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Published: 2024-10-09T00:00:00
At the Adobe MAX creativity conference this week, Adobe announced updates to its Adobe Creative Cloud products, including Premiere Pro and After Effects, as well as to Substance 3D products and the Adobe video ecosystem. At the Adobe MAX creativity c...
Published: 2024-10-14T14:00:27
The autonomous driving industry is shaped by rapid technological advancements and the need for standardization of guidelines to ensure the safety of both autonomous vehicles (AVs) and their interaction with human-driven vehicles. At the NVIDIA AI Sum... 
Published: 2024-10-11T17:00:03
In 1999, fans lined up at Blockbuster to rent chunky VHS tapes of The Matrix. Y2K preppers hoarded cash and canned Spam, fearing a worldwide computer crash. Teens gleefully downloaded Britney Spears and Eminem on Napster. But amid the caffeinated fiz...
Published: 2024-10-11T13:00:36
AI can help solve some of the world’s biggest challenges whether climate change, cancer or national security U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm emphasized today during her remarks at the AI for Science, Energy and Security session at the ...
Published: 2024-10-09T20:28:18
Large language models and the applications they power enable unprecedented opportunities for organizations to get deeper insights from their data reservoirs and to build entirely new classes of applications. But with opportunities often come challeng...
Published: 2024-10-09T15:00:32
Image generation models a popular subset of generative AI can parse and understand written language, then translate words into images in almost any style. Editor’s note: This post is part of the AI Decoded series, which demystifies AI by making ...
Published: 2024-10-09T13:00:07
Accelerated computing is sustainable computing, Bob Pette, NVIDIA’s vice president and general manager of enterprise platforms, explained in a keynote at the NVIDIA AI Summit on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. NVIDIA’s accelerated computing isn’t just ef... 
Published: 2024-10-08T18:10:33
New Google agreement could boost development of small modular reactors if they work. On Monday, Google announced an agreement with Kairos Power to purchase nuclear energy from multiple small modular reactors (SMRs), marking ...
Published: 2024-10-15T16:14:00
New text-to-video tool focuses on video pros, made with content owner permission. On Monday, Adobe announced Firefly Video Model, a new AI-powered text-to-video generation tool that can create novel videos from written promp...
Published: 2024-10-14T21:48:23
A quirk in the Unicode standard harbors an ideal steganographic code channel. What if there was a way to sneak malicious instructions into Claude, Copilot, or other top-name AI chatbots and get confidential data out of them ...
Published: 2024-10-14T19:06:27
Partying robots spark debate about accuracy of Musk's "biggest product ever of any kind" vision. Two years ago, Tesla's Optimus prototype was an underwhelming mess of exposed wires that could only operate in a carefully cont...
Published: 2024-10-11T16:30:07
AMD CEO Lisa Su on the MI325X: "This is the beginning, not the end of the AI race." On Thursday, AMD announced its new MI325X AI accelerator chip, which is set to roll out to data center customers in the fourth quarter of th...
Published: 2024-10-11T14:58:35
With China's AI video generators pushing memes into weird territory, it was time to test one out. If 2022 was the year AI image generators went mainstream, 2024 has arguably been the year that AI video synthesis models explo... 
If 2022 was the year AI image generators went mainstream, 2024 has arguably been the year that AI video synthesis models exploded in capability. These models, while not yet perfect, can generate new videos from text descriptions called prompts, still...
Published: 2024-10-09T21:33:34
It's hard enough creating one air-gap-jumping tool. GoldenJackal did it 2x in 5 years. Researchers have unearthed two sophisticated toolsets that a nation-state hacking group possibly from Russia used to steal sensitive data...
Published: 2024-10-09T12:26:26
Zoom is getting one step closer to letting AI avatars attend meetings for you. As part of a broader AI expansion, Zoom announced it will soon let you create an AI avatar of yourself that you can use to send brief messages to your team. To create a di... 
Published: 2024-10-09T13:00:00
From the rise of 3D graphics to the explosion of mobile gaming, technological progress has always driven the gaming industry forward. AI marks the latest chapter in the industry’s development, a chapter that presents both imminent challenges a...
