AI breakthrough in human action detection technology
Researchers develop an AI-driven video analyzer capable of detecting human actions in video footage with precision and intelligence.
DeepMind researchers find LLMs can serve as effective mediators
A team of AI researchers with Google’s DeepMind London group has found that certain large language models (LLMs) can serve as effective mediators between groups of people with differing viewpoints regarding a given topic. The work is published in the journal Science.
Using Amazon Q Business with AWS HealthScribe to gain insights from patient consultations
With the advent of generative AI and machine learning, new opportunities for enhancement became available for different industries and processes. During re:Invent 2023, we launched AWS HealthScribe, a HIPAA eligible service that empowers healthcare software vendors to build their clinical applications to use speech recognition and generative AI to automatically create preliminary clinician documentation. In …
How a 12-Ounce Layer of Foam Changed the NFL
Even the makers of the Guardian Cap admit it looks silly. But for a sport facing an existential brain-injury crisis, once unthinkable solutions have now become almost normal.
Combining next-token prediction and video diffusion in computer vision and robotics
In the current AI zeitgeist, sequence models have skyrocketed in popularity for their ability to analyze data and predict what to do next. For instance, you’ve likely used next-token prediction models like ChatGPT, which anticipate each word (token) in a sequence to form answers to users’ queries. There are also full-sequence diffusion models like Sora, …
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What Is Perplexity AI? Understanding One Of Google’s Biggest Search Engine Competitors
What is Perplexity AI? Is it an over-hyped replacement for Google as a search engine, or do the LLM + search features already have real-world use cases?
Scalable Private Search with Wally
This paper presents Wally, a private search system that supports efficient semantic and keyword search queries against large databases. When sufficiently many clients are making queries, Wally’s performance is significantly better than previous systems. In previous private search systems, for each client query, the server must perform at least one expensive cryptographic operation per database …
How DPG Media uses Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Transcribe to enhance video metadata with AI-powered pipelines
This post was co-written with Lucas Desard, Tom Lauwers, and Sam Landuydt from DPG Media. DPG Media is a leading media company in Benelux operating multiple online platforms and TV channels. DPG Media’s VTM GO platform alone offers over 500 days of non-stop content. With a growing library of long-form video content, DPG Media recognizes …
Beyond the basics: Build real-world gen AI skills with the latest learning paths from Google Cloud
The majority of organizations don’t feel ready for the AI era. In fact, 62% say they don’t have the expertise they need to unlock AI’s full potential.1 As the leader of learning for Google Cloud, the only thing that surprises me about that number is how low it is. I meet with customers every day, …
Here’s Just How Massive Elon Musk’s $75 Million Trump Donation Is
Elon Musk isn’t the only Silicon Valley billionaire to line up behind Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. See how his donations, which total $75 million, make everyone else look tiny in comparison.