Vodafone is transforming into a TechCo by 2025, with plans to have 50% of its workforce involved in software development and deliver 60% of digital services in-house. To support this transition, Vodafone has partnered with Accenture and AWS to build a cloud platform and engaged in an AWS DeepRacer challenge to enhance their machine learning skills.
Mathew Schwartz, an assistant professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, is using NVIDIA Omniverse and OpenUSD to help designers address the challenge of accessibility in building design. Schwartz's team developed open-source code that generates a complex accessibility graph, providing feedback on human movement and energy expenditure. With Omniverse, designers can visualize the graph...
Generative AI and large language models dominated enterprise trends this year, with companies like Amdocs, Dropbox, and SAP building customized applications using RAG and LLMs. Open-source pretrained models are set to revolutionize businesses' operational strategies, while off-the-shelf AI and microservices make it easier for developers to create complex applications.
Getir, the ultrafast grocery delivery pioneer, has implemented an end-to-end workforce management system using Amazon Forecast and AWS Step Functions, resulting in a 70% reduction in modelling time and a 90% improvement in prediction accuracy. This comprehensive project calculates courier requirements and solves the shift assignment problem, optimizing shift schedules and minimizing missed orders.
Dropbox faces backlash after enabling a default setting that shares user data with OpenAI for AI-powered search, but assures data is only shared when actively used and is deleted within 30 days. CEO Drew Houston apologizes for customer confusion and emphasizes that no customer data is automatically sent to third-party AI services.
Tesla releases demo video of its Optimus Gen 2 humanoid robot, showcasing significant hardware improvements. Skepticism remains after recent AI demonstration controversies.
The US Federal Trade Commission warns against QR code scams that can take control of smartphones, make fraudulent charges, or obtain personal information. Scammers are targeting QR codes on parking lot kiosks, leading to look-alike sites that funnel funds to fraudulent accounts.
LLMs like Llama 2, Flan T5, and Bloom are essential for conversational AI use cases, but updating their knowledge requires retraining, which is time-consuming and expensive. However, with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) using Amazon Sagemaker JumpStart and Pinecone vector database, LLMs can be deployed and kept up to date with relevant information to prevent AI Hallucination.
Conversational AI has evolved with generative AI and large language models, but lacks specialized knowledge for accurate answers. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) connects generic models to internal knowledge bases, enabling domain-specific AI assistants. Amazon Kendra and OpenSearch Service offer mature vector search solutions for implementing RAG, but analytical reasoning questions requir...
The article discusses the launch of ChatGPT and the rise in popularity of generative AI. It highlights the creation of a web UI called Chat Studio to interact with foundation models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, including Llama 2 and Stable Diffusion. This solution allows users to quickly experience conversational AI and enhance the user experience with media integration.
Large language models (LLMs) like GPT NeoX and Pythia are gaining popularity, with billions of parameters and impressive performance. Training these models on AWS Trainium is cost-effective and efficient, thanks to optimizations like rotational positional embedding (ROPE) and partial rotation techniques.