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Forrester names Google Cloud a leader in Document Analytics Platforms

At Google, our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. For our Document AI solutions suite, as well as the Vertex AI platform atop which Document AI is built, achieving this goal involves building capabilities to extract structured data from unstructured sources. Since launching Document AI in late …

Commerzbank has Reimagined the Customer Experience with Google Contact Center AI

Digital channels and on-demand banking have led customers to expect instant and helpful access to managing their finances, with minimal friction. Google Cloud built Contact Center AI (CCAI) and DialogFlow CX to help banks and other enterprises deliver these services, replacing phone trees or sometimes confusing digital menus with intelligent chatbots that let customers interact …

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Mercari leverages Google’s vector search technology to create a new marketplace

Mercari is one of the most successful marketplace services in recent years, with 5.3 million active users in the US and 20 million active users in Japan. In Oct 2021, the company launched a new service Mercari Shops in Japan that allows small business owners and individuals to open their e-commerce portal in 3 minutes. …

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From Pipeline to Prospect: Inside Palantir Recruitment

Top tips for interns and graduates applying to Palantir, featuring advice from two recent recruiting interns and Palantir’s Early Talent Recruiting Team Hi! We’re Sonam and Jordan. This summer, we had the incredible opportunity to intern on the Recruiting Team at Palantir Technologies. We grew professionally and personally through exposure to multiple sides of Palantir. Sourcing …

Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) in action

Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A), is not a new concept for IBM clients who use IBM Planning Analytics with Watson, formerly known as Cognos TM1. For the past several years, clients have embraced the need to tie operational decisions to the financial impact from both planning and analysis perspectives. For instance, a Director of Operations …

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The Kitten Effect

One thing I’ve noticed with image-generating algorithms is that the more of something they have to put in an image, the worse it is. I first noticed this with the kitten-generating variant of StyleGAN, which often does okay on one cat: alternative for shocked_pikachu.png but is terrible at a crowd of kittens. A few years …

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Reading tea leaves

DALL-E (and other text-to-image generators) will often add text to their images even when you don’t ask for any. Ask for a picture of a Halifax Pier and it could end up covered in messy writing, variously legible versions of “Halifax” as if it was quietly mumbling “Halifax… Halifax” to itself. Since the AI is …