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This is part of its global effort to make this area of business its 'central growth driver'.
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Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) assistants are engineered to provide precise, real-time responses through intelligent routing of queries to the most suitable AI functions. With AWS generative AI services like Amazon Bedrock, developers can create systems that expertly manage and respond to user requests. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Stability AI, and Amazon using a single

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The Amazon EU Design and Construction (Amazon D&C) team is the engineering team designing and constructing Amazon warehouses. The team navigates a large volume of documents and locates the right information to make sure the warehouse design meets the highest standards. In the post A generative AI-powered solution on Amazon SageMaker to help Amazon EU Design and Construction, we presented a question answering bot solution using a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline with a fine-tuned large

MIT News - Artificial intelligence

For nearly a decade, a team of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) researchers have been seeking to uncover why certain images persist in a people's minds, while many others fade. To do this, they set out to map the spatio-temporal brain dynamics involved in recognizing a visual image. And now for the first time, scientists harnessed the combined strengths of magnetoencephalography (MEG), which captures the timing of brain activity, and functional magnetic

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We introduced Amazon Bedrock to the world a little over a year ago, delivering an entirely new way to build generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications. With the broadest selection of first- and third-party foundation models (FMs) as well as user-friendly capabilities, Amazon Bedrock is the fastest and easiest way to build and scale secure generative AI applications. Now tens of thousands of customers are using Amazon Bedrock to build and scale impressive applications. They are innovating

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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has gained significant momentum with organizations actively exploring its potential applications. As successful proof-of-concepts transition into production, organizations are increasingly in need of enterprise scalable solutions. However, to unlock the long-term success and viability of these AI-powered solutions, it is crucial to align them with well-established architectural principles.
The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides best practices and guidelines for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems in the cloud. Aligning generative

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PepsiCo's volume and sales growth were better in most international markets than in its North America markets.
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Health-monitoring apps can help people manage chronic diseases or stay on track with fitness goals, using nothing more than a smartphone. However, these apps can be slow and energy-inefficient because the vast machine-learning models that power them must be shuttled between a smartphone and a central memory server.

Engineers often speed things up using hardware that reduces the need to move so much data back and forth. While these machine-learning accelerators can streamline computation, they are

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Organizations are facing ever-increasing requirements for sustainability goals alongside environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices. A Gartner, Inc. survey revealed that 87 percent of business leaders expect to increase their organization’s investment in sustainability over the next years. This post serves as a starting point for any executive seeking to navigate the intersection of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) and sustainability. It provides examples of use cases and best practices for using generative AI’s potential to

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Official UK figures show 33% jump in deaths from alcohol-specific causes from 2019 – the highest since records began in 2001Alcohol killed a record number of people in 2022 as heavier drinking in the Covid pandemic took its toll in the UK, new official figures have revealed.Nearly 2,500 more people died from drinking than in 2019 (7,565 deaths), the year before the virus hit and caused already heavy drinkers to increase their intake, the Office for

Coronavirus | The Guardian

Bill Shorten has meanwhile labelled X (formerly Twitter) ‘very arrogant’ after Elon Musk’s decision to challenge an order to remove content relating to last Monday’s Sydney church stabbing. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Matildas’ route to potential Asian Cup success is a step closer to being finalised, AAP reports, after Football Australia revealed the host states for matches at the 2026 edition of the

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These firms are seen to have the ambition to take their business global and to transform.
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Protesters demand curbs on tourists numbers and uncontrolled development in the Spanish archipelago.
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Amazon Personalize is excited to announce automatic training for solutions. Solution training is fundamental to maintain the effectiveness of a model and make sure recommendations align with users’ evolving behaviors and preferences. As data patterns and trends change over time, retraining the solution with the latest relevant data enables the model to learn and adapt, enhancing its predictive accuracy. Automatic training generates a new solution version, mitigating model drift and keeping recommendations relevant and tailored to

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In Part 1 of this series, we presented a solution that used the Amazon Titan Multimodal Embeddings model to convert individual slides from a slide deck into embeddings. We stored the embeddings in a vector database and then used the Large Language-and-Vision Assistant (LLaVA 1.5-7b) model to generate text responses to user questions based on the most similar slide retrieved from the vector database. We used AWS services including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and Amazon OpenSearch

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We are excited to announce a new version of the Amazon SageMaker Operators for Kubernetes using the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK). ACK is a framework for building Kubernetes custom controllers, where each controller communicates with an AWS service API. These controllers allow Kubernetes users to provision AWS resources like buckets, databases, or message queues simply by using the Kubernetes API.
Release v1.2.9 of the SageMaker ACK Operators adds support for inference components, which until now

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This is a guest post co-written with the leadership team of Iambic Therapeutics.
Iambic Therapeutics is a drug discovery startup with a mission to create innovative AI-driven technologies to bring better medicines to cancer patients, faster.
Our advanced generative and predictive artificial intelligence (AI) tools enable us to search the vast space of possible drug molecules faster and more effectively. Our technologies are versatile and applicable across therapeutic areas, protein classes, and mechanisms of action. Beyond

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The economy grew 3.9 per cent in the January-March quarter from a year ago.
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MIT News - Artificial intelligence

To build AI systems that can collaborate effectively with humans, it helps to have a good model of human behavior to start with. But humans tend to behave suboptimally when making decisions.

