Apple May Allow Rival App Stores on Some iPhones and iPads
Plus: Google’s smart home gadgets now work with Matter, the US is mailing out free Covid tests again, and the iPod of crypto has arrived.
The ‘30×30’ Conservation Goal Divides and Inspires at COP15
The target is dominating the summit, but the issue of finding a balance between Indigenous peoples’ rights and protecting 30 percent of Earth remains.
Five benefits of a data catalog
Imagine walking into the largest library you’ve ever seen. You have a specific book in mind, but you have no idea where to find it. Fortunately, the library has a computer at the front desk you can use to search its entire inventory by title, author, genre, and more. You enter the title of the …
The importance of governance: What we’re learning from AI advances in 2022
Over the last week, millions of people around the world have interacted with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which represents a significant advance for generative artificial intelligence (AI) and the foundation models that underpin many of these use cases. It’s a fitting way to end what has been another big year for the industry. We’re at an exciting …
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How data, AI and automation can transform the enterprise
Today’s data leaders are expected to make organizations run more efficiently, improve business value, and foster innovation. Their role has expanded from providing business intelligence to management, to ensuring high-quality data is accessible and useful across the enterprise. In other words, they must ensure that data strategy aligns to business strategy. Only from this foundation …
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Accelerating Text Generation with Confident Adaptive Language Modeling (CALM)
Posted by Tal Schuster, Research Scientist, Google Research Language models (LMs) are the driving force behind many recent breakthroughs in natural language processing. Models like T5, LaMDA, GPT-3, and PaLM have demonstrated impressive performance on various language tasks. While multiple factors can contribute to improving the performance of LMs, some recent studies suggest that scaling …
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New performance improvements in Amazon SageMaker model parallel library
Foundation models are large deep learning models trained on a vast quantity of data at scale. They can be further fine-tuned to perform a variety of downstream tasks and form the core backbone of enabling several AI applications. The most prominent category is large-language models (LLM), including auto-regressive models such as GPT variants trained to complete …
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Next generation Amazon SageMaker Experiments – Organize, track, and compare your machine learning trainings at scale
Today, we’re happy to announce updates to our Amazon SageMaker Experiments capability of Amazon SageMaker that lets you organize, track, compare and evaluate machine learning (ML) experiments and model versions from any integrated development environment (IDE) using the SageMaker Python SDK or boto3, including local Jupyter Notebooks. Machine learning (ML) is an iterative process. When solving …
Introducing Fortuna: A library for uncertainty quantification
Proper estimation of predictive uncertainty is fundamental in applications that involve critical decisions. Uncertainty can be used to assess the reliability of model predictions, trigger human intervention, or decide whether a model can be safely deployed in the wild. We introduce Fortuna, an open-source library for uncertainty quantification. Fortuna provides calibration methods, such as conformal …
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Best practices for Amazon SageMaker Training Managed Warm Pools
Amazon SageMaker Training Managed Warm Pools gives you the flexibility to opt in to reuse and hold on to the underlying infrastructure for a user-defined period of time. This is done while also maintaining the benefit of passing the undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing compute instances in to Amazon SageMaker Model Training. In this post, …
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