Accelerating AI & Innovation: the future of banking depends on core modernization

In the rapidly evolving landscape of financial services, embracing AI and digital innovation at scale has become imperative for banks to stay competitive. With the power of AI and machine learning, financial institutions can leverage predictive analytics, anomaly detection and shared learning models to enhance system stability, detect fraud and drive superior customer-centric experiences. As …

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AVFormer: Injecting vision into frozen speech models for zero-shot AV-ASR

Posted by Arsha Nagrani and Paul Hongsuck Seo, Research Scientists, Google Research Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a well-established technology that is widely adopted for various applications such as conference calls, streamed video transcription and voice commands. While the challenges for this technology are centered around noisy audio inputs, the visual stream in multimodal videos …

New method improves efficiency of ‘vision transformer’ AI systems

Vision transformers (ViTs) are powerful artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that can identify or categorize objects in images — however, there are significant challenges related to both computing power requirements and decision-making transparency. Researchers have now developed a new methodology that addresses both challenges, while also improving the ViT’s ability to identify, classify and segment objects …

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Last Chance! 48-Hour Flash Sale on AI & Chatbot Certified Workshops

I hope this email finds you well. I wanted to reach out with an exciting update: we are having a 48-Hour Flash Sale on our highly anticipated AI & Chatbot Certified Workshops, and I didn’t want you to miss out on this amazing opportunity! For the next 48 hours only, you can take advantage of …

Learning Language-Specific Layers for Multilingual Machine Translation

Multilingual Machine Translation promises to improve translation quality between non-English languages. This is advantageous for several reasons, namely lower latency (no need to translate twice), and reduced error cascades (e.g. , avoiding losing gender and formality information when translating through English). On the downside, adding more languages reduces model capacity per language, which is usually …

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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

By Jose Fernandez, Ed Barker, Hank Jacobs Introduction In November 2022, we introduced a brand new tier — Basic with ads. This tier extended existing infrastructure by adding new backend components and a new remote call to our ads partner on the playback path. As we were gearing up for launch, we wanted to ensure it would go …