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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
The U.S. healthcare system is adopting digital health agents to harness AI across the board, from research laboratories to clinical settings. The latest AI-accelerated tools on display at the NVIDIA AI Summit taking place this week in Washington, D...
Published: 2024-10-08T15:15:23
A recently released joint research paper by NVIDIA, Moderna and Yale reviews how techniques from quantum machine learning (QML) may enhance drug discovery methods by better predicting molecular properties. Ultimately, this could lead to the more effi...
Published: 2024-10-08T15:00:30
Artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity with new generative AI tools and capabilities that were once the stuff of science fiction. And like many of the heroes in science fiction, they’re arriving just in time. AI-enhanced cybersecurity ...
Published: 2024-10-08T15:00:24
This summer, scientists supercharged their tools in the hunt for signs of life beyond Earth. Researchers at the SETI Institute became the first to apply AI to the real-time direct detection of faint radio signals from space. Their advances in radio a...
Published: 2024-10-08T15:00:17
TSMC, the world leader in semiconductor manufacturing, is moving to production with NVIDIA’s computational lithography platform, called cuLitho, to accelerate manufacturing and push the limits of physics for the next generation of advanced semiconduc...
Published: 2024-10-08T15:00:09
Serving as a bridge for academia, industry and public-sector groups to partner on artificial intelligence innovation, NVIDIA is launching its inaugural AI Tech Community in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Collaborations with Carnegie Mellon University and ...
Published: 2024-10-08T15:00:07
NVIDIA and Foxconn are building Taiwan’s largest supercomputer, marking a milestone in the island’s AI advancement. The project, Hon Hai Kaohsiung Super Computing Center, revealed Tuesday at Hon Hai Tech Day, will be built around NVIDIA’s groundbreak...
Published: 2024-10-08T05:00:28
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
Hinton, who quit Google in 2023 to warn of AI dangers, was "flabbergasted" at the news. On Tuesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John J. Hopfield of Princeton University an...
Published: 2024-10-08T15:17:37
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
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
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
Adobe has announced a new tool to help creators watermark their artwork and opt out of having it used to train generative AI models. The web app, called Adobe Content Authenticity, allows artists to signal that they do not consent for their work to b...
Published: 2024-10-08T13:00:00
Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist whose pioneering work on deep learning in the 1980s and ’90s underpins all of the most powerful AI models in the world today, has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Scien...
Published: 2024-10-08T12:01:13
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Chatting with an AI chatbot is so 2022. The latest hot AI toys take advantage of multimodal models, which c...
Published: 2024-10-08T09:04:52
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
Learning to play piano is a hard slog, and many people myself included tend to start well, and then lose momentum before giving up entirely. Roli is hoping to keeping students engaged with a gesture-tracking AI teacher called the Airwave.Continue...
Published: 2024-10-08T16:21:57
As a beginner in machine learning, you should not only understand algorithms but also the broader ecosystem of tools that help in building, tracking, and deploying models efficiently....
Published: 2024-10-07T23:57:16
This post is divided into five parts; they are: Installing CatBoost CatBoost's Key Differentiators Overlapping Features with Other Boosting Algorithms Implementing CatBoost for Home Price Prediction CatBoost Feature Importance Analysis CatB...
Published: 2024-10-06T13:24:39
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
In this post, we describe the development of a generative AI Slack application powered by Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Kendra. This is designed to be an internal-facing Slack chat assistant that helps answer questions related to the indexed content. Finally, the response generated from Amazon Bedrock along with the relevant referenced URLs are returned to the end user. When selecting websites to index, adhere to the AWS Acceptable Use Policy and other AWS terms. Remember that you...
Published: 2024-10-07T20:48:43
Collaborative multi-university team will pursue new AI-enhanced design tools and high-throughput testing methods for next-generation turbomachinery. A recent award from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) brings together researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and Lehigh University (Lehigh) under the Multiobjective Eng...
Published: 2024-10-08T15:30:00
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
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
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
NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature rudely discovers its wife never existed The demise of HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey remains a haunting cinema moment nearly six decades on for the questions it raises about consciousness, the ...
Published: 2024-10-08T14:15:07
Perhaps the power-draining tech is the solution after all, posits former Google CEO Google's former chief Eric Schmidt thinks we shouldn't let AI's ballooning power consumption worry us, because putting AI to work on climate change issues will be our ...
Published: 2024-10-08T13:00:12
Juniper Research argues the only way to beat them is to join them E-commerce fraud is expected to surge in the next five years thanks to AI, and merchants are advised to respond with ... AI. ...
Published: 2024-10-08T11:26:10
Access Google s Gemini at Work event to learn how AI can boost enterprise user productivity Sponsored Post Google's Gemini at Work digital event took place on 24th September - and you can register to watch the highlights on demand. ...
Published: 2024-10-08T08:42:06
AI is showing the way to new possibilities after a tricky first year A year after winning the rights to build machines based on Intel's Next Unit of Compute (NUC) mini-PC spec, Taiwan's Asus claims it has stabilized the product line and the team that ...
Published: 2024-10-08T07:27:11
Plus: Google, Oracle, spend $9.5 billion on Asia datacenters; Philippines to tax clouds; Vietnam infosec praised; and more In Brief Chinese authorities have reportedly let local orgs know they should satisfy their need for AI accelerators by shoppin ...
Published: 2024-10-08T01:31:07
Struggling chipmaker scores another win In breaking trends news, Inflection AI revealed its latest enterprise platform would ditch Nvidia GPUs for Intel's Gaudi 3 accelerators. ...
Published: 2024-10-07T22:15:08
Withholding exculpatory evidence from suspects isn't a great look when the tech is already questionable Police around the United States are routinely using facial recognition technology to help identify suspects, but those departments rarely disclose ...
Published: 2024-10-07T19:45:13
Learn how AI is transforming data insights in a new era of innovation Webinar In today's fast-evolving digital landscape, data plays a pivotal role in shaping business decisions. ...
Published: 2024-10-07T14:17:08
How the integration of Google Gemini across Google Workspace turbo charges existing apps with AI power Sponsored Feature There's no doubt that generative AI (GenAI) is a revolutionary technology which has the power to fundamentally change the way we ...
Published: 2024-10-07T08:36:03
El Reg gets its claws in multimodal models - and shows you how to use them and what they can do Hands on Meta has been influential in driving the development of open language models with its Llama family, but up until now, the only way to interact w ...
Published: 2024-10-06T15:45:11
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
Is a deal really a deal? Amazon’s ChatGPT competitor, a chatbot it calls Rufus, will now answer some user questions on price changes....
Published: 2024-10-10T17:39:28
Amazon’s popular security camera brand now has some AI enhancements that make it easier to sort through footage. But we have to ask: Is more AI-powered surveillance a good thing, or a step too far?...
Published: 2024-10-10T12:00:00
It has been a billboard week for artificial intelligence research. But could big wins for Demis Hassabis and Geoffrey Hinton change broader scientific incentives?...
Published: 2024-10-09T20:02:43
Amazon feeds its large language models vast quantities of retail data. It says its AI agents might someday be smart enough to buy you stuff without you even having to ask....
Published: 2024-10-09T14:05:00
The Amazon-owned home-surveillance business will offer users the ability to search footage for specific objects and actions. WIRED gave it a try....
Published: 2024-10-09T13:00:00
The Roli Airwave uses infrared cameras to track your hand movements on a keyboard. That visual data can be used to teach you how to play a song or to compose entirely new sonic creations....
Published: 2024-10-08T13:00:00
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