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This is a guest post co-written with Antony Vance from Intel. Customers are always looking for ways to improve the performance and response times of their machine learning (ML) inference workloads without increasing the cost per transaction and without sacrificing the accuracy of the results. Running ML workloads on Amazon SageMaker running Amazon Elastic Compute …

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Posted by Antoine Yang, Student Researcher, and Arsha Nagrani, Research Scientist, Google Research, Perception team Videos have become an increasingly important part of our daily lives, spanning fields such as entertainment, education, and communication. Understanding the content of videos, however, is a challenging task as videos often contain multiple events occurring at different time scales. …

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Organizations use messaging platforms like Microsoft Teams to bring the right people together to securely communicate with each other and collaborate to get work done. Microsoft Teams captures invaluable organizational knowledge in the form of the information that flows through it as users collaborate. However, making this knowledge easily and securely available to users can …

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San Francisco, here we come. Starting today, you can now register at the Early Bird rate of $899 USD* for Google Cloud Next ‘23, taking place in person, August 29-31, 2023. This year’s Next conference comes at an exciting time. The emergence of generative AI is a transformational opportunity that some say may be as …

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ChatGPT, Bard, and other AI showcases: how Conversational AI platforms have adopted new technologies. On November 30, 2022, OpenAI, a San Francisco-based AI research and deployment firm, introduced ChatGPT as a research preview. Within just five days of its launch, ChatGPT achieved the remarkable feat of attracting 1 million users, which was confirmed by OpenAI’s …

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It is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words — when it comes to describing data however, metadata can sometimes be those thousand words. Metadata is the characteristics that describe data itself, from when data was last updated, to what the attributes and classification are — the list goes on. In this blog post, we explore why …

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Posted by Jamila Smith-Loud, Human Rights & Social Impact Research Lead, Google Research, Responsible AI and Human-Centered Technology Team Globalized technology has the potential to create large-scale societal impact, and having a grounded research approach rooted in existing international human and civil rights standards is a critical component to assuring responsible and ethical AI development …

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Although Coop has a rich history spanning nearly 160 years, the machine learning (ML) team supporting its modern operations is quite young. Its story began in 2018 with one simple mission: to leverage ML-powered forecasting to help inform business decisions, such as demand planning based on supply chain seasonality and expected customer demand. The end …

Read more “Coop reduces food waste by forecasting with Google’s AI and Data Cloud”