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Open sourcing Project Guideline: A platform for computer vision accessibility technology

Posted by Dave Hawkey, Software Engineer, Google Research Two years ago we announced Project Guideline, a collaboration between Google Research and Guiding Eyes for the Blind that enabled people with visual impairments (e.g., blindness and low-vision) to walk, jog, and run independently. Using only a Google Pixel phone and headphones, Project Guideline leverages on-device machine …

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How Amazon Music uses SageMaker with NVIDIA to optimize ML training and inference performance and cost

In the dynamic world of streaming on Amazon Music, every search for a song, podcast, or playlist holds a story, a mood, or a flood of emotions waiting to be unveiled. These searches serve as a gateway to new discoveries, cherished experiences, and lasting memories. The search bar is not just about finding a song; …

Researchers develop AI-powered model to predict stock market trends

Can artificial intelligence tools help predict stock price movement and volatility? Two South Dakota State University researchers believe so. Kaiqun Fu, assistant professor in SDSU’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Yangxiao Bai, a graduate research assistant, have developed an AI-powered model that anticipates stock price movement and stock market volatility trends.

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AI and Holiday Shopping: 6 Ways Online Shoppers Will Encounter AI This Cyber Monday

There is no doubt that the holiday shopping season has changed a lot over the past decade. Exponential growth of e-commerce sales, more complex and longer holiday shopping seasons, the boom of the experience economy, and the rise of AI have forced retailers to evolve their strategies to meet the needs of modern consumers. While …

SSD vs. NVMe: What’s the difference?

Recent technological advancements in data storage have prompted businesses and consumers to move away from traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) towards faster, lower-latency solid-state drive (SSD) technology. In this post, we’re going to look at this new technology, as well as the fastest and most popular protocol available to connect it to a computer’s motherboard—non-volatile …

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Use Amazon SageMaker Studio to build a RAG question answering solution with Llama 2, LangChain, and Pinecone for fast experimentation

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) allows you to provide a large language model (LLM) with access to data from external knowledge sources such as repositories, databases, and APIs without the need to fine-tune it. When using generative AI for question answering, RAG enables LLMs to answer questions with the most relevant, up-to-date information and optionally cite …