Google’s AI Dreamer learns how to self-improve over time by mastering Minecraft

A trio of AI researchers at Google’s Google DeepMind, working with a colleague from the University of Toronto, report that the AI algorithm Dreamer can learn to self-improve by mastering Minecraft in a short amount of time. In their study published in the journal Nature, Danijar Hafner, Jurgis Pasukonis, Timothy Lillicrap and Jimmy Ba programmed …

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How AWS Sales uses generative AI to streamline account planning

Every year, AWS Sales personnel draft in-depth, forward looking strategy documents for established AWS customers. These documents help the AWS Sales team to align with our customer growth strategy and to collaborate with the entire sales team on long-term growth ideas for AWS customers. These documents are internally called account plans (APs). In 2024, this …

Interpreting and Improving Optimal Control Problems With Directional Corrections

Many robotics tasks, such as path planning or trajectory optimization, are formulated as optimal control problems (OCPs). The key to obtaining high performance lies in the design of the OCP’s objective function. In practice, the objective function consists of a set of individual components that must be carefully modeled and traded off such that the …

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Ray jobs on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod: scalable and resilient distributed AI

Foundation model (FM) training and inference has led to a significant increase in computational needs across the industry. These models require massive amounts of accelerated compute to train and operate effectively, pushing the boundaries of traditional computing infrastructure. They require efficient systems for distributing workloads across multiple GPU accelerated servers, and optimizing developer velocity as …