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  • Indeed Adds Generative AI to Help People Write Better Resumes

    Indeed Adds Generative AI to Help People Write Better Resumes

    IBL News | New York

    Indeed.com now allows individuals to use AI-powered writing to fill their work experience. It also launched a suite of AI products for recruiters, such as candidate summaries and custom messages.

    These generative AI features, called Smart Sourcing, will revamp Recruiter Holdings-owned hiring platform Indeed to better compete with rivals like LinkedIn, Talent.com, and ZipRecruiter.

    Another remarkable feature is saving up to five resumes so that an individual can easily pick the most relevant copy when applying for different roles. This feature will roll out soon, Indeed said.

    On their side, employers can get instant recommendations for ideal candidates for their open jobs.

    The tool recommends and prioritizes qualified candidates based on an employer’s distinct job requirements, focusing on people actively looking for a new job, especially those active on Indeed over the past 30 days.

    Smart Sourcing also helps employers quickly review matched candidates, directly connect with them, and ultimately hire faster. The tool generates custom AI-powered messages based on their job criteria.

    Indeed said that AI features “make sourcing and hiring talent more efficient for employers.”
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  • 2U Says That It Has $140 Million In Cash and It Won’t Cease Operations

    2U Says That It Has $140 Million In Cash and It Won’t Cease Operations

    IBL News | New York

    2U said in a blog post last Friday that it had $140 million in cash to support its operations and is not considering ceasing operations or ending programs for students.

    The company said that it is encountering “unfounded attacks from special interest groups seeking to harm our business and scare our partners and students.”

    “Currently, these groups are citing our efforts to manage our balance sheet challenges as a pretext to amplify their attacks.”

    “These groups’ recent predictions, that 2U is on the verge of an imminent shutdown, are unequivocally false and represent a blatant attempt to confuse students and the public.”


    2U argues that its commitment to continue operations is supported by the “high graduation and completion rates” of its partners’ programs.

    The stock of 2U has been below $1 since January 10, 2024, signaling to the markets that the company was in huge distress. The stock price has lost 93% in the last year. Currently, the market capitalization is $31 million.

  • Automatically Generated Prompts Perform Better than Those Written by Human Engineers 

    Automatically Generated Prompts Perform Better than Those Written by Human Engineers 

    IBL News | New York

    The Internet is replete with prompt engineering guides, cheat sheets, and advice threads to help you get the most out of an LLM.

    However, new research suggests that prompt engineering is best done by the model itself, and not by a human engineer, wrote Dina Genkin at IEEE Spectrum.

    As a consequence, many prompt-engineering jobs may disappear.

    Some researchers found how unpredictable LLM performance is in response to prompting techniques.

    For example, asking models to explain their reasoning step-by-step—a technique called chain-of-thought—improves their performance on a range of math and logic questions. There is a surprising lack of consistency.

    Recently, new tools have been developed to automate this process.

    Given a few examples and a quantitative success metric, these tools will iteratively find the optimal phrase to feed into the LLM.

    Researchers found that in almost every case, this automatically generated prompt did better than the best prompt found through trial and error, and, the process was much faster, a couple of hours rather than several days of searching.
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  • Adobe Launches Firefly Services which Includes 20 APIs for Content Generation

    Adobe Launches Firefly Services which Includes 20 APIs for Content Generation

    IBL News | New York

    Adobe this week announced Firefly Services, a set of over 20 new generative and creative APIs, tools, and services.  It allows developers to speed up content creation in custom workflows.

    In addition, the company launched Custom Models, which allows businesses to fine-tune Firefly models based on their assets. Custom Models is already built into Adobe’s new GenStudio.

    Firefly Services includes APIs for removing backgrounds, cropping images, and automatically leveling the horizon in a photo, as well as, access to core AI-driven Photoshop features like Generative Fill and Expand.

    In addition to these AI features, Firefly Services also exposes tools for editing text layers, tagging content, and applying presets from Lightroom, for example.
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  • NVIDIA Released Eight Free Courses on Generative AI

    NVIDIA Released Eight Free Courses on Generative AI

    IBL News | New York

    NVIDIA released eight free AI courses this month. Five are hosted at NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute (DLI) platform, two on Coursera, and one on YouTube.

    1. Generative AI Explained
    2. Building A Brain in 10 Minutes
    3. Augment your LLM with Retrieval Augmented Generation
    4. AI in the Data Center
    5. Accelerate Data Science Workflows with Zero Code Changes
    6. Mastering Recommender Systems
    7. Networking Introduction
    8. Building RAG Agents with LLMs

     > NVIDIA’s Certified Associate Program on Generative AI LLMs

    [Disclosure: IBL works for NVIDIA by powering its learning platform]

  • Amazon Put Another $2.75 Billion Into Anthropic AI

    Amazon Put Another $2.75 Billion Into Anthropic AI

    IBL News | New York

    Amazon put another $2.75 billion into San Francisco-based Anthropic AI last month, its largest outside investment in its three-decade history.

    The deal was struck at the AI startup’s last valuation, which was $18.4 billion. In September, the e-commerce giant invested $1.25 billion.

    Amazon will maintain a minority stake in this startup and won’t have an Anthropic board seat.

    Founded by ex-OpenAI research executives and employees, Anthropic, creator of the chatbot Claude 3, competes with OpenAI in both the enterprise and consumer worlds.

    The company said the most capable of its new models outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-4 and  Google’s Gemini Ultra on industry benchmark tests, such as undergraduate-level knowledge, graduate-level reasoning, and basic mathematics.

