Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix
David J. Berg, Romain Cledat, Kayla Seeley, Shashank Srikanth, Chaoying Wang, Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding. The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem …
The diversity dividend: How inclusive businesses gain competitive advantage
Companies with diverse workforces are better positioned to deliver truly customer-centric experiences to all consumers. For example, when building technology, it is important that employees are aware of the cultural connotations of color schemes, symbols, and graphics. Red signifies good fortune in Chinese culture but can denote danger or caution in Western cultures. Similarly, icons …
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Social learning: Collaborative learning with large language models
Posted by Amirkeivan Mohtashami, Research Intern, and Florian Hartmann, Software Engineer, Google Research Large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved the state of the art for solving tasks specified using natural language, often reaching performance close to that of people. As these models increasingly enable assistive agents, it could be beneficial for them to learn …
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Automate the process to change image backgrounds using Amazon Bedrock and AWS Step Functions
Many customers, including those in creative advertising, media and entertainment, ecommerce, and fashion, often need to change the background in a large number of images. Typically, this involves manually editing each image with photo software. This can take a lot of effort, especially for large batches of images. However, Amazon Bedrock and AWS Step Functions …
eBay accelerates its AI-driven recommendation engine with Vertex AI
At any given time, eBay’s marketplace has more than 1.9 billion listings from millions of different sellers, running the gamut from the latest gadgets to the most obscure collectibles. Using deep machine learning (ML), AI-driven search capabilities, and natural language processing (NLP), we have streamlined the user experience, making it easier to explore and find …
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First Class: NVIDIA Introduces Generative AI Professional Certification
NVIDIA is offering a new professional certification in generative AI to enable developers to establish technical credibility in this important domain. Generative AI is revolutionizing industries worldwide, yet there’s a critical skills gap and need to uplevel employees to more fully harness the technology. Available for the first time from NVIDIA, this new professional certification …
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AI can speed design of health software
Artificial intelligence helped clinicians to accelerate the design of diabetes prevention software, a new study finds.
Croissant: a metadata format for ML-ready datasets
Posted by Omar Benjelloun, Software Engineer, Google Research, and Peter Mattson, Software Engineer, Google Core ML and President, MLCommons Association Machine learning (ML) practitioners looking to reuse existing datasets to train an ML model often spend a lot of time understanding the data, making sense of its organization, or figuring out what subset to use …
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9 ways developer productivity is boosted by generative AI
Software development is one arena where we are already seeing significant impacts from generative AI tools. The benefits are many, and significant productivity gains are currently available to enterprises that embrace these tools. A McKinsey study claims that software developers can complete coding tasks up to twice as fast with generative AI. The consulting firm’s …
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