Published: 2024-10-14T16:34:03
For years, the gaming industry seemed like an unstoppable juggernaut, with revenues rising to stratospheric heights on the backs of ever-more-immersive titles and the explosion of mobile gaming. However, as we enter the mid-2020s, there are growing ...
Published: 2024-10-11T18:20:08
Back in August, I cavalierly said that AI couldn’t design a car if it hadn’t seen one first, and I alluded to Henry Ford’s apocryphal statement “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” I’m not backing down on any ...
Published: 2024-10-15T10:08:48
Does ChatGPT treat you the same whether you’re a Laurie, Luke, or Lashonda? Almost, but not quite. OpenAI has analyzed millions of conversations with its hit chatbot and found that ChatGPT will produce a harmful gender or racial stereotype based on a...
Published: 2024-10-15T17:00:00
It feels as though AI is moving a million miles a minute. Every week, it seems, there are product launches, fresh features and other innovations, and new concerns over ethics and privacy. It’s a lot to keep up with. Maybe you wish someone would just ...
Published: 2024-10-15T14:00:00
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. David Baker is sleep-deprived but happy. He’s just won the Nobel prize, after all. The call from the Royal...
Published: 2024-10-15T10:35:03
Organizations are starting the heavy lifting to get real business value from generative AI. As Arnab Chakraborty, chief responsible AI officer at Accenture, puts it, “2023 was the year when clients were amazed with generative AI and the possibilities... 
Published: 2024-10-14T13:00:00
In a second Nobel win for AI, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded half the 2024 prize in chemistry to Demis Hassabis, the cofounder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and John M. Jumper, a director at the same company, for their work on using ...
Published: 2024-10-09T11:32:04
A few months back, China's Robot Era demonstrated the strolling capabilities of its XBot-L humanoid by setting it loose on the Great Wall of China. Now the company has released video footage of two flagship Star1 models racing through the Gobi Desert... 
Published: 2024-10-15T14:03:30
Apple's Machine Learning Research wing has developed a foundational AI model "for zero-shot metric monocular depth estimation." Depth Pro enables high-speed generation of detailed 3D depth maps from a single two-dimensional image.Continue ReadingCate... 
Published: 2024-10-14T13:11:19
The ANYmal quadruped robot not only walks on four legs, it can also roll on four wheels, stand up, throw boxes, and make its way up and down stairs. As if all that wasn't enough, the thing can now also climb ladders.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics... 
Published: 2024-10-11T15:52:26
Researchers have developed an ultrasensitive, human-like robotic ‘finger’ capable of safely performing routine physical examinations like a medical doctor would. They say the ‘robodoctor’ could be seen in medical clinics soon.Continue ReadingCategory... 
Published: 2024-10-10T05:03:13
Feature selection and engineering are critical steps that can significantly impact your model's performance....
Published: 2024-10-12T14:42:20
There are many free datasets online that help you practice and learn....
Published: 2024-10-11T09:00:48
Natural language processing (NLP) is an area of artificial intelligence (AI) aimed at teaching computers to understand written and verbal human language and interact with humans by using such a language....
Published: 2024-10-10T09:00:29
The foundation of any data science project is a thorough understanding of your dataset....
Published: 2024-10-09T15:36:09
Are you looking to make a career in machine learning? If so, this guide is for you....
Published: 2024-10-09T14:57:26
In this post, we present an Amazon Bedrock powered virtual assistant that can transcribe presentation audio and examine it for language use, grammatical errors, filler words, and repetition of words and sentences to provide recommendations as well as Public speaking is a critical skill in today’s world, whether it’s for professional presentations, academic settings, or personal growth. By practicing it regularly, individuals can build confidence, manage anxiety in a healthy way, and develop effec...
Published: 2024-10-15T20:09:26
In this post, we discuss Bria’s family of models, explain the Amazon SageMaker platform, and walk through how to discover, deploy, and run inference on a Bria 2.3 model using SageMaker JumpStart. Clean up After you’re done running the notebook, delete all resources that you created in the process so your billing is stopped. Use the following code: predictor.delete_model() predictor.delete_endpoint() Conclusion With the availabili...
