Expanding trend of using AI-driven knowledge distillation to have LLMs boost the capabilities of … [+] SLMs. getty In today’s column, I examine the rising tendency of employing big-sized generative AI and large language models (LLMs) to sharpen smaller-sized AI or SLMs (small language models). It is happening with increasing regularity. A new trend is […]
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The rerouting of global trade from China to ports elsewhere in Asia is leading shipowners to move on from the era of ordering ever-larger vessels and switch to smaller crafts instead. Just six container ships […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter lives—often for better, sometimes for worse. They have conjured dramatic scenarios, like AI-driven extinction of humans (and many other species), […]
DJI has announced its next wireless microphone systemthe Mic Mini, which shrinks all the hardware while improving battery life. The new microphones weigh less than half of what the more expensive DJI Mic 2’s transmitters do, but the new system sacrifices useful features like built-in backup recording and the option to connect an even smaller […]
At 24, Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez is anything but your typical up-and-coming boxing superstar. Already a two-division champion, which includes a run to unified titleholder status at 112 pounds, the native of San Antonio has used the past two years to take apart one legend after another at 115 pounds. Along the way, Rodriguez (20-0, 13 […]
Eight Republican candidates participated in the party’s first primary debate in August. But the stage could feature fewer contenders when the GOP holds its next debate later this month. Joshua Lott / The Washington Post via Getty Images The second Republican presidential primary debate is less than two weeks away, so time is running out […]
