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Customer service departments across industries are facing increased call volumes, high customer service agent turnover, talent shortages and shifting customer expectations. Customers expect both self-help options and real-time, person-to-person suppo...
Published: 2024-09-06T18:00:13
The business transformations that generative AI brings come with risks that AI itself can help secure in a kind of flywheel of progress. Companies who were quick to embrace the open internet more than 20 years ago were among the first to reap its ben...
Published: 2024-09-05T15:00:58
Volvo Cars’ new, fully electric EX90 is making its way from the automaker’s assembly line in Charleston, South Carolina, to dealerships around the U.S. To ensure its customers benefit from future improvements and advanced safety features and capabili... 
Published: 2024-09-05T05:01:19
It all started at Berlin’s Merantix venture studio in 2022, when Silviu Homoceanu and Max Fischer agreed AI could play a big role in improving manufacturing. So the two started Deltia.ai, which runs NVIDIA Metropolis vision AI on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Or...
Published: 2024-09-04T15:00:46
Editor’s note: This post is part of the AI Decoded series, which demystifies AI by making the technology more accessible, and showcases new hardware, software, tools and accelerations for RTX PC users. At the IFA Berlin consumer electronics and home ... 
Published: 2024-09-04T13:00:05
Supply of processors helps Chinese startups advance AI technology despite US restrictions. The cost of renting cloud services using Nvidia’s leading artificial intelligence chips is lower in China than in the US, a sign that the advanced processor... 
The cost of renting cloud services using Nvidia’s leading artificial intelligence chips is lower in China than in the US, a sign that the advanced processors are easily reaching the Chinese market despite Washington’s export restrictions. Four small-...
Published: 2024-09-06T18:31:08
Feds say it's the first US criminal case involving artificially inflated music streaming. On Wednesday, federal prosecutors charged a North Carolina musician with defrauding streaming services of $10 million through an elaborate scheme involving A... 
On Wednesday, federal prosecutors charged a North Carolina musician with defrauding streaming services of $10 million through an elaborate scheme involving AI, as reported by The New York Times. Michael Smith, 52, allegedly used AI to create hundreds...
Published: 2024-09-05T15:02:40
NaNoWriMo refuses to condemn AI as accessibility tool, faces criticism from writers. Over the weekend, the nonprofit National Novel Writing Month organization (NaNoWriMo) published an FAQ outlining its position on AI, calling categorical rejection... 
Over the weekend, the nonprofit National Novel Writing Month organization (NaNoWriMo) published an FAQ outlining its position on AI, calling categorical rejection of AI writing technology "classist" and "ableist." The statement caused a backlash onli...
Published: 2024-09-04T21:38:48
Top venture firms back SSI to develop "safe" AI with teams in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv. On Wednesday, Reuters reported that Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a new AI startup cofounded by OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1 bil... 
On Wednesday, Reuters reported that Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a new AI startup cofounded by OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1 billion in funding. The 3-month-old company plans to focus on developing what it calls "safe...
Published: 2024-09-04T16:42:21
AI opponents say Gates, Altman, and others will guide Oprah through an AI "sales pitch." On Thursday, ABC announced an upcoming TV special titled, "AI and the Future of Us: An Oprah Winfrey Special." The one-hour show, set to air on September 12, ... 
On Thursday, ABC announced an upcoming TV special titled, "AI and the Future of Us: An Oprah Winfrey Special." The one-hour show, set to air on September 12, aims to explore AI's impact on daily life and will feature interviews with figures in the te...
Published: 2024-09-03T19:59:50
Google says you can even use Ask Photos to complete tasks, such as summarizing things you did on a recent vacation or choosing the best pictures of your... Continue reading… ...
Published: 2024-09-05T14:12:06
Zillow is upgrading its AI search feature with the ability to find homes or rentals based on how far away they are from your office, school, or other points of interest. Instead of narrowing your search by selecting specific locations or filters, you... 
