A faster way to teach a robot

A new technique enables a human to efficiently fine-tune a robot that failed to complete a desired task with very little effort on the part of the human. Their system uses algorithms, counterfactual explanations, and feedback from the user to generate synthetic data it uses to quickly fine-tune the robot.

How to give AI-based robots empathy so they won’t want to kill us

A team of social scientists, neurologists and psychiatrists at the University of Southern California’s Brain and Creativity Institute, working with colleagues from the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, the University of Central Florida and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have published a Viewpoint piece in the journal Science Robotics outlining a new …

How Multichannel Marketing and AI Elevate the Customer Experience

When we think of AI, our minds might drift to sophisticated robotics, self-driving cars, or the AI application du jour, ChatGPT. But, AI technology has also been making a big splash when it comes to marketing orchestration. From elevating the customer journey to powering personalization to transforming the customer experience, AI has given marketers the …

Unleashing Terraform for Kubernetes secret management with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service and Secrets Manager

In this blog post, we explore the practical implementation of utilizing Terraform on IBM Cloud to create and manage secrets by seamlessly integrating your IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service with IBM Cloud Secrets Manager. Previously, this functionality to manage TLS and non-TLS certificates and secrets was primarily accessed through the CLI using the namespace ibmcloud ks …

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SimPer: Simple self-supervised learning of periodic targets

Posted by Daniel McDuff, Staff Research Scientist, and Yuzhe Yang, Student Researcher, Google Learning from periodic data (signals that repeat, such as a heart beat or the daily temperature changes on Earth’s surface) is crucial for many real-world applications, from monitoring weather systems to detecting vital signs. For example, in the environmental remote sensing domain, …

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Enhance Amazon Lex with conversational FAQ features using LLMs

Amazon Lex is a service that allows you to quickly and easily build conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems for applications such as Amazon Connect. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have been a focus for Amazon for over 20 years, and many of the capabilities that customers use …