Published: 2024-10-15T20:05:38
In this post, we show how the SageMaker Core SDK simplifies the developer experience while providing API for seamlessly executing various steps in a general ML lifecycle. We also discuss the main benefits of using this SDK along with sharing relevant This also uses resource chaining. Instead of supplying just the endpoint_config_name (in Boto3), you pass the whole endpoint_config object. As we have shown in these steps, SageMaker Core simplifies the development experience by providing an obj...
Published: 2024-10-15T17:37:15
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth is a powerful data labeling service offered by AWS that provides a comprehensive and scalable platform for labeling various types of data, including text, images, videos, and 3D point clouds, using a diverse workforce of Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth is a powerful data labeling service offered by AWS that provides a comprehensive and scalable platform for labeling various types of data, including text, images, videos, and 3D point clouds, using a diverse workforce of...
Published: 2024-10-15T16:13:56
In this post, we show how to create a multimodal chat assistant on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Amazon Bedrock models, where users can submit images and questions, and text responses will be sourced from a closed set of proprietary documents. With recent advances in large language models (LLMs), a wide array of businesses are building new chatbot applications, either to help their external customers or to support internal teams. For many of these use cases, businesses are building Retriev...
Published: 2024-10-14T17:27:55
In this post, we demonstrate how to design fine-grained access controls using Verified Permissions for a generative AI application that uses Amazon Bedrock Agents to answer questions about insurance claims that exist in a claims review system using t Fine-grained authorization: Integration with Amazon Bedrock Agents The ID token issued by Cognito contains the user’s identity and custom attributes. This ID token is passed to the Amazon Bedrock agent, and the Agent Helper Lambda retrieves that...
Published: 2024-10-14T17:25:07
In this post, we show you how to create an AI-powered, event-driven operations assistant that automatically responds to operational events. The assistant can filter out irrelevant events (based on your organization’s policies), recommend actions, cre <replace with your Slack app verification token> SLACK_ACCESS_TOKEN=<replace with your Slack Bot User OAuth Token value> Deploy the solution using the AWS CDK Deploy the processing microservice to your worker account (the worker accou...
Published: 2024-10-11T19:47:24
In this post, we describe how using the capabilities of Amazon SageMaker has accelerated Indeed’s AI research, development velocity, flexibility, and overall value in our pursuit of using Indeed’s unique and vast data to leverage advanced LLMs. This post is cowritten with Ethan Handel and Zhiyuan He from Indeed.com. Indeed is the world’s #1 job site and a leading global job matching and hiring marketplace. Our mission is to help people get jobs. At Indeed, we serve over 350 million global...
Published: 2024-10-11T19:22:20
In this post, we demonstrate how Amazon Bedrock Guardrails can improve the robustness of the agent framework. We are able to stop our chatbot from responding to non-relevant queries and protect personal information from our customers, ultimately impr As we can expect, our retail chatbot should decline to answer invalid queries because it has no relationship with its purpose in our use case. Cost considerations The following are important cost considerations: There are no separate charge...
Published: 2024-10-11T19:09:40
In this post, we dive deep into the vector database options available as part of Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and the applicable use cases, and look at working code examples. Clean up When you’re done with this solution, clean up the resources you created: Amazon Bedrock knowledge bases for OpenSearch Serverless and Aurora OpenSearch Serverless collection Aurora DB instance S3 bucket SageMaker Studio...
Published: 2024-10-11T19:07:32
Amazon Q Business recently added support for administrators to modify the default access control list (ACL) crawling feature for data source connectors. Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, AI powered assistant with enterprise-grade security and pri Amazon Q Business recently added support for administrators to modify the default access control list (ACL) crawling feature for data source connectors. Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, AI powered assistant with enterprise-grade security and pr...
Published: 2024-10-11T00:23:02
In this post, we share how SKT customizes Anthropic Claude models for telco-specific Q&A regarding technical telecommunication documents of SKT using Amazon Bedrock. This post has been co-written with Seunghyun Jeong, Sunwoo Lee and Eric Davis from SK Telecom. SK Telecom (SKT), South Korea’s leading telecommunications company serving 30 million customers, is at the forefront of AI innovation. In line with its AI...
Published: 2024-10-10T16:38:52
In this post, we dive into the Rufus inference deployment using AWS chips and how this enabled one of the most demanding events of the year Amazon Prime Day. Amazon Rufus is a shopping assistant experience powered by generative AI. It generates answers using relevant information from across Amazon and the web to help Amazon customers make better, more informed shopping decisions. With Rufus, customers can...
