Amazon Transcribe announces a new speech foundation model-powered ASR system that expands support to over 100 languages
Amazon Transcribe is a fully managed automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it straightforward for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Today, we are happy to announce a next-generation multi-billion parameter speech foundation model-powered system that expands automatic speech recognition to over 100 languages. In this post, we discuss some of the …
Can superhuman AI destroy humankind?
TL;DR Humankind is “bleeped” and AI knows it but won’t admit to it! Major problem? Yes. What to do? Read on … The question of whether a superhuman AI could destroy humankind is a topic of significant debate and concern among experts in AI ethics, philosophy, and related fields. Here are some key points to …
Causal Machine Learning for Creative Insights
A framework to identify the causal impact of successful visual components. By Billur Engin, Yinghong Lan, Grace Tang, Cristina Segalin, Kelli Griggs, Vi Iyengar Introduction At Netflix, we want our viewers to easily find TV shows and movies that resonate and engage. Our creative team helps make this happen by designing promotional artwork that best represents …
Application modernization overview
Application modernization is the process of updating legacy applications leveraging modern technologies, enhancing performance and making it adaptable to evolving business speeds by infusing cloud native principles like DevOps, Infrastructure-as-code (IAC) and so on. Application modernization starts with assessment of current legacy applications, data and infrastructure and applying the right modernization strategy (rehost, re-platform, refactor …
Accelerating AI/ML development at BMW Group with Amazon SageMaker Studio
This post is co-written with Marc Neumann, Amor Steinberg and Marinus Krommenhoek from BMW Group. The BMW Group – headquartered in Munich, Germany – is driven by 149,000 employees worldwide and manufactures in over 30 production and assembly facilities across 15 countries. Today, the BMW Group is the world’s leading manufacturer of premium automobiles and …
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Q-Star: OpenAI’s Exploration of Q-Learning in Pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) This article is based on a Reuters news article from 2023-11-22 titled OpenAI Researchers Warned Board of AI Breakthrough Ahead of CEO Ouster Q-learning, a cornerstone in artificial intelligence, is integral to reinforcement learning. This model-free algorithm aims to discern the value of …
Improving simulations of clouds and their effects on climate
Posted by Tapio Schneider, Visiting Researcher, and Yi-fan Chen, Engineering Lead, Google Research Today’s climate models successfully capture broad global warming trends. However, because of uncertainties about processes that are small in scale yet globally important, such as clouds and ocean turbulence, these models’ predictions of upcoming climate changes are not very accurate in detail. …
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Building with Palantir AIP: Semantic Search
https://medium.com/media/0254ccf83cea026c178db2df184c0d42/href By Chad Wahlquist, Palantir Forward Deployed Architect Welcome! This is the first “cooking show”-style video in the Building with Palantir AIP series, where Palantir engineers and architects will take you through how to build end-to-end workflows using Palantir’s AI Platform. This first installment demonstrates how AIP enables developers to go from unstructured data to …
Winning the cloud game: Phoning the right friend to answer the cloud optimization question
Cloud optimization is essential as organizations look to accelerate business outcomes and unlock the value of their data. At its core, cloud optimization is the process of correctly selecting and assigning the right resources to a workload or application. But cloud optimization is also a lifecycle process that balances performance, compliance and cost to achieve efficiency. …