Hidden geometry explains why kernel methods separate complex data so well

Are two sets of data genuinely different, or is it because of randomness? This question, known as the two-sample testing problem, becomes notoriously difficult in modern datasets, because they are ...

What Happens To AI Training Data After The Model Is Built?

It's not just about making AI smarter, but also about making sure people can trust it and understand how it works.
TechCrunch

Meta will record employees’ keystrokes and use it to train its AI models

Meta has found a new source of training data for its AI models: its own employees. The company plans to use data culled from the mouse movements and keystrokes of its own staff in its pursuit to build ...
Gizmodo

Meta Plans to Turn Its Employees’ Clicks and Keystrokes into AI Training Data

Much has been made about the idea that workers are effectively training their own replacements when they work with AI tools, though most employers won’t directly admit to it. Meta has apparently ...
The New York Times

New PEPFAR Data Show Worrying Declines in Testing and Treatment for H.I.V.

The numbers are the first to quantify the effect of the Trump administration’s shutdown and restarting of a program that has saved millions of lives worldwide. By Apoorva Mandavilli The United ...
Forbes

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data. When Shanna Johnson was winding ...
TechSpot

GitHub Copilot will use your data for AI training by default, but you can opt out

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.
MIT Technology Review

The Pentagon is planning for AI companies to train on classified data, defense official says

The generative AI models used in classified environments can answer questions but don't currently learn from the data they see. That could soon change. The Pentagon is discussing plans to set up ...
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Integrating Data and Computing into K-12 Education Is Critical and Requires Coordinated Approach To Be Effective, Says New Report

WASHINGTON — While computing and data shape nearly every aspect of modern life, efforts to expand data and computing education in K-12 settings have grown rapidly but unevenly, says a new report from ...
Financial Planning

How data security and stress-testing can build AI trust

Blair duQuesnay, lead advisor at Ritholtz Wealth Management in New Orleans, right, interviews Azish Filabi, executive director of the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics in Financial Services at The ...
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Army's Combined Arms Command to integrate Maven C2 smart system into training and education

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. – Leaders at the Combined Arms Command are integrating the use of the Maven Smart System, an artificial intelligence tool, to modernize training and education for ...