Speech is More Than Words: Do Speech-to-Text Translation Systems Leverage Prosody?

This paper was accepted at the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT24) at EMNLP 2024. The prosody of a spoken utterance, including features like stress, intonation and rhythm, can significantly affect the underlying semantics, and as a consequence can also affect its textual translation. Nevertheless, prosody is rarely studied within the context of speech-to-text translation …

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Ethical AI in Defense Decision Support Systems

Ethical AI in Defense Decision Support Systems (Defense AI Ethics, #2) Editors Note: In a previous post in our series on ethical defense and AI, we examined the ethical implications of technology providers in the defense domain. In this post, we delve into Palantir’s work on Decision Support Systems and how it reinforces critical military ethics …

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Unleash your Salesforce data using the Amazon Q Salesforce Online connector

Thousands of companies worldwide use Salesforce to manage their sales, marketing, customer service, and other business operations. The Salesforce cloud-based platform centralizes customer information and interactions across the organization, providing sales reps, marketers, and support agents with a unified 360-degree view of each customer. With Salesforce at the heart of their business, companies accumulate vast …

Researchers highlight Nobel-winning AI breakthroughs and call for interdisciplinary innovation

A new article examines the convergence of physics, chemistry, and AI, highlighted by recent Nobel Prizes. It traces the historical development of neural networks, emphasizing the role of interdisciplinary research in advancing AI. The authors advocate for nurturing AI-enabled polymaths to bridge the gap between theoretical advancements and practical applications, driving progress toward artificial general …

Integrated multi-modal sensing and learning system could give robots new capabilities

To assist humans with household chores and other everyday manual tasks, robots should be able to effectively manipulate objects that vary in composition, shape and size. The manipulation skills of robots have improved significantly over the past few years, in part due to the development of increasingly sophisticated cameras and tactile sensors.

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Deploy Meta Llama 3.1 models cost-effectively in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart with AWS Inferentia and AWS Trainium

We’re excited to announce the availability of Meta Llama 3.1 8B and 70B inference support on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia instances in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Meta Llama 3.1 multilingual large language models (LLMs) are a collection of pre-trained and instruction tuned generative models. Trainium and Inferentia, enabled by the AWS Neuron software development kit …