Published: 2024-09-04T09:00:00
Volkswagen has announced it’s rolling out its improved in-car AI voice assistant, IDA, with both locally processed and cloud-based responses from ChatGPT and other models, starting on September 6th. The first cars getting the feature will be the 2025... 
Published: 2024-09-03T14:44:33
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 50, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I promise it’s not always this many expensive gadgets, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homep... 
Published: 2024-09-01T08:00:00
Federal prosecutors have charged a North Carolina ‘musician’ with orchestrating an elaborate $10 million fraud scheme using AI-generated music. Michael Smith, 52, was arrested Wednesday on charges of wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, and...
Published: 2024-09-07T18:17:28
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has secured $1 billion in funding just three months after it was founded. The company, which aims to develop “safe” artificial general in...
Published: 2024-09-06T09:16:09
Welcome to our weekly roundup of artisanal AI news. This week OpenAI teased us with “GPT Next”. Elon Musk flipped the switch on Colossus. And AI is watching you whether you like it or not. Let’s dig in. GPT When At the KDDI SUMMIT 2024 in Japan, Open...
Published: 2024-09-06T05:00:16
The Council of Europe’s Framework Convention on AI was agreed on Thursday in Vilnius, Lithuania, marking a major step in aligning AI development with human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. The United States, European Union, United Kingdo...
Published: 2024-09-05T19:59:12
Taking place in Boston, Massachusetts, this conference offers a unique opportunity to dive deep into the forefront of AI technology through three co-located summits. The event, which will take place October 16-18, 2024, at The Westin Boston Seaport D...
Published: 2024-09-05T15:49:41
At the KDDI SUMMIT 2024 in Japan, OpenAI Japan CEO Tadao Nagasaki hinted at the company’s next-generation AI model, named “GPT Next.” Nagasaki said that GPT Next would be a quantum leap for AI, stating it “will evolve nearly ...
Published: 2024-09-04T10:39:11
Clearview AI provides facial recognition services to law enforcement and other government agencies but, a Dutch data watchdog says its database of 30B images was built illegally. The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) says Clearview scraped images...
Published: 2024-09-04T09:46:03
Brian Armstrong, CEO of popular cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase, says his company witnessed the first AI-to-AI crypto transaction. The idea of AI acting as an agent across platforms is fast becoming a reality, but commercial transactions ha...
Published: 2024-09-03T13:48:37
Starting September 3rd, Greater Manchester in the UK will become the latest region to deploy AI cameras to automatically detect drivers using mobile phones or not wearing seatbelts. The “Heads Up” cameras, developed by Australian company... 
Published: 2024-09-02T18:57:15
Roblox plans to roll out a generative AI tool that will let creators make whole 3D scenes just using text prompts, it announced today. Once it’s up and running, developers on the hugely popular online game platform will be able to simply write “Gene... 
Published: 2024-09-06T17:30:00
The Olympic Games in Paris just finished last month and the Paralympics are still underway, so the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles feel like a lifetime from now. But the prospect of watching the games in his home city has Josh Kahn, a filmmaker i...
Published: 2024-09-03T15:08:17
This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get it in your inbox first, sign up here. This back-to-school season marks the third year in which AI models like ChatGPT will be used by thousands of students around the globe (a...
Published: 2024-09-03T09:00:00
Back in February, Norway's 1X showed off the progress it had made with its pick-and-place workplace humanoid, Eve. Now the OpenAI-backed company has released video footage of its latest prototype, a bipedal butlerbot named Neo Beta.Continue ReadingCa... 
Published: 2024-09-03T12:05:24
Anthropic has announced the launch of its Claude Enterprise plan, which offers an expanded context window, more usage capacity, a native GitHub integration, and enterprise security features. Claude Enterprise offers a 500K context window. For compar...
Published: 2024-09-05T14:39:03
As AI-driven testing (ADT) becomes increasingly integral to software development, the importance of data privacy and security cannot be overstated. While AI brings numerous benefits, it also introduces new risks, particularly concerning intellectual ...
