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DynamoDB 10 years later
Amazon DynamoDB was introduced 10 years ago today; one of its key contributors reflects on its origins, and discusses the 'never-ending journey' to make DynamoDB more secure, more available and more performant.
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20B-parameter Alexa model sets new marks in few-shot learning
With an encoder-decoder architecture — rather than decoder only — the Alexa Teacher Model excels other large language models on few-shot tasks such as summarization and machine translation.
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Why Alexa won't wake up when hearing "Alexa" in Amazon's Super Bowl ad (2019)
This Sunday's Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams is expected to draw more than 100 million viewers, some of whom will have Alexa-enabled devices within range of their TV speakers. When Amazon's new Alexa ad airs, and Forest Whitaker asks his Alexa-enabled electric…