Additional reading comes from Michael Andrews, Steve Jones, Hunter Walk, and Duff Johnson.
News comes from Adobe, Bridgeline, Netlify, and Box.
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While the market for robots that resemble, and perform some human-like activities, remains small, there is increasing optimism that such humanoids will soon become capable of a wide variety of productive use-cases. Nikolaus Correll is one such optimist and explains why in this non-technical article. (10 min)
https://towardsdatascience.com/are-the-humanoids-here-to-stay-050da171530b
“Machine learning (ML) practitioners looking to reuse existing datasets to train an ML model often spend a lot of time understanding the data, making sense of its organization, or figuring out what subset to use as features. So much time, in fact, that progress in the field of ML is hampered by a fundamental obstacle: the wide variety of data representations.”
Omar Benjelloun & Peter Mattson point out that existing metadata formats were designed for data discovery rather than the broader and more complex requirements of machine learning practitioners. Croissant sounds promising, now it just needs a critical mass of adopters. (4 min)
https://blog.research.google/2024/03/croissant-metadata-format-for-ml-ready.html
Creative Cloud subscribers can easily access and edit designs from Photoshop and Illustrator directly within the Adobe Express mobile app.
https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2024/New-Adobe-Express-Mobile-App-Brings-Firefly-Generative-AI-Models-Directly-into-Mobile-Workflows-/default.aspx
The Zeus update introduces AI-powered Concept and Visual Search to help HawkSearch customers generate more revenue.
https://www.bridgeline.com
Netlify’s Composable Web Platform leverages AI to analyze failed deployments and provide suggestions to correct errors.
https://www.netlify.com
The integration enables Box customers to benefit from the AI models, and combines enterprise standards for security, privacy, and compliance.
https://www.boxinvestorrelations.com/news-and-media/news/press-release-details/2024/Box-Expands-its-Collaboration-with-Microsoft-with-New-Azure-OpenAI-Service-Integration/default.aspx
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]]>Aura can generate speech from any text input, including responses from LLMs like ChatGPT, in fractions of a second. This enables fluid and natural-sounding conversations with AI agents that can handle complex and dynamic scenarios. Aura offers a selection of diverse voices strongly suited for conversational use cases and preferences requiring the highest degrees of safety, security, speed, and scale.
Aura complements Deepgram’s Nova-2 speech-to-text API. With this release, Deepgram offers developers a complete voice AI platform, giving them the essential building blocks they need – from transcription to sentiment analysis to voice synthesis – to build high throughput, real-time AI agents of the future.
https://deepgram.com/learn/aura-text-to-speech-tts-api-voice-ai-agents-launch
]]>Since 2006, Apache Wicket has been a go-to framework for elegant, responsive, and simple HTML pages that are well suited for web designers seeking to test the applications they are building. By leveraging the latest features of Java 17 and the specifications of Jakarta Servlet, Apache Wicket 10.0 is a stable and mature framework for web and application developers seeking an efficient way to implement large codebases. Apache Wicket powers thousands of web applications and websites and is utilized worldwide. Apache Wicket 10.0 includes 20 new features, bug fixes and improvements while continuing to support the latest Java technologies. Key highlights of Apache Wicket 10.0 include:
https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache-software-foundation-announces-apache-wicket-v10
]]>Foxit PDF Editor Suite users can now leverage Smart PDF Commands, a new feature designed to streamline document processing workflows. Smart Commands supports over 80 pre-defined actions, including the ability to create and edit PDFs from various sources including images, text files, and webpages as well as combining files, organizing documents and managing forms. Foxit PDF Editor Suite users can easily type in PDF commands to efficiently accomplish tasks like page navigation, document orientation and page extraction.
The enhancements to Foxit PDF Editor Suite also include increased functionality of its ChatGPT-based AI Assistant such as: Automated Summarization, Accelerated Information Retrieval, Effortless Content Search, Chat and Interact, Define and Clarify, Enhance Writing, Fix Spelling and Grammar, and Translate Text and Documents.
The AI Assistant and Smart PDF Commands integrate into both the Foxit PDF Editor Suite’s Desktop application and Cloud product providing a consistent and user-friendly experience regardless of your preferred work environment.
]]>Designed to serve the needs of publishers, marketing, social media, HR, and communications professionals, the editing functionality is designed for anyone to use, helping all users leverage its full potential, regardless of their level of video expertise. Brightcove’s web-based video editor allows customers to create content from start to finish within the streaming platform. customers can:
https://www.brightcove.com/en/company/press/brightcove-launches-web-based-video-editor/
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