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Coop reduces food waste by forecasting with Google’s AI and Data Cloud

Although Coop has a rich history spanning nearly 160 years, the machine learning (ML) team supporting its modern operations is quite young. Its story began in 2018 with one simple mission: to leverage ML-powered forecasting to help inform business decisions, such as demand planning based on supply chain seasonality and expected customer demand. The end …

Peter Ma on Using AI to Find Promising Signals of Alien Life

Peter Ma was bored in his high school computer science class. So he decided to teach himself something new: how to use artificial intelligence to find alien life. That’s how he eventually became the lead author of a groundbreaking study published in Nature Astronomy. The study reveals how Ma and his co-authors used AI to …

GPT-4’s exciting—and ominous—achievements

Six decades ago, an episode of the legendary TV series “The Twilight Zone” warned us about the risks of ticking off machines. Frustrated by a wave of modern appliances, a grumpy magazine writer in the episode “A Thing About Machines” takes out his frustrations on them and breaks them.

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Bring legacy machine learning code into Amazon SageMaker using AWS Step Functions

Tens of thousands of AWS customers use AWS machine learning (ML) services to accelerate their ML development with fully managed infrastructure and tools. For customers who have been developing ML models on premises, such as their local desktop, they want to migrate their legacy ML models to the AWS Cloud to fully take advantage of …

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Optimize PyTorch training performance with Reduction Server on Vertex AI

As deep learning models become increasingly complex and datasets larger, distributed training is all but a necessity. Faster training makes for faster iteration to reach your modeling goals. But distributed training comes with its own set of challenges. On top of deciding what kind of distribution strategy you want to use and making changes to …