Not beat or cure by itself.
But many important ways that #AI will help advance prevention and treatment, as previously reviewed https://
erictopol.substack.com/p/a-one-two-pu
nch-against-pancreatic
… https://
erictopol.substack.com/p/how-to-upend
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AI’s Role in Advancing Cancer Prevention and Treatment
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Grammar of Animacy: Designing AI Through Indigenous Language Wisdom
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This isn’t meant as condemnation but rather invitation.English is a language prioritizing nouns where many Indigenous languages prioritize verbs. As Robin Wall Kimmerer notes in her book, Braiding Sweetgrass, we must “Learn the grammar of animacy” for AI: https://
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Top Experts Identify Critical Tech Society Intersection Problems
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Publication @techreview asked top people in their field, "What are the hardest problems at the intersection of technology and society that need more attention?" Read the answers from @NitaFarahany
, @doctorow
, @melindagates
, @TendaiChisowa https://
technologyreview.com/2023/11/01/108
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New NLP Chair at Collège de France Begins Friday
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"Teaching Languages to Machines": the Collège de France chair dedicated to NLP begins next Friday
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IEEE Framework Prioritizes People and Planet in Responsible AI
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Btw, here’s a paper on how to make this happen written by an amazing committee led by @milenapribic w/the glorious @baxterkb called “Prioritizing People and Planet as the Metrics for Responsible AI” – https://
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Web Grounding Reduces LLM Hallucinations in Knowledge Assistant
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Model hallucinations are a big concern for organizations adopting LLM-based systems. This is why we’ve introduced a web grounding for Coral, our knowledge assistant. Watch NLP expert @itsSandraKublik demonstrate how it works. pic.twitter.com/4JLdMJEG7H
— Cohere (@cohere) 24 novembre 2023Model hallucinations are a big concern for organizations adopting LLM-based systems. This is why we’ve introduced a web grounding for Coral, our knowledge assistant. Watch NLP expert @itsSandraKublik demonstrate how it works.
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Distil-Whisper: Open-Source State-of-the-Art Speech Recognition Model
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Distil-Whisper is a speech recognition model with state-of-the-art results for transcribing any kind of audio. Plus, it is completely open-source and you can use it right now to try it on their huggingface space.
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Building and Understanding the AI Model Architecture
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Since they shared a paper along with it, we can even dive into how they built this model and how it works, so let's get into it!
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Distil-Whisper: Hugging Face Releases New AI Model for Speed
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Good morning fellow AI enthusiast! This week's iteration focuses on a big news from the @huggingface team releasing a new paper and model: Distil-Whisper. https://
open.substack.com/pub/louisbouch
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Model Hallucination Problem Will Be Solved Eventually
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I am not saying model hallucination doesn't happen or that it's not a problem. But it will be solved one day.