISCLAIMER: The idea of doing Cover Letter or even Resume with AI does not obviously start with me. A lot of people have done this before (very successfully) and have built websites and even companies from the idea. This is just a…

  • Can’t Afford OpenAI’s $200 Research Bot? Here Are a Few Great Alternatives

    Can’t Afford OpenAI’s $200 Research Bot? Here Are a Few Great Alternatives Several companies are offering similar or better AI research capabilities at a tenth of the price, while others provide free alternatives. Jose Antonio Lanz Go to decrypt.co

  • Show and Tell

    Show and Tell Photo by Ståle Grut on Unsplash Introduction Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision used to be two completely different fields. Well, at least back when I started to learn machine learning and deep learning, I feel like there are multiple paths to follow, and each of them, including NLP and Computer Vision,…

  • How to Make a Data Science Portfolio That Stands Out

    How to Make a Data Science Portfolio That Stands Out Create a data science portfolio with Cloud-flare and HUGO Continue reading on Towards Data Science » Egor Howell Go to original source

  • OpenAI Fights Back Against DeepSeek AI With Early o3-Mini Launch—Here’s How It Compares

    OpenAI Fights Back Against DeepSeek AI With Early o3-Mini Launch—Here’s How It Compares The release of OpenAI’s o3-mini comes as DeepSeek’s ultra-efficient R1 model sparked a trillion-dollar tech selloff and reshaped the AI landscape. Jose Antonio Lanz Go to decrypt.co

  • Sparse AutoEncoder: from Superposition to interpretable features

    Sparse AutoEncoder: from Superposition to interpretable features Disentangle features in complex Neural Network with superpositions Complex neural networks, such as Large Language Models (LLMs), suffer quite often from interpretability challenges. One of the most important reasons for such difficulty is superposition — a phenomenon of the neural network having fewer dimensions than the number of features it…

  • Are Data Scientists at Risk in 2025?

    Are Data Scientists at Risk in 2025? The impact of AI on data science jobs. Continue reading on Towards Data Science » Natassha Selvaraj Go to original source

  • DeepSeek V3: A New Contender in AI-Powered Data Science

    DeepSeek V3: A New Contender in AI-Powered Data Science How DeepSeek’s budget-friendly AI model stacks up against ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini in SQL, EDA, and machine learning Continue reading on Towards Data Science » Yu Dong Go to original source

  • Italy Bans China’s DeepSeek AI Chatbot Over Privacy Fears

    Italy Bans China’s DeepSeek AI Chatbot Over Privacy Fears DeepSeek received an order to stop serving its AI chatbot’s users in Italy, after failing to assuage concerns over its privacy policies. Liz Napolitano Go to decrypt.co

  • Can Machines Dream? On the Creativity of Large Language Models

    Can Machines Dream? On the Creativity of Large Language Models Exploring the Role of Hallucinations, Dependencies, and Imagination in AI Creativity Continue reading on Towards Data Science » Salvatore Raieli Go to original source

  • 2-Bit VPTQ: 6.5x Smaller LLMs While Preserving 95% Accuracy

    2-Bit VPTQ: 6.5x Smaller LLMs While Preserving 95% Accuracy Very accurate 2-bit quantization for running 70B LLMs on a 24 GB GPU Continue reading on Towards Data Science » Benjamin Marie Go to original source

  • DeepSeek Backlash: OpenAI, Washington And Italy Cry Foul

    DeepSeek Backlash: OpenAI, Washington And Italy Cry Foul Deepseek is starting to raise flags as the tech community responds with mockery amid allegations the Chinese startup is copying the copiers. Jose Antonio Lanz Go to decrypt.co

  • AI Ethics for the Everyday User — Why Should You Care?

    AI Ethics for the Everyday User — Why Should You Care? A beginner’s guide to understanding the importance of ethics in artificial intelligence Continue reading on Towards Data Science » Murtaza Ali Go to original source

  • The Challenges and Realities of Being a Data Scientist

    The Challenges and Realities of Being a Data Scientist Some harsh truths behind the field of data science Continue reading on Towards Data Science » Egor Howell Go to original source

  • Former SEC Chair Gary Gensler to Go Back to School to Teach AI

    Former SEC Chair Gary Gensler to Go Back to School to Teach AI Gensler will bring his expertise in AI risks to the classroom at a time when the global tech race for frontier AI models quickens. Vince Dioquino Go to decrypt.co