Published: 2024-10-10T15:39:42
In this post we discuss how you can maintain access to Lookout for Vision after it is closed to new customers, some alternatives to Lookout for Vision, and how you can export your data from Lookout for Vision to migrate to an alternate solution. Amazon Lookout for Vision, the AWS service designed to create customized artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) computer vision models for automated quality inspection, will be discontinuing on October 31, 2025. New customers will not b...
Published: 2024-10-10T15:33:01
In this post, we will demonstrate how to set up Slack connector for Amazon Q Business to sync communications from both public and private channels, reflective of user permissions. Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative AI-powered assistant that you can configure to answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and complete tasks based on your enterprise data. Amazon Q Business offers over 40 built-in connect...
Published: 2024-10-09T22:03:52
In this post, we provide an overview of the alternate AWS services that offer anomaly detection capabilities for customers to consider transitioning their workloads to. Amazon Lookout for Metrics is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) to detect anomalies in virtually any time-series business or operational metrics such as revenue performance, purchase transactions, and customer acquisit...
Published: 2024-10-09T20:02:04
In this post, we collaborate with the team working on PyTorch at Meta to showcase how the torchtitan library accelerates and simplifies the pre-training of Meta Llama 3-like model architectures. We showcase the key features and capabilities of torcht Initiate the model training on SageMaker: estimator.fit(inputs=data_channels) Performance numbers The following table summarizes the performance numbers for the various training runs with different optimizations. Setup Co...
Published: 2024-10-08T22:10:44
In this blog post, we explore a comprehensive approach to time series forecasting using the Amazon SageMaker AutoMLV2 Software Development Kit (SDK). SageMaker AutoMLV2 is part of the SageMaker Autopilot suite, which automates the end-to-end machine Step 3: Fit the model To start the training process, call the fit method on your AutoMLV2 job object. This method requires specifying the input data’s location in Amazon S3 and whether SageMaker should wait for the job to complete before proc...
Published: 2024-10-08T17:39:14
In this post, we present a solution that harnesses the power of generative AI to streamline the user onboarding process for financial services through a digital assistant. In this post, we present a solution that harnesses the power of generative AI to streamline the user onboarding process for financial services through a digital assistant. Onboarding new customers in the banking industry is a crucial step in the cust...
Published: 2024-10-08T17:39:06
A new computer simulation of how our brains develop and grow neurons has been built. Along with improving our understanding of how the brain works, researchers hope that the models will contribute to neurodegenerative disease research and, someday, s...
Published: 2024-10-10T12:48:54
Scientists have developed and successfully tested a new chatbot based on artificial intelligence: 'UroBot' was able to answer questions from the urology specialist examination with a high degree of accuracy, surpassing both other language models and ...
Published: 2024-10-09T12:25:09
Engineers have worked out how to give robots complex instructions without electricity, which could free up more space in the robotic 'brain' for them to 'think'. Mimicking how some parts of the human body work, researchers have transmitted a series o...
Published: 2024-10-08T20:14:04
Simplifying secure decision tree training; Improving accuracy of audio content detection; A novel neurosymbolic system for converting text to tables; New video series: AI for Business Transformation; TEE security protections for container workloads. Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. NEW RESEARCH Securely Training Decision Trees Efficientl...
Published: 2024-10-09T16:00:00
Public opinion is against him, as comments on LinkedIn go dark Brian Krzanich's return to the CEO lounge has gone down like a lead balloon. The former Intel boss, who famously resigned after a highly publicized relationship with a subordinate, not to ...
Published: 2024-10-15T13:45:06
Who also worries misinformation on social media could threaten liquidity The governor of India's Reserve Bank, Shri Shaktikanta Das, yesterday warned that AI and the platforms that provide it could worsen systemic risk to the nation's financial s ...
Published: 2024-10-15T03:42:10
AI model safety only goes so far Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, despite its reputation as one of the better behaved generative AI models, can still be convinced to emit racist hate speech and malware. ...
Published: 2024-10-12T10:30:07
Feeding your FM model with the right data is key to delivering differentiated user experiences Webinar As enterprises increasingly adopt generative AI (GenAI), a need for customization can arise. ...
