CData scores $350M as data integration needs surge in the age of AI
CData has built a library of over 300 standards-based data connectors, which are being used by more than 7000 global organizations.Read More
Activists Disrupt Amazon Conference Over $1.2 Billion Contract With Israel
Members of the activist group No Tech for Apartheid interrupted a senior Amazon executive’s speech at a conference in Washington, DC, on Wednesday over the company’s Project Nimbus cloud contract.
Researchers develop new training technique that aims to make AI systems less socially biased
Researchers have created a new, cost-effective training technique for artificial intelligence systems that aims to make them less socially biased.
New work explores optimal circumstances for reaching a common goal with humanoid robots
Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) have demonstrated that under specific conditions, humans can treat robots as co-authors of the results of their actions. The condition that enables this phenomenon is that a robot behaves in a human-like, social manner. Engaging in gaze contact and participating in a common emotional …
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5 Effective Ways to Handle Imbalanced Data in Machine Learning
Introduction Here’s a something that new machine learning practitioners figure out almost immediately: not all datasets are created equal. It may now seem obvious to you, but had you considered this before undertaking machine learning projects on a real world dataset? As an example of a single class vastly outnumbering the rest, take for instance …
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Next platform for brain-inspired computing
Computers have come so far in terms of their power and potential, rivaling and even eclipsing human brains in their ability to store and crunch data, make predictions and communicate. But there is one domain where human brains continue to dominate: energy efficiency.
Enhancing Netflix Reliability with Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding
Applying Quality of Service techniques at the application level Anirudh Mendiratta, Kevin Wang, Joey Lynch, Javier Fernandez-Ivern, Benjamin Fedorka Introduction In November 2020, we introduced the concept of prioritized load shedding at the API gateway level in our blog post, Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding. Today, we’re excited to dive deeper into how we’ve …
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AI21 Labs Jamba-Instruct model is now available in Amazon Bedrock
We are excited to announce the availability of the Jamba-Instruct large language model (LLM) in Amazon Bedrock. Jamba-Instruct is built by AI21 Labs, and most notably supports a 256,000-token context window, making it especially useful for processing large documents and complex Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. What is Jamba-Instruct Jamba-Instruct is an instruction-tuned version of …
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Free to be SRE — how to use generative AI to code, test and troubleshoot your systems
Are you an SRE (or SysAdmin, DevOps Engineer or Systems Architect?) grappling with the ever-growing complexity of modern systems? Generative AI, including Google’s Gemini for developers, offers a toolkit that can help streamline your operational tasks and boost efficiency. To help you get started, here’s a curated list of resources that will help you gain …
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Researchers develop new training technique that aims to make AI systems less socially biased
An Oregon State University doctoral student and researchers at Adobe have created a new, cost-effective training technique for artificial intelligence systems that aims to make them less socially biased.