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Maximizing Sales Metrics

Sales performance is often measured incorrectly, leading to inaccurate assessments. Quality of leads is a crucial factor in evaluating sales agents' performance accurately.

Unleashing the Power of GenAI: Building Fill.sg

Ministry of Social and Family Development and GovTech's team created Fill. sg in 2 weeks at LAUNCH! Hackathon to simplify report writing using AI. Leveraging long-context models and a user-friendly interface, Fill. sg aims to streamline report generation for public service officers.

Emotional AI: The Pitfalls of 80% Anger, 2% Sadness

Hume, a Manhattan-based startup, has developed the world's first voice AI with emotional intelligence, raising concerns over potential misuse and bias in the field of AI that reads feelings. Testing the limits of this technology involves expressing emotions like love through text, highlighting the potential dangers of emotional AI.

Unlocking the Brain: CLIP and LLaVA

Recent multimodal transformer networks like CLIP and LLaVA are compared to the brain in terms of attention. Vision transformers perform pre-attentive visual processing similar to the brain, but struggle with complex tasks. The brain's bidirectional activity allows for conscious top-down attention and automatic feedback, enhancing perception and cognition.

Eric Evans Honored with DOD Medal

Eric Evans receives DoD Medal for Distinguished Public Service for his leadership at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Defense Science Board. Evans' impact on national security and defense innovation recognized by U.S. Department of Defense.

Boost Amazon Translate with Smart Caching

Amazon Translate offers fast, scalable language translation for enterprises, supporting 75 languages and 5,550 language pairs. Implementing a translation cache with Amazon DynamoDB can significantly reduce costs by reusing cached translations instead of paying for new ones.

Unleashing the Power of NVIDIA AI Workbench

NVIDIA AI Workbench simplifies generative AI development with RAG applications, enabling customized models and seamless collaboration. The free tool streamlines setup and offers ease of collaboration across platforms for data scientists and developers.

Streamline Amazon Bedrock with a Slack Gateway

Unlock the power of generative AI in Slack with Amazon Bedrock, streamlining collaboration and boosting productivity. Create a seamless workflow with leading AI models from companies like AI21 Labs and Meta, enhancing efficiency and creativity.

The Atomic Human: A Terminator Returns

AI expert Neil Lawrence's new book, The Atomic Human, delves into AI myths, including Terminator references. The study challenges techbro arrogance, contrasting biblical creation with AI consciousness.