Published: 2024-09-04T13:00:23
In this post, we illustrate how Vidmob, a creative data company, worked with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) team to uncover meaningful insights at scale within creative data using Amazon Bedrock. This post was co-written with Mickey Alon from Vidmob. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) can be vital for marketing because it enables the creation of personalized content and optimizes ad targeting with predictive analytics. Specifically, suc...
Published: 2024-09-06T21:12:30
In this post, we demonstrate how to fine-tune the recently released Llama 3 models from Meta, specifically the llama-3-8b and llama-3-70b variants, using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. SageMaker Studio kernel timeout issue Due to the size of the Meta Llama 3 70B model, the training job may take several hours to complete. The SageMaker Studio kernel is only used to initiate the training job, and its status doesn’t affect the on...
Published: 2024-09-06T20:22:10
In this post, we discuss best practices for working with Foundation Model Evaluations Library (FMEval) in ground truth curation and metric interpretation for evaluating question answering applications for factual knowledge and quality. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications powered by large language models (LLMs) are rapidly gaining traction for question answering use cases. From internal knowledge bases for customer support to external conversational AI assistants, t...
Published: 2024-09-06T20:11:49
In this post, we show you how to use LlamaIndex with Amazon Bedrock to build robust and sophisticated RAG pipelines that unlock the full potential of LLMs for knowledge-intensive tasks. We tested Llamaparse on a real-world, challenging example of asking questions about a document containing Bank of America Q3 2023 financial results. An example slide from the full slide deck (48 complex slides!) is shown below. Using the ...
Published: 2024-09-05T21:53:23
In this post, we demonstrate how to implement an automated prompt evaluation system using Amazon Bedrock so you can streamline your prompt development process and improve the overall quality of your AI-generated content. As generative artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize every industry, the importance of effective prompt optimization through prompt engineering techniques has become key to efficiently balancing the quality of outputs, response time,...
Published: 2024-09-05T20:11:05
In this post, we show how ML engineers familiar with Jupyter notebooks and SageMaker environments can efficiently work with DevOps engineers familiar with Kubernetes and related tools to design and maintain an ML pipeline with the right infrastructur Kubernetes is a popular orchestration platform for managing containers. Its scalability and load-balancing capabilities make it ideal for handling the variable workloads typical of machine learning (ML) applications. DevOps engineers often use Kubern...
Published: 2024-09-04T22:40:19
In this post, we explore the new features of Model Registry that streamline foundation model (FM) management: you can now register unzipped model artifacts and pass an End User License Agreement (EULA) acceptance flag without needing users to interve Generative artificial intelligence (AI) foundation models (FMs) are gaining popularity with businesses due to their versatility and potential to address a variety of use cases. The true value of FMs is realized when they are adapted for domain specif...
Published: 2024-09-04T22:34:12
In this post, we show you how to build an ecommerce product recommendation chatbot using Amazon Bedrock Agents and foundation models (FMs) available in Amazon Bedrock. Many ecommerce applications want to provide their users with a human-like chatbot that guides them to choose the best product as a gift for their loved ones or friends. To enhance the customer experience, the chatbot need to engage in a natural, conv...
Published: 2024-09-04T21:10:07
In this post, we show you how Thomson Reuters Labs (TR Labs) was able to develop an efficient, flexible, and powerful MLOps process by adopting a standardized MLOps framework that uses AWS SageMaker, SageMaker Experiments, SageMaker Model Registry, a This post is co-written by Danilo Tommasina and Andrei Voinov from Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters (TR) is one of the world’s most trusted information organizations for businesses and professionals. TR provides companies with the intelligence, tech...
Published: 2024-09-04T20:22:13
In this post, we delve into the process of building and deploying a sample application capable of generating multilingual descriptions for multiple images with a Streamlit UI, AWS Lambda powered with the Amazon Bedrock SDK, and AWS AppSync driven by Install all dependencies: npm install Bootstrap AWS CDK resources on the AWS account. Replace ACCOUNT_ID and REGION with your own values: cdk bootstrap aws://ACCOUNT_ID/REGION Deploy the solution: cdk dep...
Published: 2024-09-03T21:13:59
In this post, we explore how to build a scalable and efficient Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system using the new EMR Serverless integration, Spark’s distributed processing, and an Amazon OpenSearch Service vector database powered by the LangC The custom EmbeddingsGenerator class can generate embeddings for approximately 2,500 pages (12,000 chunks) of documents in under 180 seconds using just two concurrent load-balanced SageMaker embedding model endpoints and 10 PySpark worker no...
Published: 2024-09-03T19:05:40
In creating a pair of new robots, researchers cultivated an unlikely component, one found on the forest floor: fungal mycelia. By harnessing mycelia's innate electrical signals, the researchers discovered a new way of controlling 'biohybrid' robots t...
Published: 2024-09-04T19:23:25
In simulated life-or-death decisions, about two-thirds of people in a study allowed a robot to change their minds when it disagreed with them -- an alarming display of excessive trust in artificial intelligence, researchers said....
Published: 2024-09-04T18:45:40
College freshman Dexter Greene and Microsoft research manager Richard Black discuss how technology that stores data in glass is supporting students as they expand earlier efforts to communicate what it means to be human to extraterrestrials. The post Show more [1] (opens in new tab) It was later noted that the original Golden Record team was also led by astrophysicist Frank Drake (opens in new tab), whose efforts to search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) inspired continued work in...
Published: 2024-09-05T16:00:00
Robotaxis, low pay may be end of the road for app cabbies in San Francisco Feature The Uber driver who picked me up the other day doesn't think the ride-sharing app has much of a future in San Francisco. ...
Published: 2024-09-07T17:14:12
Chatterbox Labs CEO claims Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office unfairly cancelled a contract then accused him of blackmail In-depth Chatterbox Lab CEO Danny Coleman alleges that after three and a half years of uncompensated work to prov ...
Published: 2024-09-06T12:28:10
CEO says market for non-AI silicon has bottomed out Broadcom's turnaround plan for VMware appears to be working, as the silicon-and-software-slinger reported 47 percent year on year revenue growth but also posted a loss. ...
Published: 2024-09-06T02:59:14
Datacenters are the lifeline for its $30B ML-fueled boom AI has made GPUs one of the hottest commodities on the planet, driving more than $30 billion in revenues for Nvidia in Q2 alone. But, without datacenters, the chip powerhouse and its customers ...
Published: 2024-09-06T00:56:11
knowledge workers, overwhelmed by knowledge tasks? We know what you need Adobe recently surveyed more than 1,000 employed Americans about their view of AI, and found that they could overcome their concerns about losing their jobs to AI if it saved th ...
Published: 2024-09-05T20:30:07
No, Russia and China are not on the list The US, EU, UK, and other nations have signed up to a legal framework setting out a treaty for the implementation of AI that is underpinned by human rights and democratic values. ...
Published: 2024-09-05T16:00:08
No product? No problem! Wondering if the AI bubble is set to pop? Safe Superintelligence (SSI) has just scored more than $1 billion in investor funding. ...
Published: 2024-09-05T13:45:07
Web services souk celebrates 'leader' designation for Q Developer Amazon Web Services on Tuesday took a moment to pat itself on the back for being thought of inside the box, specifically, the upper right-hand square that's part of Gartner's trademark ...
Published: 2024-09-05T11:31:15
Microsoft's Copilot+ machines suck at one of computing's oldest use cases Comment A significant cadre of computer users is waking up to the fact that Microsoft's first volley of Copilot+ machines notebooks capable of local AI processing simply a ...
Published: 2024-09-05T10:45:15
Its energy addiction, on the other hand, only seems to get worse Comment Once an abstract subject of science fiction and academic research, the concept of artificial intelligence has become the topic of dinner table conversations over the past two y ...
