By Haripriya Suresh and Akash Sriram MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian IT firms need to rethink how they operate and the country needs to create its own language models as artificial intelligence technologies disrupt the sector, according to HCLTech CEO C Vijayakumar. The generative AI boom has threatened to disrupt business models for Indian IT companies […]
Geoffrey Alphonso, CEO of Alef Education. getty Education systems worldwide are experiencing a seismic shift driven by technological advancements and evolving societal challenges like the Covid-19 pandemic and educational inequalities. The demand for personalized learning and the shifting job market have also significantly altered how education is approached. In the Arab world, where preserving the […]
This means that the total computing power required for attention grows quadratically with the total number of tokens. Suppose a 10-token prompt requires 414,720 attention operations. Then: Processing a 100-token prompt will require 45.6 million attention operations. Processing a 1,000-token prompt will require 4.6 billion attention operations. Processing a 10,000-token prompt will require 460 billion […]
In 2025 we will see AI and machine learning leveraged to make real progress in understanding animal communication, answering a question that has puzzled humans as long as we have existed: “What are animals saying to each other?” The recent Coller-Dolittle Prizeoffering cash prizes up to half-a-million dollars for scientists who “crack the code” is […]
FESTIVAL FLOURISHES BookMyShow‘s Red Lorry Film Festival has landed two Academy Award-shortlisted films to anchor its sophomore edition, set for March 21-23, in Mumbai and Hyderabad. “Hollywoodgate,” from the producers of “Navalny,” shortlisted for documentary feature, offers an on-the-ground examination of Taliban-ruled Kabul. “Universal Language,” contending in the international feature category, presents an absurdist comedy-drama […]
We can’t believe it’s already the end of another year and time to start setting goals for the next. Ours? Traveling more and learning the languages of each place we visit—well, at least a little. We know resolutions are easier to set than achieve, so we’re getting Babbel. Practicing 14 new languages with an app […]
People generally want to be inclusive, but many are wary of top-down dictates on what constitutes correct thinking.
Experts are still puzzling over a basalt stone tablet more than three years after discovering it near Lake Bashplemi in Georgia. According to their recent study published in the Journal of Ancient History and Archeologythe book-sized artifact excavated in 2021 features 60 etched symbols, 39 of which differ from one another. And while some of […]
Powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models like ChatGPT need copious amounts of power to run so they are usually housed in vast data centers. But a new breakthrough could compress these AI models so they fit onto a smartphone or laptop. A new algorithm, dubbed Calibration Aware Low precision Decomposition with Low Rank Adaptation (CALDERA), compresses […]
You see a cat chasing a mouse. You probably don’t realize it, but as soon as you catch sight of this scene unfolding, your brain makes a key distinction between the cat and the mouse: It identifies who’s chasing, and who’s being chased. This capacity to distinguish between the “agent” (the entity performing an action) […]
