Merging top-down and bottom-up planning approaches

This blog series discusses the complex tasks energy utility companies face as they shift to holistic grid asset management to manage through the energy transition. The first post of this series addressed the challenges of the energy transition with holistic grid asset management. The second post in this series addressed the integrated asset management platform …

How to Create Images Using Stable Diffusion Web UI

Launching the Stable Diffusion Web UI can be done in one command. After that, you can control the image generation pipeline from a browser. The pipeline has a lot of moving parts and all are important in one way or another. To effectively command Stable Diffusion to generate images, you should recognize the widgets from …

AI governance is rapidly evolving — Here’s how government agencies must prepare

The global AI governance landscape is complex and rapidly evolving. Key themes and concerns are emerging, however government agencies must get ahead of the game by evaluating their agency-specific priorities and processes. Compliance with official policies through auditing tools and other measures is merely the final step. The groundwork for effectively operationalizing governance is human-centered, …

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Cost-effective document classification using the Amazon Titan Multimodal Embeddings Model

Organizations across industries want to categorize and extract insights from high volumes of documents of different formats. Manually processing these documents to classify and extract information remains expensive, error prone, and difficult to scale. Advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) have given rise to intelligent document processing (IDP) solutions that can automate the document classification, …

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Introducing multimodal and structured data embedding support in BigQuery

Embeddings represent real-world objects, like entities, text, images, or videos as an array of numbers (a.k.a vectors) that machine learning models can easily process. Embeddings are the building blocks of many ML applications such as semantic search, recommendations, clustering, outlier detection, named entity extraction, and more. Last year, we introduced support for text embeddings in …

New computer vision tool can count damaged buildings in crisis zones and accurately estimate bird flock sizes

A team of computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst working on two different problems—how to quickly detect damaged buildings in crisis zones and how to accurately estimate the size of bird flocks—recently announced an AI framework that can do both. The framework, called DISCount, blends the speed and massive data-crunching power of artificial …