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This post is co-written with Less Wright and Wei Feng from Meta Pre-training large language models (LLMs) is the first step in developing powerful AI systems that can understand and generate human-like text. By exposing models to vast amounts of diverse data, pre-training lays the groundwork for LLMs to learn general language patterns, world knowledge, and reasoning capabilities. This foundational process enables LLMs to perform a wide range of tasks without task-specific training, making them highly versatile and adaptable. Pre-training is essential for building a strong base of knowledge, which can then be refined and specialized through fine-tuning, transfer learning, or…

Artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity with new generative AI tools and capabilities that were once the stuff of science fiction. And like many of the heroes in science fiction, they’re arriving just in time. AI-enhanced cybersecurity can detect and respond to potential threats in real time — often before human analysts even become aware of them. It can analyze vast amounts of data to identify patterns and anomalies that might indicate a breach. And AI agents can automate routine security tasks, freeing up human experts to focus on more complex challenges. All of these capabilities start with software, so NVIDIA…

Mike Coffman, the Republican mayor of Aurora, Colorado, fired back at former President Donald Trump Tuesday before the GOP presidential candidate’s planned visit to his town over false claims about its immigrant community.Coffman issued a statement on his Facebook page criticizing the former president over his false comments that claimed, without any evidence, that crime was on the rise due to Venezuelan migrants.Mike Coffman on Aug 1, 2017.John Leyba/Denver Post via Getty ImagesTrump, who first brought up the false claims during the ABC News presidential debate in September, is scheduled to visit the city Friday.”The reality is that the concerns…

More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday, saying that the popular short-form video app is designed to be addictive to kids and harms their mental health.The lawsuits stem from a national investigation into TikTok, which was launched in March 2022 by a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general from many states, including New York, California, Kentucky and New Jersey. All of the complaints were filed in state courts. At the heart of each lawsuit is the TikTok algorithm, which powers what users see on the platform by populating the app’s main “For…

PORTLAND, Maine — An uncommon system of voting could be central to which party controls the U.S. House this fall — or even the presidency.In Maine and Alaska, voters in competitive congressional districts will elect a winner using ranked choice voting.Rather than cast a single vote for their preferred candidate, voters rank their choices in order of preference on the ballot. If a candidate is the first choice of more than 50% of voters in the first round of counting, that candidate is the winner.But if no candidate surpasses 50%, the count continues in round two. The candidate with the…

Defending champions Australia’s march in the Women’s T20 World Cup continued on Tuesday as it beat New Zealand in Sharjah. The win makes things interesting in the Group A points table with only the top two teams having a chance to enter the semi-finals. Currently, Australia lead the points table with two wins in as many matches. Pakistan are second while New Zealand are third. India are fourth and Sri Lanka are fifth. India have so far lost to New Zealand and won against Pakistan. India need to beat Sri Lanka on Wednesday by a massive margin to…

For more than 100 years, scientists have been using X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of crystalline materials such as metals, rocks, and ceramics.This technique works best when the crystal is intact, but in many cases, scientists have only a powdered version of the material, which contains random fragments of the crystal. This makes it more challenging to piece together the overall structure.MIT chemists have now come up with a new generative AI model that can make it much easier to determine the structures of these powdered crystals. The prediction model could help researchers characterize materials for use in batteries,…

The Indian Foundation for Quality Management (IFQM) — a not-for-profit consortium backed by 10 of the country’s most influential business leaders — will host its inaugural symposium  on 15th  October in Delhi aiming to foster a culture of quality and innovation across key sectors like electronics, IT/ITES, automotive engineering, aerospace, life sciences, and pharma. These 10 business moguls are Venu Srinivasan, chairman emeritus, TVS Motor; N Chandrasekharan, chairman, Tata Sons; Dilip Shanghvi, MD, Sun Pharma; Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, executive chairperson, Biocon; T V Narendran, MD and CEO; Tata Steel; K N Radhakrishnan CEO, TVS Motor; Randhir Thakur, CEO,…

A recently released joint research paper by NVIDIA, Moderna and Yale reviews how techniques from quantum machine learning (QML) may enhance drug discovery methods by better predicting molecular properties. Ultimately, this could lead to the more efficient generation of new pharmaceutical therapies. The review also emphasizes that the key tool for exploring these methods is GPU-accelerated simulation of quantum algorithms. The study focuses on how future quantum neural networks can use quantum computing to enhance existing AI techniques. Applied to the pharmaceutical industry, these advances offer researchers the ability to streamline complex tasks in drug discovery. Researching how such quantum…

Timelapse footage captured by NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick shows Hurricane Milton as the powerful storm churned through the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida. Source link