A former Nvidia researcher who left the chip giant for academia shares why AI models should be open source and free for all

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Anima Anandkumar is the Bren professor at Caltech and previously served as the senior director of machine learning research at Nvidia.

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The basic qualifications for a job in AI and how to stand out, according to recruiters

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Recruiters at staffing firms and AI companies say that AI skills are mostly transferable from other jobs in the field.

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Apple says it didn't train its fancy new AI models on your personal data

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Apple WWDC 2024 kicked off on Monday.

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I'm using AI to 'read' my paintings and help me compose music. Here's how I do it.

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Shane Guffogg said AI helped him "unlock the musicality" in his paintings.

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A young Duke professor won $250,000 for her algorithms that could find symptoms of heart disease when they start

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Amanda Randles, a professor of biomedical sciences at Duke University, won the Association for Computing Machinery's $250,000 Prize in Computing.

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A 17-year-old took home $250,000 for his award-winning discovery in computer 'brains' that could make AI smarter and safer

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Achyuta Rajaram took first prize at the Regeneron Science Talent Search for his project on computer vision models.

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3 students won $700,000 for using AI to translate 2 tweets worth of text from previously unreadable ancient scrolls

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The Herculaneum papyri were buried during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, which also buried the ancient city of Pompeii.

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The AI explosion has made machine learning jobs hot commodities. But do you really need a Ph.D. to get one?

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Techies debated on X, formerly known as Twitter, whether a PhD is necessary to become a machine learning engineer.

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Machine learning can accurately predict death nearly 80% of the time, a new study found

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Researchers studied 6 million people in Denmark to create a deep-learning model able to predict mortality.

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A 21-year-old won $40,000 for using AI to read the first word on a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius

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The University of Kentucky team scanned the Herculaneum scroll and took X-ray images of the inside.

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