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24/01/2025

Ranked: AI Models With the Lowest Hallucination Rates 🤖

What We're Showing The top 15 AI large language models with the lowest hallucination rates. The hallucination rate is the frequency that an LLM generates…

23/01/2025

Since 2010, the training computation of notable AI systems has doubled every six months—

Artificial intelligence has advanced rapidly over the past 15 years, fueled by the success of deep learning.

A key reason for the success of deep learning systems has been their ability to keep improving with a staggering increase in the inputs used to train them — especially computation.

Before deep learning took off around 2010, the amount of computation used to train notable AI systems doubled about every 21 months. But, as you can see in the chart, this has accelerated significantly with the rise of deep learning, now doubling roughly every six months.

As one example of this pace, compared to AlexNet, the system that represented a breakthrough in computer vision in 2012, Google’s system “Gemini 1.0 Ultra” just 11 years later used 100 million times more training computation.

To put this in perspective, training Gemini 1.0 required roughly the same amount of computation as 50,000 high-end graphics cards working nonstop for an entire year.

(This Daily Data Insight was written by Charlie Giattino and Veronika Samborska.)

Read more about how scaling up inputs has made AI more capable in our new article by Veronika Samborska: https://ourworldindata.org/scaling-up-ai Pokaż mniej

The path to recent advanced AI systems has been more about building larger systems than making scientific breakthroughs.

22/01/2025

In 1820, 8 in 10 people worldwide lived on less than $1.90* a day, an extremely low poverty line. 200 years later, it had dropped to 1 in 10 people.

How do we know how many people were in poverty 200 years ago? Where do these numbers come from?

Learn the answers in our article "How do we know the history of extreme poverty?": https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-history-methods

*This is measured in international-$ at 2011 prices, which means it's adjusted for inflation and differences in the cost of living between countries. It's the equivalent of what $1.90 could buy in the US in 2011.

20/01/2025

In 2023, the estimated average rating of trust in others among people aged 16 and older in the EU stood at 5.8 (on a scale from 0 ‘do not trust at all’ to 10 ‘trust completely’). 🤝

Highest in:
🇫🇮 Finland (7.3)
🇷🇴 Romania (7.2)

Lowest in:
🇨🇾 Cyprus (3.6)
🇱🇹 Lithuania (4.3)

Learn more 👉https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250114-2?

17/01/2025

Hello, you guys need an interpreter. Thank you for briefly experiencing what it's like for me and millions of other Deaf people worldwide when we don't have an interpreter and we need to order a coffee, check into a hotel, or complete other daily tasks.

I am very fortunate, though. My employer ensures that I have access to the same information that my hearing colleagues do. Unfortunately, this is not true for many Deaf throughout the world. Interpreters are very expensive and scarce. Where I live in Arizona, there are more than 1.1 million individuals with a hearing loss. And only about 400 licensed interpreters.

So there's scarcity of tools available for us, and our communication options are very limited. This puts us in a survival mode, forcing us to use the resources that are at our disposal. Writing back and forth on paper and pen, or using a smartphone to text is not equivalent to American Sign Language. The details and nuance that make us human are lost in both our personal and business conversations.

So we're bringing the humanity back to these conversations. I've done that by building a platform called OmniBridge. So my team has established this bridge between the Deaf world and the hearing world. Bringing these worlds together without forcing one to adapt to the other. So we're using the power of AI to analyze thousands of signs in ASL and translate them into English. Now, thousands may seem small, but ASL is very complex. With slight nuance and changes in body language it can change the meaning of a sign. For instance, the sign "big." Or "enormous." Today, with the advancement in compute on AI PCs, we're able to run our models locally without relying on the internet, which dramatically increases accessibility.

So we're changing the world through the power of AI. Not just revolutionizing technology, but enhancing that human connection. My team is focused on using the AI PC, and the power of AI to humanize and include to really, truly level the playing field. It's two languages, signed and spoken, in one seamless conversation.

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23,826 views | TEDNext 2024 | October 2024, 01/2025
How AI can bridge the Deaf and hearing worlds
Adam Munder
Software engineer Adam Munder is on a mission to break down communication barriers between the Deaf and hearing worlds. In a live demo, he introduces OmniBridge — an AI platform that translates American Sign Language into English text in real time — and demonstrates how this tech could ensure every conversation can be fully understood, regardless of the participants' hearing abilities. Munder is joined onstage by ASL interpreter Christan Hansen and TED’s Hasiba Haq. (Made in partnership with Intel).

Software engineer Adam Munder is on a mission to break down communication barriers between the Deaf and hearing worlds. In a live demo, he introduces OmniBridge — an AI platform that translates American Sign Language into English text in real time — and demonstrates how this tech could ensure ev...

