Most and Least Surprising: 3 Tech Leaders React to Insights in the AI in Business Trend Report 2023
Explore insights from tech leaders on generative AI in the workplace, based on our report findings.
Optimising computer systems with more generalised AI tools
Based on reinforcement learning, our AI models AlphaZero and MuZero have achieved superhuman performance winning games. Now, they’re expanding their capabilities to help optimise resources in data centres and advance video compression – and most recently, our specialised version of AlphaZero, called AlphaDev, discovered new algorithms that are already accelerating the software applications at the …
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Clients can strengthen defenses for their data with IBM Storage Defender, now generally available
We are excited to inform our clients and partners that IBM Storage Defender, part of our IBM Storage for Data Resilience portfolio, is now generally available. Enterprise clients worldwide continue to grapple with a threat landscape that is constantly evolving. Bad actors are moving faster than ever and are causing more lasting damage to data. …
Evaluating speech synthesis in many languages with SQuId
Posted by Thibault Sellam, Research Scientist, Google Previously, we presented the 1,000 languages initiative and the Universal Speech Model with the goal of making speech and language technologies available to billions of users around the world. Part of this commitment involves developing high-quality speech synthesis technologies, which build upon projects such as VDTTS and AudioLM, …
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Accelerate PyTorch with DeepSpeed to train large language models with Intel Habana Gaudi-based DL1 EC2 instances
Training large language models (LLMs) with billions of parameters can be challenging. In addition to designing the model architecture, researchers need to set up state-of-the-art training techniques for distributed training like mixed precision support, gradient accumulation, and checkpointing. With large models, the training setup is even more challenging because the available memory in a single …
Document AI: Understanding invoices to passports and beyond
Editor’s note: In this post, I’ll be showing some amazing ways Document AI can help you extract meaning from your documents – keep reading, or jump directly into a tutorial using the Cloud Console! Documents are a crucial part of most businesses, used to store and communicate important information. The variety is vast: invoices, contracts, …
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Taking AI to School: A Conversation With MIT’s Anant Agarwal
In the latest episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, Anant Agarwal, founder of edX and chief platform officer at 2U, shared his vision for the future of online education and how AI is revolutionizing the learning experience. Agarwal, a strong advocate for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, discussed the importance of accessibility and quality in …
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Contextual AI emerges from stealth with $20M to pursue ‘artificial specialized intelligence’
The company has a unique focus: Developing what co-founders Douwe Kiela and Amanpreet Singh call ASI, or artificial specialized intelligence.Read More
The Age of Flames Reaches the US East Coast
Canadian wildfires are spewing smoke into New York City and Washington, DC, threatening the health of millions. Welcome to the “Pyrocene.”
ChatGPT designs its first robot
Poems, essays and even books—is there anything the open AI platform ChatGPT can’t handle? These new AI developments have inspired researchers at TU Delft and the Swiss technical university EPFL to dig a little deeper: For instance, can ChatGPT also design a robot? And is this a good thing for the design process, or are …