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Socrates: AI Innovation by Qualtrics

Qualtrics pioneers Experience Management (XM) with AI, ML, and NLP capabilities, enhancing customer connections and loyalty. Qualtrics's Socrates platform, powered by Amazon SageMaker, drives innovation in experience management with advanced ML technologies.

Demystifying the Parquet File Format

Apache Parquet is a game-changer in data storage, offering data compression, columnar storage, language flexibility, open-source format, and support for complex data types. Unlike traditional row-based storage, Parquet's column-based approach allows for faster data read operations, optimizing analytics workloads.

HyperPod recipes for customizing DeepSeek-R1 671b model

DeepSeek AI's DeepSeek-R1 model with 671 billion parameters showcases strong few-shot learning capabilities, prompting customization for various business applications. SageMaker HyperPod recipes streamline the fine-tuning process, offering optimized solutions for organizations seeking to enhance model performance and adaptability.

GOP Pushes for 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations

US Republicans seek to block state laws regulating AI for 10 years in budget bill, aiming to prevent guardrails on automated decision-making systems. Proposed provision in House bill would restrict any state or local regulation of AI models or systems unless to facilitate deployment.

AI learns to talk like humans

Study finds AI agents can develop human-like social norms when communicating in groups, like humans. Research by City St George’s, University of London and IT University of Copenhagen.

MIT's New Center on Inequality & Future of Work

MIT's Shaping the Future of Work Initiative evolves into the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality, focusing on wealth distribution and technology's impact on the workforce. Led by prominent scholars, the center aims to advance research, inform policymakers, and engage the public on critical economic issues.

AI Voices Revolutionize Audiobooks

Audible, an Amazon brand, will introduce over 100 AI-generated voices for audiobooks in multiple languages. AI technology will be used for narration, with translation capabilities to come, offered to select publishers.

Reimagining AI Training Costs: Beyond Hardware

Hardware choices and training time impact energy, water, and carbon footprints during AI model training. Longer training time can decrease energy efficiency by 0.03% per hour, highlighting environmental costs of AI adoption.