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convince us that the company has not lost the AI ​​train

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Panos Panay, dressed in rigorous black, launched himself to give his first great Keynote as an Amazon employee. Not long ago, but with Microsoft where I was the head of the hardware divison. Your mission here is even more complex, because Try to show that Amazon has not lost the AI ​​train. And to achieve this, he was in charge of presenting the new version of Alexa. A supervitaminated with AI. During the presentation Panos Panay tried first to defend Alexa’s legacy, a voice assistant who according to this manager attracts millions of new customers every month. It is a unique statement, especially when it is evident that in recent times that technology has been far behind the modern models of generative. Alexa: 11 things we can do with Alexa and 5 that still does not For Amazon it was not enough to integrate a model of AI capable of explaining with a synthetic voice how to make a recipe. “You will not buy the ingredients and will not send an invitation to your friends for dinner. A chatbot of AI does not take us to what is our vision for Alexa,” he explained during the event. AND that’s where Alexa+ arrivesAlexa’s new version. An AI technology with which Amazon wants to change everything: we are facing an agthic that is capable of doing things for us. Not only to answer questions, but to take advantage of your integration with other devices and applications to perform actions. In the demo shown by Panay Alexa made a reservation in a restaurant, sent a message to the kangaroo and added everything to the calendar. Not only that: it was also shown as Alexa+ is now much more conversational – here the new models and the recognition of natural language have done a good job – and is able to interact with the home automation of our home, for example. In his official statementAmazon describes Alexa+ as smarter, conversational, personalized and capable of “doing things”, that is, completing tasks. In many cases, completing these tasks will make it necessary to give access to our data – you, contacts, information with which we want me to work – to this model of AI. According to Amazon, Alexa+ has been trained so that he is able to recognize the tone to adapt to conversation. If he sees us agitated, for example, he will try to calm us down – he who noticed in the demo of Panos, for example. There is another important element in that interaction. Alexa stores and remembers the data you are giving to be able to use them in the future. For example, user restaurants preferences or tastes about certain dishes or ingredients. In the demos it could be seen how the interface of the connected screens Amazon Echo has undergone important changes. For example, it shows an animation at the bottom of the screen when “thinking”. Something since it is almost standard and we have seen in Gemini or Apple Intelligence. There are more animations to represent that Alexa is in action, and Amazon calls them “Alexicons”. Home automation is one of the areas in which this type of interaction with AI is enhanced, and Amazon has created a specific widget for home automation in the interface of its smart screens. Natural language – to speak as we would normally, but with these devices – is the focus when controlling all kinds of options and actions. In development …

France has thousands of kilometers of unused train tracks. So you are covering them with solar panels

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Solar panels and wind turbines have placed us in a complicated decision: aesthetics or generating electricity? Beyond Impact on living beings of the environment in which these renewable projects are installed, it is undeniable that They have a huge visual impact. That’s why, New transparent solar panels for windows or hide them on roads They sound like a great idea. In Switzerland they have developed a project for Place solar panels on the train tracksand now France has copied the idea. Invisible panels. With the name of ‘Solveig Project’, the French rail operator SNCF It has developed, through its Arep subsidiary, a project to create a solar plant that can be deployed on the roads that the company controls. They explode about 32,000 kilometers of lines, so, if the project is successful, the potential is huge. The idea is simple, but ingenious: take advantage of the rails to install solar panels, while batteries and investors are stored in modular containers. For now, Solveig is a pilot project that has started with the installation of eight solar panels at the Achères Technical Center, where they will be tested for six months. Facilities. Having a storage solution such as containers, which include investors and batteries, it is possible for the company to transport these assets as far as it is needed. It also facilitates their installation. As Comment the Director of Innovation of AREP to PV Magazine, the development of a photovoltaic panel transport system through ISO containersas well as its installation on the roads, “it facilitates both the deployment of the panels and the reversibility of the installation.” The operation does not require a complex installation, since a mechanical arm is responsible for downloading the panels, which are subsequently fixed to the tracks to prevent the wind from moving them. And, being temporary, does not require foundations. In addition, the containers are modular and the rail infrastructure is not compromised. Self -consumption. The idea is that this solar solution feeds the internal consumption needs of SNFC, as well as local uses around the facilities. The potential is gigantic, but, although AREP considers that it is possible to export this solution to both Europe and the rest of the world, we must wait to see the results of the pilot project. In addition, the idea would be to implement this system in out -of -service railways, all to add energy to the network that operates SNCF, since 80% of the national trains of the same work with electricity. In addition, he has the commitment To deploy 1,000 MW for 2030, and fill the panel tracks would be a good support. Next steps. The following steps of the Solveig project will focus on improving system efficiency and reducing costs to make it viable on a large scale. Although there is still no definite calendar for industrialization, the potential is evident: SNCF has more than 113,800 hectares of operational land that could become authentic solar parks over rails. In short, if the project gives good results, it is only a matter of time before more countries are uploaded to this new “train” of renewable energy. And, speaking of Switzerland, they are very committed to not shaving their green fields and, apart from the panels on the train tracks, also They are installing them on road walls. We just hope this experiment Do not leave like the one on the solar roadalso in France. Images | SNCF, Arep In Xataka | The bats of Spain live times of uncertainty. The reason, according to the CSIC: the wind turbines

