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Facebook Develops New AI Model That Can Anticipate Future Actions
Facebook unveiled its latest machine-learning process called Anticipative Video Transformer (AVT), which is able to predict future actions by using visual interpretation. AVT works as an end-to-end attention-based model for action anticipation in videos.
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Roland Meertens on the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Zero Shot Learning
At the recent QCon Plus online conference, Roland Meertens gave a talk on developing AI-based applications titled "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Zero Shot Learning." He demonstrated two examples of using foundation models and zero shot learning to rapidly deploy prototype applications and gain feedback without needing to gather large datasets and train models.
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Francesca Lazzeri on What You Should Know before Deploying ML in Production
At the recent QCon Plus online conference, Dr. Francesca Lazzeri gave a talk on machine learning operations (MLOps) titled "What You Should Know before Deploying ML in Production." She covered four key topics, including MLOps capabilities, open source integrations, machine-learning pipelines, and the MLFlow platform.
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Google Document Translation Now Generally Available
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of Document Translation, a new feature of Translation API Advanced that allows formatting of documents to be retained throughout the translation process.
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What Machine Learning Can Do for Security
Machine learning can be applied in various ways in security, for instance, in malware analysis, to make predictions, and for clustering security events. It can also be used to detect previously unknown attacks with no established signature.
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BigScience Research Workshop Releases AI Language Model T0
BigScience Research Workshop released T0, a series of natural language processing (NLP) AI models specifically trained for researching zero-shot multitask learning. T0 can often outperform models 6x larger on the BIG-bench benchmark, and can outperform the 16x larger GPT-3 on several other NLP benchmarks.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Open AI Service Including Access to Powerful GPT-3 Models
At its recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the new Azure OpenAI Service in preview, allowing access to OpenAI’s API through the Azure platform. This new Azure Cognitive Service will give customers access to OpenAI’s powerful GPT-3 models, along with security, reliability, compliance, data privacy, and other enterprise-grade capabilities available through the Azure platform.
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Amazon Releases DL1 Instances Powered by Gaudi Accelerators
Amazon recently announced the general availability of the EC2 DL1 instances powered by Gaudi accelerators from Habana Labs. The new instances promise better price performances in training deep learning models for use cases such as computer vision, natural language processing, autonomous vehicle perception and recommendation engines.
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Apache Spark Brings Pandas API with Version 3.2
The Apache Spark team has integrated the Pandas API in the product's latest 3.2 release. With this change, dataframe processing can be scaled to multiple clusters or multiple processors in a single machine using the PySpark execution engine.
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Baidu Announces 11 Billion Parameter Chatbot AI PLATO-XL
Baidu recently announced PLATO-XL, an AI model for dialog generation, which was trained on over a billion samples collected from social media conversations in both English and Chinese. PLATO-XL achieves state-of-the-art performance on several conversational benchmarks, outperforming currently available commercial chatbots.
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Analyze Video Feeds at the Edge with AWS Panorama Appliance
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Panorama Appliance, a new device that customers can install in their facilities to run applications that analyze multiple video streams from existing on-premises cameras.
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AWS Announces the Public Preview of AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift
Recently AWS announced the public preview of AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift. This new feature enables customers to find and subscribe to third-party data in AWS Data Exchange to query in an Amazon Redshift data warehouse.
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IBM Develops Hardware-Based Vector-Symbolic AI Architecture
IBM Research recently announced a memory-augmented neural network (MANN) AI system consisting of a neural network controller and phase-change memory (PCM) hardware. By performing analog in-memory computation on high-dimensional (HD) binary vectors, the system learns few-shot classification tasks on the Omniglot benchmark with only 2.7% accuracy drop compared to 32-bit software implementations.
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Lowering Recovery Time through AI-Enabled Troubleshooting
Machine learning algorithms for anomaly detection can assist DevOps in daily working routines, where generalized ML models are trained and applied to detect hidden patterns and identify suspicious behaviour. Applied machine learning for IT-operations (AIOPs) is starting to move from research environments to production environments in companies.
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Microsoft Translator Now Supports over 100 Languages and Dialects
Microsoft Translator is an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered text translation service on Azure and part of the cognitive services offering. Recently, the company announced that 12 new languages and dialects have been added to the service, meaning that it can now translate between more than 100 languages and dialects.