This irrationality, which is especially difficult to model, often boils down to computational constraints. A human can’t spend decades thinking about the ideal solution to a single problem.

Researchers at MIT and the University of Washington developed a way to model the behavior of an

MIT News - Artificial intelligence

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, aquaculture in the United States represents a $1.5 billion industry annually. Like land-based farming, shellfish aquaculture requires healthy seed production in order to maintain a sustainable industry. Aquaculture hatchery production of shellfish larvae — seeds — requires close monitoring to track mortality rates and assess health from the earliest stages of life. 

Careful observation is necessary to inform production scheduling, determine effects of naturally occurring harmful bacteria, and ensure sustainable

MIT News - Artificial intelligence

Although the troposphere is often thought of as the closest layer of the atmosphere to the Earth’s surface, the planetary boundary layer (PBL) — the lowest layer of the troposphere — is actually the part that most significantly influences weather near the surface. In the 2018 planetary science decadal survey, the PBL was raised as an important scientific issue that has the potential to enhance storm forecasting and improve climate projections.  

“The PBL is where the surface interacts

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Migrating to the cloud is an essential step for modern organizations aiming to capitalize on the flexibility and scale of cloud resources. Tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation are pivotal for such transitions, offering infrastructure as code (IaC) capabilities that define and manage complex cloud environments with precision. However, despite its benefits, IaC’s learning curve, and the complexity of adhering to your organization’s and industry-specific compliance and security standards, could slow down your cloud adoption journey.

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You’ve likely experienced the challenge of taking notes during a meeting while trying to pay attention to the conversation. You’ve probably also experienced the need to quickly fact-check something that’s been said, or look up information to answer a question that’s just been asked in the call. Or maybe you have a team member that always joins meetings late, and expects you to send them a quick summary over

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This post is co-authored by Jackie Rocca, VP of Product, AI at Slack
Slack is where work happens. It’s the AI-powered platform for work that connects people, conversations, apps, and systems together in one place. With the newly launched Slack AI—a trusted, native, generative artificial intelligence (AI) experience available directly in Slack—users can surface and prioritize information so they can find their focus and do their most productive work.
We are excited to announce that Slack,

Coronavirus | The Guardian

Study from University of California, Irvine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital shows prison mortality rate spiked at least 50%When the Covid-19 pandemic began, it wasn’t hard to predict that incarcerated people would be at higher risk. Many prisons and jails are crowded, dirty places with inconsistent access to healthcare – breeding grounds for the highly infectious virus. But the job of documenting the deaths has fallen to a patchwork of research groups and reporters.Now, a national

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TSMC is the world’s largest contract chipmaker and the main supplier to Apple and Nvidia.
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In asset management, portfolio managers need to closely monitor companies in their investment universe to identify risks and opportunities, and guide investment decisions. Tracking direct events like earnings reports or credit downgrades is straightforward—you can set up alerts to notify managers of news containing company names. However, detecting second and third-order impacts arising from events at suppliers, customers, partners, or other entities in a company’s ecosystem is challenging.
For example, a supply chain disruption at a

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Amazon SageMaker Studio provides a fully managed solution for data scientists to interactively build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models. In the process of working on their ML tasks, data scientists typically start their workflow by discovering relevant data sources and connecting to them. They then use SQL to explore, analyze, visualize, and integrate data from various sources before using it in their ML training and inference. Previously, data scientists often found themselves juggling multiple

MIT News - Artificial intelligence

Across the country, hundreds of thousands of drivers deliver packages and parcels to customers and companies each day, with many click-to-door times averaging only a few days. Coordinating a supply chain feat of this magnitude in a predictable and timely way is a longstanding problem of operations research, where researchers have been working to optimize the last leg of delivery routes. This is because the last phase of the process is often the costliest due

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Amazon Lex is a fully managed artificial intelligence (AI) service with advanced natural language models to design, build, test, and deploy conversational interfaces in applications. It employs advanced deep learning technologies to understand user input, enabling developers to create chatbots, virtual assistants, and other applications that can interact with users in natural language.
Managing your Amazon Lex bots using AWS CloudFormation allows you to create templates defining the bot and all the AWS resources it depends

AWS Machine Learning Blog

There has been tremendous progress in the field of distributed deep learning for large language models (LLMs), especially after the release of ChatGPT in December 2022. LLMs continue to grow in size with billions or even trillions of parameters, and they often won’t fit into a single accelerator device such as GPU or even a single node such as ml.p5.32xlarge because of memory limitations. Customers training LLMs often must distribute their workload across hundreds or even

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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the customer experience in industries across the globe. Customers are building generative AI applications using large language models (LLMs) and other foundation models (FMs), which enhance customer experiences, transform operations, improve employee productivity, and create new revenue channels.
FMs and the applications built around them represent extremely valuable investments for our customers. They’re often used with highly sensitive business data, like personal data, compliance data, operational data, and

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Analysts expect companies to spend more on technology that will drive higher growth forecasts. 
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The phenomenon known as bleisure, or blended business and leisure travel, was initially embraced largely by digital nomads.
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The U.K. economy fell into a recession last year but showed slight growth in January.
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The growth was lifted by a pickup in services-producing industries.
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MIT News - Artificial intelligence

On Vassar Street, in the heart of MIT’s campus, the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing recently opened the doors to its new headquarters in Building 45. The building’s central location and welcoming design will help form a new cluster of connectivity at MIT and enable the space to have a multifaceted role. 

