August 16, 2024

Amazon’s RAGChecker could change AI as we know it—but you can’t use it yet

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Amazon’s AWS AI team has unveiled a new research tool designed to address one of artificial intelligence’s more challenging problems: ensuring that AI systems can accurately retrieve and integrate external knowledge into their responses. The tool, called RAGChecker, is a framework that offers a detailed and nuanced approach to evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. These systems

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Michael Nuñez August 16, 2024
Hardware

Windows 11’s new update reportedly makes some PCs ‘super slow’ and stops Valorant loading

Windows 11’s update for August is reportedly slowing down some PCs, and in other cases it’s failing to install, plus for gamers it’s interfering with Valorant’s anti-cheat system. 2 A cumulative update failing to install is nothing new (Image Credit: Microsoft) VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES Windows updates failing to install is hardly a new phenomenon – it happens more often than it should – and Windows Latest flags up that there are various complaints

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Darren Allan August 16, 2024
Robotics

Teradyne Robotics president discusses how the industry is transforming

In Episode 160 of The Robot Report Podcast, editors Mike Oitzman and Eugene Demaitre discuss the latest news. On today’s show, we also have a conversation with Touraj Parang, president and chief operating officer of Serve Robotics, about its expansion of service in Hollywood. The featured interview this week is a replay of editor Steve Crowe’s fireside chat with Ujjwal Kumar at the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston. Kumar is group president of Teradyne

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The Robot Report Staff August 16, 2024

Video Friday: Silly Robot Dog Jump

2 min read Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum’s robotics editor. Stop that, it’s too silly. Deep Robotics Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA@40: 23–26 September 2024, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU DHABI, UAE ICSR 2024: 23–26 October

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Evan Ackerman August 16, 2024
Robotics

Engineers design tiny batteries for powering cell-sized robots

A tiny battery designed by MIT engineers could enable the deployment of cell-sized, autonomous robots for drug delivery within in the human body, as well as other applications such as locating leaks in gas pipelines. The new battery, which is 0.1 millimeters long and 0.002 millimeters thick — roughly the thickness of a human hair — can capture oxygen from air and use it to oxidize zinc, creating a current of up to 1 volt.

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Editor August 16, 2024
Hardware

MSI talks CAMM2 DDR5 memory benefits for the desktop PC: higher speeds, lower latencies, more

CAMM2 memory modules are on their way, and will debut inside of desktop PCs in the near future, with MSI highlighting some of the benefits of CAMM2 memory. Check out their video below: JEDEC has already made the new CAMM2 standard official, with CAMM2 memory modules for desktops marking a HUGE shift from traditional SO-DIMM memory that we’ve seen previously. CAMM2 was designed to save space on mobile platforms like laptops and smartphones, but the

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Anthony Garreffa August 16, 2024
AI

How to Get JSON Output from LLMs: A Practical Guide

Tutorial on enforcing JSON output with Llama.cpp or the Gemini’s API Youness Mansar · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 6 min read · 11 hours ago — Photo by Etienne Girardet on Unsplash Large Language Models (LLMs) are great at generating text, but getting structured output like JSON usually requires clever prompting and hoping the LLM understands. Thankfully, JSON mode is becoming more common in LLM frameworks and services. This lets you define

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Youness Mansar August 16, 2024
Robotics

OLogic joins NVIDIA’s Partner Network to aid robotics, AI designers – The Robot Report

Listen to this article OLogic has worked with Verdant Robotics to integrate NVIDIA Jetson into the company’s Sharpshooter smart sprayer. | Source: OLogic OLogic Inc., which helps robotics and artificial intelligence companies design and produce their systems, this week announced that it is joining the NVIDIA Partner Network. The company claimed that the network will help it use NVIDIA’s computing platforms “to usher in a new era of intelligent and functional robotic systems.” The Santa

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The Robot Report Staff August 16, 2024
AI

Writing a Good Job Description for Data Science/Machine Learning

Things to do and things to avoid in order to find the right candidates for your open position Stephanie Kirmer · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 13 min read · 11 hours ago — Photo of a very good candidate by Thomas Butler on Unsplash I’ve probably been involved in the hiring process for data scientists a dozen times or more over my career, while never being the hiring manager myself, and I

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Stephanie Kirmer August 16, 2024

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