Meta emails reveal that he downloaded 81.7 TB of books with copyright via Bittorrent to train their AI models

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In the legal process Kadrey against goal Mark Zuckerberg’s company is accused of having used works protected by copyright to train their artificial intelligence models. A few weeks ago it was revealed that Zuckerberg had approved to use pirate booksbut now new and powerful evidence of this looting arrive. Revealed emails. He “Appendix a“The case includes several mail email messages from the finish Do that data collection in October 2022. “Download with torrents from a company’s laptop does not seem a good idea”. In April 2023 Nikolay Bashlykov, one of those responsible for carrying out this data collection, joking including emojis and indicated that the company would have to be careful with the IP from which they downloaded the data. Goal knew the risks. In September of that year Bashlykov already stopped using emoticons and warned that using torrents would imply acting as “seeds” so that others also download them, and “that might not be legally legally.” These debates are proof that Meta knew that this type of activity was illegal, according to the authors who have sued the company. Erasing the footprints. In a Internal message Meta Frank Zhang researcher indicated how the company avoided using its servers by downloading this data set to “avoid” “the risk that anyone can draw the seed” and who downloaded that data. 81.7 TB of data. As they point out In Ars TechnicaThe evidence shows that Meta downloaded at least 81.7 the terabytes of data from various libraries offered by those books protected by copyright. In a New document The legal process indicated that at least 35.7 TB had been downloaded from sites such as Z-Library or Libgen (which It ended up closing last summer). Goal wants to dismiss those charges. Goal has presented a motion to dismiss those accusations indicating that there was no evidence that any book was downloaded by finishing employees through Torrent or that they were later distributed by goal. In Xataka we have contacted the company, and we will update this news if we receive comments on the case. Loot on the Internet fire. These data affect the debatable practices that AI companies are using to train their models. We saw it With Googleand of course also with Openai, who used millions of texts to train Chatgpt, and Many of them had copyright. Perplexity was in the spotlight after discovering that He skipped the bullfighter Internet rules to avoid payment walls and feed your AI model. Internet robberies are being normalized. The amazing thing about all this is that the fact that all companies are skipping the norms and violating copyright seems to be normalizing the looting of the Internet. It almost does not give time to scandal and we give it almost as a policy of consummate facts to be able to follow ours. Is this really a “fair use”? All companies are shielded in the concept of “fair use” (“Fair Use”). This concept developed in Anglo -Saxon law allows the limited use of protected material without being necessary to ask for permission to do so. Copyright rapes have not stopped arriving in the world of generative AI, but they seem to be in the background while these giants thrive. In Xataka | 5,000 “tokens” of my blog are being used to train an AI. I have not given my permission

Amazon lost the AI ​​train, but wants to recover it. The new Alexa with ia will arrive this month to try