    Amazon is offering Claude as part of its AWS’s Bedrock system, while Anthropic is using AWS as its primary cloud provider for mission-critical workloads, including safety research and future foundation model development. Anthropic will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to build, train, and deploy its future models.
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  • OpenAI Makes ChatGPT Available Without Needing to Sign-Up

    OpenAI Makes ChatGPT Available Without Needing to Sign-Up

    IBL News | New York

    OpenAI eliminated yesterday the requirement of opening an account in its flagship conversational chat.openai.com to use its conversational AI tool. This feature will be gradually rolled out to every country.

    Those who opt for no logging in will see their chats going into OpenAI’s data training unless they opt out.

    These non-logged users won’t be able to save or share chats, use custom instructions, or unlock features like voice conversations and custom instructions, which are capabilities associated with a persistent account.

    In addition, this extra-free version of ChatGPT will have “slightly more restrictive content policies,” the company said.
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  • University of South Florida (USF) Will Open a New College Dedicated to AI In 2025

    University of South Florida (USF) Will Open a New College Dedicated to AI In 2025

    IBL News | New York

    The University of South Florida (USF) plans to launch a college of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and computing in Fall 2025, seeking to position itself as a national leader in AI.

    The college would offer undergraduate and graduate programs to prepare students for in-demand careers in AI.

    This college will be located in the Tampa Bay area, already a hub for the tech industry.

    With this initiative, the university wants to respond to the shortage of qualified talent in AI skills. “The demand for professionals skilled in these areas continues to grow, along with the need for more research to better understand how to utilize powerful new technologies in ways that improve our society,” USF President Rhea Law says.

    In 2023, it established an AI graduate certificate while urging its faculty to incorporate the subject in the classroom.

    Today, about 200 USF faculty members are already researching related subjects.

    Last year, the National Science Foundation reportedly awarded more than $800 million for AI-related research.
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  • Apple Unveils New Methods for AI Multimodal Models

    Apple Unveils New Methods for AI Multimodal Models

    IBL News | New York

    Apple researchers presented in a paper new methods for training multimodal LLM on both text and images in what seems to be a significant advance for Generative AI and future Apple products.

    The research, posted this month, was described in a paper titled “MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training”.

    The largest 30B parameter model showed a strong ability to learn from only a handful of examples and reason over multiple images.

    This multimodal model benchmarks compete with GPT-4V and Gemini Pro.

    The model was trained on a carefully curated mix of image captions, image-text data, and text-only data.

    Experts say that Apple’s level of detail is a big departure for the brand, and represents a massive win for the open-source community.

  • OpenAI Shares Seven Artistic Videos Produced With ‘Sora’

    OpenAI Shares Seven Artistic Videos Produced With ‘Sora’

    IBL News | New York

    OpenAI released yesterday seven videos generated by its new realistic text–and image–to video tool ‘Sora‘ – which remains out of reach to the public.

    A select group of filmmakers, visual artists, creative directors, designers, advertising agencies, and musicians who were given access to the ‘Sora’ model showcased examples of their artistic work, along with early thoughts on how they can see this powerful tool fitting into their workflows and businesses. [See below.]

    The San Francisco-based research lab said, “We have gained valuable feedback from the creative community, helping us to improve our model.”

    “While we have many improvements to make to Sora, we’re already getting a glimpse of how the model can help creatives bring ideas to reality.”
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    Shy Kids – “Air Head”

    Based in Toronto, Shy Kids is a multimedia production company that utilized Sora for their short film about a balloon man. Walter, who directed Air Head, remarks that “as great as Sora is at generating things that appear real, what excites us is its ability to make things that are totally surreal. A new era of abstract expressionism.”

     

    Paul Trillo, Director

    Paul Trillo, a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and director stated, “Working with Sora is the first time I’ve felt unchained as a filmmaker.” His experimental videos reflect this approach: “Not restricted by time, money, or other people’s permission, I can ideate and experiment in bold and exciting ways.”

     

    Nik Kleverov, Creative Director / Native Foreign

    Native Foreign, an Emmy-nominated creative agency from Los Angeles, California, used Sora “to visualize concepts and rapidly iterate on creative for brand partners.” Co-founder Nik Kleverov suggests that budgetary restraints no longer have to entirely shape the narrative of creativity.

     

    August Kamp, Artist/Musician

    August Kamp, a musician, researcher, creative activist, and multidisciplinary artist, said, “Sora represents a real turning point for me as an artist whose scope has always been limited by imagination being at odds with means.”

     

    Josephine Miller, Creative Director

    Josephine Miller, Co-Founder and Creative Director of London-based Oraar Studio specializing in the design of 3D visuals, augmented reality, and digital fashion, stated, “Sora has opened up the potential to bring to life ideas I’ve had for years, ideas that were previously technically impossible.” “The ability to rapidly conceptualize at such a high level of quality is not only challenging my creative process but also helping me evolve in storytelling. It’s enabling me to translate my imagination with fewer technical constraints.”

     

    Don Allen Stevenson III, Digital AR/XR Artist

    Starting his career at DreamWorks Animation, Don Allen III is a multidisciplinary creator, speaker, and consultant who collaborates with major tech and entertainment companies on mixed reality, virtual reality, and AI applications. “For a long time, I’ve been making augmented reality hybrid creatures that I think would be fun combinations in my head. Now I have a much easier way of prototyping the ideas before I fully build out the 3-D characters to place in spatial computers.” Don cites Sora’s “weirdness” as its greatest strength.

     

    Alex Reben, Sculptor/Artist and OpenAI’s Artist In Residence

    Alexander Reben is an artist who has spent the last decade creating work that explores the humor and absurdity of human nature in artificial intelligence. “The prospect of transforming video into 3D models intrigued me, as it hinted at propelling the AI system beyond its initial scope.”