Category: Learning Levels

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. Businesses are increasingly using machine learning (ML) to make near-real-time decisions, such as placing an ad, assigning a driver, recommending a product, or even dynamically pricing products […]

Large language models (LLMs) with billions of parameters are currently at the forefront of natural language processing (NLP). These models are shaking up the field with their incredible abilities to generate text, analyze sentiment, translate languages, and much more. With access to massive amounts of data, LLMs have the potential to revolutionize the way we […]

This post was co-written with Dave Gowel, CEO of RallyPoint. In his own words, “RallyPoint is an online social and professional network for veterans, service members, family members, caregivers, and other civilian supporters of the US armed forces. With two million members on the platform, the company provides a comfortable place for this deserving population […]

Sparked by the release of large AI models like AlexaTM, GPT, OpenChatKit, BLOOM, GPT-J, GPT-NeoX, FLAN-T5, OPT, Stable Diffusion, and ControlNet, the popularity of generative AI has seen a recent boom. Businesses are beginning to evaluate new cutting-edge applications of the technology in text, image, audio, and video generation that have the potential to revolutionize […]

“Instead of focusing on the code, companies should focus on developing systematic engineering practices for improving data in ways that are reliable, efficient, and systematic. In other words, companies need to move from a model-centric approach to a data-centric approach.” – Andrew Ng A data-centric AI approach involves building AI systems with quality data involving […]

As more businesses increase their online presence to serve their customers better, new fraud patterns are constantly emerging. In today’s ever-evolving digital landscape, where fraudsters are becoming more sophisticated in their tactics, detecting and preventing such fraudulent activities has become paramount for companies and financial institutions. Traditional rule-based fraud detection systems are capped in their […]

RStudio on Amazon SageMaker is the industry’s first fully managed RStudio Workbench integrated development environment (IDE) in the cloud. You can quickly launch the familiar RStudio IDE and dial up and down the underlying compute resources without interrupting your work, making it easy to build machine learning (ML) and analytics solutions in R at scale. […]

This is a guest post co-written with Moulham Zahabi from Matarat. Probably everyone has checked their baggage when flying, and waited anxiously for their bags to appear at the carousel. Successful and timely delivery of your bags depends on a massive infrastructure called the baggage handling system (BHS). This infrastructure is one of the key […]

Globally, many organizations have critical business data dispersed among various content repositories, making it difficult to access this information in a streamlined and cohesive manner. Creating a unified and secure search experience is a significant challenge for organizations because each repository contains a wide range of document formats and access control mechanisms. Amazon Kendra is […]

Financial services, the gig economy, telco, healthcare, social networking, and other customers use face verification during online onboarding, step-up authentication, age-based access restriction, and bot detection. These customers verify user identity by matching the user’s face in a selfie captured by a device camera with a government-issued identity card photo or preestablished profile photo. They […]