“The college has a broad mandate for computing across MIT,” says Daniel Huttenlocher, dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Organizations across industries want to categorize and extract insights from high volumes of documents of different formats. Manually processing these documents to classify and extract information remains expensive, error prone, and difficult to scale. Advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) have given rise to intelligent document processing (IDP) solutions that can automate the document classification, and create a cost-effective classification layer capable of handling diverse, unstructured enterprise documents.
Categorizing documents is an important first step in

MIT News - Artificial intelligence

In biomedicine, segmentation involves annotating pixels from an important structure in a medical image, like an organ or cell. Artificial intelligence models can help clinicians by highlighting pixels that may show signs of a certain disease or anomaly.

However, these models typically only provide one answer, while the problem of medical image segmentation is often far from black and white. Five expert human annotators might provide five different segmentations, perhaps disagreeing on the existence or extent

AWS Machine Learning Blog

AWS was delighted to present to and connect with over 18,000 in-person and 267,000 virtual attendees at NVIDIA GTC, a global artificial intelligence (AI) conference that took place March 2024 in San Jose, California, returning to a hybrid, in-person experience for the first time since 2019.
AWS has had a long-standing collaboration with NVIDIA for over 13 years. AWS was the first Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to offer NVIDIA GPUs in the public cloud, and remains

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Andy Jassy pledged to keep looking for ways to cut costs even as the company doubles down on investing in new growth areas like artificial intelligence.
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Andy Jassy pledged to keep looking for ways to cut costs even as the company doubles down on investing in new growth areas like artificial intelligence.
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Exclusive: Extensive polling ordered by the then chancellor, documents reveal, but scientific advisers not consultedRishi Sunak ordered multiple taxpayer-funded focus groups and polls to craft the messaging of his planned “eat out to help out” campaign in July 2020, despite keeping the UK’s top medical and scientific advisers in the dark about the scheme.The Treasury negotiated five public opinion contracts worth more than £2m from June 2020 throughout the pandemic, while Sunak was chancellor, including those

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This is one of Sias’ 3 suggestions to tackle persistent undervaluation and bring confidence back.
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Former PM tells podcast he got vaccinated so as not to give anyone ‘an excuse for keeping us locked up any longer than was absolutely necessary’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe former prime minister Tony Abbott has described the Morrison government’s Covid response as a “grotesque overreaction” to a “relatively mild pandemic”, adding he reluctantly got vaccinated because he “didn’t want

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ADB said the Singapore economy will grow 2.4 per cent in 2024, up from 1.1 per cent in 2023.
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This blog post is co-written with Caroline Chung from Veoneer.
Veoneer is a global automotive electronics company and a world leader in automotive electronic safety systems. They offer best-in-class restraint control systems and have delivered over 1 billion electronic control units and crash sensors to car manufacturers globally. The company continues to build on a 70-year history of automotive safety development, specializing in cutting-edge hardware and systems that prevent traffic incidents and mitigate accidents.
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In the past year, Alibaba underwent a historic reorganization and sweeping management changes in a bid to return the Chinese technology giant to growth.
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In the past year, Alibaba underwent a historic re-organization and sweeping management changes in a bid to return the Chinese technology giant to growth.
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It is looking to turn the site into a mixed-use development that will feature co-living spaces and community-centric offerings.
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MIT News - Artificial intelligence

A user could ask ChatGPT to write a computer program or summarize an article, and the AI chatbot would likely be able to generate useful code or write a cogent synopsis. However, someone could also ask for instructions to build a bomb, and the chatbot might be able to provide those, too.

To prevent this and other safety issues, companies that build large language models typically safeguard them using a process called red-teaming. Teams of human

AWS Machine Learning Blog

With Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock, you can securely connect foundation models (FMs) in Amazon Bedrock to your company data for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Access to additional data helps the model generate more relevant, context-specific, and accurate responses without retraining the FMs.
In this post, we discuss two new features of Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock specific to the RetrieveAndGenerate API: configuring the maximum number of results and creating custom prompts with a knowledge base

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Citigroup shares rose 49 per cent since it announced the overhaul in mid-September, outpacing a 26 per cent climb for the KBW bank index.
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COO Eric Anziani said the exchange is partnering tax agencies to provide guidance on topics like inheritance and taxes.
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MIT News - Artificial intelligence

It’s commonly thought that the most abundant element in the universe, hydrogen, exists mainly alongside other elements — with oxygen in water, for example, and with carbon in methane. But naturally occurring underground pockets of pure hydrogen are punching holes in that notion — and generating attention as a potentially unlimited source of carbon-free power.
 
