Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) is leading to significant advancements in sectors such as science, economy, and education. At the same time, it also raises significant concerns that stem from its potential to produce robust content based on input. These advancements are leading to in-depth socio-technical studies to understand the profound implications and assessing risks…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has improved email writing by automating tasks, prioritizing messages, and providing insightful answers. AI email assistants can write and send messages, so users have more time to concentrate on the most critical emails. These email assistants have diverse applications, from office employees, business owners, to individual entrepreneurs and students.
Many AI email assistants…
Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have proven to have impressive capacities as adaptable agents who are able to solve many tasks. They can be optimized through fine-tuning with specific visual instruction-following data, thus enhancing their performance. However, this strategy can be limited as it mostly relies on supervised learning from pre-collected data. Consequently, it may not…
Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable abilities to perform a wide range of tasks by utilizing language thinking. One way to improve these models' performance is by fine-tuning them with specified visual instruction data, enabling them to follow precise visual directions. However, this approach relies heavily on supervised learning from pre-collected data and isn't…
The increasing demand for financial data analysis and management has propelled the expansion of question-answering (QA) systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI). These systems improve customer service, aid in risk management, and provide personalized stock recommendations, thus requiring a comprehensive understanding of financial data. This data's complexity, domain-specific terminology, market instability, and decision-making processes make…
Video understanding, a branch of artificial intelligence research, involves equipping machines to analyze and comprehend visual content. Specific tasks under this umbrella include recognizing objects, reading human behavior, and interpreting events within a video. This field has applications across several industries, including autonomous driving, surveillance, and entertainment.
The need for such advances arises from the challenge…
The rapid growth of digital text in different languages and scripts presents significant challenges for natural language processing (NLP), particularly with transliterated data where performance often degrades. Current methods, such as pre-trained models like XLM-R and Glot500, are capable of handling text in original scripts but struggle with transliterated versions. This not only impacts their…
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology have led to the development of a pioneering methodology, known as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), which fuses the capabilities of retrieval-based technology with generative modeling. This process allows computers to create relevant, high-quality responses by leveraging large datasets, thereby improving the performance of virtual assistants, chatbots, and search systems.
One of…
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), which enable direct communication between the brain and external devices, have significant potential in various sectors, including medical, entertainment, and communication. Decoding complex auditory data like music from non-invasive brain signals presents notable challenges, mostly due to the intricate nature of music and the requirement of advanced modeling techniques for accurate reconstruction…