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AI Training Method Exceeds GPT-3 Performance with 99.9% Fewer Parameters
A team of scientists at LMU Munich have developed Pattern-Exploiting Training (PET), a deep-learning training technique for natural language processing (NLP) models. Using PET, the team trained a Transformer NLP model with 223M parameters that out-performed the 175B-parameter GPT-3 by over 3 percentage points on the SuperGLUE benchmark.
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AWS Releases Amazon Timestream into General Availability
AWS recently announced the general availability of Amazon Timestream, a serverless purpose-built database that exposes time-series data through SQL. With Amazon Timestream, customers can save time and costs in managing the lifecycle of time series data by keeping recent data in memory and moving historical data to a cost-optimized storage tier based on user-defined policies.
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Microsoft Obtains Exclusive License for GPT-3 AI Model
Microsoft announced an agreement with OpenAI to license OpenAI's GPT-3 deep-learning model for natural-language processing (NLP). Although Microsoft's announcement says it has "exclusively" licensed the model, OpenAI will continue to offer access to the model via its own API.
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CNCF Approves Kubernetes Edge Computing Platform KubeEdge as Incubating Project
The CNCF Technical Steering Committee (TOC) announced the acceptance of KubeEdge as an incubating project. KubeEdge is a platform that aims to provide “infrastructure support for network, application deployment and metadata synchronization between the cloud and edge devices” and uses Kubernetes as the underlying foundation.
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Facebook Releases AI Model for Protein Sequence Processing
A team of scientists at Facebook AI Research have released a deep-learning model for processing protein data from DNA sequences. The model contains approximately 700M parameters, was trained on 250 million protein sequences, and learned representations of biological properties that can be used to improve current state-of-the-art in several genomics prediction tasks.
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Microsoft Announces New Technologies to Combat Disinformation
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced two new technologies to combat disinformation: a Video Authenticator tool, and technology to either detect manipulated content or assure people that the media they're viewing is authentic.
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Salesforce Releases Photon Natural Language Interface for Databases
A team of scientists from Salesforce Research and Chinese University of Hong Kong have released Photon, a natural language interface to databases (NLIDB). The team used deep-learning to construct a parser that achieves 63% accuracy on a common benchmark and an error-detecting module that prompts users to clarify ambiguous questions.
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Artificial Intelligence Can Create Sound Tracks for Silent Videos
Researchers Ghose and Prevost created a deep learning algorithm which, given a silent video, can generate a realistic sounding synchronised soundtrack. They trained the neural network to classify the class of the sound to generate, and they also trained a sequential network to generate the sound. They thus could go from temporally aligned images to the generation of sound: a different modality!
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Immersive Reader Service on the Azure AI Platform
Immersive Reader, which is a part of the Cognitive Services suite within the Microsoft Azure AI Platform, provides help for readers to read and comprehend text. In a recent blog, Microsoft announced the general availability of the service.
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Google's BigBird Model Improves Natural Language and Genomics Processing
Researchers at Google have developed a new deep-learning model called BigBird that allows Transformer neural networks to process sequences up to 8x longer than previously possible. Networks based on this model achieved new state-of-the-art performance levels on natural-language processing (NLP) and genomics tasks.
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Google Announces a New, More Services-Based Architecture Called Runner V2 to Dataflow
Google Cloud Dataflow is a fully-managed service for executing Apache Beam pipelines within the Google Cloud Platform(GCP). In a recent blog post, Google announced a new, more services-based architecture called Runner v2 to Dataflow – which will include multi-language support for all of its language SDKs.
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AWS Introduces a Solution of AI Services to Manage Contact Center Workflows
AWS has recently made Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) solutions available, a combination of services that enables companies to integrate contact centers with AI.
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Amazon Makes Internal Machine-Learning Courses Public
Amazon has published videos and supplementary materials from several of its internal Machine Learning University courses. The course lectures cover three machine-learning topics and can be watched on-demand on YouTube, while the slides, notebooks, and datasets can be downloaded from GitHub. A total of twelve courses are planned to be released by the end of the year.
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Containers Running on EKS and AWS Fargate Can Now Use Amazon Elastic File System
Recently, Amazon announced that Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) pods running on AWS Fargate can now mount Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) file systems. The update is a follow-up to AWS customers requesting support for EFS with Fargate when using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
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Amazon Announces ECS Now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced that customers can now use the Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). The company promises the instances will be high performant and have low, predictable costs.