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People who grew up in the countryside DO have a better sense of direction than those from cities

Daily Mail - Science & tech

People who grew up in rural areas have better sense of direction than those raised in cities, particularly cities with grid-pattern streets, a new study says. Researchers say it may be because the countryside has more disorderly road layouts, which effectively primes the brain for remembering and navigating environments. The scientists from France and London tested nearly 400,000 people from 38 countries on their spatial navigation, using a video game called Sea Hero Quest. The mobile game, designed to help research into dementia, involves directing a virtual boat around certain routes that players have had to memorise. The authors found that individuals who grew up in more structured, grid-like cities, such as Chicago, performed better on game levels with a similar grid-like layout.


Oportunidad de Empleo: Data Scientist

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We are a well-known technology company based in Cordoba since 2004. As experts, we specialize in supporting organizations in the adoption and implementation of technologies. We provide agile and innovative responses to the growing and dynamic market demand. Our Head Office is located in Cordoba and we have landed in Chile since 2020 Industry 4.0 and digital transformation are revolutionizing the way value is created in all industries and this poses a great challenge for all organizations. "We make life easier for organizations with technology" Our technological solutions: -Conversational Virtual Assistants -Whapp (Omnichannel commercial Platform) -KunING Tech (Software Engineering) -Remote DBA (Remote Database Administration) These Tools are developed with the latest technologies such as Big data and analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, Software engineering and CRM.


AI confirms the obvious: The pandemic bummed people out

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Mood is a unique way for researchers to try to measure the impact of natural or unnatural disasters on people. However, it's simply impractical to ask every single person in the world how they're feeling in the aftermath of a sweeping event. But scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development found a workaround. They used machine learning techniques to scan social media for sentiment shifts following the first wave of COVID-19 in 100 different countries and get real-time reads on how happy or sad the events related to the pandemic made people across the world. Think of the process as an AI-powered mood ring, but for millions of people.


CMMD: Cross-Metric Multi-Dimensional Root Cause Analysis

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In large-scale online services, crucial metrics, a.k.a., key performance indicators (KPIs), are monitored periodically to check their running statuses. Generally, KPIs are aggregated along multiple dimensions and derived by complex calculations among fundamental metrics from the raw data. Once abnormal KPI values are observed, root cause analysis (RCA) can be applied to identify the reasons for anomalies, so that we can troubleshoot quickly. Recently, several automatic RCA techniques were proposed to localize the related dimensions (or a combination of dimensions) to explain the anomalies. However, their analyses are limited to the data on the abnormal metric and ignore the data of other metrics which may be also related to the anomalies, leading to imprecise or even incorrect root causes. To this end, we propose a cross-metric multi-dimensional root cause analysis method, named CMMD, which consists of two key components: 1) relationship modeling, which utilizes graph neural network (GNN) to model the unknown complex calculation among metrics and aggregation function among dimensions from historical data; 2) root cause localization, which adopts the genetic algorithm to efficiently and effectively dive into the raw data and localize the abnormal dimension(s) once the KPI anomalies are detected. Experiments on synthetic datasets, public datasets and online production environment demonstrate the superiority of our proposed CMMD method compared with baselines. Currently, CMMD is running as an online service in Microsoft Azure.


Why Crypto Scams Are Driving an Online Crime Boom --And How to Outsmart Them

TIME - Tech

After two months, Tho Vu was infatuated. The 33-year-old customer service agent, living in Maryland, had met "Ze Zhao" through a dating app, and says she quickly began exchanging messages with him all day on WhatsApp. He seemed like someone she could rely on--he called her "little princess" and sent her reminders to drink enough water. By October 2021, despite never having met in person, they were talking about where to buy a house, how many kids to have, even how he hoped she'd do a home birth. "I want to take you with me when I do anything," he said, in messages seen by TIME.


