When AI Plays “Hot or Cold” — In metallurgy, annealing involves heating and cooling a material slowly, allowing it to reach a low-energy state that makes it more structurally sound. What if we told you AI plays a similar game called Simulated Annealing to solve optimization problems? Let’s break this down in layman’s terms! Imagine you’re playing…

Should we really rely on some metrics? — Ah, productivity — the seductive siren that beckons us all, promising the golden shores of efficiency and return on investment (ROI). Whether you’re in sales, a customer service rep, or the lord of coding, the drumbeat of “be more productive” is inescapable. Yet, when it comes to software development, the…

But Not Without Its Caveats — Generative AI: It’s the hot-topic buzzword that tech enthusiasts whisper reverently and workers across sectors eye with caution. A recent Wells Fargo commentary adds its voice to the rising cacophony. While the piece takes a rosy view of AI’s potential for economic growth and productivity, it raises more questions than…

Our comprehensive generative AI guidelines — CC: Medium, Medium Staff Last Updated: September 21, 2023 We recommend every content piece submitted to us (and in general), that uses AI in a significant way to have a clear attribution to the same. By “significant”, we imply that AI was used to generate the core ideas, content, and…

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The Latest Open Source Image Generation Model for Everyone — Hold onto your seat, folks, because Stability AI has just released its latest image generation model and is a game-changer! Meet Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL), the newest addition to Stability’s suite of image generation models, built to deliver mind-blowing photorealism and artistic imagery that’s guaranteed to blow your socks off. …

TL;DR GPT-4 is a large multimodal model capable of accepting both image and text inputs and emitting text outputs, exhibiting human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks. Through 6 months of meticulous alignment and lessons learned from adversarial testing and ChatGPT, GPT-4 has better results on factuality, steerability, and…

Primary Care gets a Boost: NoMicro Classifier for UTI Detection. — Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are a common kind of infection that happens in the urinary system. They can happen to men and women and are often treated with antibiotics. However, doctors are worried about using too many antibiotics, which can make it harder to treat infections in the future. There…

Artificial Intelligence, the stuff of science fiction, or the future of our world? With the rapid advancement of AI technology, it’s becoming clear that AI is no longer a figment of our imagination. The rise of AI has been nothing short of astounding, with predictions that by 2025, AI will…