One interested party is the U.S. Department of Energy, which last month awarded $20 million in research grants to 18 teams

MIT News - Artificial intelligence

Since the 1970s, modern antibiotic discovery has been experiencing a lull. Now the World Health Organization has declared the antimicrobial resistance crisis as one of the top 10 global public health threats. 

When an infection is treated repeatedly, clinicians run the risk of bacteria becoming resistant to the antibiotics. But why would an infection return after proper antibiotic treatment? One well-documented possibility is that the bacteria are becoming metabolically inert, escaping detection of traditional antibiotics that

AWS Machine Learning Blog

At AWS re:Invent 2023, we announced the general availability of Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock. With Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock, you can securely connect foundation models (FMs) in Amazon Bedrock to your company data using a fully managed Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) model.
For RAG-based applications, the accuracy of the generated responses from FMs depend on the context provided to the model. Contexts are retrieved from vector stores based on user queries. In the recently

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Unlocking accurate and insightful answers from vast amounts of text is an exciting capability enabled by large language models (LLMs). When building LLM applications, it is often necessary to connect and query external data sources to provide relevant context to the model. One popular approach is using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to create Q&A systems that comprehend complex information and provide natural responses to queries. RAG allows models to tap into vast knowledge bases and deliver

AWS Machine Learning Blog

In January 2024, Amazon SageMaker launched a new version (0.26.0) of Large Model Inference (LMI) Deep Learning Containers (DLCs). This version offers support for new models (including Mixture of Experts), performance and usability improvements across inference backends, as well as new generation details for increased control and prediction explainability (such as reason for generation completion and token level log probabilities).
LMI DLCs offer a low-code interface that simplifies using state-of-the-art inference optimization techniques and hardware. LMI

AWS Machine Learning Blog

With the widespread adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, organizations are trying to use these technologies to make their teams more productive. One exciting use case is enabling natural language interactions with relational databases. Rather than writing complex SQL queries, you can describe in plain language what data you want to retrieve or manipulate. The large language model (LLM) can understand the intent behind your natural language input and data topography and automatically generate the

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This is a guest post co-authored by Shravan Kumar and Avirat S from Gramener.
Gramener, a Straive company, contributes to sustainable development by focusing on agriculture, forestry, water management, and renewable energy. By providing authorities with the tools and insights they need to make informed decisions about environmental and social impact, Gramener is playing a vital role in building a more sustainable future.
Urban heat islands (UHIs) are areas within cities that experience significantly higher temperatures

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Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 200,000 in March and the unemployment rate was forecast to decrease to 3.8%.
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Nonfarm payrolls increased by 303,000 jobs in March
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This is a guest post co-written with Tamir Rubinsky and Aviad Aranias from Nielsen Sports.
Nielsen Sports shapes the world’s media and content as a global leader in audience insights, data, and analytics. Through our understanding of people and their behaviors across all channels and platforms, we empower our clients with independent and actionable intelligence so they can connect and engage with their audiences—now and into the future.
At Nielsen Sports, our mission is to provide

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The Philippines now expects the economy to grow between 6.0 per cent and 7.0 per cent in 2024
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It reiterated “growth headwinds” and macroeconomic uncertainties as reasons for the exit offer.
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The rise of contextual and semantic search has made ecommerce and retail businesses search straightforward for its consumers. Search engines and recommendation systems powered by generative AI can improve the product search experience exponentially by understanding natural language queries and returning more accurate results. This enhances the overall user experience, helping customers find exactly what they’re looking for.
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports the cosine similarity metric for k-NN indexes. Cosine similarity measures the cosine of

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Private sector job growth expanded in March at its fastest pace since July 2023, ADP reported Wednesday.
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The Point72 CEO said there's a lot of "underemployment" in the country, which could create upward pressure on inflation if economic growth remains strong.
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There is no appetite among the shareholder base to vote for a spinoff, he says
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Programme launched by DBS Bank and Enterprise Singapore on April 3 will support SMEs, mid-cap companies.
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MIT News - Artificial intelligence

To engineer proteins with useful functions, researchers usually begin with a natural protein that has a desirable function, such as emitting fluorescent light, and put it through many rounds of random mutation that eventually generate an optimized version of the protein.

This process has yielded optimized versions of many important proteins, including green fluorescent protein (GFP). However, for other proteins, it has proven difficult to generate an optimized version. MIT researchers have now developed a computational

AWS Machine Learning Blog

The generative artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is in full swing, and customers of all sizes and across industries are taking advantage of this transformative technology to reshape their businesses. From reimagining workflows to make them more intuitive and easier to enhancing decision-making processes through rapid information synthesis, generative AI promises to redefine how we interact with machines. It’s been amazing to see the number of companies launching innovative generative AI applications on AWS using Amazon Bedrock.

