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Intellectual debt: The hidden costs of machine learning

Dynatrace

Commonly applied to development processes, technical debt accrues overtime when we choose an inefficient path of least resistance. Technical Debt—Dilbert Comic Strip on 2017-01-03. The sudden lure of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems designed for IT brings new urgency to the topic of intellectual debt.

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Introducing the Alexa Prize, It’s Day One for Voice

All Things Distributed

As such there is also a strong need for fundamental research on these interactions, best described as “Conversational Artificial Intelligence.”. Teams of university students can submit applications now and the contest will conclude at AWS re:Invent in November 2017, where the winners will be announced.

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A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

ACM Sigarch

APU: Accelerated Processing Unit is the AMD’s Fusion architecture that integrates both CPU and GPU on the same die. BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. They unveiled their first two embedded AI chips fabricated with TSMC 40nm process in December 2017: “Journey 1.0

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. Up until 2017, the ML+AI topic had been amongst the fastest growing topics on the platform. Coincidence? Probably not, but only time will tell.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

They published the original Transformer paper (not quite coincidentally called “Attention is All You Need”) in 2017, and released BERT , an open source implementation, in late 2018, but they never went so far as to build and release anything like OpenAI’s GPT line of services.

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What Are ChatGPT and Its Friends?

O'Reilly

While most of the foundation models people are talking about are LLMs, foundation models aren’t limited to language: a generative art model like Stable Diffusion incorporates the ability to process language, but the ability to generate images belongs to an entirely different branch of AI. Why are we starting by naming all the names?

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The death of Agile?

O'Reilly

When a project is going off track because some requirement wasn’t understood properly, you need to fix that as soon as possible—not after a year-long development process. The most important is discovering how to work with data science and artificial intelligence projects. We were very lucky not to be sued.) Coincidence?