March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened
An update on our findings, the actions we’ve taken, and technical details of the bug.
Detecting novel systemic biomarkers in external eye photos
Posted by Boris Babenko, Software Engineer, and Akib Uddin, Product Manager, Google Research Last year we presented results demonstrating that a deep learning system (DLS) can be trained to analyze external eye photos and predict a person’s diabetic retinal disease status and elevated glycated hemoglobin (or HbA1c, a biomarker that indicates the three-month average level …
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How AI can improve digital security
AI is having a transformative moment and causing profound shifts in what’s possible with technology. It has the power to unlock the potential of communities, companies, and countries around the world, bringing meaningful and positive change that could improve billions of peoples’ lives. Similarly, as these technologies advance, they have the potential to vastly improve …
ChatGPT plugins
We’ve implemented initial support for plugins in ChatGPT. Plugins are tools designed specifically for language models with safety as a core principle, and help ChatGPT access up-to-date information, run computations, or use third-party services.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …