Favorite Understanding the direction and context of an ever-evolving conversation is beneficial to building natural, human-like conversational interfaces. Being able to classify utterances as the conversation develops requires managing context across multiple turns. Consider a caller who asks their financial planner for insights regarding their monthly expenses: “What were my

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 24, 2020

Favorite Although we might think the world is already sufficiently mapped by the advent of global satellite images and street views, it’s far from complete because much of the world is still uncharted territory. Maps are designed for humans, and can’t be consumed by autonomous vehicles, which need a very

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 21, 2020

Favorite Amazon Augmented AI (Amazon A2I) is now a HIPAA eligible service. Amazon A2I makes it easy to build the workflows required for human review of machine learning (ML) predictions. HIPPA eligibility applies to AWS Regions where the service is available and means you can use Amazon A2I add human

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 21, 2020

Favorite Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and easy-to-use intelligent search service powered by machine learning (ML). To make it simple to search data across multiple content repositories, Amazon Kendra offers a number of native data source connectors to help get your documents easily ingested and indexed. This post describes

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 21, 2020

Favorite Rapid development of deep learning technology has produced an abundance of open-sourced, pre-trained models in computer vision and natural language processing. As a result, transfer learning has become a popular approach in deep learning. Transfer learning is a machine learning technique where a model pre-trained on one task is

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 20, 2020

Favorite This is a guest post by Jeff Finkelstein, founder of Customer Paradigm, a full-service interactive media firm and Magento solutions partner. Many small retailers use Magento, an open-source ecommerce platform, to create websites or mobile applications to sell their products online. Personalization is key to creating high-quality ecommerce experiences,

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 20, 2020

Favorite COVID-19 has changed our world significantly. All of this change has been almost instantaneous, forcing companies to pivot quickly and find new ways to operate. Automation is playing an increasingly important role to help companies adjust. The ability to automate business processes with machine learning (ML) is unlocking new

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 20, 2020

Favorite AWS DeepComposer provides a creative and hands-on experience for learning generative AI and machine learning (ML). We recently launched a Transformer-based model that iteratively extends your input melody up to 20 seconds. This newly created extension will use the style and musical motifs found in your input melody and create additional

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 19, 2020

Favorite For many organizations, consolidating information assets and making them available to employees when needed remains a challenge. Commonly used technology like spreadsheets, relational databases, and NoSQL databases exacerbate this issue by creating more and more unconnected, unstructured data. Knowledge graphs can provide easier access and understanding to this data

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 18, 2020

Favorite Amazon Textract is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service that makes it easy to process documents at scale by automatically extracting printed text, handwriting, and other data from virtually any type of document. Amazon Textract goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 18, 2020