New study reveals why mainframe application modernization is key to accelerating digital transformation

Rapid advancement of emerging technologies—combined with the increasing demands from customers and ongoing disruptive market forces—are driving organizations to prioritize digital transformation more than ever. According to a recent survey conducted by the IBM Institute for Business Value in cooperation with Oxford Economics, 67% percent of executive respondents say their organizations need to transform quickly …

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Google at Interspeech 2023

Posted by Catherine Armato, Program Manager, Google This week, the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2023) is being held in Dublin, Ireland, representing one of the world’s most extensive conferences on research and technology of spoken language understanding and processing. Experts in speech-related research fields gather to take part in …

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Explain medical decisions in clinical settings using Amazon SageMaker Clarify

Explainability of machine learning (ML) models used in the medical domain is becoming increasingly important because models need to be explained from a number of perspectives in order to gain adoption. These perspectives range from medical, technological, legal, and the most important perspective—the patient’s. Models developed on text in the medical domain have become accurate …

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What is Multimodal Search: “LLMs with vision” change businesses

What if large language models (LLMs) had “vision”, the ability to understand the meaning of images? Just like we have seen the innovation with LLMs with chatbots and text data, the ability would make another huge impact on businesses by letting LLMs look at and organize millions of images in enterprise IT systems. In this …

NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally to Keynote at Hot Chips

Bill Dally — one of the world’s foremost computer scientists and head of NVIDIA’s research efforts — will describe the forces driving accelerated computing and AI in his keynote address at Hot Chips, an annual gathering of leading processor and system architects. Dally will detail advances in GPU silicon, systems and software that are delivering …

Applying cyber resilience to DORA solutions

The Digital Operational Resilience Act, or DORA, is a European Union (EU) regulation that created a binding, comprehensive information and communication technology (ICT) risk-management framework for the EU financial sector. DORA establishes technical standards that financial entities and their critical third-party technology service providers must implement in their ICT systems by January 17, 2025. DORA applies to all …

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Autonomous visual information seeking with large language models

Posted by Ziniu Hu, Student Researcher, and Alireza Fathi, Research Scientist, Google Research, Perception Team There has been great progress towards adapting large language models (LLMs) to accommodate multimodal inputs for tasks including image captioning, visual question answering (VQA), and open vocabulary recognition. Despite such achievements, current state-of-the-art visual language models (VLMs) perform inadequately on …

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Implementing MLOps tools and processes for supply chain science at Wayfair

In our previous blog post, we presented Wayfair’s MLOps vision and how we implemented it within our Data Science & Machine Learning organization using Vertex AI, supported by tooling that we built in-house and state-of-the-art MLOps processes. We shared our MLOps reference architecture that includes a shared Python library that we built to interact with …

AVA Discovery View: Surfacing Authentic Moments

By: Hamid Shahid, Laura Johnson, Tiffany Low Synopsis At Netflix, we have created millions of artwork to represent our titles. Each artwork tells a story about the title it represents. From our testing on promotional assets, we know which of these assets have performed well and which ones haven’t. Through this, our teams have developed an …

Unlock true Kubernetes cost savings without losing precious sleep over performance risks

The race to innovate has likely left you (and many, many others) with unexpectedly high cloud bills and/or underutilized resources. In fact, according to Flexera’s 2023 State of the Cloud report, for the first time in a decade, “managing cloud spend” (82%) surpassed “security” (79%) to become the number one challenge facing organizations across the board. We …