On Wednesday, members of the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, or SAG-AFTRA, voted to ratify a new contract for video game performers, officially bringing an end to a nearly yearlong strike. A majority, 95…
Category: AI
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You Asked, We Answered: All of Your AI Angst
Welcome to Uncanny Valley’s very first Q&A, where our host addresses your burning AI-related questions.
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AI Is a Lousy Chef
The LibGen list included pirated work from Elisabeth and from me and from thousands of other authors, but I was stunned to when I typed in “America’s Test Kitchen” and 163 results came up, scores of their books like Paleo Perfected, Air Fryer…
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A Coding Guide to Scaling Advanced Pandas Workflows with Modin
In this tutorial, we delve into Modin, a powerful drop-in replacement for Pandas that leverages parallel computing to speed up data workflows significantly. By importing modin.pandas as pd, we transform our pandas code into a…
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Decision Trees Aren’t Just for Tabular Data
Versatile, interpretable, and effective for a variety of use cases, decision trees have been among the most well-established machine learning techniques for decades, widely used for classification and regression tasks.
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Google AI Open-Sourced MedGemma 27B and MedSigLIP for Scalable Multimodal Medical Reasoning
In a strategic move to advance open-source development in medical AI, Google DeepMind and Google Research have introduced two new models under the MedGemma umbrella: MedGemma 27B Multimodal, a large-scale vision-language foundation…
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Elon Musk Unveils Grok 4 Amid Controversy Over Chatbot’s Antisemitic Posts
Elon Musk on Thursday unveiled Grok 4, the latest AI model from xAI, his multibillion-dollar initiative to rival OpenAI and Google. Without citing detailed evidence, Musk claimed that the model aces standardized tests and exhibits doctorate-level…
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Perplexity Introduces Comet—An AI-First Alternative to Traditional Browsers
Perplexity, a company already recognized for redefining how users interact with information through AI-powered search, has announced the launch of Comet, an ambitious AI-native web browser. Designed with an AI-first architecture,…
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Changing the conversation in health care | MIT News
Generative artificial intelligence is transforming the ways humans write, read, speak, think, empathize, and act within and across languages and cultures. In health care, gaps in communication between patients and…
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AI shapes autonomous underwater “gliders” | MIT News
Marine scientists have long marveled at how animals like fish and seals swim so efficiently despite having different shapes. Their bodies are optimized for efficient, hydrodynamic aquatic navigation so they can exert…
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