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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the field developing computers and robots capable of parsing data contextually to provide requested information, supply analysis, or trigger events based on findings. Through techniques like machine learning and neural networks, companies globally are investing in teaching machines to ‘think’ more like humans. Below are some of the latest AI news from the industry:

Better joint representations of image and text
Two methods presented at CVPR achieve state-of-the-art results by imposing additional structure on the representational space.Read More

Identifying Disfluencies in Natural Speech
Posted by Dan Walker and Dan Liebling, Software Engineers, Google Research People don’t write in the same way that they speak. Written language is controlled and deliberate, whereas transcripts of spontaneous speech (like interviews) are hard to read because speech is disorganized and less fluent. One aspect that makes speech transcripts particularly diffic ...

Secure Amazon SageMaker Studio presigned URLs Part 1: Foundational infrastructure
You can access Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks from the Amazon SageMaker console via AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) authenticated federation from your identity provider (IdP), such as Okta. When a Studio user opens the notebook link, Studio validates the federated user’s IAM policy to authorize access, and generates and resolves the presigned UR ...

Secure Amazon SageMaker Studio presigned URLs Part 2: Private API with JWT authentication
In part 1 of this series, we demonstrated how to resolve an Amazon SageMaker Studio presigned URL from a corporate network using Amazon private VPC endpoints without traversing the internet. In this post, we will continue to build on top of the previous solution to demonstrate how to build a private API Gateway via Amazon API Gateway as a proxy interface to ...

Three Wheeling: Startup Faction Develops Affordable Tri-Wheel AVs on NVIDIA DRIVE
Some things are easy as A, B, C. But when it comes to autonomous vehicles, the key may be in one, two, three. Faction, a Bay Area-based startup and NVIDIA Inception member, is preparing to debut its business-to-business autonomous delivery service, with three-wheel production electric vehicles purpose-built for driverless operation, streamlining time to ma ...

Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models
Posted by Ethan Dyer and Guy Gur-Ari, Research Scientists, Google Research, Blueshift Team Language models have demonstrated remarkable performance on a variety of natural language tasks — indeed, a general lesson from many works, including BERT, GPT-3, Gopher, and PaLM, has been that neural networks trained on diverse data at large scale in an unsupervised ...

Mahima Pushkarna is making data easier to understand
Five years ago, information designer Mahima Pushkarna joined Google to make data easier to understand. As a senior interaction designer on the People + AI Research (PAIR) team, she designed Data Cards to help everyone better understand the contexts of the data they are using. The Data Cards Playbook puts Google’s AI Principles into practice by providing opp ...

The Gaming Evolution Will Be Televised: GFN Thursday Levels Up the Living Room Experience on New Samsung TVs and More
Turn the TV on. GeForce NOW is leveling up gaming in the living room. The Samsung Gaming Hub launched today, delivering GeForce NOW natively on 2022 Samsung Smart TVs. Plus, the SHIELD Software Experience Upgrade 9.1 is now rolling out to all NVIDIA SHIELD TVs, delivering new gaming features that improve GeForce NOW. Great living room gaming pairs perfectl ...