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While ChatGPT and similar tools have monopolized much of our collective attention in recent months, large language models (LLMs)—the infrastructure behind all those chat outputs we endlessly share, screenshot, and occasionally shake our heads at—have remained in (relative) obscurity.On a certain level, it makes sense: when you watch a show on your laptop, you focus on the plot and the characters, not on the electric grid that makes those moving pixels possible. If you’re eating a cookie right now (like… some TDS editors,…

A magazine editor has learned the hard way about the ethical limits of using generative-AI after she was fired for running an “interview” with F1 motor racing legend Michael Schumacher using quotations that were actually from a chatbot. Seven-time F1 world champion Schumacher has been out of the public eye since 2013 when he sustained severe head injuries in a skiing accident during a vacation in France. The German tabloid magazine, Die Aktuelle, showcased the article on a recent front page with a photo of the…

3. PDF Escape Sticking with online editors, PDF Escape might have a weird name, but it also boasts some decent features on the free tier. Like PDF Candy, you upload documents to the web and work from there. It’s a little less powerful, but this is due to there being paid tiers which naturally keep some of the more useful tools back. That being said, you can still get a lot done for free.  The workspace is similar to that of PDF Candy, in that the tools are on the left and the page…

BIOMEDICINE Early test for Parkinson’s disease A large study has shown that a test can indicate a person has Parkinson’s disease before they start having symptoms. The chronic degenerative disease currently lacks a definitive biochemical test. A research team recruited 1123 participants, some of whom had symptoms of Parkinson’s, and used spinal taps to measure their levels of a protein called alpha-synuclein, which clumps and damages brain cells in people with…

Not that long ago, any workflow that involved processing audio files—even a fairly simple task like transcribing a podcast episode—came with a set of tough choices. You could go manual (and waste hours, if not days, in the process), rely on a few clunky and ultimately underwhelming apps, or patch together a Frankenstein’s monster-equivalent of tools and code.Those days are behind us. The rise of powerful models and accessible AI interfaces has made working with audio and music exponentially more streamlined, and new…

Less than a month after debuting its new suite of Firefly generative AI editing tools, Adobe announced Monday that it is already working on a host of upgrades to further empower its users through Creative Cloud video and audio applications. The additions should be coming to Firefly's beta program later this year. Built from the company's long-running AI program, Sensei, Firefly is a suite of generative AI models that can both create and transform audio, video, illustrations and 3D models using text prompts in the same way…

It's very frustrating when you get so close to taking the perfect picture only to realize that the image is blurry, the image is dark, a strange hue takes over the scene, or that there is something distracting in the background. In times like these, you might wish you had a magic wand that you could wave to correct any parts of your photos that didn't turn out right. Well, magic might not be real but AI photo editors are the next best thing.Each of our picks for the best AI photo editors is a little different, but most…

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is giving itself authority to constitute a fact checking unit with sweeping powers to determine what news is fake or false with respect to the business of the central government, and content take down orders to intermediaries, the Editors Guild of India (EGI) said in a statement on Friday. The EGI said that it is "deeply disturbed" by the move and has sought its withdrawal. The EGI is an association of news editors in the country. "The Ministry's notification…

TDS readers come from a staggering variety of professional and educational backgrounds, and join our community at different points of their data science journey. We’re especially proud to support data professionals at the earliest stages of their career, but we also know that there’s no universal definition for what “beginner” means these days.With that in mind, this week we’re presenting some of the best recent additions to our Getting Started column—the space where we collect standout articles that also happen to be…

On the stakes and challenges of responsible innovationPhoto by Marnee Wohlfert on UnsplashIt’s never been easy to distinguish real progress from hype when it comes to AI research, but we seem to have reached an inflection point in recent weeks. Tools that had previously required deep technical expertise have gone mainstream, and entire industries appear to be questioning their own chances of survival with the emergence of powerful—and accessible—AI applications.Late last month, hundreds of notable researchers and tech…