Abstracts: October 23, 2023

ANDY GORDON: Great to be here. CARINA NEGREANU: Likewise. HUIZINGA: Let’s start with you, Andy. In a few sentences, describe the issue or problem your paper addresses and why people should care about it. GORDON: Well, generative AI is amazing. Things like Bing Chat or ChatGPT, all these things powered by large language models. Totally amazing. But it’s really important for everyone to remember that these AIs can make mistakes. For example, you ask when your favorite actor got married, […]

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WHO Unveils Crucial Guidelines for AI in Healthcare, Emphasizing Safety and Collaboration

The World Health Organization (WHO) has unveiled its latest publication focusing on critical regulatory aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of health. The release highlights the necessity of ensuring the safety and efficacy of AI systems, facilitating prompt access to those in need, and fostering comprehensive dialogue among stakeholders including developers, regulators, manufacturers, healthcare professionals, and patients. In light of the growing abundance of healthcare data and the rapid advancements in analytical techniques, the potential transformative impact of […]

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Speeding up Cython with SIMD

Cython allows you to write compiled extensions for Python, by translating Python-y code to C or C++. Often you’ll use it to speed up your software, and it’s especially useful for implementing small data science or scientific computing algorithms. But what happens when Cython is too slow? Often there’s still speed improvements you can do. In a previous article we focused on examples of optimizing your code to take advantage of things like instruction-level parallelism. In this article, we’ll focus […]

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When should you upgrade to Python 3.12?

Python 3.12 is out now–but should you switch to it immediately? And if you shouldn’t upgrade just yet, when should you? Immediately after the release, you may not want to upgrade just yet. But from December 2023 and onwards, upgrading is definitely worth trying. To understand why, we need to consider Python packaging, the software development process, and take a look at the history of past releases. The problems with a new major Python release As with many open source […]

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OpenAI in Talks for $86 Billion Valuation Amid Surging ChatGPT Popularity

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OpenAI Unleashes Live Browsing and DALL-E 3 Integration in ChatGPT

OpenAI, the renowned artificial intelligence research organization, has recently made waves by officially introducing its internet-browsing feature to ChatGPT, marking a significant leap forward in the capabilities of the popular AI chatbot. This development comes after a hiatus of several months and a brief re-introduction in beta form three weeks ago. Until now, ChatGPT has been limited to processing data only up to September 2021, which has rendered it impractical as a real-time search engine. Nonetheless, OpenAI took a bold […]

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Chinese AI Giant Baidu Unveils Ernie 4.0, Competing with GPT-4 in the U.S.

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Python’s F-String for String Interpolation and Formatting

Python f-strings provide a quick way to interpolate and format strings. They’re readable, concise, and less prone to error than traditional string interpolation and formatting tools, such as the .format() method and the modulo operator (%). An f-string is also a bit faster than those tools! By the end of this tutorial, you’ll know why f-strings are such a powerful tool that you should learn and master as a Python developer. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to: Interpolate values, […]

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