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OpenAI wants to work with organizations to build new AI training data sets

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It’s an open secret that the data sets used to train AI models are deeply flawed. And as most recently highlighted by a study out of the Allen Institute for AI, the data used […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Image corpora tends to be U.S.- All rights reserved.

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Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated

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Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. ” Studies have shown that digital literacy can reduce recidivism , or relapse into crime. ”

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Adept, a startup training AI to use existing software and APIs, raises $350M

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The cash injection brings Adept’s total raised to $415 million, which co-founder and CEO David Luan says is being put toward productization, model training and headcount growth. ” Adept, a startup training AI to use existing software and APIs, raises $350M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

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INE Security Enables CISOs to Secure Board Support for Cybersecurity Training

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If there is a single theme circulating among Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) right now, it is the question of how to get stakeholders on board with more robust cybersecurity training protocols. Framing cybersecurity training as an essential investment rather than an optional expense is critical.”

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AI2 drops biggest open dataset yet for training language models

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Language models like GPT-4 and Claude are powerful and useful, but the data on which they are trained is a closely guarded secret. Image Credits: AI2 Of course it is these companies’ prerogative, in the context of a fiercely competitive AI landscape, to guard the secrets of their models’ training processes.

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Emerge Career’s pre-release job training lands $3.2M seed and new state contracts

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Security and limited budgets at vocational and community colleges limit the amount of help they can actually offer people in the system, and courses from GEDs to trades often take a very “study by mail” approach during incarceration, or traditional brick and mortar one on release.

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VRAI wants to tackle the energy crisis by bringing VR simulation training to offshore wind sector

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Virtual Reality (VR) has struggled to transition too far beyond gaming circles and specific industry use-cases such as medical training , but with the burgeoning metaverse movement championed by tech heavyweights such as Meta , there has been a renewed hope (and hype) around the promise that virtual worlds bring. ” Training day.

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