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#ai-training

Uber's gig workers now have another way to earn money: training AI models. The company said on Thursday it would start offering gigs meant to train AI - a group of jobs that Uber calls "Digital Tasks" - to some workers in the US through a pilot in its driver app. Uber already offers this sort of work to gig workers in India, where users complete tasks such as taking photos that are then fed into AI models.

Databricks has announced plans to train 100,000 people across the UK and Ireland in AI and data skills. The skills development scheme will target a range of areas, including generative AI, data engineering, machine learning, and analytics. The initiative will be delivered through the company's global education program, Databricks Free Edition, and underpinned by $10 million in funding. Databricks Free Edition offers participants access to self-paced training and AI tools, and is designed to help close what the company claims is a growing AI talent gap.

"The smartest people I know are investing fortunes, to be specific, they're investing their fortunes in building and training these AI models. That's how important [and] extraordinary they are," he said. "I think by and large we are going to live much better lives, healthier, longer lives, eat better food, live in better houses. It should be a much better world because these tools are so enormously powerful [although] some of the things they will do are a little bit shocking."

The partnership will dedicate $5 million to help small businesses embrace AI and incorporate it into everyday business operations. Google's Grow with Google initiative announced the program on Oct. 9. Small Business B(AI)sics will offer workshops and online courses designed to teach owners how to use AI tools to streamline tasks. All aspects of operations, including marketing, budgeting, and inventory planning, can be simplified.

In this episode of the Startup Canada podcast, Natasha Walji, Managing Director at Google Canada, shares insights on leveraging AI for business growth. She emphasizes the transformative power of AI in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and discusses her journey in technology and community service. Key Resources for Canadian Small Businesses Google's AI Essentials Course: Check out this generative AI course on Coursera.

Research and advisory firm Info-Tech Research Group has introduced LEVEL-UP, a series of half-day, on-site training sessions that are free to IT professionals. Topics covered in the training series, which the company says build on its LIVE and IGNITE events, include artificial intelligence (AI) architecture, cybersecurity incident response, and information technology (IT) leadership. "The LEVEL-UP Series is designed to close critical skill gaps for IT teams in a fast-changing technology environment," Info-Tech Research Group's Chief Research Officer Gord Harrison said in a press release.

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LinkedIn Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. are among the companies that have been emboldened to train their artificial intelligence on the personal data of European users, testing EU regulators' approach to privacy enforcement.

I started using Google Drive, Gmail, and the whole suite of tools back when they were still invite-only. Back then, the cloud was an unknown entity, and many of us had no idea that it would become the backbone of both business and personal use. According to , the public cloud market alone will break the $1 trillion mark by 2026. indicates that 67% of senior executives say that their organization has accelerated its plans for cloud adoption. That's a lot of people using cloud services, and it's only going to continue to grow.

Google has one crawler, which means they use the same crawler for their search, where they still send us traffic, as they do for their AI products, where they steal our content,

"This effort underscores a collective priority to prepare people of all ages for the AI era. We are proud to stand alongside government and industry leaders in this pledge," said Fran Katsoudas, Cisco's EVP and chief people, policy, and purpose officer.

"In the GitHub Copilot training program, they're learning how to be experts in GitHub Copilot itself," said Carrol Chang, Andela CEO, in an interview with The Register. "The reason we chose GitHub Copilot after having looked at a bunch of different code editing and code creation tools in the market is that GitHub Copilot is the clear winner across enterprise customers."

Every company wants to have an AI strategy: A bold vision to do more with less. But there's a growing problem-one that few executives want to say out loud. AI initiatives aren't delivering the returns they were hoping for. In fact, many leaders now say they haven't seen meaningful returns at all. IBM recently found that only 1 in 4 AI projects hit the expected ROI. And BCG's research goes further still: 75% of businesses have seen no tangible value from their AI investments.

The paper, " Power Stabilization for AI Training Datacenters," argues that oscillating energy demand between the power-intensive GPU compute phase and the less-taxing communication phase, where parallelized GPU calculations get synchronized, represents a barrier to the development of AI models. The authors note that the difference in power consumption between the compute and communication phases is extreme, the former approaching the thermal limits of the GPU and the latter being close to idle time energy usage.

Japanese research institution RIKEN has decided it needs GPUs for its next generation "FugakuNEXT" supercomputer and has signed Nvidia to supply them and design the systems needed to get them working. RIKEN is home to Fugaku, a machine that from mid-2020 spent two years atop the TOP500 list of Earth's mightiest supercomputers. The machine is still in seventh place, but RIKEN wants an upgrade and has already awarded a contract to Fujitsu to build its successor and the custom Arm-based CPU called "MONAKA-X"

Bishop Michael Pham and other religious leaders began accompanying refugees to their immigration hearings six weeks ago, leading to zero detentions despite ICE's presence.

AI is the future - and we must stay ahead of the game by ensuring our students and workforce are prepared to lead the way. We are preparing tomorrow's innovators, today.

Universal Pictures has embedded a warning in the end credits of 'How to Train Your Dragon' stating that the film may not be used for AI training.

Reddit's prominence as a training ground for AI models means it's an important place for brands to contribute to the conversation, as Google's AI models view commentary on Reddit as more reliably authentic and trustworthy.

Garrett Lord, CEO of Handshake, stated that the data annotation industry is shifting from generalists to needing highly specialized math and science experts. 'They've gotten good enough where like generalists are no longer needed.' This indicates a significant evolution in AI training demands, requiring advanced subject knowledge in areas such as accounting and law, in addition to STEM fields like physics, math, and chemistry.

The project was designed to train the company's AI model to "recognize and analyze facial movements and expressions, such as how people talk, react to others' conversations, and express themselves in various conditions."

Meta argues that generative AI models need large and diverse datasets which can only be achieved through real human discussions found in Facebook and Instagram posts.

"It's an agreement that recognises our value...as a huge client of their organisation, and how important their technology is to help us deliver changes to public services, to make them more in touch, more in tune and better value for money for taxpayers."

"Meta's investment in Scale AI has created a large disruption in our industry, leading to significant opportunities for Appen and its peers to fill the resulting void."

Chhabria noted that the authors did not provide sufficient evidence showing that Meta's AI would harm their market, hence their arguments were not compelling under US copyright law.

Mastodon updated its terms to prohibit the use of user content for AI training, emphasizing user data protection against large language models.

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