Intact Financial Corporation implements AI-powered Call Quality (CQ) solution using Amazon Transcribe to handle 1,500% more calls, reduce agent handling time by 10%, and gain valuable customer insights efficiently. Amazon Transcribe's deep learning capabilities and scalability were key factors in Intact's decision, allowing for accurate speech-to-text transcription and versatile post-call analy...
Ambience Healthcare, founded by Mike Ng MBA ’16 and Nikhil Buduma ’17, offers an AI-powered platform embedded in EHRs to automate tasks for clinicians, saving 2-3 hours per day on documentation and improving patient care. Used in 40+ institutions like UCSF Health, Ambience helps clinicians focus on patients, not paperwork, leading to lower burnout and better relationships.
MIT researchers propose Diffusion Forcing, a new training technique that combines next-token and full-sequence diffusion models for flexible, reliable sequence generation. This method enhances AI decision-making, improves video quality, and aids robots in completing tasks by predicting future steps with varying noise levels.
Monitoring vegetation health is crucial but challenging. Amazon SageMaker's geospatial capabilities offer a streamlined solution, mapping global vegetation in under 20 minutes.
Tech barons push for new technologies to solve climate crisis, but fixes already exist. Former Google CEO advocates for AI over climate goals, sparking debate on tech's role in addressing climate change.
Synthesia's tech used for deepfake videos promoting authoritarian regimes. Video shows young man supporting Burkina Faso dictator after military coup.
AI chatbot impersonates boss; job seeker recounts job hunting struggles and perfect job application.
Bria AI introduces advanced image generation models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Bria 2.3, 2.2 HD, and 2.3 Fast offer high-quality visuals for various industries, with options for photorealism, high-definition, and speed optimization.
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth is a data labeling service by AWS for various data types, supporting generative AI. It offers a self-serve option and SageMaker Ground Truth Plus for managing projects efficiently.
Google orders six or seven small nuclear reactors from California’s Kairos Power to power AI. First reactor to be completed by 2030.
Harnessing generative AI and Amazon Bedrock, organizations can simplify, accelerate, and scale cloud migration assessments. By utilizing Amazon Bedrock Agents and Knowledge Bases, a migration assistant application rapidly generates plans, R-dispositions, and cost estimates for AWS migrations, significantly speeding up the planning phase.
Amazon SageMaker introduces SageMaker Core, a Python SDK for ML lifecycle management. This SDK simplifies tasks with object-oriented interfaces, replacing lengthy JSON dictionaries for a more intuitive developer experience.
Amazon Bedrock Agents facilitate generative AI applications by orchestrating tasks, calling APIs, and applying fine-grained access controls. Verified Permissions integrates with agents to provide contextually aware access controls for secure application workflows.
Large Language Models (LLMs) are said to have ‘emergent properties’, but the definition varies. NLP researchers debate if these properties are learned or inherent, impacting research and public perception.
Florence-2 by Microsoft, a compact Vision-Language Model, excels in image annotation tasks with zero-shot capabilities. Pre-trained on FLD-5B, it supports tasks like captioning, object detection, segmentation, and OCR in a single model.