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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.
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Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Announces CI/CD Integration with GitHub Actions
Amazon recently announced the CI/CD integration of Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer with GitHub Actions. The cloud provider also released 20 new security detectors for Java to identify issues and follow best security practices.
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GitHub Previews Copilot, an OpenAI-Powered Coding Assistant
GitHub recently announced Copilot, an AI-powered pair programmer designed to help developers write code faster and with less effort. The service learns from comments and existing code, suggesting new lines and the implementation of whole functions.
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Performance-Focused Reactive UI Framework Solid.JS Releases First Major Version
Solid.js, a reactive JavaScript UI library, released its first major iteration. Solid replicates many capabilities (e.g., server-side rendering, concurrent rendering) and APIs (e.g., stores, context, directives) present in other frameworks. Developers map the appearance and behavior of user interfaces to a set of reactive dependencies. Solid compiles the statements to imperative DOM operations.
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Google Open-Sources Token-Free Language Model ByT5
Google Research has open-sourced ByT5, a natural language processing (NLP) AI model that operates on raw bytes instead of abstract tokens. Compared to baseline models, ByT5 is more accurate on several benchmark tasks and is more robust to misspellings and noise.
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AWS Introduces AWS Bugbust - a Global Competition to Fix One Million Bugs
Recently, AWS announced a global challenge to fix one million bugs and reduce technical debt by over $100 million with AWS BugBust. The solution utilizes ML-powered developer tools - Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer and Amazon CodeGuru Profiler - to automatically scan code to weed out bugs, and gamifies fixing and eliminating them.
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LinkedIn Open Sources Greykite, a Python-based Forecasting Library
LinkedIn open sourced Greykite, a Python library that promises to provide accurate future forecasts in an interpretable, allowing visualizations of the trend, seasonality, and other effects. Built to be flexible, intuitive and fast, it performed 4 times better than FB’s prophet, providing more accurate results for 1-day and 7-day forecasts.
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InterCon 2021 Panel Discussion: Is AI Really Beneficial for End Users?
The recent InterCon in Las Vegas featured a panel discussion titled "Is AI Really Beneficial For End Users?" Some key takeaways were that AI brings benefits by increasing productivity and assisting with problem solving, and that there is a need for governance and ethics in AI and a concern over bias in training datasets.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure ND A100 V4 Cloud GPU Instances
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure ND A100 v4 Cloud GPU instances—powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs. These Virtual Machines (VMs) are targeted at customers with high performance and demanding workloads like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workloads.