Artificial Intelligence

Posit AI Blog: Optimizers in torch

This is the fourth and last installment in a series introducing torch basics. Initially, we focused on tensors. To illustrate their power, we...

2023 is breaking all sorts of climate records

It’s a lot to make sense of, so for this last newsletter of 2023, let’s take a look back at the year,...

Verbal nonsense reveals limitations of AI chatbots

The era of artificial-intelligence chatbots that seem to understand and use language the way we humans do has begun. Under the hood, these...

ASOF Joins, OLS Regression, and additional summarizers

Since sparklyr.flint, a sparklyr extension for leveraging Flint time series functionalities through sparklyr, was introduced in September, we have made a number of...

Is this the most energy efficient way to build homes?

Passive houses now account for less than 1% of multifamily construction.  It’s a marriage of efficiency and rigorously applied physics, says...

Groundbreaking soft valve technology enabling sensing and control integration in soft robots

Soft inflatable robots have emerged as a promising paradigm for applications that require inherent safety and adaptability. However, the integration of sensing and...

Posit AI Blog: Classifying images with torch

In recent posts, we’ve been exploring essential torch functionality: tensors, the sine qua non of every deep learning framework; autograd, torch’s implementation of...

How 2023 marked the death of anonymity online in China

In reality, it’s already impossible to be fully anonymous online in China. Over the years, to implement a stricter regime of online...

Enhancing trust and protecting privacy in the AI era

At Microsoft we want to empower our customers to harness the full potential of new technologies like artificial intelligence, while meeting their privacy...

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