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Something happens to Amazon. He has been delayed in the AI ​​segment for more than two years. At least that is what seems to the user: it does not have a chatgpt rival, and although it has developed some own models, they do not compete at the moment with those of OpenAi, Google or goal. However, it seems that it will finally try to catch up. There will be news on February 26. We will have to mark that date on the calendar, because it will be when Amazon will finally present its strategy in this area. The company led by Andy Jassy He has sent invitations To various means to notify them that he will celebrate an event with a single protagonist: Alexa. Hello, new Alexa. The event will be presented by Panos Panay, who directed the Microsoft hardware division and will now present the renewed Amazon voice assistant. According to Reuters On February 14, the company’s managers will go to a special meeting to finally decide whether that new version of Alexa is prepared to come to light. Project development It has been chaos according to sources close to it. Waiting for a “remarkable” assistant with a lot of AI. We have been talking about that new version for months that some point to the call “remarkable Alexa” (“Alexa”). The great jump will be provided by the generative AI that will be available in the product and that will theoretically enhance its conversational capacity. Anthropic as a partner? It will be interesting to know which model of AI will be behind the new Alexa. Amazon has invested Friolera of 8,000 million dollars In Anthropic, Claude developer, so it seems feasible to be based on that model. But be careful, because Google too Invested 1,000 million dollars In that company of AI and they also have their own model, Gemini, which could also be an option in the renewed Alexa. There are other possibilities, of course: it is known that Amazon was working In its colossal LLM, Olympusthat it is rumored that it would have two billion parameters, approximately twice as much as GPT-4 of OpenAi. An opportunity for echo. Amazon has a spectacular opportunity here to give a new life to its smart speakers, the Amazon Echo, who were the great excuse to try to take advantage of Alexa. Achieve it, of course, will depend a lot on the quality of the service and if it really represents a substantial improvement of its options. Alexa promised to get us to speak much more with our machines (specifically, with the Echo speakers), but the truth is that few users took advantage of them for something other than establish alarms or ask about time. And for Amazon. Achieving, for example, using Alexa in a “agricultural” way, would make them not only respond to things, but did them for us. They are already able to reproduce a song or a series on the Fire TV Stick, for example, but here the possibilities grow. For example, when combining those AI models with the immense catalog of Amazon products. Ask him to make the purchase or find a certain product and save us thus time (and perhaps money) are some obvious possibilities that could take advantage of this new version of Alexa. Subscribe to Alexa. Rumors suggest that Alexa’s renewed version will be available only through a subscription. That imposes clear doubts About its success, especially when so many other models are available for free and are already very powerful for certain scenarios. If we effectively have a “premium” payment, Amazon will have to have powerful arguments to convince us that it is worth paying for that service. In Xataka | “Telephone, come my life”: Anthropic’s agent wants to change our real lives

OpenAi has taken everything he wanted from the Internet to train his AI. Now accuses Depseek of stealing his data

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The models of AI of Deepseek They are really good. They show it comparative evidence we publish yesterday and that put it at the level of chatgpt, Claude or Gemini. That has unleashed praises, but also suspicion. There are people who do not believe that training deepseek It has cost just 5.6 million dollarsbut also now in Openai they accuse Depseek of something else. Deepseek, you are using our data without permission. Openai spokesmen have indicated Financial Times They have discovered evidence that “distillate” techniques have been used from OpenAi models used by Depseek. What is that of “distilled” in AI? Yesterday we talk about how Depseek developers have used a large number of techniques to achieve such an efficient model. Among them stands out for reinforcement learningbut it is also known that they use models distillate. In this technique a smaller “student model” is taught to behave as a larger and more advanced “teacher model”. Data of the “teacher model” are used so that the small model is faster and more efficient, but equally intelligent in specific tasks. Use not allowed. The distillate or distillation of models is a common practice in the industry, but the terms of OpenAi service prohibit that their models be used for this purpose. Thus, it is specified that users cannot “copy” none of their services or “use the output (of Openai models) to develop models that compete with Openai.” OpenAI and Microsoft have already investigated this. According to Bloombergboth companies analyzed last accounts that were being used to take advantage of their chatbots and that apparently belonged to Deepseek developers. They used Openai’s API, but there were suspicions that they had violated the terms of service by taking advantage of that access to make distillate of their models. Many do. David Sacks, responsible for AI in Donald Trump’s team, alerted him to what was happening and said there was evidence that Depseek had used OpenAi data. Spokesmen of the company led by Sam Altman indicated that “we know that companies of the People’s Republic of China – and others – are constantly trying to distill the models of leading companies in AI in the US.” The thief is believed that everyone is of his condition. The ironic thing here is that Openai has not had scruples when collecting internet data to train their models, also violating the terms of service of those platforms. Last year it was discovered for example how transcribed a million youtube hours To train GPT-4. Timnit Gebru, famous for his controversial dismissal From Google, I commented on LinkedIn that Openai “must be the most insufferable company in the world.” And he continued: “They can steal the entire world and swallow all possible resources. But no one can give them their own medicine not even a bit.” If you are on the Internet, it can be used, right? Other companies They do exactly the sameand are shielded in the argumetno of “fair use.” They collect Any public content On the Internet without asking users or permission or platforms. Not only that: it is suspected that in many cases these models are trained with works Protected by copyrightsomething that has resulted in numerous demands. Image | Xataka with Grok In Xataka | The next phase of AI is not to see who invests more but who invests less