AWS Machine Learning Blog

In 2023, AWS announced an expanded collaboration with Hugging Face to accelerate our customers’ generative artificial intelligence (AI) journey. Hugging Face, founded in 2016, is the premier AI platform with over 500,000 open source models and more than 100,000 datasets. Over the past year, we have partnered to make it effortless to train, fine-tune, and deploy Hugging Face models using Amazon SageMaker, AWS Trainium, and AWS Inferentia. Developers using Hugging Face can now optimize performance and

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Intel said that its foundry business recorded an operating loss of $7 billion in 2023 on sales of $18.9 billion.
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This is a guest post co-written with Michael Feil at Gradient.
Evaluating the performance of large language models (LLMs) is an important step of the pre-training and fine-tuning process before deployment. The faster and more frequent you’re able to validate performance, the higher the chances you’ll be able to improve the performance of the model.
At Gradient, we work on custom LLM development, and just recently launched our AI Development Lab, offering enterprise organizations a personalized,

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Amazon SageMaker Canvas allows you to use machine learning (ML) to generate predictions without having to write any code. It does so by covering the end-to-end ML workflow: whether you’re looking for powerful data preparation and AutoML, managed endpoint deployment, simplified MLOps capabilities, or the ability to configure foundation models for generative AI, SageMaker Canvas can help you achieve your goals.
To enable agility for your users while ensuring secure environments, you can adopt single sign-on

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This blog post is co-written with Hwalsuk Lee at Upstage.
Today, we’re excited to announce that the Solar foundation model developed by Upstage is now available for customers using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Solar is a large language model (LLM) 100% pre-trained with Amazon SageMaker that outperforms and uses its compact size and powerful track records to specialize in purpose-training, making it versatile across languages, domains, and tasks.
You can now use the Solar Mini Chat and

Coronavirus | The Guardian

Exclusive: Multi-dose vials could push up charge per patient, with experts warning cost could widen inequalitiesCheaper private Covid jabs could end up being just as expensive as their pricier alternative because the vaccine must be given in groups of five, experts have warned.Boots and pharmacies that partner with the company Pharmadoctor are offering Pfizer/BioNTech jabs to those not eligible for a free vaccination through the NHS, with the former charging almost £100 a shot. The latter

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Factory activity up for a seventh month, underpinned by faster growth across most indexes.
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This is a guest post co-written with Meta’s PyTorch team and is a continuation of Part 1 of this series, where we demonstrate the performance and ease of running PyTorch 2.0 on AWS.
Machine learning (ML) research has proven that large language models (LLMs) trained with significantly large datasets result in better model quality. In the last few years, the size of current generation models has increased significantly, and they require modern tools and infrastructure to

MIT News - Artificial intelligence

This is part 2 of a two-part MIT News feature examining new job creation in the U.S. since 1940, based on new research from Ford Professor of Economics David Autor. Part 1 is available here.



Ever since the Luddites were destroying machine looms, it has been obvious that new technologies can wipe out jobs. But technical innovations also create new jobs: Consider a computer programmer, or someone installing solar panels on a roof.



Overall, does technology replace

MIT News - Artificial intelligence

This is part 1 of a two-part MIT News feature examining new job creation in the U.S. since 1940, based on new research from Ford Professor of Economics David Autor. Part 2 is available here.



In 1900, Orville and Wilbur Wright listed their occupations as “Merchant, bicycle” on the U.S. census form. Three years later, they made their famous first airplane flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. So, on the next U.S. census, in 1910, the

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This comes after a 2.8% increase in the fourth quarter of 2023.
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It is among the world’s largest exporters of goods. and serves as a bellwether for global commerce.
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Max Lee's ventures have included a photo printing company, a craft beer bar and an interior design company.
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Amazon Lex provides advanced conversational artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to enable self-service support for your organization’s contact center. With Amazon Lex, you can implement an omnichannel strategy where customers engage via phone, websites, and messaging platforms. The bots can answer FAQs, provide self-service experiences, or triage customer requests before transferring to a human agent. Amazon Lex integrates with state-of-the-art contact centers including Amazon Connect, Genesys Cloud, and Amazon Chime SDK to facilitate a seamless omnichannel experience.
This is the second post of a

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TOKYO – Consumer price growth in Tokyo moderated while staying well above the central bank’s inflation target, keeping authorities on track to consider more interest increases after they hiked earlier this month for the first time since 2007.
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MIT News - Artificial intelligence

From students crafting essays and engineers writing code to call center operators responding to customers, generative artificial intelligence tools have prompted a wave of experimentation over the past year. At MIT, these experiments have raised questions — some new, some ages old — about how these tools can change the way we live and work. 

Can these tools make us better at our jobs, or might they make certain skills obsolete? How can we use these

Coronavirus | The Guardian

Medical company says TGA regulations prevented it from responding to incorrect claims about its vaccine in 2021Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAstraZeneca has called for reforms to Australia’s rules around discussion of medicines, saying public confusion over its Covid vaccine was created because the company was restricted in explaining health warnings by the nation’s medicines regulator.The call is contained in more than 2,000 submissions to the federal government’s inquiry

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Today, customers of all industries—whether it’s financial services, healthcare and life sciences, travel and hospitality, media and entertainment, telecommunications, software as a service (SaaS), and even proprietary model providers—are using large language models (LLMs) to build applications like question and answering (QnA) chatbots, search engines, and knowledge bases. These generative AI applications are not only used to automate existing business processes, but also have the ability to transform the experience for customers using these applications. With

