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How synthetic data is boosting AI at scale

March 15, 2023
This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: The quest for Nirvana: Applying AI at scale. Artificial intelligence (AI) relies heavily on large, diverse and meticulously-labeled datasets to train machine learning (ML) algorithms. In the modern era, data has become the lifeblood of AI, and obtaining the right data is considered the most critical and challenging aspect of…
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YouTube Music for Android preps support for podcasts

March 15, 2023
YouTube announced last month that podcasts are coming to YouTube Music, and we’re now seeing the Android app add the necessary support with version 5.48.  About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store. When we decompile these files (called APKs, in the case of Android apps), we’re able to see…
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Captures Rarely Seen Prelude to Supernova

March 15, 2023
The rare sight of a Wolf-Rayet star – among the most luminous, most massive, and most briefly detectable stars known – was one of the first observations made by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in June 2022. Webb shows the star, WR 124, in unprecedented detail with its powerful infrared instruments. The star is 15,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. Massive stars race…
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Google Play will now machine translate Android apps for free

March 15, 2023
At the Google for Games Summit, Google announced the launch of free machine translation for Android apps. This will make it easier for developers to launch their apps in seven languages. The translations will presumably use the same technology that powers Google Translate…
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Google’s PaLM API and MakerSuite will make working with generative AI more approachable

March 15, 2023
With all eyes on generative AI products like ChatGPT, Microsoft’s new Bing, and Google’s upcoming Bard, Google has built PaLM and MakerSuite as new ways to help developers experiment with creating their own AI-powered projects. Considering AI technology is still just beginning to arrive and be understood, the idea of creating an application that offers AI can seem far-fetched for developers.
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