Wired

Stop Using Your Keyboard and Start Using This Simple, Free Speech-to-Text App

If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we're all using our computers wrong. We're still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be ...
Reuters

Congo halts artisanal copper and cobalt processing amid corruption crackdown

Dec 23 (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo has suspended artisanal copper and cobalt mineral processing, according to a decree seen by Reuters, in an effort to improve transparency and prevent ...
Frontiers

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning for low-resource text classification: a comparative study of LoRA, IA

The successful application of large-scale transformer models in Natural Language Processing (NLP) is often hindered by the substantial computational cost and data requirements of full fine-tuning.
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
The White House

For Securing the Supply of Critical Minerals and Rare Earths through Mining and Processing

Whereas, the United States of America (the “United States” or “U.S.”) and Japan (together, the “Participants”) intend to support the supply of raw and processed critical minerals and rare earths ...
Forbes

The Surprising Idea That Generative AI Might Be Better Off Using Visual Images Of Text Rather Than Pure Text As Tokens

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. For anyone versed in the technical underpinnings of LLMs, this ...
The White House

For Securing of Supply in the Mining and Processing of Critical Minerals and Rare Earths

Whereas, the United States of America (the “United States” or “U.S.”) and the Commonwealth of Australia (“Australia”, and together, the “Participants”) intend to support the supply of raw and ...
acm.org

The Landscape of Arabic Large Language Models

The emergence of ChatGPT marked a transformative milestone for artificial intelligence (AI), showcasing the remarkable potential of large language models (LLMs) to generate human-like text. This wave ...
The New York Times

With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition

The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for. By Nitsuh Abebe There are countless signals you might look for to determine whether a ...
Geeky Gadgets

LangExtract : Google’s New Library for Simplifying Language Processing Tasks (NLP)

What if you could simplify the complexities of natural language processing (NLP) without sacrificing accuracy or efficiency? For years, developers and researchers have wrestled with the steep learning ...
NBC New York

FBI warns about AI scam using text messages and voicemails: What to watch for

The FBI is issuing a new warning about hackers sending text messages and voice mails using artificial intelligence in order to trick targets into handing over their personal information. How does it ...