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AWS Announces Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics API for Conversation Insights
Recently, AWS announced Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics, a new feature of Amazon Transcribe. AWS customers can extract valuable insights from customer conversations like customer and agent sentiment, and conversation characteristics such as non-talk time, interruptions, loudness, and talk speed with this new feature.
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Facebook Open-Sources BlenderBot 2.0 Chatbot
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) open-sourced BlenderBot 2.0, an AI chatbot that has long-term memory and can use internet searches for supplemental conversational context. The new model outperforms version 1.0, the previous state-of-the-art chatbot, achieving 55% improvement in use of previous conversations, according to human evaluators.
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Machine Learning Technologies at Tokyo 2020 Olympics
National Olympic teams are using machine learning to gain an edge in competition over their opponents at the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020. Machine learning technologies are being used at the international sports event from athlete data tracking, coaches’ real-time feedback that can tell athletes when to train and when to stop, to predicting sports injuries with algorithms.
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Baidu's ERNIE 3.0 AI Model Exceeds Human Performance on Language Understanding Benchmark
A research team from Baidu published a paper on the 3.0 version of Enhanced Language RepresentatioN with Informative Entities (ERNIE), a natural language processing (NLP) deep-learning model. The model contains 10B parameters and achieved a new state-of-the-art score on the SuperGLUE benchmark, outperforming the human baseline score.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes are a key Elastic Compute (EC2) component with several HDD and SSD volumes, each designed for a particular use case. And recently, AWS announced the general availability of its cloud-based storage area network (SAN) offering, Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes – providing 4x higher throughput, IOPS, and capacity than io2 volumes.
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AWS Announces Customizable Image Support for Amazon EMR on EKS
Recently, AWS announced customizable image support for Amazon EMR on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that allows customers to modify the Docker runtime image that runs their analytics application using Apache Spark on their EKS cluster.
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BasisAI Open Source Boxkite Machine Learning Monitoring Tool
Boxkite is an open source instrumentation library designed to track concept drift in highly available model servers. It integrates with DevOps tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, fluentd and kubeflow, scaling horizontally to multiple replicas without needing changes to code or infrastructure. The project claims to be fast, correct and simple.
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Joanneum Research Releases Robot AI Platform Robo-Gym Version 1.0.0
Joanneum Research's Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics has released version 1.0.0 of robo-gym, an open-source framework for developing reinforcement learning (RL) AI for robot control. The release includes a new obstacle avoidance environment, support for all Universal Robots cobot models, and improved code quality.
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Ferrari Chooses AWS Machine Learning for Racing and Road Operations
Ferrari will use AWS machine learning, analytics, and compute capabilities across the organization, including the Formula One team Scuderia Ferrari.
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Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations: an Overview
Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) combines sophisticated methods from deep learning, data streaming processing, and domain knowledge to analyse infrastructure data from internal and external sources to automate operations and detect anomalies (unusual system behavior) before they impact the quality of service.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon HealthLake
Recently AWS announced the general availability of Amazon HealthLake, a fully-managed, HIPAA-eligible service. With the service, healthcare providers, health insurance-, and pharmaceutical companies can securely store, transform, query, and analyze health data.
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Google Announces 800M Parameter Vision-Language AI Model ALIGN
Google Research announced the development of A Large-scale ImaGe and Noisy-Text Embedding (ALIGN), an 800M-parameter pre-trained deep-learning model trained on a noisy dataset of 1.8B image-text pairs. The model can be used on several downstream tasks and achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on several image-text retrieval benchmarks.
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QCon Plus November 2021 is Now Hybrid. Attend Online and In-Person (NY & SF)
The QCon Plus software development conference will be back November 1-5, 2021 - online and in-person. Get the chance to engage and network with professionals driving change and innovation inside the world’s most innovative software organizations.
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EleutherAI Open-Sources Six Billion Parameter GPT-3 Clone GPT-J
A team of researchers from EleutherAI have open-sourced GPT-J, a six-billion parameter natural language processing (NLP) AI model based on GPT-3. The model was trained on an 800GB open-source text dataset and has performance comparable to a GPT-3 model of similar size.
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Google Integrates TensorFlow Lite with Android, Adds Automatic Acceleration
Google has announced a new mobile ML stack, dubbed Android ML Platform and built around TensorFlow Lite, which aims to solve a number of problems that developers find when using on-device machine learning.