Mapping Our Audience: A Look at Where AI Blog Readers Come From

At the AI Blog, we are constantly amazed by the diversity and reach of our readership. To get a clearer picture of where our visitors are coming from, we’ve analyzed the data and mapped out the locations of our readers across North America. This was done with GPT-4o. The results are fascinating and show a …

ContextQ: Generated Questions to Support Meaningful Parent-Child Dialogue While Co-Reading

Much of early literacy education happens at home with caretakers reading books to young children. Prior research demonstrates how having dialogue with children during co-reading can develop critical reading readiness skills, but most adult readers are unsure if and how to lead effective conversations. We present ContextQ, a tablet-based reading application to unobtrusively present auto-generated …

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Generating fashion product descriptions by fine-tuning a vision-language model with SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock

In the world of online retail, creating high-quality product descriptions for millions of products is a crucial, but time-consuming task. Using machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) to automate product description generation has the potential to save manual effort and transform the way ecommerce platforms operate. One of the main advantages of high-quality …

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Cloud SQL: Rapid prototyping of AI-powered apps with Vertex AI

Developers seeking to leverage the power of machine learning (ML) on their PostgreSQL data often find themselves grappling with complex integrations and steep learning curves. Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now bridges this gap, allowing you to tap into cutting-edge ML models and vector generation techniques offered by Vertex AI, directly within your SQL queries. Now, …

5 Essential Free Tools for Getting Started with LLMs

Image created by Author using Midjourney Large language models (LLMs) have become extremely prominent and useful for all sorts of tasks, but new users may find the large number of LLM tools and utilities intimidating. This article focuses on 5 of the available and widely-useful such tools, all of which are no-cost and created to …

Scarlett Johansson’s Voice and the Future of AI: An Unintended Standard?

This group of women was generated by Midjourney … it’s happening! Recently, Scarlett Johansson’s disapproval of an AI-generated voice similar to hers from the movie “Her” led to the removal of the “Sky” voice from ChatGPT. This incident raises intriguing questions about the future use of her voice in AI technology. The Unintended Consequence Johansson’s …

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Escaping the Cargo Cult

Escaping the Cargo Cult: Exchanging blind faith for real-world outcomes In his February 2024 blog post, Technology is the Problem, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar presents a compelling argument: the stagnation in growth and progress over recent decades is largely attributable to a misalignment at every stage of the B2B SaaS value chain. Engineering, procurement, implementation, …