Is the Data Scientist the Weak Link in Data-driven Value Creation? - DataScienceCentral.com

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I attended an in-person customer event sponsored by Dataiku last week. Man, do I miss the provocative and enlightening discussions that occur in these face-to-face customer engagements. "In the marketplace, dynamics in the job marketplace will evolve, and data-savvy subject matter experts will be paid higher than data scientists." This is what I tell my students as part of my "Big Data MBA" class. I believe that the folks that will benefit the most from data and advanced analytics will be those who master the application of data and analytics to derive and drive new sources of customer, product, service, and operational value.


Open AI gets GPT-3 to work by hiring an army of humans to fix GPT's bad answers. Interesting questions involving the mix of humans and computer algorithms in Open AI's GPT-3 program

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The InstructGPT research did recruit 40 contracters to generate a dataset that GPT-3 was then fine-tuned on. But I [Quach] don't think those contractors are employed on an ongoing process to edit responses generated by the model. A spokesperson from the company just confirmed to me: "OpenAI does not hire copywriters to edit generated answers," so I don't think the claims are correct." So the above post was misleading. I'd originally titled it, "Open AI gets GPT-3 to work by hiring an army of humans to fix GPT's bad answers." I changed it to "Interesting questions involving the mix of humans and computer algorithms in Open AI's GPT-3 program." I appreciate all the helpful comments! Stochastic algorithms are hard to understand, especially when they include tuning parameters. I'd still like to know whassup with Google's LaMDA chatbot (see item 2 in this post).


Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Machine Learning Market Surveying Report, Drivers, Scope, Regional Analysis by 2028

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The report also provides the analysis of import/export, production and consumption ratio, supply and demand, cost, price, estimated revenue, and gross margins. The global Artificial Intelligence (AI) & advanced Machine Learning (ML) market size is expected to reach USD 471.39 Billion at a steady CAGR of 35.2% in 2028, according to latest analysis by Emergen Research. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced Machine Learning (ML) technologies are witnessing increasing demand and deployment across various fields, such as in leading-edge medical diagnostics, advanced quantum computer systems, consumer electronics, and smart personal assistants. Machine Learning is a type of AI, which enables computers to learn without being initially programmed. Rising focus on development of computer programs that can teach themselves and change and evolve when exposed to new data, is a factor driving demand for these technologies.


Are you thinking about sustainability in AI? - Information Age

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Professor Mark K. Smith, CEO of ContactEngine, discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) can lend itself towards sustainability Not a day goes by without a company, charity, government or some other gas-guzzling, forest-burning, ocean-destroying organisation making a grand claim about net-zero, carbon neutral or otherwise pledging to single-handedly save the planet by twenty-whenever. We'll get the brag out of the way quickly โ€“ ContactEngine is already carbon negative โ€“ but, following the noise around COP26, the threat of irreversible climate change provides a good reason to discuss sustainability in AI more generally. Cloud-based computing has rightly come under increased scrutiny in recent years for its energy use. Greenpeace estimates that by 2025, the tech sector could consume 20% of the world's electricity, a huge rise from its current 7%, and one that will be largely driven by cloud computing. As it stands, a lot of this energy use doesn't come from renewable sources, with nearly 4% of all CO2 emissions coming from data transfer and infrastructure โ€“ a figure 60% higher than aviation.


Commercial Artificial Intelligence -- The Future of BI - DataScienceCentral.com

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The dynamics of the global commercial artificial intelligence market continues to change over time, thanks to the persistent advancements in technology. This research report offers a detailed and insightful assessment of the global commercial artificial intelligence market, taking primary trends and the future prospects of this market in consideration. Various segments of this market, based on a number of parameters, have also been evaluated to gain a clear overview of the dynamics in the worldwide commercial artificial intelligence market. The global commercial artificial intelligence market demonstrates a highly fragmented and competitive business landscape. The leading companies in this market, including NVIDIA, Intel, IBM, Google, Microsoft, AWS, General Vision, GE, Siemens, and Mitsubishi Electric, are all competing on the basis of R&D, innovations, and new product launches.