Could AI understand emotions better than we do?

Is artificial intelligence (AI) capable of suggesting appropriate behavior in emotionally charged situations? A team put six generative AIs — including ChatGPT — to the test using emotional intelligence (EI) assessments typically designed for humans. The outcome: these AIs outperformed average human performance and were even able to generate new tests in record time. These …

Humanoid Policy ~ Human Policy

Training manipulation policies for humanoid robots with diverse data enhances their robustness and generalization across tasks and platforms. However, learning solely from robot demonstrations is labor-intensive, requiring expensive tele-operated data collection which is difficult to scale. This paper investigates a more scalable data source, egocentric human demonstrations, to serve as cross-embodiment training data for robot …

FM-Intent: Predicting User Session Intent with Hierarchical Multi-Task Learning

Authors: Sejoon Oh, Moumita Bhattacharya, Yesu Feng, Sudarshan Lamkhede, Ko-Jen Hsiao, and Justin Basilico Motivation Recommender systems have become essential components of digital services across e-commerce, streaming media, and social networks [1, 2]. At Netflix, these systems drive significant product and business impact by connecting members with relevant content at the right time [3, 4]. While …

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Integrate Amazon Bedrock Agents with Slack

As companies increasingly adopt generative AI applications, AI agents capable of delivering tangible business value have emerged as a crucial component. In this context, integrating custom-built AI agents within chat services such as Slack can be transformative, providing businesses with seamless access to AI assistants powered by sophisticated foundation models (FMs). After an AI agent …

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Introducing AI.GENERATE_TABLE: creating structured data from gen AI models in BigQuery

The explosion of digital content from social media, smartphones, and other sources has created a massive amount of unstructured data like images, videos, and documents. To help you analyze this data, BigQuery is connected with Vertex AI, Google Cloud’s powerful AI platform, so you can use advanced AI models, like Gemini 2.5 Pro/Flash, to understand …