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Musk v. Altman Kicks Off, DOJ Guts Voting Rights Unit, and Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?

WIRED

In this episode of โ€œUncanny Valley,โ€ we get into how the Elon Musk-Sam Altman trial goes way beyond their rivalry and could have major implications both for OpenAI and also the AI industry at large.


Are insurance apps watching you?

FOX News

Insurance apps often collect driving, location and health data in exchange for premium discounts. Adjusting app permissions can help limit what information is shared.


Elon Musk Seemingly Admits xAI Has Used OpenAI's Models to Train Its Own

WIRED

Elon Musk Seemingly Admits xAI Has Used OpenAI's Models to Train Its Own While answering questions under oath, Musk argued it's standard practice for AI labs to use their competitors' models. While testifying on Thursday in federal court, Elon Musk seemed to indicate that his AI lab may have used OpenAI's models to train xAI's own. He touched upon the topic while sitting on the witness stand answering cross-examination questions from an OpenAI attorney amid his ongoing legal battle against the ChatGPT-maker . Do you know what distillation is? It means to use one AI model to train another AI model.


Man builds 12-foot-long sailboat with materials from hardware store

Popular Science

The Kentucky-based builder shows how carpentry and a spark of creativity can go a long way. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. PSA: Basic sailing technique and safety precautions are needed for safe homemade ships. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. It traditionally takes years of training and apprenticeship before shipbuilders truly master the art of handcrafting wooden vessels .



Was Israeli PM's Lebanon destruction video a snub to Trump?

Al Jazeera

Why is Israel still in southern Lebanon? A war to shape Lebanon's future Was Israeli PM's Lebanon destruction video a snub to Trump? NewsFeed Was Israeli PM's Lebanon destruction video a snub to Trump? Hours after US President Donald Trump asked Benjamin Netanyahu to stop destroying buildings in Lebanon as it "makes Israel look bad", the Israeli prime minister published a montage of forces blowing up infrastructure across southern Lebanon.


The Download: the North Pole's future and humanoid data

MIT Technology Review

Plus: Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta have all set AI spending records. In the past, getting to the North Pole involved a treacherous trip through ice many meters thick. But last year, a research vessel encountered open water and thin ice, which created an easy passage. It provided a reminder of how quickly the Arctic is changing. Now scientists are digging deep below the seabed to find out if the Arctic Ocean was ever ice-free--and what that could mean for the future of Earth's northernmost waters. Here's what they hope to discover .


Optimal testing using combined test statistics across independent studies

Neural Information Processing Systems

Combining test statistics from independent trials or experiments is a popular method of meta-analysis. However, there is very limited theoretical understanding of the power of the combined test, especially in high-dimensional models considering composite hypotheses tests. We derive a mathematical framework to study standard meta-analysis testing approaches in the context of the many normal means model, which serves as the platform to investigate more complex models. We introduce a natural and mild restriction on the meta-level combination functions of the local trials. This allows us to mathematically quantify the cost of compressing m trials into real-valued test statistics and combining these. We then derive minimax lower and matching upper bounds for the separation rates of standard combination methods for e.g.


Neural Data Transformer 2: Multi-context Pretraining for Neural Spiking Activity

Neural Information Processing Systems

The neural population spiking activity recorded by intracortical brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) contain rich structure. Current models of such spiking activity are largely prepared for individual experimental contexts, restricting data volume to that collectable within a single session and limiting the effectiveness of deep neural networks (DNNs). The purported challenge in aggregating neural spiking data is the pervasiveness of context-dependent shifts in the neural data distributions. However, large scale unsupervised pretraining by nature spans heterogeneous data, and has proven to be a fundamental recipe for successful representation learning across deep learning. We thus develop Neural Data Transformer 2 (NDT2), a spatiotemporal Transformer for neural spiking activity, and demonstrate that pretraining can leverage motor BCI datasets that span sessions, subjects, and experimental tasks. NDT2 enables rapid adaptation to novel contexts in downstream decoding tasks and opens the path to deployment of pretrained DNNs for iBCI control.