AI

Organizations today deal with vast amounts of unstructured data in various formats including documents, images, audio files, and video files. Often these documents are quite large, creating significant challenges such as slower processing times and increased storage costs. Extracting meaningful insights from these diverse formats in the past required complex processing pipelines and significant development […]

Foundation models (FMs) have revolutionised AI capabilities, but adopting them for specific business needs can be challenging. Organizations often struggle with balancing model performance, cost-efficiency, and the need for domain-specific knowledge. This blog post explores three powerful techniques for tailoring FMs to your unique requirements: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), fine-tuning, and a hybrid approach combining

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the way we interact with technology, but their widespread adoption has been blocked by high inference latency, limited throughput, and high costs associated with text generation. These inefficiencies are particularly pronounced during high-demand events like Amazon Prime Day, where systems like Rufus—the Amazon AI-powered shopping assistant—must handle massive scale

Organizations across a wide range of industries are struggling to process massive amounts of unstructured video and audio content to support their core business applications and organizational priorities. Amazon Bedrock Data Automation helps them meet this challenge by streamlining application development and automating workflows that use content from documents, images, audio, and video. Recently, we

The rise of artificial intelligence resurfaces a question older than the abacus: If we have a tool to do it for us, why learn to do it ourselves?  The answer, argues MIT electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Professor Devavrat Shah, hasn’t changed: Foundational skills in mathematics remain essential to using tools well, from knowing

This blog post is co-written with Heidi Vogel Brockmann and Ronald Brockmann from GuardianGamer. Millions of families face a common challenge: how to keep children safe in online gaming without sacrificing the joy and social connection these games provide. In this post, we share how GuardianGamer—a member of the AWS Activate startup community—has built a

MIT today launched its Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM), an Institute-wide effort to reinfuse U.S. industrial production with leading-edge technologies, bolster crucial U.S. economic sectors, and ignite job creation. The initiative will encompass advanced research, innovative education programs, and partnership with companies across many sectors, in a bid to help transform manufacturing and elevate its

Nothing’s CEO speaks to WIRED about how he sees the smartphone market playing out in an era of AI, and where he thinks the competition is going wrong.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said everything human workers do now will eventually be done by AI systems.

Today on Uncanny Valley, we address one of the most pressing questions in education right now: What constitutes cheating at school in today’s world of AI?