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New models and developer products announced at DevDay
The text mentions GPT-4 Turbo with 128K context, lower prices, the new Assistants API, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, DALL·E 3 API, and more.
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Live Chat Queueing
Live chat queueing is a valuable tool for businesses to enhance customer support. It organizes customer chats based on arrival time, ensuring fairness and optimizing workload management for agents. It reduces customer wait times, provides transparency, and can be customized to suit business needs. Options like round-robin and least busy queueing algorithms offer different approaches.…
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Customize Amazon Textract with business-specific documents using Custom Queries
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that extracts text and data from scanned documents. Custom Queries is a feature that allows you to customize the extraction of information from non-standard documents like checks. By customizing the feature, you can achieve greater accuracy in data extraction without the need for ML expertise or infrastructure management.
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Stream large language model responses in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now supports token streaming for large language model (LLM) inference responses. This feature allows users to see the model response output as it is being generated, providing a perception of low latency. Streaming is available for select LLMs in SageMaker JumpStart, including Mistral AI 7B, Falcon 180B, Falcon 40B, and Rinna Japanese…
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Google AI Introduces Audioplethysmography (APG): An Artificial Intelligence-Powered Novel Cardiac Monitoring Modality for Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) Headphones
Google AI has developed a groundbreaking technique called Audioplethysmography (APG) that enables active noise cancelling (ANC) headphones to monitor the user’s cardiac activities without additional sensors or complex hardware configurations. APG leverages low-intensity ultrasound signals transmitted through the headphones to detect and analyze changes in the ear canal, providing accurate and reliable heart rate and…
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AWS Researchers Introduce Gemini: Pioneering Fast Failure Recovery in Large-Scale Deep Learning Training
Researchers from Rice University and Amazon Web Services have developed GEMINI, a distributed training system that aims to improve failure recovery in large-scale deep learning model training. GEMINI optimizes checkpoint placement and traffic scheduling, resulting in faster failure recovery compared to existing solutions. It offers high checkpoint frequencies without compromising training throughput, making it a…
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AI Breakthrough: ‘Mika’ Named First Robot CEO by Dictador
Colombian rum and spirits company Dictador has made history by appointing a humanoid robot named Mika as its CEO. Developed by Hanson Robotics, Mika showcases the futuristic integration of artificial intelligence into executive leadership. While Mika’s advanced capabilities are lauded, there are concerns about the integration of AI into human-centric roles. This appointment sparks broader…
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Vectara Launches Groundbreaking Open-Source Model to Benchmark and Tackle ‘Hallucinations’ in AI-Language Models
Vectara has introduced an open-source Hallucination Evaluation Model in the field of Generative AI (GenAI). The model aims to measure the factual accuracy of Large Language Models (LLMs), thereby promoting responsible AI and mitigating misinformation. It also includes a leaderboard to rank LLMs based on performance. The release provides transparency and a standardized benchmark for…
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Researchers from the University of Michigan Chart New Territory in AI’s Theory of Mind: Unveiling a Taxonomy and Rigorous Protocols for Evaluation
Researchers from the University of Michigan propose new benchmarks and evaluation protocols to assess the Theory of Mind capability of Large Language Models (LLMs). They advocate for a holistic evaluation approach that categorizes machine ToM into seven mental state categories. The study emphasizes the need for comprehensive assessment and treating LLMs as agents in realistic…
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Grok LLM details and how it stacks up against ChatGPT
Elon Musk announced the beta launch of xAI’s chatbot called Grok. It is based on the Grok-1 model, which was developed over the last four months. Although the number of parameters is unknown, xAI claims that Grok-1 is “state-of-the-art” and “significantly more powerful” than its predecessor. The chatbot performed well in benchmark tests, outperforming other…