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How Amazon Search runs large-scale, resilient machine learning projects with Amazon SageMaker

If you have searched for an item to buy on amazon.com, you have used Amazon Search services. At Amazon Search, we’re responsible for the search and discovery experience for our customers worldwide. In the background, we index our worldwide catalog of products, deploy highly scalable AWS fleets, and use advanced machine learning (ML) to match …

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Press Art to Continue: New AI Tools Promise Art With the Push of a Button — But Reality Is More Complicated

Alien invasions. Gritty dystopian megacities. Battlefields swarming with superheroes. As one of Hollywood’s top concept artists, Drew Leung can visualize any world you can think of, except one where AI takes his job. He would know. He’s spent the past few months trying to make it happen, testing every AI tool he could. “If your …

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Why Palantir Is the Health Tech Startup You’ve Never Heard Of

Shyam Sankar, COO, and Kathleen McMahon, Life Sciences Lead, on improving lives across the healthcare value chain In our August 2022 earnings call, we shared that Palantir’s healthcare business has grown 267% between 2020 and the first half of 2022. For those that have been watching closely, this exponential growth isn’t a surprise. Over the last …

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How Product Teams Can Build Empathy Through Experimentation

A conversation between Travis Brooks, Netflix Product Manager for Experimentation Platform, and George Khachatryan, OfferFit CEO Note: I’ve known George for a little while now, and as we’ve talked a lot about the philosophy of experimentation, he kindly invited me to their office (virtually) for their virtual speaker series. We had a fun conversation with his …

IBM Watson and ESPN use AI to transform fantasy football data into insight

If you play fantasy football, you are no stranger to the concept of data-driven decision making. Every week during football season, an estimated 60 million Americans pore over player statistics, point projections, and trade proposals, looking for that elusive insight that will guide their roster decisions and lead them to victory. But numbers only tell …

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Customize business rules for intelligent document processing with human review and BI visualization

A massive amount of business documents are processed daily across industries. Many of these documents are paper-based, scanned into your system as images, or in an unstructured format like PDF. Each company may apply unique rules associated with its business background while processing these documents. How to extract information accurately and process them flexibly is …

Safe Real-World Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Agent Obstacle Avoidance

Collision avoidance is key for mobile robots and agents to operate safely in the real world. In this work, we present an efficient and effective collision avoidance system that combines real-world reinforcement learning (RL), search-based online trajectory planning, and automatic emergency intervention, e.g. automatic emergency braking (AEB). The goal of the RL is to learn …

Towards Multimodal Multitask Scene Understanding Models for Indoor Mobile Agents

The perception system in personalized mobile agents requires developing indoor scene understanding models, which can understand 3D geometries, capture objectiveness, analyze human behaviors, etc. Nonetheless, this direction has not been well-explored in comparison with models for outdoor environments (e.g., the autonomous driving system that includes pedestrian prediction, car detection, traffic sign recognition, etc.). In this …

Speech Emotion: Investigating Model Representations, Multi-Task Learning and Knowledge Distillation

Estimating dimensional emotions, such as activation, valence and dominance, from acoustic speech signals has been widely explored over the past few years. While accurate estimation of activation and dominance from speech seem to be possible, the same for valence remains challenging. Previous research has shown that the use of lexical information can improve valence estimation …