Earthquake data provide solid footing for AI foundation science model

There's been a seismic shift in science, with scientists developing new AI tools and applying AI to just about any question that can be asked. Researchers are now putting actual seismic waves to work, ...

How Foundation Models Are Making Sense Of The Microbiome

For patients taking medications that don't work as expected or pharmaceutical companies struggling with clinical trial failures, MetaOmics-10T represents a new starting point.
The Lancet

When to and when not to use machine learning in risk prediction models

Machine learning for health data science, fuelled by proliferation of data and reduced computational costs, has garnered considerable interest among researchers. The debate around the use of machine ...

Are LTMs the next LLMs? This new type of AI can do what large-language models can’t

Fundamental, which just closed a $225 million funding round, develops ‘large tabular models’ for structured data like tables and spreadsheets. Large-language models (LLMs) have taken the world by ...

Fundamental emerges from stealth with first major foundation model trained for tabular data

Emerging from stealth, the company is debuting NEXUS, a Large Tabular Model (LTM) designed to treat business data not as a ...
Computer Weekly

Large language models provide unreliable answers about public services, Open Data Institute finds

Popular large language models (LLMs) are unable to provide reliable information about key public services such as health, taxes and benefits, the Open Data Institute (ODI) has found.
The New York Times

The Data That Powers A.I. Is Disappearing Fast

New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence. By Kevin Roose Reporting from San ...
ZDNet

Beware of AI 'model collapse': How training on synthetic data pollutes the next generation

To feed the endless appetite of generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) for data, researchers have in recent years increasingly tried to create "synthetic" data, which is similar to the ...
Science Daily

Like human brains, large language models reason about diverse data in a general way

Researchers find large language models process diverse types of data, like different languages, audio inputs, images, etc., similarly to how humans reason about complex problems. Like humans, LLMs ...
The Economist

Training AI models might not need enormous data centres

Once, the world’s richest men competed over yachts, jets and private islands. Now, the size-measuring contest of choice is clusters. Just 18 months ago, OpenAI trained GPT-4, its then state-of-the-art ...