Bezos’s Shareholder Letter has become a must read, along the lines of Warren Buffet’s letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, or the Bill & Melinda Gates Annual Letter.Read More
Amazon scientist Dr. Nashlie Sephus focuses on ensuring accuracy in machine learning
Her work involves many stakeholders and challenges, but it’s an endeavor that is deeply meaningful to Sephus on both a professional and personal level.Read More
The Web Conference goes virtual
In the face of pandemic, the conference takes a step some participants have long advocated.Read More
The 10 fairness-in-AI projects funded by NSF in collaboration with Amazon
The $20 million program will support projects for three years.Read More
3 questions about the Amazon–NSF collaboration on fairness in AI
NSF deputy assistant director Erwin Gianchandani on the challenges addressed by funded projects.Read More
Learning computational tasks from single examples
New “meta-learning” approach improves on the state of the art in “one-shot” learning.Read More
Amazon German R&D center is dedicated to open AI research
‘Lablet’s’ leader, Yasser Jadidi, says the research center’s mission aligns with Amazon’s customer orientation and its responsibility to society.Read More
Making robots better co-workers
Nima Keivan wants to help Amazon’s robots and fulfillment center workers to collaborate more effectively, so that robots can perform the more mundane tasks, while the humans can focus on higher-value jobs.Read More
Understanding a changing climate
AWS recently sponsored the Causality for Climate (C4C) competition at the 2019 NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) conference. The competition focused on the causal discovery and development of new ways to understand climate data.Read More
Combining knowledge graphs, quickly and accurately
Novel cross-graph-attention and self-attention mechanisms enable state-of-the-art performance.Read More