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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.
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Google's Gated Multi-Layer Perceptron Outperforms Transformers Using Fewer Parameters
Researchers at Google Brain have announced Gated Multi-Layer Perceptron (gMLP), a deep-learning model that contains only basic multi-layer perceptrons. Using fewer parameters, gMLP outperforms Transformer models on natural-language processing (NLP) tasks and achieves comparable accuracy on computer vision (CV) tasks.
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TensorFlow Similarity Supports Fast Query Search Index on Pre-trained Models
Francois Chollet and his team recently released a Python library for TensorFlow, called TensorFlow Similarity. Similarity learning is the process of finding similar items, from similar clothes in images to person identification using face pictures. Deep-learning models have used a method called contrastive learning to increase accuracy and efficiency in learning similarity between images.
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Intel Loihi 2 and Lava Framework Aim to Advance Neuromorphic Computing Research
Intel introduced its second-generation neuromorphic chip, Loihi 2, with the aim to provide tools for research in the field of neuromorphic computing. In addition, Intel has released Lava, a software framework to build neuromorphic apps both on conventional and neuromorphic hardware.
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Streamlining the Handoff between Designers and Developers - Travis Arnold at React Finland 2021
Travis Arnold recently presented how JSX and compiler technologies can be used conjointly to make the handoff between designers and developers more efficient. While the ideas presented are not yet implemented in any publicly available tool or library, the ideas of Arnold, who describes himself as a designer/developer, may serve to illustrate possible avenues for improved collaboration.
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Scikit-learn 1.0 Supports Spline Transformers, Quantile Regression and Improved Plotting API
Scikit-learn, the popular Python-based machine learning (ML) library, has released version 1.0. Although the library has been stable for some time, and the release contains no breaking changes, the project maintainers opted for a major version revision to signal to users that the software is mature and production-ready.
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GitHub's Copilot Still a Long Way From Autopilot
Three months after GitHub launched Copilot, a group of academics affiliated with New York University's Tandon School of Engineering released their empirical cybersecurity evaluation of Copilot’s code contributions, concluding that 40% of the time, the code created is buggy and vulnerable.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Purview
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Purview, its data governance solution in the cloud. It provides customers with a unified data governance solution for on-premises, cloud, and app-based systems. The GA release is a follow-up from its public preview release almost a year ago.