BMJ

Causal inference in physical activity epidemiology research: an opportunity for better evidence

Decades of research have established a significant link between physical activity and health, influencing agenda setting, policy making and community awareness.1–4 However, the field continues to ...
Ars Technica

Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...
TechCrunch

Inference startup Inferact lands $150M to commercialize vLLM

The creators of the open source project vLLM have announced that they transitioned the popular tool into a VC-backed startup, Inferact, raising $150 million in seed funding at an $800 million ...
SDxCentral

AI inference crisis: Google engineers on why network latency and memory trump compute

Google researchers have warned that large language model (LLM) inference is hitting a wall amid fundamental problems with memory and networking problems, not compute. In a paper authored by ...
ZDNet

Cloud-native computing is poised to explode, thanks to AI inference work

The CNCF is bullish about cloud-native computing working hand in glove with AI. AI inference is the technology that will make hundreds of billions for cloud-native companies. New kinds of AI-first ...
IEEE

Valuing Training Data via Causal Inference for In-Context Learning

Abstract: In-context learning (ICL) empowers large pre-trained language models (PLMs) to predict outcomes for unseen inputs without parameter updates. However, the efficacy of ICL heavily relies on ...
InfoWorld

AI is all about inference now

You train the model once, but you run it every day. Making sure your model has business context and guardrails to guarantee reliability is more valuable than fussing over LLMs. We’re years into the ...
Forbes

The Rise Of The AI Inference Economy

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the economics of AI. When OpenAI’s ChatGPT first exploded onto the scene in late 2022, it sparked a global obsession ...
EDN

Purpose-built AI inference architecture: Reengineering compute design

Over the past several years, the lion’s share of artificial intelligence (AI) investment has poured into training infrastructure—massive clusters designed to crunch through oceans of data, where speed ...
The Next Platform

Google Shows Off Its Inference Scale And Prowess

If the hyperscalers are masters of anything, it is driving scale up and driving costs down so that a new type of information technology can be cheap enough so it can be widely deployed. The ...
Frontiers

Correlation does not equal causation: the imperative of causal inference in machine learning models for immunotherapy

1 Department of Orthopedics, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China 2 Department of Pharmacy, the Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, ...