India has given OpenAI, Google, and other AI firms 30 days to respond to its proposed royalty system for training on copyrighted content.
Let’s say an environmental scientist is studying whether exposure to air pollution is associated with lower birth weights in a particular county. They might train a machine-learning model to estimate the magnitude of this association, since machine-learning methods are especially good at learning complex relationships. Standard machine-learning methods excel at making predictions and sometimes provide uncertainties, like confidence intervals, for these predictions. However, they generally don’t provide estimates or confidence intervals when determining whether two variables are related. […]
DBSCAN shows how far we can go with a very simple idea: count how many neighbors live close to each point. It finds clusters and marks anomalies without any probabilistic model, and it works beautifully in Excel. But because it relies on one fixed radius, HDBSCAN is needed to make the method robust on real data. The post The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 10: DBSCAN in Excel appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Everyone talks about LLMs—but today’s AI ecosystem is far bigger than just language models. Behind the scenes, a whole family of specialized architectures is quietly transforming how machines see, plan, act, segment, represent concepts, and even run efficiently on small devices. Each of these models solves a different part of the intelligence puzzle, and together they’re shaping the next generation of AI systems. In this article, we’ll explore the five major players: Large Language Models (LLMs), Vision-Language Models […]
For more than a century, meteorologists have chased storms with chalkboards, equations, and now, supercomputers. But for all the progress, they still stumble over one deceptively simple ingredient: water vapor. Humidity is the invisible fuel for thunderstorms, flash floods, and hurricanes. It’s the difference between a passing sprinkle and a summer downpour that sends you sprinting for cover. And until now, satellites have struggled to capture it with the detail needed to warn us before skies crack open. […]
After a years-long battle, the European Commission’s “Chat Control” plan, which would mandate mass scanning and other encryption-breaking measures, at last codifies agreement on a position within the Council of the EU, representing EU States. The good news is that the most controversial part, the forced requirement to scan encrypted messages, is out. The bad news is there’s more to it than that. Chat Control has gone through several iterations since it was first introduced, with the EU […]
Virgin Atlantic CFO Oliver Byers shares how the airline is using AI to speed up development, improve decision-making, and elevate customer experience.
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Coding with large language models (LLMs) holds huge promise, but it also exposes some long-standing flaws in software: code that’s messy, hard to change safely, and often opaque about what’s really happening under the hood. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are charting a more “modular” path ahead. Their new approach breaks systems into “concepts,” separate pieces of a system, each designed to do one job well, and “synchronizations,” explicit rules that describe exactly […]