Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Also helpful: Interest in and comfort with languages other than English, especially Spanish, French, Russian, or Arabic.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Salto , a Tel Aviv-based open-source startup that allows you to configure SaaS platforms like Salesforce, NetSuite and HubSpot with code, is coming out of stealth today and announced that it has raised a $27 million Series A round. Salto makes the core of its service available as open source. ” Image Credits: Salto.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Natural language processing ( NLP ), while hardly a new discipline, has catapulted into the public consciousness these past few months thanks in large part to the generative AI hype train that is ChatGPT. The company also says that its basic open source incarnation has been used by data scientists at companies such as Samsung and DocuSign.

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OpenAI

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

2] Generally speaking, we think more usage of AI in the world will lead to good, and want to promote it (by putting models in our API, open-sourcing them, etc.). We will need to develop new alignment techniques as our models become more powerful (and tests to understand when our current techniques are failing).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

There is a shift in the air, and it feels like companies need to be thinking about how to put large language models to work, but as with any new advanced technology, it’s often easier said than done, especially for less-technical organizations. And AirOps can help you move through those steps. “We’re

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

Tokens represent words in a large language model ( LLM ) system and with AI inference services typically charging for every million tokens generated, this goal offers the most visible return on AI investments and energy used per task. This technique significantly reduces response times for LLMs, particularly during periods of low traffic.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Like a good judge, large language models ( LLMs ) can respond to a wide variety of human queries. But to deliver authoritative answers that cite sources, the model needs an assistant to do some research. What’s more, the technique can help models clear up ambiguity in a user query. So, What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Its first projects are: BioLM , which seeks to apply natural language processing (NLP) techniques to the fields of computational biology and chemistry. “A lot of computational biology research already leads to open-source releases. OpenBioML is starting with safer territory, wisely.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We proposed a 2-hop spanner technique , called STAR , as an efficient and distributed graph building strategy, and showed how it significantly decreases the number of similarity computations in theory and practice, building much sparser graphs while producing high-quality graph learning or clustering outputs.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

team from Tsinghua University, in partnership with APPROACHING.AI , announced a major update to the KTransformers open-source project last week, local media outlet National Business Daily reported on Saturday. The KTransformers open-source project offers an affordable solution to this issue. The KVCache.AI

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 25, 2023

PaLM 2 Our next-generation large language model (LLM), PaLM 2 , is built on advances in compute-optimal scaling , scaled instruction-fine tuning and improved dataset mixture. PaLM 2 has advanced coding capabilities that enable it to find code errors and make suggestions in a number of different languages.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Minerva incorporates recent prompting and evaluation techniques to better solve mathematical questions. Top Open-sourcing datasets and tools Engaging with the broader research community is a core part of our efforts to build a more collaborative ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Union.ai , a startup emerging from stealth with a commercial version of the open source AI orchestration platform Flyte, today announced that it raised $10 million in a round contributed by NEA and “select” angel investors. Union Cloud — and Flyte — define workflows as multiple tasks. Cloud advantage.

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 10, 2023

Posted by Malaya Jules, Program Manager, Google This week, the 61st annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), a premier conference covering a broad spectrum of research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language, is taking place online.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

For public-facing and open-source products, documentation has a direct impact on user adoption.” The company’s platform reads code and creates docs to explain it, leveraging technologies including natural language processing and web scraping. ” Image Credits: Mintlify.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

NIM microservices include everything needed to run optimized models on PCs with RTX GPUs, including prebuilt engines for specific GPUs, the NVIDIA TensorRT software development kit (SDK), the open-source NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM library for accelerated inference using Tensor Cores, and more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They sometimes deal with vendors and developers that don’t really understand their mission, don’t speak their language, and don’t tell them the truth (whether intentionally, or by a lack of self-examination.) I very much look forward to your re-emergence from the IT wilderness! 3 Catherine Carey 04.10.07 Be Helpful.

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Towards Data Science

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Platform Specific Tools and Advanced Techniques Photo by Christopher Burns on Unsplash The modern data ecosystem keeps evolving and new data tools emerge now and then. This is where open-source alternatives come into play. It’s not a surprise that many of them are open-source and are Python-based.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This year, we designed state-of-the-art serving techniques for large models , improved automatic partitioning of tensor programs and reworked the APIs of our libraries to make sure all of those developments are accessible to a wide audience of users. Bottom: Illustration of the CollectiveEinsum technique. See paper for details.)

