Vanier graduate scholarships for PhD studies in Canada. Looking for academic excellence, research potential and leadership. @SFU_CompSci https://
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Vanier PhD Scholarships for Academic Excellence and Research Leadership
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Illustrated Guide to Transformers and LLMs Praised
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This book is really nicely illustrated! Nearly every page has multiple figures/diagrams that help explain the underlying concepts behind transformers & LLMs, including embeddings, attention, LoRA, distillation, quantization, … Nice work, @afshinea and @shervinea !
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Meta Releases Llama 3.1 with CyberSecEval 3 Trust Safety Research
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As part of the release of Llama 3.1, we also released new trust & safety research including CyberSecEval 3. We've published our research on this work to continue the conversation on empirically measuring LLM cybersecurity risks & capabilities. Paper https://
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The Dangers of AI Inbreeding and Synthetic Data
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The dangers of “AI Inbreeding” :
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Local Expertise and Ownership Essential for AI Field Vigilance
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Happy to see the expert input from @nunuska and @seysoosey highlighting essential areas for our ongoing vigilance as a field of AI . As they both point out, this requires commitment to localised ownership and expertise – core parts of @DeepIndaba
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NeuralGCM: Revolutionary AI Climate Modeling Tool
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Climate modeling reimagined. NeuralGCM offers a novel way to build faster, more accessible climate models. Swipe to learn more about this revolutionary #AI tool – speed, efficiency, and #opensource. Join us on @GitHub
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Award winners showcase AI research excellence across Africa
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This year’s award winners are truly exceptional covering all range of topics in AI research, technology and impact in their countries, across Africa, and beyond. Have a look through the thread and read the blog to see recipients humbling testimony on their achievements
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Open-source robotic AI revolution with cheap 3D-printed arms
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India AI Mission Builds Comprehensive Ecosystem for Innovation
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The IndiaAI Mission aims to build a comprehensive ecosystem that fosters AI innovation by democratizing computing access, enhancing data quality, developing indigenous AI capabilities, attracting top AI talent, enabling industry collaboration, providing startup risk capital,… pic.twitter.com/BNaJbDw3zg
— IndiaAI (@OfficialINDIAai) 26 août 2024The IndiaAI Mission aims to build a comprehensive ecosystem that fosters AI innovation by democratizing computing access, enhancing data quality, developing indigenous AI capabilities, attracting top AI talent, enabling industry collaboration, providing startup risk capital,
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LayerPano3D: Layered 3D Panorama for Hyper-Immersive Scene Generation
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Layered 3D Panorama for Hyper-Immersive Scene Generation
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… 3D immersive scene generation is a challenging yet critical task in computer vision and graphics. A desired virtual 3D scene should 1) exhibit omnidirectional view