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The Curse of Knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone incorrectly assumes that others have the same or enough background to understand each other.
You can avoid the negative effects of the curse of knowledge by constantly questioning your assumptions as to how much exactly your audience knows.
A paper by computer scientists Matyas Bohacek and Hany Farid with the catchy title ‘Nepotistically Trained Generative-AI Models Collapse‘ shows that training AI image generators on AI images quite quickly leads to a deterioration in the quality of output. Farid likened the phenomenon to inbreeding. “If a species inbreeds with their own offspring and doesn’t diversify their gene pool, it can lead to a collapse of the species,” he said.
https://www.creativebloq.com/ai/ai-art/research-shows-ai-image-generators-could-be-their-own-demise
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.12202
Explore 100,000+ copyright-free images from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sources.
How a manually misconfigured and untested server continued running old test code during a live trading session, lead the bot to make $8.65 billion in unintended stock trades in just 28 minutes.
https://benmeer.com/newsletter/staying-calm/
Stress is your body’s way of signaling that something important is happening.
https://light.princeton.edu/publication/2in1-camera/
“We combine these two optical systems in a single camera by splitting the aperture: one half applies application-specific modulation using a diffractive optical element, and the other captures a conventional image. This co-design with a dual-pixel sensor allows simultaneous capture of coded and uncoded images — without increasing physical or computational footprint.”
The EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, which went into effect on August 1, 2024.
This act implements a risk-based approach to AI regulation, categorizing AI systems based on the level of risk they pose. High-risk systems, such as those used in healthcare, transport, and law enforcement, face stringent requirements, including risk management, transparency, and human oversight.
Key provisions of the AI Act include:
For US tech firms, compliance with the EU AI Act is critical due to the EU’s significant market size
FLUX is a creation of Black Forest Labs, with its team primarily consisting of the original StableDiffusion developers.
https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/flux
https://github.com/black-forest-labs/flux
It comes in three models:
ComfyUI implementation :