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Large language models (LLMs) are generally trained on large publicly available datasets that are domain agnostic. For example, Meta’s Llama models are trained on datasets such as CommonCrawl, C4, Wikipedia, and ArXiv. These datasets encompass a broad range of topics and domains. Although the resulting models yield amazingly good results for general tasks, such as text generation and entity recognition, there is evidence that models trained with domain-specific datasets can further improve LLM performance. For example,

Coronavirus | The Guardian

Citizen-led commission suggests deaths may have been avoided if transfers to hospital were allowedThe lives of more than 4,000 care home residents in Madrid could have been saved if the regional government had allowed them to be treated in hospitals, the findings of a citizen-led Covid commission have suggested.Launched in April last year, the commission spent months researching and compiling the testimonies of family members, care home staff and experts in an attempt to piece together

MIT News - Artificial intelligence

Last summer, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Provost Cynthia Barnhart issued a call for papers to “articulate effective roadmaps, policy recommendations, and calls for action across the broad domain of generative AI.” The response to the call far exceeded expectations with 75 proposals submitted. Of those, 27 proposals were selected for seed funding.



In light of this enthusiastic response, Kornbluth and Barnhart announced a second call for proposals this fall.



“The groundswell of interest and the caliber

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Home Depot is making the largest acquisition in its history as its sales growth stagnates.
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Amazon Titan lmage Generator G1 is a cutting-edge text-to-image model, available via Amazon Bedrock, that is able to understand prompts describing multiple objects in various contexts and captures these relevant details in the images it generates. It is available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions and can perform advanced image editing tasks such as smart cropping, in-painting, and background changes. However, users would like to adapt the model to unique characteristics

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Areas of opportunity include the digital and green economies, which are “twin engines” of growth in the region.
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As measles cases continue to rise across the country, an Ipsos poll shows that most Canadians see the disease as dangerous. Fewer said the same for COVID-19 and the flu.
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Pharmacy to offer Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to those not eligible for NHS booster shot from next weekBoots is to offer Covid vaccinations for almost £100 a shot, making it the latest provider to sell the jabs to those not eligible for a booster through the NHS.The company has confirmed it will offer the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to healthy customers in England aged 12 and over from next week, at a cost of £98.95 a jab. Continue reading...
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MIT News - Artificial intelligence

To assess a community’s risk of extreme weather, policymakers rely first on global climate models that can be run decades, and even centuries, forward in time, but only at a coarse resolution. These models might be used to gauge, for instance, future climate conditions for the northeastern U.S., but not specifically for Boston.

To estimate Boston’s future risk of extreme weather such as flooding, policymakers can combine a coarse model’s large-scale predictions with a finer-resolution model,

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The consortium includes CapitaLand Development, CDL, Frasers Property, Mitsubishi Estate and Mitsui Fudosan.
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From wiping up spills to serving up food, robots are being taught to carry out increasingly complicated household tasks. Many such home-bot trainees are learning through imitation; they are programmed to copy the motions that a human physically guides them through.

It turns out that robots are excellent mimics. But unless engineers also program them to adjust to every possible bump and nudge, robots don’t necessarily know how to handle these situations, short of starting their

MIT News - Artificial intelligence

Large language models, such as those that power popular artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT, are incredibly complex. Even though these models are being used as tools in many areas, such as customer support, code generation, and language translation, scientists still don’t fully grasp how they work.

In an effort to better understand what is going on under the hood, researchers at MIT and elsewhere studied the mechanisms at work when these enormous machine-learning models retrieve stored

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Employers that let vendors be the primary decision-makers when it comes to talent risk amassing "talent clones" instead of identifying a "kaleidoscope of talent", an academic says.

In her new book Rethinking Talent Decisions, University of Wollongong School of Business academic Dr Sharna Wiblen says the former question of *which* HR or talent management system to use has become a question of *how many*.

"When I ask HR and senior executives how many systems they use to support talent decisions,

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New research findings are contrary to what had previously been thought about pandemic’s effect on children’s wellbeingTeenage boys were hit hardest by the Covid lockdowns, with their mental health failing to recover despite the return to normality, according to the most comprehensive academic study of its kind.Early research into how lockdown affected children indicated that girls had suffered more significant mental health problems than boys. Continue reading...
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This post is co-written with Matt Middleton from Contentful.
Today, jointly with Contentful, we are announcing the launch of the AI Content Generator powered by Amazon Bedrock.
The AI Content Generator powered by Amazon Bedrock is an app available on the Contentful Marketplace that allows users to create, rewrite, summarize, and translate content using cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence (AI) models available and accessible through Amazon Bedrock in a simple and secure manner. This app helps content

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If the DOJ wins, it could seek a range of changes to Apple's business. U.S. officials didn't rule out the possibility that Apple could be broken up.
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Sompo said its investment decisions are not affected by interest rates in Japan.
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Apple and its iPhone and App Store business have been eyed by the Department of Justice, which previously filed antitrust suits against Google.
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MIT News - Artificial intelligence

