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This new language app is like Netflix meets Masterclass, but for learning French

Fast Company Tech

This is the vision behind a new language learning platform that recently launched. Then, you dive into the story and language through an informal video lesson called After Short. Diligent learners can also review a phrasebook of key words and idioms, then take a short quiz to reinforce their knowledge. since then.

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Technology Has Shaped Human Knowledge for Centuries. Generative AI Is Set to Transform It Yet Again.

Singularity Hub

We stand on the brink of the next knowledge revolution. Where would we be without knowledge? Everything from the building of spaceships to the development of new therapies has come about through the creation, sharing, and validation of knowledge. Today, we stand on the brink of the next knowledge revolution.

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Larger language models do in-context learning differently

Google Research AI blog

In general, models’ success at in-context learning is enabled by: Their use of semantic prior knowledge from pre-training to predict labels while following the format of in-context examples (e.g., We also found that instruction tuning strengthens the use of prior knowledge more than it increases the capacity to learn input-label mappings.

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AI firms follow DeepSeek’s lead, create cheaper models with “distillation”

Ars Technica

Through distillation, companies take a large language modeldubbed a teacher modelwhich generates the next likely word in a sentence. The teacher model generates data which then trains a smaller student model, helping to quickly transfer knowledge and predictions of the bigger model to the smaller one. Read full article Comments

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[DATA] 11 Must-Know Stats About Nonprofit Websites

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It’s worth noting that in the survey the questions about website communications are only presented to those that have working knowledge in nonprofit website management, thus ensuring that the data is sound to use as benchmarks in your nonprofit’s website communications strategy. Project and language sponsorships are available.

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PaLM-E: An embodied multimodal language model

Google Research AI blog

Posted by Danny Driess, Student Researcher, and Pete Florence, Research Scientist, Robotics at Google Recent years have seen tremendous advances across machine learning domains, from models that can explain jokes or answer visual questions in a variety of languages to those that can produce images based on text descriptions.

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Retrieval-augmented visual-language pre-training

Google Research AI blog

Posted by Ziniu Hu, Student Researcher, and Alireza Fathi, Research Scientist, Google Research, Perception Team Large-scale models, such as T5 , GPT-3 , PaLM , Flamingo and PaLI , have demonstrated the ability to store substantial amounts of knowledge when scaled to tens of billions of parameters and trained on large text and image datasets.

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