Frontier risk and preparedness
To support the safety of highly-capable AI systems, we are developing our approach to catastrophic risk preparedness, including building a Preparedness team and launching a challenge.
Operationalize and automate FinOps with Apptio Cloudability and IBM Turbonomic
From traditional enterprises to the most innovative startups, organizations are using the public cloud. In fact, ESG Research found that 91% of all applications will eventually be hosted in the public cloud. That much investment has necessitated the FinOps movement, a cloud financial management discipline designed to bring financial accountability to the variable, consumption-based spend …
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Supporting benchmarks for AI safety with MLCommons
Posted by Anoop Sinha, Technology and Society, and Marian Croak, Google Research, Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology team Standard benchmarks are agreed upon ways of measuring important product qualities, and they exist in many fields. Some standard benchmarks measure safety: for example, when a car manufacturer touts a “five-star overall safety rating,” they’re citing …
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Intelligently search Drupal content using Amazon Kendra
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning (ML). Amazon Kendra helps you easily aggregate content from a variety of content repositories into a centralized index that lets you quickly search all your enterprise data and find the most accurate answer. Drupal is a content management software. It’s used to make many …
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Interactive and conversational search with Google Cloud and Elasticsearch
For retailers, having a powerful search function for their website and mobile applications is crucial. However, most current search experiences are somewhat basic and limited, primarily returning a list of results ranked based on keyword relevance. And typically, customers only have a vague idea of what they want, rather than a specific item in mind. …
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Announcing Open Source for Palantir Government Web Services
Editor’s note: This is a follow-up post to The Technical Annex: Announcing Palantir Government Web Services (GWS), which previewed some of our upcoming open source offerings for GWS. Over the next few months, we’ll be sharing our most compelling open source tooling to accelerate builders in the defense tech ecosystem. First up: Policy Bot for …
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Frontier Model Forum updates
Together with Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft, we’re announcing the new Executive Director of the Frontier Model Forum and a new $10 million AI Safety Fund.
What CIOs and CTOs should consider before adopting generative AI for application modernization
Implementing generative AI can seem like a chicken-and-egg conundrum. In a recent IBM Institute for Business Value survey, 64% of CEOs said they needed to modernize apps before they could use generative AI. But simultaneously, generative AI has the power to transform the process of application modernization through code reverse engineering, code generation, code conversion …
Looking back at wildfire research in 2023
Posted by Yi-Fan Chen, Software Engineer, and Carla Bromberg, Program Lead, Google Research Wildfires are becoming larger and affecting more and more communities around the world, often resulting in large-scale devastation. Just this year, communities have experienced catastrophic wildfires in Greece, Maui, and Canada to name a few. While the underlying causes leading to such …
Detection and high-frequency monitoring of methane emission point sources using Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities
Methane (CH4) is a major anthropogenic greenhouse gas that‘s a by-product of oil and gas extraction, coal mining, large-scale animal farming, and waste disposal, among other sources. The global warming potential of CH4 is 86 times that of CO2 and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that methane is responsible for 30 percent of observed …