April 6, 2024

AI

Hands-On Building a Virtual Property Consultant Using Artificial Intelligence

This is how I used real estate data and powered them using OpenAI Large Language Model GPT3 Piero Paialunga · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 11 min read · 4 hours ago — Image made by author using DALL·E3 This article starts with a personal story. I’m from Italy, and I have been living in the United States for 4 years now. I moved fresh out of my university in Rome, and I

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Hardware

OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Jony Ive are teaming up on a new personal AI device, but they need cash

Jony Ive, Apple’s former head of design, is reportedly working with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on a new AI-powered personal device with the pair now seeking funding for the new project. The news, shared by The Information, means that the pair have teamed up on what could be a new device similar to the Humane AI pin or something along those lines. Notably, Altman is also a major investor in Humane so there are clear

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Hardware

Did Google just leak its own Pixel 8a budget smartphone?

If you’re in the market for a new, budget Android phone you might want to hold off making a purchase with Google thought to be working on a new Pixel 8a device. We know that it’s in development and while we don’t know when it will launch, it might not be all that far away if a new leak is what we think it might be. With Google’s new Pixel 8a on the way, a

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Hardware

Apple reportedly paid up to $50 million to train its iPhone AI tech on Shutterstock’s photos

Amid ongoing rumors that Apple is getting ready to unveil some big new artificial intelligence technologies as part of the iOS 18 and macOS 15 software updates later this year, a new report suggests that the company has been using a popular image website as a way to train its AI. It isn’t yet clear what Apple’s new AI functionality will offer, but a new Reuters report claims that Apple and other companies struck agreements

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Hardware

Apple’s ultra-thin iPhone 16 bezels could be scuppered by manufacturing complexities

Apple is expected to announce the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro devices later this year and we’ve been hearing that at least some of the models will feature ultra-thin bezels. While it’s expected that the change will come to the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, a new report on the subject simply says iPhone 16 – it isn’t clear whether that’s simply a misunderstanding or if all four new iPhones will

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AI

A New Coefficient of Correlation

Image by Author Tim Sumner · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 10 min read · 6 days ago — What if you were told there exists a new way to measure the relationship between two variables just like correlation except possibly better. More specifically, in 2020 a paper was published titled A New Coefficient of Correlation[1] introducing a new measure which equals 0 if and only if the two variables are independent, 1

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AI

Fact-checking vs claim verification

Why hallucination detection task is wrongly named Nikola Milosevic (Data Warrior) · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · 3 days ago — During the past year, I have been working on two projects dealing with hallucination detection of large language models and verifying claims produced by them. As with any research, especially one looking at verification of claims, it led to quite a bit of literature review, in which I

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Hardware

Yet more new iPads appear in regulatory database entries as a launch nears

With Apple now strongly rumored to be ready to announce multiple new iPads as soon as next month, a pair of new Apple tablets have appeared in an Indian regulatory database as the company gets its ducks in a row ahead of time. The devices must go into the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) database before they can go on sale in the country and we’d already seen two tablets make their debut earlier this

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Start-ups

When it comes to building startups in Boston, success begets success | TechCrunch

When Hubspot founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah conceived of their inbound marketing startup in 2004, they were still graduate students at MIT, and inbound marketing was not well understood. They were able to develop that idea into a successful company and eventually went public in 2014. Today, the Boston-based company has a market cap of over $30 billion. There were several elements that contributed to its favorable outcome. The founders met at one of

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