Published: 2024-09-05T08:33:07
Loads of governance issues to worry about, and the chance it might spout utter garbage Microsoft has published a Transparency Note for Copilot for Microsoft 365, warning enterprises to ensure user access rights are correctly managed before rolling ou ...
Published: 2024-09-04T21:15:12
Bot shouldn't have political opinions, says Amazon It would be perfectly reasonable to expect Amazon's digital assistant Alexa to decline to state opinions about the 2024 presidential race, but up until recently, that assumption would have been incor ...
Published: 2024-09-04T16:45:12
Deal can't lessen competition if AI minnow wasn't much of a competitor Microsoft's "acquihire" of Inflection AI was today cleared by UK authorities on the grounds that the startup isn't big enough for its absorption by Microsoft to affect competition ...
Published: 2024-09-04T15:15:14
It won't generate hundreds of million of dollars for customers tomorrow, and there's a 'lot of noise' from tech industry ServiceNow is trying to assure investors that payback for enterprise GenAI investment is coming, but it may not be soon and biz c ...
Published: 2024-09-04T13:00:15
Another job for Broadcom, then OpenAI's first custom-designed silicon chips allegedly will be manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the same outfit churning out processors for Nvidia, Apple, AMD, Intel, and others. ...
Published: 2024-09-04T02:29:19
Uncle Sam apparently worried GPU giant may be punishing customers who shop around Updated The US Department of Justice on Tuesday is said to have stepped up its antitrust investigation into Nvidia, issuing subpoenas seeking evidence for its case aga ...
Published: 2024-09-04T01:37:08
And all it took was some good old fashioned outsourcing to TSMC Intel's first chips to exceed Microsoft's lofty Copilot+ performance target have arrived, promising up to 120 TOPS of AI performance across an improved CPU, GPU and NPU. This development ...
Published: 2024-09-03T18:51:42
Selfie-scraper again claims European law does not apply to it The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) has fined controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI 30.5 million ($33 million) over the "illegal" collation of images. ...
Published: 2024-09-03T15:30:06
It's going to take more than CAPTCHA to prove you're real Researchers at Microsoft and OpenAI, among others, have proposed "personhood credentials" to counter the online deception enabled by the AI models sold by Microsoft and OpenAI, among others. ...
Published: 2024-09-03T10:28:09
Machine learning helps, but more data catches more faults - so Chinese champ has shared its data Alibaba Cloud has revealed homebrew tech it used to improve server fault prediction and detection, which it claims saw its ability to detect problems bea ...
Published: 2024-09-03T04:01:15
Needs new investors to get beyond current modest products Chinese GPU-maker Xiangdixian Computing Technology has admitted it has not met its development targets and let go of some staff as part of a restructuring plan. ...
Published: 2024-09-03T01:15:13
Despite its limitations, the makers of MarioVGG think AI video could one day replace game engines....
Published: 2024-09-06T19:14:40
This week on Politics Lab, we’re talking about AI’s potential impact on the election and why it’s so hard to regulate nationwide....
Published: 2024-09-06T10:00:00
Legislation addressing the crisis of deepfake porn is being proposed, passing, and failing at the state level all over the US. WIRED is keeping track of it all....
Published: 2024-09-05T10:00:00
The ecommerce giant has acquired a team to give robots greater intelligence and dexterity potentially automating much more of its warehouse operations....
Published: 2024-09-04T16:00:00
Last weekend several authors cut ties with National Novel Writing Month after the nonprofit issued a statement seemingly greenlighting the use of AI in writing....
Published: 2024-09-04T11:15:00
The Dataset Providers Alliance calls for creators and rights holders to be able to opt in to having their material used for training purposes....
Published: 2024-09-04T11:00:00
With generative AI affecting politics worldwide, researchers face a “detection gap,” as the biases built into systems mean tools for identifying fake content often work poorly or not at all in the Global South....
Published: 2024-09-02T11:30:00
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