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Argonne’s Rick Stevens on Energy, AI, and a New Kind of Science

June 17th, 2024 Comments Off on Argonne’s Rick Stevens on Energy, AI, and a New Kind of Science
The world is currently experiencing two of the largest societal upheavals since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. One is the rapid improvement and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, while the other is the sprint toward clean energy ...

Anthropic Talks Red Teaming for AI

June 14th, 2024 Comments Off on Anthropic Talks Red Teaming for AI
The security and safety of AI tools is a topic that’s become ever more important as the technology influences more of our world. Achieving this goal is going to require a multi-faceted approach, but red teaming techniques will play ...

MLPerf Training 4.0 – Nvidia Still King; Power and LLM Fine Tuning Added

June 13th, 2024 Comments Off on MLPerf Training 4.0 – Nvidia Still King; Power and LLM Fine Tuning Added
There are really two stories packaged in the most recent MLPerf  Training 4.0 results, released today. The first, of course, is the results. Nvidia (currently king of accelerated computing) wins again, sweeping all nine “events” (workflows) as it were. Its ...

GenAI Lost in Translation? Assessing Advanced Technology’s Language Gap in Life Sciences

June 12th, 2024 Comments Off on GenAI Lost in Translation? Assessing Advanced Technology’s Language Gap in Life Sciences
As various industries explore new applications for advanced intelligence, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) continues to gain traction. Its ability to process complex data, uncover hidden patterns, automate tasks and generate creative content emerges as a transformative tool to advance ...

LLM Spotlight: Falcon

June 10th, 2024 Comments Off on LLM Spotlight: Falcon
The Falcon family of large language models (LLMs) – developed by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi – demonstrate impressive capabilities. Falcon LLMs span across a wide variety of parameter sizes, as well as two generations: Falcon ...

Using AI to Keep Scammers and Fraudsters (a Little More) Honest

June 10th, 2024 Comments Off on Using AI to Keep Scammers and Fraudsters (a Little More) Honest
Fraudsters and scammers have had a good run lately according to the FTC, which found Americans lost $10 billion to frauds and scams in 2023, a 14% increase over the year before. But victims and law enforcement are fighting ...

Everyone Except Nvidia Forms Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Consortium

June 6th, 2024 Comments Off on Everyone Except Nvidia Forms Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Consortium
Consider the GPU. An island of SIMD greatness that makes light work of matrix math. Originally designed to rapidly paint dots on a computer monitor, it was then found to be quite useful in large numbers by HPC practitioners. Enter GenAI, and now ...

LLM Spotlight: Llama 3

June 4th, 2024 Comments Off on LLM Spotlight: Llama 3
The Llama 3 large language model (LLM) is Meta’s latest and most advanced LLM to date. Succeeding Llama 1 and 2, this most recent model excels at understanding and generating human-like text across a wide range of tasks such ...

NIST Q&A: Getting Ready for the Post Quantum Cryptography Threat? You Should be.

June 3rd, 2024 Comments Off on NIST Q&A: Getting Ready for the Post Quantum Cryptography Threat? You Should be.
With the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) set to publish the first Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Standards in a few weeks, attention is shifting to how to put the new quantum-resistant algorithms into practice. Indeed, the number ...

Using AI and Robots to Advance Science

May 30th, 2024 Comments Off on Using AI and Robots to Advance Science
Even though we invented it, humans can be pretty bad at science. We need to eat and sleep, we sometimes let our emotions regulate our behavior, and our bodies are easily and irreparably damaged – all of which can ...
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