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Creative advertising has the potential to be revolutionized by generative AI (GenAI). You can now create a wide variation of novel images, such as product shots, by retraining a GenAI model and providing a few inputs into the model, such as textual prompts (sentences describing the scene and objects to be produced by the model). …

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As one of the most innate and ubiquitous forms of expression, speech is a fundamental pillar of human interaction. It comes as no surprise, then, that Google Cloud’s Speech API  has become a crucial tool for enterprise customers, launched to general availability (GA) over six years ago and, now, processing over 1 billion voice minutes …

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When Russia invaded Ukraine on the 24th February 2022, the view of experts was that Russian President Vladimir Putin expected the war to be over in a few days. Yet Putin failed to anticipate the resilience of the Ukrainian people and the determination of their allies, such as the United Kingdom, to help. An early example is …

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Posted by Fuzhao Xue, Research Intern, and Mostafa Dehghani, Research Scientist, Google Adaptive computation refers to the ability of a machine learning system to adjust its behavior in response to changes in the environment. While conventional neural networks have a fixed function and computation capacity, i.e., they spend the same number of FLOPs for processing …

Read more “AdaTape: Foundation model with adaptive computation and dynamic read-and-write”

Amazon SageMaker offers several ways to run distributed data processing jobs with Apache Spark, a popular distributed computing framework for big data processing. You can run Spark applications interactively from Amazon SageMaker Studio by connecting SageMaker Studio notebooks and AWS Glue Interactive Sessions to run Spark jobs with a serverless cluster. With interactive sessions, you …

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As generative AI continues to sweep an increasingly digital, hyperconnected world, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang made a thunderous return to SIGGRAPH, the world’s premier computer graphics conference. “The generative AI era is upon us, the iPhone moment if you will,” Huang told an audience of thousands Tuesday during an in-person special address in …

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The video gaming industry has an estimated user base of over 3 billion worldwide1. It consists of massive amounts of players virtually interacting with each other every single day. Unfortunately, as in the real world, not all players communicate appropriately and respectfully. In an effort to create and maintain a socially responsible gaming environment, AWS …

Read more “AWS performs fine-tuning on a Large Language Model (LLM) to classify toxic speech for a large gaming company”