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 18, 2023

This vision is inspired by the rapid emergence of generative AI technologies, such as large language models (LLMs) that power chatbots like Bard , and new generative media models like Google's Imagen , Parti , and MusicLM. As an example, we developed new methods for extracting semantically meaningful structure from natural language prompts.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 16, 2020

There are lots of ways to play Game Gear games if you really want to, whether it’s through the 3DS Virtual Console or less official means like the countless open-source emulator handhelds out there. It was one of many challengers that got obliterated by the Game Boy , and its library is pretty limited.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 30, 2023

The initial version of DataPerf consists of four challenges focused on three common data-centric tasks across three application domains; vision, speech and natural language processing (NLP). Data is the new bottleneck for ML Data is the new code: it is the training data that determines the maximum possible quality of an ML solution.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

Jungle light speed: Tracking Epidemics with Natural Language Processing and Crowdsourcing In this post Robert Munro discusses his views on the need to use data in a way that preserves individual rights. He says that open-data-idealists wrongly and dangerously believe that once information is shared more widely problems will be solved.

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Google Research AI blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

We demonstrate that RT-1 can exhibit significantly improved zero-shot generalization to new tasks, environments and objects compared to prior techniques. Finally, we’re open-sourcing the RT-1 code , and hope it will provide a valuable resource for future research on scaling up robot learning.

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The AI Alignment Forum

JANUARY 31, 2025

Published on January 31, 2025 3:36 PM GMT This is a linkpost for a new research paper of ours , introducing a simple but powerful technique for preventing Best-of-N jailbreaking. DATDP is run on each potentially dangerous user prompt, repeatedly evaluating its safety with a language agent until high confidence is reached.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons.

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 23, 2023

We build ML systems to solve deep scientific and engineering challenges in areas of language, music, visual processing, algorithm development, and more. We aim to build a more collaborative ecosystem with the broader ML research community through open-sourcing tools and datasets, publishing our work, and actively participating in conferences.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

. “If another lawsuit showed up and OpenAI disappeared tomorrow, there are several alternatives that could power QuickVid,” he said, referring to the open source DALL-E 2-like system Stable Diffusion. And ChatGPT, a fine-tuned offspring of GPT-3, has been shown to use sexist and racist language. Moderation and spam.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Improving our current techniques for using LLMs to interpret SAE latents Attempts to make SAEs practically useful (or show that theyre not), in a way that involves comparing rigorously to baselines. Can we find examples of features in real language models that are not linearly represented? Eg Can SAEs work as good probes?

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Towards Data Science

AUGUST 19, 2023

dbt also uses a templating language called Jinja for documentation and functions within the tool. I need to know how to set up an open-source data connector like Airbyte before I apply for that role. Eventually, I was able to learn what that was, apply the techniques to my work, and improve my data modeling skills.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Gamification techniques to boost learner engagement. Frequently Asked Questions Can an LMS support multiple languages for global learners? Small businesses can use cloud-based LMS solutions with flexible pricing models, open-source LMS platforms, or free-tier versions to get started cost-effectively.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

Posted by Marian Croak, VP, Google Research, Responsible AI and Human-Centered Technology The last year showed tremendous breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in large language models (LLMs) and text-to-image models. Another key part of our ML work involves developing techniques to build models that are more inclusive.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

ChatGPT was recently super-charged by GPT-4 , the latest language-writing model from OpenAI’s labs. For example, having the model always respond in a given language. For example, a teacher can say they are teaching fourth-grade math or a developer can specify the code language they prefer when asking for suggestions.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Separately, we announced a partnership with Pacific Biosciences to further advance genomic technologies in research and the clinic by layering our ML techniques on top of their sequencing methods, building on our long running open source projects in deep learning genomics.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2024

Sales Training LMS platforms empower sales teams with relevant product knowledge, sales techniques, and customer engagement strategies, enhancing their effectiveness and performance in driving revenue. Yes, there are several free and open-source LMS platforms available for organizations and individuals to explore and evaluate.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 1, 2023

AI as a service is now a reality and can be powered by any number of growing open-source models. 1000+ chats with scripted dialogues and empathetic language. It has a deep understanding of crisis assessment, management techniques and resources to provide effective support to those in need. Continuous human monitoring.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2024

Sales Training LMS platforms empower sales teams with relevant product knowledge, sales techniques, and customer engagement strategies, enhancing their effectiveness and performance in driving revenue. Yes, there are several free and open-source LMS platforms available for organizations and individuals to explore and evaluate.

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