Nike sells to $ 45 one of his best shoes to train

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Within the New Year resolutions, they are always pointed out to exercise and a good way to start is with the appropriate implements such as, for example; Good training shoes that cushion the footsteps and avoid injuries. And an option that is calling consumers’ attention is The Nike Promina brand walk shoe which previously cost $ 65 and now on offer is price of $ 45. Until the moments, the consumers have described this shoe as “perfect” to train with 4.5 of 5, Not only for its price so affordable for the 30% discount but also provides comfort and is of high quality. Some clients have already left their comments on the Nike website pointing out that: “Comfort and support are phenomenal! The damping is incredible! I love walking with them! They are a very nice footwear”, Says a buyer, while another emphasizes that“ they are very comfortable. Without a doubt, I would recommend them to anyone looking for comfort, ”said a client. According to the brand, this model has several colors such as Dusty Cactus/White/Black and sizes from 6 to 15 for men. “I work in a warehouse and on the way between 28,000 and 30,000 steps per day, and needed some shoes that were comfortableneither too soft nor too rigid. These were a perfect combination of comfort, ”a user wrote. Continue reading: –Walmart “Give” ideal furniture for extra storage: from $ 300 to $ 60–Target will reduce its diversity and inclusion programs–5 Sam’s Club products if you live retirement (Tagstotranslate) Discounts

In the middle of a huge “train of storms”, AEMET has just pronounced the most anticipated word of winter: snow

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The rain no respite and he’s not going to give it. Neither the rain, nor the winds, nor the snow. While the storm Herminia full of red notices the entire northwest part of the peninsula, the forecasts have us all looking at an Atlantic full of surprises. Among them, snow. What Herminia is doing. In recent days, the entire country has been revolving around Herminia. In some regions (such as Galicia) the intensity of the winds forced to divert flights and cancel trains. The worst, however, had not yet passed: this Monday will be the strongest day of the storm. 16 autonomous communities They have notices from the AEMET. Until Tuesday, Herminia will unfold a temporary more than considerable with wind, waves, rain and snow. But, as we said, Herminia is nothing more than the appetizer. According to predictive models, two new storms are going to cross the peninsula. The first will make its debut on the same Wednesday. In fact, on Tuesday a very cold air mass of polar origin will begin to enter the country. We talk about “temperatures at about 5500 meters altitude (500 hPa)”, explained Sergio Escama in Meteored. But the interesting thing is that we will notice it down here. What will we notice? The winter. Winter in its meteorologically pure state. From Wednesday the general drop in temperatures will be evident and snow will affect to the Cantabrian Mountains, the Pyrenees, the Central System, the Iberian System and other inland areas. The snow level is not clear yet, but is expected to be low. And that will be only the first of the post-Herminia storms. Because, according to AEMET modelsafter a very entertaining Wednesday-Thursday with the snow (and its problems); A busy weekend will follow. That is, the “storm train” extends as far as we can reliably see. This precision is important because, although right now there is a possibility that this second storm will be more intense than the previous ones, the time frame prevents us from being able to estimate its virulence accurately. What can we do? Luckily, The recommendations for now are the same: avoid unnecessary trips; prepare for the cold, wind and snow; and pay attention to weather and civil protection updates. We already know that this is one of the great paradoxes of snow: it is something as wonderful and fascinating as it is full of problems. Image | AEMET In Xataka | The best tips for a snow or hail storm

Woman found dead on New York subway train

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Police reported that the Office of the Medical Examiner New York City is working for determine the cause of death of a woman whose body was found on a subway train. Saturday, officers responded to a 911 call at the Jamaica-179 Street station, where found an “unresponsive, unidentified adult female” on a northbound F trainThe New York Police Department said in a statement. Emergency medical services responded to the scene and pronounced the woman dead. You may be homeless and in your 50s or 60saccording to the New York Post. Police informed the media that the woman was found while a conductor was making a tour of the train’s first stop in the borough of Queens. The woman showed no signs of trauma, the Post said. No arrests have been made and the investigation continues.indicated the New York Police Department. The incident occurs amid a series of high-profile crime stories. New York City subway riders have raised concerns about their safety, suggesting that violence in train cars is becoming an imminent problem in the Big Apple. Keep reading: – The Guatemalan immigrant who set a woman on fire in NY is charged with murder– Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for death penalty for immigrant accused of burning woman in NY– Guatemalan accused of burning woman in NY confessed that he drank a lot and does not remember anything

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