In our current age of artificial intelligence, computers can generate their own “art” by way of diffusion models, iteratively adding structure to a noisy initial state until a clear image or video emerges. Diffusion models have suddenly grabbed a seat at everyone’s table: Enter a few words and experience instantaneous, dopamine-spiking dreamscapes at the intersection of reality and fantasy. Behind the scenes, it involves a complex, time-intensive process requiring numerous iterations for the algorithm to

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Exports increased 11.2 per cent from a year earlier in the first 20 days of March.
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Fed policymakers sharply upgraded the US growth outlook for 2024 to 2.1 per cent, from 1.4 per cent in December.
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New business profit was US$3.1 billion (S$4.2 billion), compared with US$2.2 billion a year earlier.
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It maintained its 2024 growth forecast at between 4 per cent and 5 per cent
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Analysts view the move as a sign of confidence that growth stimulated inflation can be sustained.
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The mayor says he will be looking into what the city can do to help Edmonton festivals stay afloat amid ongoing financial struggles coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Coronavirus | The Guardian

People with excessive flexibility 30% more likely to say they had not fully recovered from Covid, research findsPeople with excessively flexible joints may be at heightened risk of long Covid and persistent fatigue, research suggests.Hypermobility is where some or all of a person’s joints have an unusually large range of movement due to differences in the structure of their connective tissues that support, protect and give structure to organs, joints and other tissues. Continue reading...
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AWS Machine Learning Blog

In the evolving landscape of manufacturing, the transformative power of AI and machine learning (ML) is evident, driving a digital revolution that streamlines operations and boosts productivity. However, this progress introduces unique challenges for enterprises navigating data-driven solutions. Industrial facilities grapple with vast volumes of unstructured data, sourced from sensors, telemetry systems, and equipment dispersed across production lines. Real-time data is critical for applications like predictive maintenance and anomaly detection, yet developing custom ML models for

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Laid-off staff will get at least a month of pay for each full year of service, as part of their severance package.
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NVIDIA NIM microservices now integrate with Amazon SageMaker, allowing you to deploy industry-leading large language models (LLMs) and optimize model performance and cost. You can deploy state-of-the-art LLMs in minutes instead of days using technologies such as NVIDIA TensorRT, NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM, and NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on NVIDIA accelerated instances hosted by SageMaker.
NIM, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform listed on AWS marketplace, is a set of inference microservices that bring the power

MIT News - Artificial intelligence

Imagine yourself glancing at a busy street for a few moments, then trying to sketch the scene you saw from memory. Most people could draw the rough positions of the major objects like cars, people, and crosswalks, but almost no one can draw every detail with pixel-perfect accuracy. The same is true for most modern computer vision algorithms: They are fantastic at capturing high-level details of a scene, but they lose fine-grained details as they

Coronavirus | The Guardian

Plaintiffs in Murthy v Missouri argue White House requests to take down coronavirus misinformation violate first amendmentThe supreme court heard oral arguments on Monday in a case that could upend the federal government’s relationship with social media companies and with lies online. Plaintiffs in Murthy v Missouri argue that White House requests to take down coronavirus misinformation on Twitter and Facebook constitute illegal censorship in violation the first amendment.The arguments began with Brian Fletcher, the principal

Coronavirus | The Guardian

Senior detective warns children are accessing extreme material as a result of lockdowns, after a 20-year-old was jailed on MondayA senior counter-terrorism officer has warned that children and young people are increasingly being radicalised online after spending long periods on the internet during the pandemic.Det Supt Andy Meeks said a growing number of vulnerable people were accessing extreme material after spending hours unsupervised online. Continue reading...
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Cancer Grand Challenges recently announced five winning teams for 2024, which included five researchers from MIT: Michael Birnbaum, Regina Barzilay, Brandon DeKosky, Seychelle Vos, and Ömer Yilmaz. Each team is made up of interdisciplinary cancer researchers from across the globe and will be awarded $25 million over five years. 

Birnbaum, an associate professor in the Department of Biological Engineering, leads Team MATCHMAKERS and is joined by co-investigators Barzilay, the School of Engineering Distinguished Professor for AI

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Today, we are excited to announce the capability to fine-tune Code Llama models by Meta using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. The Code Llama family of large language models (LLMs) is a collection of pre-trained and fine-tuned code generation models ranging in scale from 7 billion to 70 billion parameters. Fine-tuned Code Llama models provide better accuracy and explainability over the base Code Llama models, as evident on its testing against HumanEval and MBPP datasets. You can fine-tune

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Human resource management is among the top industries in the world and effective human resource management ultimately leads to an organization’s increased productivity and efficiency. So, this is the case with artificial intelligence. This newest technology has been transforming industries across the world by automating several tasks and enhancing accuracy, speed, and making the workplace smarter.
With the help of AI and Data Science, HR is evolving from a primarily administrative department to a more strategic

Coronavirus | The Guardian

Figures show many still ‘out of the habit’ of visiting museums, galleries, cathedrals, castles and country housesVisitor numbers to the UK’s museums, galleries, cathedrals, zoos, castles and country houses are increasing but remain stubbornly below pre-pandemic levels, with a significant number of people still “out of the habit” of having a day out.Figures released by the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) on Monday show a mixed picture. On the bright side, there was a 19%

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March 18, 2024 9:22 AMNon-electronics decreased while electronics grew.
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March 18, 2024 4:00 AMAs companies across the board pursue automation, investors can look out for long-term growth opportunities in tech stocks, say AXA Investment Managers.
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Audio deepfakes have had a recent bout of bad press after an artificial intelligence-generated robocall purporting to be the voice of Joe Biden hit up New Hampshire residents, urging them not to cast ballots. Meanwhile, spear-phishers — phishing campaigns that target a specific person or group, especially using information known to be of interest to the target — go fishing for money, and actors aim to preserve their audio likeness.

