What is a transformer in artificial intelligence, and why is it the base of most modern AI models?

Transformer in Artificial Intelligence powers over 90% of modern AI models today. Introduced by researchers at Google in 2017, the Transformer architecture changed machine learning forever. It helps ...
BarrieToday

Indigenous students 'byte' into cyber-security at Barrie ops centre

Our students start off knowing nothing. By the time they're done, they can walk into places like (Kyndryl) and hopefully get good jobs as security analysts,' says team leader ...

Ex-Meta AI chief Yann LeCun's AMI raises $1.03 billion for alternative AI approach

March 10 (Reuters) - Advanced Machine Intelligence, the startup founded by former Meta Platforms chief AI scientist Yann ...
The New York Times

Former Meta A.I. Chief’s Start-Up Is Valued at $3.5 Billion

Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, founded by Yann LeCun and other ex-Meta researchers, has raised more than $1 billion from investors. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco Late last year, Yann ...

Andrej Karpathy's new open source 'autoresearch' lets you run hundreds of AI experiments a night — with revolutionary implications

An AI agent reads its own source code, forms a hypothesis for improvement (such as changing a learning rate or an architecture depth), modifies the code, runs the experiment, and evaluates the results ...
National Geographic news

This scientist is racing to predict deadly volcanic mudslides

One of the most deadly and dangerous volcano hazards isn’t lava. Mudflows called lahars can come without clear warning. In June 2024, early career geologist Gustavo Béjar López traveled to Guatemala ...