Published: 2024-10-11T17:53:15
We're sure colleagues will find your lookalike, soundalike avatar's missive very warm and human Zoom Video Communications intends to offer office workers the ability to communicate with colleagues using an AI lookalike that speaks from a script using ...
Published: 2024-10-11T14:04:11
A week after saying remote ID verification tech is unreliable, the GSA is expanding access to other agencies The US government's General Services Administration's (GSA) facial matching login service is now generally available to the public and other ...
Published: 2024-10-10T20:45:12
Ryzen AI PRO 300 series leans heavily on Microsoft's Copilot+ PC requirements AMD has introduced its latest processors designed for business applications. The line-up includes the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 375, Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370, and Ryzen AI 7 HX PRO 36 ...
Published: 2024-10-10T18:00:12
Claims its models aren't making threat actors more sophisticated - but is helping debug their code OpenAI has alleged the company disrupted a spear-phishing campaign that saw a China-based group target its employees through both their personal and co ...
Published: 2024-10-10T04:05:39
Let s just hope they don t give the literature award to a bot, too This year's Nobel Prizes are shaping up to be a triumph for AI. After awarding the physics prize to early AI pioneers yesterday, the chemistry prize has now gone to the creators of AI ...
Published: 2024-10-09T18:29:25
Surely Redmond knows that almost nobody has tamed unstructured data? Opinion A year ago it looked as if the world could be Microsoft's oyster. The software giant dominated the enterprise, was catching up to cloudy rivals, and then managed to purchas ...
Published: 2024-10-09T07:29:06
Can handle edge inferencing or run a 64 display command center GPU-enhanced servers can typically pack up to eight of the accelerators, but Supermicro has built a box that manages to fit 18 of them inside an air-cooled chassis that'll eat up just 3U ...
Published: 2024-10-09T05:32:14
Picks Singapore as APAC hub and outlines desire to get governments onside Chat GPT-maker Open AI announced today that it's appointed a new boss to lead its international expansion. ...
Published: 2024-10-09T04:58:10
Artificial intelligence still no substitute for the real thing Microsoft's LinkedIn will update its User Agreement next month with a warning that it may show users generative AI content that's inaccurate or misleading. ...
Published: 2024-10-09T00:32:15
Hallucinations, made-up facts... and that's just the human politicians Generative AI has reached its logical conclusion with a chatbot ready to stand in for a congressional incumbent at a debate. ...
Published: 2024-10-08T18:15:06
Character.AI lets users create bots in the likeness of any person without requiring their consent....
Published: 2024-10-15T20:28:38
A new smart collar aims to give pet owners the ability to talk to their fur babies. Or at least fake it....
Published: 2024-10-15T17:00:00
A new type of smart glasses from Emteq Labs have cameras pointed inwards, aiming to track your life and quantify how you’re feeling and what you’re eating....
Published: 2024-10-15T13:00:00
Reality Defender, a startup focused on AI detection, has developed a tool to verify human participants in video calls and catch fraudsters using AI deepfakes for scams....
Published: 2024-10-15T12:00:00
Global Intelligence claims its Cybercheck technology can help cops find key evidence to nail a case. But a WIRED investigation reveals the smoking gun often appears far less solid....
Published: 2024-10-15T11:00:00
Bots that “remove clothes” from images have run rampant on the messaging app, allowing people to create nonconsensual deepfake images even as lawmakers and tech companies try to crack down....
Published: 2024-10-15T10:30:00
Back in 2021, Morgan Neville thought using AI to recreate the late Anthony Bourdain’s voice would be an interesting Easter egg in his documentary. He ended up being a canary in Hollywood’s AI coal mine....
Published: 2024-10-13T11:30:00
Some companies let you opt out of allowing your content to be used for generative AI. Here’s how to take back (at least a little) control from ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and more....
Published: 2024-10-12T13:30:00
Scammers in Southeast Asia are increasingly turning to AI, deepfakes, and dangerous malware in a way that makes their pig butchering operations even more convincing....
Published: 2024-10-12T10:00:00
OpenAI promised payouts to custom GPT creators. Now most are turning to outside sources for revenue....
Published: 2024-10-11T10:00:00
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