What receives less press, however, are

AWS Machine Learning Blog

This post is co-written with Chaoyang He, Al Nevarez and Salman Avestimehr from FedML.
Many organizations are implementing machine learning (ML) to enhance their business decision-making through automation and the use of large distributed datasets. With increased access to data, ML has the potential to provide unparalleled business insights and opportunities. However, the sharing of raw, non-sanitized sensitive information across different locations poses significant security and privacy risks, especially in regulated industries such as healthcare.
To

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This is a guest blog post written by Nitin Kumar, a Lead Data Scientist at T and T Consulting Services, Inc.
In this post, we discuss the value and potential impact of federated learning in the healthcare field. This approach can help heart stroke patients, doctors, and researchers with faster diagnosis, enriched decision-making, and more informed, inclusive research work on stroke-related health issues, using a cloud-native approach with AWS services for lightweight lift and straightforward adoption.

Coronavirus | The Guardian

Case to determine if White House violated free speech protections when it asked social networks to remove Covid misinformationThe supreme court will hear oral arguments on Monday in Murthy v Missouri, a case with the potential to radically redefine how the US government interacts with social media companies. The suit is the culmination of years of a Republican-backed legal campaign arguing that efforts by federal agencies and Joe Biden’s White House to reduce misinformation online constitute

Coronavirus | The Guardian

CDC data shows nearly 18m people could be living with long Covid even as health agency relaxes isolation recommendationsSome 6.8% of American adults are currently experiencing long Covid symptoms, according to a new survey from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), revealing an “alarming” increase in recent months even as the health agency relaxes Covid isolation recommendations, experts say.That means an estimated 17.6 million Americans could now be living with long Covid. Continue

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March 15, 2024 2:10 PMHigh interest rates and a rising cost of living have damped sentiment and weighed on activity.
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March 15, 2024 1:59 PMFrance would need quarterly growth of 0.7% in both Q3 and Q4 to meet the government’s 1% growth forecast for 2024.
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Researchers compared the symptoms and impairment of Covid and influenza patients a year after they tested positiveFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastLong Covid may be no different from other post-viral syndromes such as those experienced after flu, according to new research from Queensland Health.The lead author of the study, the state’s chief health officer Dr John Gerrard, said it was “time

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March 15, 2024 9:09 AMThe issue price represents almost a 7 per cent discount to CSE’s volume-weighted average price of 42 cents.
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AWS Machine Learning Blog

This is a guest post co-written with Scott Gutterman from the PGA TOUR.
Generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) has enabled new possibilities for building intelligent systems. Recent improvements in Generative AI based large language models (LLMs) have enabled their use in a variety of applications surrounding information retrieval. Given the data sources, LLMs provided tools that would allow us to build a Q&A chatbot in weeks, rather than what may have taken years previously, and likely

AWS Machine Learning Blog

In the world of software development, code review and approval are important processes for ensuring the quality, security, and functionality of the software being developed. However, managers tasked with overseeing these critical processes often face numerous challenges, such as the following:

Lack of technical expertise – Managers may not have an in-depth technical understanding of the programming language used or may not have been involved in software engineering for an extended period. This results

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Generative AI applications driven by foundational models (FMs) are enabling organizations with significant business value in customer experience, productivity, process optimization, and innovations. However, adoption of these FMs involves addressing some key challenges, including quality output, data privacy, security, integration with organization data, cost, and skills to deliver.
In this post, we explore different approaches you can take when building applications that use generative AI. With the rapid advancement of FMs, it’s an exciting time to

The Straits Times Business News

March 14, 2024 1:45 PMNet profits rose 13.1 per cent from 2022 to $26.1 billion in 2023.
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Today, we’re excited to announce that the Gemma model is now available for customers using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Gemma is a family of language models based on Google’s Gemini models, trained on up to 6 trillion tokens of text. The Gemma family consists of two sizes: a 7 billion parameter model and a 2 billion parameter model. Now, you can use Gemma 2B and Gemma 7B pretrained and instruction-tuned models within SageMaker JumpStart. JumpStart is the machine learning (ML) hub

Coronavirus | The Guardian

Mark Drakeford criticises UK ministers and says there is ‘plausible case’ that Welsh government should have acted soonerThe Welsh first minister, Mark Drakeford, has launched a scathing attack on the UK government’s handling of the Covid crisis, but admitted his own administration should have taken “more stringent action” sooner as the pandemic swept the world.Appearing at the Welsh leg of the Covid inquiry, Drakeford likened Boris Johnson to an absent football manager at the start of