Meta's Inside the lab & Nvidia's GTC Spring

Last week, Meta came up with their first conference detailing their progress of the metaverse after the major rebranding from Facebook. The virtual event?‘Inside the lab: Building for the metaverse with AI’ was held on February 23 at 10:30 PM (IST). Here's?what we expected from the event>>

We covered some of the?key announcements from Meta’s Inside the Lab event>>

CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Project CAIRaoke , a fully end-to-end neural model for building on-device assistants, at Meta’s first virtual event since the rebranding.

Here's the?video snippet on key annoucements>>

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What to expect at NVIDIA GTC Spring 2022

NVIDIA GTC is the platform where the company usually likes to showcase products and technologies that take the tech space by storm. GTC 2022 will be held from March 21 to March 24.?

Jensen Huang will give his keynote speech on March 22 at 8 am PST (4 pm CET).??Let us look at a few other things?we expect NVIDIA to come out with in GTC 2022 .

Also:?NVIDIA GTC 2021: What We Predicted Vs What Actually Happened

+?Latest Technology Innovation To Watch Out For At NVIDIA GTC 2021

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Swiss Re – How innovation and collaboration is creating a ‘Smarter Together’ culture

With offices in over 25 countries, Zurich-headquartered Swiss Re is one of the largest reinsurers in the world.?Swiss Re is strategically positioned to leverage its AI and analytics capabilities ?to drive better business results for its customer and businesses across the globe.

Swiss Re is leveraging scalable technology platforms to streamline internal processes. It also focuses on evaluating the fairness and other aspects of Responsible AI to be future-ready.

Also:?How the world’s largest brewer AB InBev is changing the back-end finance operations with AI

+?Enter the new era of automation with AI in RPA – In conversation with UiPath MVPs

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Council Posts

These articles are written by members of the AIM Leaders Council. AIM Leaders Council is an invitation-only forum of senior executives in the Data Science and Analytics industry. To check if you are eligible for a membership, please fill the form?here .

+?Individual artificial intelligence is the future of AI ?by?Anish Agarwal

+?AI-fication of macroeconomics lead to better solutions? ?by?Indrajit Mitra

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Large tech firms and the language models they associate with

Language models have been the talk of the AI town for the past couple of years.

While Google’s BERT was one of the first large language models with 100 million parameters, today, we have large language models built by big tech companies ranging in trillions of parameters.

Analytics India Magazine has listed?all the big tech companies and their biggest language models .

Also:?Microsoft, NVIDIA test waters for a large-scale generative language model with promising results

+?The Controversy Behind Microsoft-NVIDIA’s Megatron-Turing Scale

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Featured Video:?Inside Yulu's data science team

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Hands-on Guides for ML Developers

+?How to use Torchbearer for fitting ML models with PyTorch?

+?A Hands-on Guide to JoyPy for drawing interactive Joyplots

+?How to perform Named Entity Recognition (NER) using a transformer?

+?How can times series forecasting be done using random forest?

+?A guide to document embeddings using Distributed Bag-of-Words (DBOW) model

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People & Startups

+?We need social scientists, lawyers, ethicists to work with data scientists to build responsible AI applications: Arunima Sarkar, Lead AI, WEF

+?Talking Ethical AI with Ram Narasimhan, Global Head AI and Cognitive services, Xebia

+?We want to be the torchbearer of SaaS-based healthcare technology in India: Punit Singh Soni, Suki AI

+?Women need to talk about their achievements in a louder voice: Satyavathi Divadari, Head of Enterprise Security Architecture, Micro Focus

+?Exclusive: How these Indian researchers used AI to detect exoplanets

+?Icertis CTO Monish Darda on how metaverse will transform SaaS in India

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Data science hiring process at Sabre

At Sabre, data science is an integral part of product algorithms and the consulting business.?The Sabre data science team consists of 50+ data scientists ?who are focused on the airline solutions side of their business.

They help the company deliver better value to their customers, improve product and service offerings, identify key market trends, generate consumer insights, and reduce time-to-market. Besides this, data science also helps them harness the power of data to derive insights that define strategic organisational decisions.

Also:?Data science hiring process at Khatabook

+?Data Science Hiring Process At Myntra

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Why AutoML sucks?

Today, there are several players in the AutoML market, including tech giants, startups, and open-source solution providers. Some of them include Google Cloud AutoML, DataRobot, Darwin, and H20.ai.

But the question is,?are companies really using AutoML? If yes, what are the use cases? If not, what is stopping businesses from using AutoML?

Also:?Emerging trends in low-code/no-code platforms in AI

+?Alas, Google Wins The AutoML Race

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BOTTOM OF THE NEWS

Here's what all happened last week.

+?Tech Mahindra launches online AWS course called re/Start

+?Intel updates AI developer toolkit OpenVINO for higher inferencing performance

+?IIT-Jodhpur launches online PGDM course in data engineering and cloud computing

+?Now a dedicated GPT for the financial industry

+?IIM Bangalore placements: How did the analytics sector fare?