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Visual language maps for robot navigation

Posted by Oier Mees, PhD Student, University of Freiburg, and Andy Zeng, Research Scientist, Robotics at Google People are excellent navigators of the physical world, due in part to their remarkable ability to build cognitive maps that form the basis of spatial memory — from localizing landmarks at varying ontological levels (like a book on …

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Enable fully homomorphic encryption with Amazon SageMaker endpoints for secure, real-time inferencing

This is joint post co-written by Leidos and AWS. Leidos is a FORTUNE 500 science and technology solutions leader working to address some of the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and healthcare markets. Leidos has partnered with AWS to develop an approach to privacy-preserving, confidential machine learning (ML) modeling where …

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New research: Search abandonment continues to vex retailers worldwide

Search abandonment—when a shopper searches for a product on a retailer’s website but doesn’t find what they are looking for—costs retailers more than $2 trillion annually globally1, and more than $234 billion in the United States alone.  Today, we’re releasing new data about the impact of search abandonment, including its role in brand loyalty and …

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Automate Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels model training and deployment using AWS Step Functions

With Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels, you can have Amazon Rekognition train a custom model for object detection or image classification specific to your business needs. For example, Rekognition Custom Labels can find your logo in social media posts, identify your products on store shelves, classify machine parts in an assembly line, distinguish healthy and infected …

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AI Opener: OpenAI’s Sutskever in Conversation With Jensen Huang

Like old friends catching up over coffee, two industry icons reflected on how modern AI got its start, where it’s at today and where it needs to go next. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, interviewed AI pioneer Ilya Sutskever in a fireside chat at GTC. The talk was recorded a day after the …

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Remote monitoring of raw material supply chains for sustainability with Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities

Deforestation is a major concern in many tropical geographies where local rainforests are at severe risk of destruction. About 17% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed over the past 50 years, and some tropical ecosystems are approaching a tipping point beyond which recovery is unlikely. A key driver for deforestation is raw material extraction …

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Introducing G2 VMs with NVIDIA L4 GPUs — a cloud-industry first

Organizations across industries are looking to AI to turn troves of data into intelligence, powered by the latest advances in generative AI. Yet for many organizations, there is a barrier to adopting the latest models because they can be costly to train or serve. A new class of cloud GPUs is needed to lower the …

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Fresh-Faced AI: NVIDIA Avatar Solutions Enhance Customer Service and Virtual Assistants

Companies across industries are looking to use interactive avatars to enhance digital experiences. But creating them is a complex, time-consuming process requiring state-of-the-art AI models that can see, hear, understand and communicate with end users. To ease this process, NVIDIA is providing creators and developers with real-time AI solutions through Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE), …

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Palantir’s Response to NTIA on Privacy, Equity, and Civil Rights

Insights from building privacy-protective technology shared with the National Telecommunication and Information Administration Introduction Since Palantir’s founding, we have rejected the premise that preserving national security — or tackling any mission-critical problem — must come at the expense of privacy and other fundamental rights. In contrast with this false tradeoff, we believe that through the thoughtful development and use …