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Why Retailers Should Embrace the Experience Economy

Consumers have been changing what they spend their money on. From the rise of minimalism to ever-increasing travel spending, consumers have become more intentional about what physical items they purchase and have shifted their focus to collecting a wealth of experiences. This has created an experience economy.  What is the experience economy?  The experience economy …

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Distilling step-by-step: Outperforming larger language models with less training data and smaller model sizes

Posted by Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Student Researcher, and Chen-Yu Lee, Research Scientist, Cloud AI Team Large language models (LLMs) have enabled a new data-efficient learning paradigm wherein they can be used to solve unseen new tasks via zero-shot or few-shot prompting. However, LLMs are challenging to deploy for real-world applications due to their sheer size. For …

IBM TechXchange underscores the importance of AI skilling and partner innovation

Generative AI and large language models are poised to impact how we all access and use information. But as organizations race to adopt these new technologies for business, it requires a global ecosystem of partners with industry expertise to identify the right enterprise use-cases for AI and the technical skills to implement the technology. During …

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Distilling step-by-step: Outperforming larger language models with less training data and smaller model sizes

Posted by Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Student Researcher, and Chen-Yu Lee, Research Scientist, Cloud AI Team Large language models (LLMs) have enabled a new data-efficient learning paradigm wherein they can be used to solve unseen new tasks via zero-shot or few-shot prompting. However, LLMs are challenging to deploy for real-world applications due to their sheer size. For …

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How United Airlines built a cost-efficient Optical Character Recognition active learning pipeline

In this post, we discuss how United Airlines, in collaboration with the Amazon Machine Learning Solutions Lab, build an active learning framework on AWS to automate the processing of passenger documents. “In order to deliver the best flying experience for our passengers and make our internal business process as efficient as possible, we have developed …