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Revolutionizing Mining Equipment Monitoring with AWS Prototyping and Computer Vision

ICL, a multinational manufacturing and mining corporation, developed in-house capabilities using machine learning and computer vision to automatically monitor their mining equipment. With support from the AWS Prototyping program, they were able to build a framework on AWS using Amazon SageMaker to extract vision from 30 cameras, with the potential to scale to thousands.

Building Your Own AI Gym: Dive into Deep Q-Learning

Dive into the world of artificial intelligence — build a deep reinforcement learning gym from scratch. Gain hands-on experience and develop your own gym to train an agent to solve a simple problem, setting the foundation for more complex environments and systems.

The Intelligence Debate: Unveiling the Truth Behind ChatGPT

OpenAI's ChatGPT, a groundbreaking AI language model, sparked excitement with its impressive abilities, including excelling in exams and playing chess. However, skeptics argue that true intelligence should not be confused with memorization, leading to scientific studies exploring the distinction and making the case against AGI.

Revolutionizing Accessibility: SiBORG Lab's Innovative Approach with OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse

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...

Enhancing RAG-based Intelligent Document Assistants: Unleashing Analytical Capabilities with Amazon Bedrock

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...

Mixtral 8x7B: The French AI Challenger to OpenAI

Mistral AI announces Mixtral 8x7B, an AI language model that matches OpenAI's GPT-3.5 in performance, bringing us closer to having a ChatGPT-3.5-level AI assistant that can run locally. Mistral's models have open weights and fewer restrictions than those from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google.

Revolutionizing Last-Mile Delivery: Streamlining Workforce Management with Amazon Forecast and AWS Step Functions

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.