16/01/2025

Life expectancy has continued to rise in the longest-lived countries—

Record national life expectancies have been climbing for over a century.

In 1840, Swedish women had a life expectancy of 46 years — the highest of any country recorded that year. By 1921, Australia held the record at 63 years.

For most of the 20th century, Iceland, Norway, Australia, and Sweden competed for the top position before being overtaken by Japan in 1984. Hong Kong and Japan have held the records since then.

These countries didn’t merely catch up; they’ve continued to push the limits higher.

Japan added six more years to female life expectancy between 1984 and 2010, rising from 80 to 86 years.

This remarkable rise has resulted from many advances in medicine, public health, and living standards — breaking many predictions of the “limits” of life expectancy.Life expectancy has continued to rise in the longest-lived countries—

Record national life expectancies have been climbing for over a century.

In 1840, Swedish women had a life expectancy of 46 years — the highest of any country recorded that year. By 1921, Australia held the record at 63 years.

For most of the 20th century, Iceland, Norway, Australia, and Sweden competed for the top position before being overtaken by Japan in 1984. Hong Kong and Japan have held the records since then.

These countries didn’t merely catch up; they’ve continued to push the limits higher.

Japan added six more years to female life expectancy between 1984 and 2010, rising from 80 to 86 years.

This remarkable rise has resulted from many advances in medicine, public health, and living standards — breaking many predictions of the “limits” of life expectancy.

https://ourworldindata.org/the-rise-of-maximum-life-expectancy?

Predictions of a maximum limit of life expectancy have been broken again and again.

15/01/2025

How AI could personalize your health care? | Neveen F. Awad | TED@BCG |
Neveen F. Awad works at the intersection of health care, tech and equity. She highlights a broad shift in health care towards hyper-personalized experiences, including AI-powered medical diagnostics, and makes the case for inclusive innovation that benefits everyone, not just a select few.

Neveen F. Awad works at the intersection of health care, tech and equity. She highlights a broad shift in health care towards hyper-personalized experiences, including AI-powered medical diagnostics, and makes the case for inclusive innovation that benefits everyone, not just a select few.

14/01/2025

While the earliest forms of written communication date back to about 3,500-3,000 BCE, for centuries literacy remained a very restricted technology closely associated with the exercise of power. It was only during the Middle Ages that book production started growing, and literacy among the general population slowly started becoming important in the Western World.
https://ourworldindata.org/literacy

13/01/2025

ertainty comes from within.
Priming - for certainty.
We cannot control the outer world, but we can influence it.
We have absolute control of the inner world.

Prime Your Brain to STOP Stress, Anxiety & Fear INSTANTLY
19 maj 2024

Try Tony Robbins Priming routine, a daily affirmations practice rooted in the psychology of success. Priming is the perfect way to set yourself up for whatev...

10/01/2025

Simon Sinek's Advice Will Leave You SPEECHLESS 2.0 | 8 December 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCIu7Ja_TE0
In this motivational and inspirational video, we will hear from Simon Sinek as he talks about leadership, finding your passion, finding your why, rules that will change your life, and much more! Simon Sinek famously said, “Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love, is called passion.” Get Inspired and motivated with this powerful motivational video of Simon Sinek!

(1) Focus on what you want, not what gets in the way of what you want.
(2) Take care of others
(3) Listen first, speak last.
(4) Take accountability for your actions
(5) Practice humility

In this motivational and inspirational video, we will hear from Simon Sinek as he talks about leadership, finding your passion, finding your why, rules that ...

09/01/2025

Global optimism for 2025 is on the rise, despite ongoing conflicts, AI concerns, and climate challenges. According to Ipsos data, 71% of respondents worldwide are optimistic about 2025, a 1% increase from last year and 16% higher than in 2023, which recorded the lowest score since the survey began. However, significant differences exist between countries. Indonesia leads with 90% of respondents feeling optimistic, though this is a slight dip from 91% in 2024.

On the other end of the spectrum, France and Japan show more skepticism, with only 50% and 38% of respondents, respectively, feeling positive about the year ahead. South Korea, despite recent turmoil, has 56% expressing hope for 2025. The U.K. saw a slight decline in optimism, while the U.S. saw a 5% increase, reaching 70%. India, however, experienced the greatest shift, with optimism dropping by 11 percentage points to 76%, despite a negative view of 2024.

08/01/2025

The Unleash AI for Business Summit: Series 9 , free, online
January 28th, 2025, from 9am to 4pm Pacific Time (12pm to 7pm Eastern).

Unleash AI For Business Summit