To trace the path of the #SolarEclipse2024 , Amazon researchers created a visualization that projects fluctuations in Amazon website traffic onto the U.S. map. The times and locations at which the total eclipse was visible correlate strongly with decreased website activity.

From the outside, Echo Frames look like a pair of regular glasses. Amazon engineers and product designers built a new generation with enhanced audio playback—including custom-built speech-processing technology that improves word recognition—and better battery life. #SmartGlasses

🎉We developed a prompting method for improved (and more human-like) LLM reasoning and verified it on hybrid question answering, surpassing the GPT-4 baseline. 🚀 Thanks to my co-authors!

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🆕 Today, in support of efforts by the U.S. and Japan to strengthen cooperation in #AI , we are pleased to announce Amazon will invest $25 million in a 10-year research partnership with the University of Washington, University of Tsukuba, and NVIDIA.

This partnership is part of a $110 million strategic…

Using a SAT solver, Amazon Scholar and Carnegie Mellon University professor Marijn Heule has solved a century-old geometry problem. Along the way, he and his AWS colleagues developed a new proof-checking mechanism that's 10 to 20 times as efficient as its predecessor. #AutomatedReasoning

Congratulations to Caltech professor and Amazon Scholar John Preskill for winning the 2024 Bell Prize for fundamental research on quantum mechanics. Preskill explains how he and his colleagues use both classical and quantum computing techniques to learn about quantum systems.

🏆 Exciting news! The first KDD Cup 2024 challenge has been announced! It's set to be incredible!
Don't miss your chance to show off your skills and passion!
Huge shoutout to Amazon for their support in making #KDD2024 a success!

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Advanced AI won't arrive as a single, monolithic intelligence, but as a whole swarm of personalized systems tuned to individual needs, a key Amazon AI executive predicts.

Amazon wants to use its Alexa voice bot as one building block toward that goal. trib.al/uqOIumy

To keep #LLMs up to date, editing individual network layers is a more-efficient alternative to retraining. At eaclmeeting, Amazon researchers presented a new method for automatically selecting layers to be edited, yielding more-accurate updates than previous automated methods.

The future is personalized artificial general intelligence (AGI) systems that fit an individual's needs and style, a key Amazon executive predicts. trib.al/bVtZnTR

Utilizing the latest techniques at the intersection of microeconomics, statistics, and machine learning, Thomas Hoe, Amazon principal economist, leads a team focused on unique challenges within European markets. #Econometrics #ML

🔥 GenAI Shopping Assistant KDD Cup:
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Are you tired of sifting through endless options online to find that perfect item? Imagine if you had a digital shopping assistant powered by AI, making your online shopping experience seamless and enjoyable.…

At EACL 2024, Amazon researchers explore topics including information-seeking intent resolution, few-shot cross-domain keyphrase extraction, question reranking, and text-to-speech synthesis. #EACL2024 #NLProc #ConversationalAI

Exploring the intersection of fashion and AI, Amazon and Max Planck Society announce the recipients of the 2023 gift awards. This collaboration underscores our commitment to advancing #AI , #computervision & #ML research with widespread societal benefits.
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Anomaly detection on graphs is complex because of graph topologies, and training data is scarce. At WSDM 2024 Conference, Amazon researchers showed how to generate anomalous graphs using a variational graph neural network and diffusion modeling in the latent space. amazon.science/blog/anomaly-d…

Call for papers on the First Workshop on Evaluation for Generative Foundation Models #CVPR2024. We're eager to hear your ideas on how generative models should be evaluated!

We also have a stellar speaker lineup: Tal Hassner, Bo Li, Ranjay Krishna, Hanwang Zhang, Leonid Karlinsky,…

How will AI shape the future of healthcare? Amazon Health Services' Sunita Mishra and Columbia Medicine's Katrina Armstrong discuss technology's potential role in medical settings. #HealthTech #MedTwitter #ColumbiaUniversity amazon.science/news-and-featu…