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Revolutionizing ML Experimentation: Booking.com's Journey with Amazon SageMaker

Booking.com collaborated with AWS Professional Services to use Amazon SageMaker and modernize their ML infrastructure, reducing wait times for model training and experimentation, integrating essential ML capabilities, and reducing the development cycle for ML models. This improved their search experience and benefited millions of travelers worldwide.

Unlocking the Power of GPT-2: The Rise of Multitask Language Models

The article discusses the evolution of GPT models, specifically focusing on GPT-2's improvements over GPT-1, including its larger size and multitask learning capabilities. Understanding the concepts behind GPT-1 is crucial for recognizing the working principles of more advanced models like ChatGPT or GPT-4.

OpenAI's Sam Altman Seeks Trillions to Revolutionize AI Chip Manufacturing

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is seeking to raise $5 trillion to $7 trillion for AI chip manufacturing to address the scarcity of GPUs for language models like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. Altman is pitching a partnership between OpenAI, investors, chip makers, and power providers to build chip foundries, with OpenAI as a significant customer.

AI Surveillance: Crime Detection on London Underground

AI surveillance software was used to monitor thousands of people on the London Underground, looking for aggressive behavior, weapons, and unsafe situations. Transport for London tested 11 algorithms, generating over 44,000 alerts, marking the first time AI and live video footage were combined for real-time alerts to staff.

Enhancing Movie Recommendations: Unraveling Unstructured Data with LLMs and Controlled Vocabularies

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.

Unleashing the Power of PCA: Simplifying Data Analysis and Machine Learning with C#

The article "Principal Component Analysis (PCA) from Scratch Using the Classical Technique with C#" in Microsoft Visual Studio Magazine explains how PCA can reduce the number of columns in a dataset and its applications in machine learning algorithms. It also discusses the difficulty of computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors and provides a demo using a subset of the Iris dataset.