How to deal with the shrinking half-life of knowledge

Favorite Knowledge has a half-life, and that half-life is getting shorter every year. When John Browne was CEO at BP, he talked about “the shrinking half-life of ideas”. This always struck me as a very interesting concept; one which was fundamental to Browne’s approach to corporate KM. I have since found that

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Shared by Nick Milton February 27, 2023

Accelerate disaster response with computer vision for satellite imagery using Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Augmented AI

Favorite In recent years, advances in computer vision have enabled researchers, first responders, and governments to tackle the challenging problem of processing global satellite imagery to understand our planet and our impact on it. AWS recently released Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities to provide you with satellite imagery and geospatial state-of-the-art

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning February 25, 2023

A vision-language approach for foundational UI understanding

Favorite Posted by Yang Li, Research Scientist, and Gang Li, Software Engineer, Google Research The computational understanding of user interfaces (UI) is a key step towards achieving intelligent UI behaviors. Previously, we investigated various UI modeling tasks, including widget captioning, screen summarization, and command grounding, that address diverse interaction scenarios

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Shared by Google AI Technology February 24, 2023

Pre-training generalist agents using offline reinforcement learning

Favorite Posted by Aviral Kumar, Student Researcher, and Sergey Levine, Research Scientist, Google Research Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can learn skills to solve decision-making tasks like playing games, enabling robots to pick up objects, or even optimizing microchip designs. However, running RL algorithms in the real world requires expensive active

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Shared by Google AI Technology February 23, 2023

Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Health

Favorite Posted by Greg Corrado, Distinguished Scientist, and Yossi Matias, VP Engineering and Research, Google Research (This is Part 8 in our series of posts covering different topical areas of research at Google. You can find other posts in the series here.) Google’s focus on AI stems from the conviction

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Shared by Google AI Technology February 23, 2023