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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the future trend in the tech world. AI systems are experiencing a leap forward every year, with the efforts and investments of big tech companies. ChatGPT, founded on GPT-3.5, was one of the most popular tech developments of 2022, followed by new versions. We now have GPT4, the latest and most advanced language model at hand. Those who test with the model admit that its quality is outstanding. For you to have a better understanding of this new language model, we provide an in-depth guide…

October 2021. India was slowly emerging from a devastating second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. In Bengaluru, Kiran Prasad was beaming. He was aggressively expanding his cloud-kitchen startup Hygiene BigBite and was just coming out of a $15-million fundraise from marquee investor Falcon Edge (now Alpha Wave Global).His business had grown from six to 50 kitchens spread across four cities in just 10 months and he was looking forward to opening 100 kitchens by 2022. But the virus retreated, restaurants opened their doors,…

The crisis at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in the US has rattled some Indian investors and founders running SaaS companies with accounts at the lender. As the bank's stock lost over 60% of its value on Thursday, venture capital funds checked in with homegrown startups, especially those headquartered in the US, about how much of their capital is held at SVB Financial Group. While late-stage Indian-origin SaaS (software as a service) firms like Zenoti told ET that they moved out of SVB last year, early-stage SaaS firms do bank…

The Electric Vehicle ( EV) based ride-hailing story, which began unsuccessfully with an $8 million foray by Ola in the Western city of Nagpur in 2017, has lately seen renewed action with dominant players Ola and Uber planning big moves even as startups like BluSmart have flipped the typical model of cab-aggregators.While Uber recently signed a deal with Tata Motors to buy 25,000 electric cars, Ola earlier said it will roll out 10,000 EV cabs in Bengaluru over a period of a year. The upstart in the segment, BluSmart…

Tesla has released an in-depth, impressive look at its latest electric car production line deployed at Gigafactory Berlin, including its new “Godzilla” robot. Gigafactory Berlin and Gigafactory Texas are Tesla’s two latest factories, and they both feature the automaker’s latest manufacturing technology. While Tesla was underestimated as a car manufacturer by the industry for years, many are starting to give Tesla credit for innovations, especially in body manufacturing through large casting…

A full explanation of causal inference front-door adjustment with examples including all the Python source codePhoto by Evelyn Paris on UnsplashBy the end of this article you will understand the magic of causal inference front-door adjustment that can calculate the effect of an event on an outcome even where there are other factors affecting both that are unmeasured or even unknown and you will have full access to all the Python code.I have scoured the Internet and many books trying to find a fully working example of the…

Dissecting the `nn.Embedding` layer in PyTorch and a complete guide on how it worksOpenAI DALL-E Generated ImageYou might have seen the famous PyTorch nn.Embedding() layer in multiple neural network architectures that involves natural language processing (NLP). This is one of the simplest and most important layers when it comes to designing advanced NLP architectures. Let me explain what it is, in simple terms.After spending some time looking into its C++ source code, here is what I found. The nn.Embedding layer is a…

PlayStation is leaping into the world of prosumer controllers with the DualSense Edge. I had the opportunity to check out the new gamepad, and it feels like a well-rounded hobbyist controller that's easy to customize on the fly.The DualSense Edge feels and looks nearly identical to the DualSense controller. DualSense Edge lead product manager Tomamasu Mizuno assured me that this was an intentional decision so as to not alienate players who've already spent hundreds of hours with the standard DualSense.…

Sam Altman, CEO, and founder of OpenAI, published an essay with HackerNoon in 2017 titled American Equity where he makes the case for a Universal Basic Income (UBI) system in the US: I think that every adult US citizen should get an annual share of the US GDP. Altman’s essay has taken on renewed relevance with OpenAI’s recent launch of ChatGPT, an amazingly and terrifyingly good chatbot that you can sign up and try out for free here.Throughout "American Equity” Altman does not once mention the words “UBI” or “AI”.…

The U.K.’s competition regulator is deepening its investigation into the market power it says Apple Inc. AAPL 1.47% and Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG 1.57% Google exert over some mobile-device software, ramping up global scrutiny of big U.S.-based technology companies. The Competition and Markets Authority said Tuesday that, after receiving support in a public consultation, that it is moving…