Google has renamed its AI assistant Bard to Gemini and launched its most capable AI model, Ultra 1.0, as part of a $20/month subscription feature. The nomenclature and accessing the new model can be confusing, but it offers different AI "engines" for enhanced performance.
Recommender systems generate significant revenue, with Amazon and Netflix relying heavily on product recommendations. This article explores the use of controlled vocabularies and LLMs to improve similarity models in recommender systems, finding that a controlled vocabulary enhances outcomes and building a genre list using an LLM is easy but creating a detailed taxonomy is challenging.
Hector Xu, a former MIT student, founded Rotor Technologies to make helicopter flight safer by retrofitting existing helicopters with autonomous technology. Rotor's autonomous aircraft can fly faster and longer than drones and are already conducting demo flights.
This article explores three key encoding techniques for machine learning: label encoding, one-hot encoding, and target encoding. It provides a beginner-friendly guide with pros, cons, and Python code examples to help data scientists understand and implement these techniques effectively.
Automate mortgage document fraud detection using ML models and business-defined rules with Amazon Fraud Detector, a fully managed fraud detection service. Upload historical data, train the model, review performance, and deploy the API to make predictions for improved fraud detection and underwriting accuracy.
The pharmaceutical industry generated $550 billion in US revenue in 2021, with a projected cost of $384 billion for pharmacovigilance activities by 2022. To address the challenges of monitoring adverse events, a machine learning-driven solution using Amazon SageMaker and Hugging Face's BioBERT model is developed, providing automated detection from various data sources.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, plans to label AI-generated images from other companies like OpenAI and Google to enhance transparency on platforms like Facebook and Instagram. The move comes during a contentious US election year and is part of a larger effort to establish standards for labeling content created using generative AI models.
The MIT-Pillar AI Collective announces six fellows for spring 2024, supporting graduate students conducting research in AI, machine learning, and data science to commercialize their innovations. Fellows include Yasmeen AlFaraj, working on sustainable plastics, and Ruben Castro Ornelas, designing multipurpose robots with AI control.
This article highlights Mr_Vudoo, a digital renaissance man and featured artist in the NVIDIA Studio, who recently acquired a GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER graphics card to enhance his content creation. Additionally, Topaz Labs has adopted NVIDIA TensorRT acceleration for its AI-powered Remove Tool, delivering faster processing compared to other devices.
Accenture has developed an AI-based solution using AWS services to automate the labor-intensive process of creating Common Technical Documents (CTDs) for pharmaceutical companies. This solution reduces authoring time by 40-45% and accelerates new product approvals, benefiting patients.
The article discusses the practical lessons learned from upgrading the Bed-Reader bioinformatics library to read DNA data directly from the cloud. The author provides nine rules for adding cloud-file support to programs, including using the object_store crate and creating a new crate called cloud-file.
A multinational company's Hong Kong office lost HK$200 million ($25.6 million) in a sophisticated scam using deepfake technology, featuring a digitally recreated version of the CFO instructing an employee to transfer funds. This incident highlights the challenges posed by deepfakes, which utilize AI tools to create convincing fake videos, making it difficult to discern real from fabricated cont...
HSR.health uses Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities to create a tool that provides accurate disease spread information, aiming to prevent zoonotic disease outbreaks before they become global. The risk index uses over 20 factors to assess human-wildlife interaction and utilizes satellite imagery and remote sensing for data analysis.
Microsoft is partnering with Semafor to develop news stories using AI chatbot, amid a multibillion-dollar lawsuit from the New York Times. Microsoft is sponsoring a breaking news feed called "Signals," offering a global perspective and providing substantial financial support to Semafor.
MIT PhD student Behrooz Tahmasebi and advisor Stefanie Jegelka have modified Weyl's law to incorporate symmetry in assessing the complexity of data, potentially enhancing machine learning. Their work, presented at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference, demonstrates that models satisfying symmetries can produce predictions with smaller errors and require less training data, partic...