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Ai4 2023 Summary Day Two: AI Legal Issues, AI in Education & Deploying AI
Day Two of Ai4 2023 conference was held on August 9th, 2023, at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. This two-day event is organized by Fora Group and includes tracks focused on various industries, including automotive, financial, healthcare, and government. The day began with six mainstage presentations from leaders in AI technology.
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Semantic Kernel LLM Java SDK Now Available, Simplifying GenAI Integration
Microsoft has announced the availability of its Semantic Kernel software development kit (SDK) for Java, designed to mesh Large Language Models (LLMs) with popular programming languages, extending support beyond C# and Python.
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Ai4 2023 Summary Day One: AI-based Filmmaking, AI Responsible Use & Enterprise Adoption
Day One of Ai4 2023 conference was held on August 8th, 2023, at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. This two-day event is organized by Fora Group and includes tracks focused on various industries, including automotive, financial, healthcare, and government. The day began with six mainstage presentations from leaders in AI technology.
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Tabnine Chat: AI Code Assistant Using Natural Language Launches in Beta
Tabnine has recently announced the beta of Tabnine Chat to interact with Tabnine’s AI models using natural language. The chat application works inside the IDE, allows organizations to train on permissive code only, and can run on isolated environment deployment.
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Feature Engineering at AirBnb Using Chronon
To increase productivity and scalability when creating new features to use in machine learning models, AirBnb has built Chronon, a solution to create the infrastructure required to turn raw data into features for training and inference.
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MDN Introduces Web Development AI Help in Beta
Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) has released AI Help, a beta tool aiming to streamline web developers' interactions with the platform and provide problem-solving assistance. Only users with an MDN Plus account can access AI Help for now. So far, the community reaction has not been overly positive, and a number of GitHub issues have been reported.
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Meta Open Sourced AudioCraft, its Text-to-Music Generative AI
Meta has open sourced its text-to-music generative AI, AudioCraft, for researchers and practitioners to train their own models and help advance the state of the art.
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Faster Container Startup in AWS Fargate with Seekable OCI
AWS recently announced support for Seekable Open Container Initiative (SOCI) with AWS Fargate. SOCI enables lazy-loading of images which reduces container start-up times on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). In addition, AWS released two tools, SOCI Index Builder and SOCI Snapshotter, to help its customers take advantage of this new functionality.
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AWS Launches General Availability of Amazon EC2 P5 Instances for AI/ML and HPC Workloads
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 P5 instances powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs suitable for users that require high performance and scalability in AI/ML and HPC workloads. The GA is a follow-up to the earlier announcement of the development of the infrastructure.
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AWS Introduces a Generative AI-Powered Clinical Documentation Tool with HealthScribe in Preview
AWS recently announced a new HIPAA-eligible service called AWS HealthScribe in a preview that uses speech recognition and generative AI (powered by Amazon Bedrock) to generate clinical documentation.
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Researchers Publish Attack Algorithm for ChatGPT and Other LLMs
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have published LLM Attacks, an algorithm for constructing adversarial attacks on a wide range of large language models (LLMs), including ChatGPT, Claude, and Bard. The attacks are generated automatically and are successful 84% of the time on GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, and 66% of the time on PaLM-2.
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Amazon Bedrock Unveils New Agents Feature
Amazon announced the release of agents for Amazon Bedrock, a new feature that allows developers to quickly create fully managed agents. By performing API calls to enterprise systems, agents for Amazon Bedrock speed up the release of generative AI applications that can manage and carry out activities.
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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Adds pgvector to Support Embeddings from Generative AI
AWS recently announced that the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora now supports pgvector for vector storage and similarity search. Aurora is the latest managed PostgreSQL database supporting the open-source extension to store and search embeddings from machine learning models.
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Meta Open Sources New AI Model Llama 2
Meta is open-sourcing its large language model, Llama 2. The model’s code and weights are being made available free of charge for both research and commercial use. Llama 2 is the result of the expanded partnership between Meta and Microsoft, with the latter being the preferred partner for the new model.
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Grab Reduces Traffic Cost for Kafka Consumers on AWS to Zero
Grab took advantage of the ability of Apache Kafka consumers to connect to the broker node in the same availability zone (AZ) introduced in Kafka 2.3 and reduced the traffic cost on AWS to zero for reconfigured consumers. The change has substantially reduced overall infrastructure costs for running Apache Kafka on AWS.