In the quest to make helicopter flights safer, helicopter enthusiast and researcher, Hector (Haofeng) Xu, launched Rotor Technologies, an autonomous helicopter company in 2021. The basis for the company's operations was informed by Xu's knowledge of the concerning mortality rates in small, private aircraft that are often used for fighting fires, crop dusting and medical…
Web scraping is a crucial tool in SEO, used for auditing websites, in programmatic SEO and for providing context to web analytics. WordLift, a company specializing in structured data and improving content knowledge graphs, relies heavily on web scraping to handle missing and messy data.
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Researchers from Zurich's Institute of Embedded Systems at the University of Applied Sciences Winterthur have addressed the issue of reliability and safety in AI models. This is especially relevant for systems with essential safety integrated functions (SIF), such as edge-AI devices. The team noted that while existing redundancy techniques are effective, they are often computationally…
Researchers from Imperial College London and Dell have developed a new framework for transferring styles to images using text prompts to guide the process while maintaining the substance of the original image. This advanced model, called StyleMamba, addresses the computational requirements and training inefficiencies present in current text-guided stylization techniques.
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The rise of Low-Code and No-Code AI tools and platforms has encouraged the development of applications that utilize machine learning in groundbreaking ways. These AI technologies are perfect for developing web services and customer-facing apps to better coordinate sales and marketing efforts, with minimal coding expertise required for usage.
No-code is a software design system that…
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) represent an advanced fusion of computer vision and language processing. These models have evolved from predecessors, which could only handle either text or images, to now being capable of tasks that require integrated handling of both. Despite these evolution, a highly complex issue known as 'hallucination' impairs their abilities. 'Hallucination'…
Generative AI (GenAI) tools have developed significantly since their inception in the 1960s when they were first introduced in a Chatbot. However, they only truly began to gain popularity in 2014 with the introduction of generative adversarial networks (GANs), a type of machine learning technology that enabled GenAI to authentically design realistic images, audio, and…
Language modeling, a key aspect of machine learning, aims to predict the likelihood of a sequence of words. Used in applications such as text summarization, translation, and auto-completion systems, it greatly improves the ability of machines to understand and generate human language. However, processing and storing large data sequences can present significant computational and memory…
Machine learning, with its wide application in finance for tasks such as credit scoring, fraud detection, and trading, has become an instrumental tool in analyzing big financial data. The technology is used to spot trends, predict outcomes, and automate decisions to enhance efficiency and profits. For those in the finance industry keen on pursuing these…
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are essential for processing complex data structures in domains such as e-commerce and social networks. However, as graph data volume increases, existing systems struggle to efficiently handle data that exceed memory capacity. This warrants out-of-core solutions where data resides on disk. Yet, such systems have faced challenges balancing speed of data…
A study by MIT researchers has found that doctors are less accurate when diagnosing skin diseases in patients with darker skin, based on images only. The study, which included over 1,000 dermatologists and general practitioners, found that dermatologists accurately diagnosed about 38% of the images they saw, but only 34% of those that showed darker…
After witnessing the potential dangers attached to helicopter flights, MIT PhD Hector (Haofeng) Xu founded Rotor Technologies, Inc. in 2021. The autonomous helicopter company aims to make helicopter flight safer by retrofitting existing helicopters with advanced sensors and software. This technology, in turn, removes the pilot from dangerous flights and widens the use of aviation.
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