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[Andy Jassy @ajassy]

Tuesday’s musings from #AWSreInvent.

[Lihong Li @LihongLi20]

Amazon Rufus is an expert shopping assistant powered by GenAI. We’re hiring LLM/RL talents to work on an array of intellectually challenging science questions. Come join us in this exciting (and fun) adventure!

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

Overleafing with your coauthors

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@manningcics @manasa_k_ @ubicomp Congrats @manasa_k_ !

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@manasa_k_ @ubicomp @TRahmanRifat Congratulations!!!

[Amazon @amazon]

“Alexa, talk large language models to me.”😉Our latest LLM has been significantly optimized for voice and the things we know our customers love — like having access to real-time information, efficiently controlling your smart home, and getting the most out of home entertainment.

[Amazon @amazon]

Coming to you live from our 2023 Devices & Services Event at Amazon’s HQ2 in Arlington, Virginia, where AI takes center stage. There's so much new, cool stuff we have to share – we're so excited for how these updates will improve our customers' everyday lives. Let’s get into it. ⬇️

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@kalpeshk2011 @MohitIyyer @andrewmccallum @HamedZamani @YejinChoinka @Google Congratulations!

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@mjasimcs @nargesmahyar @hci_vis @ali_sarvghad @MohitIyyer @SheelaghCarp Congratulations man!!! 🎉🎉

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@limufar Congratulations!! 🎉🎊

[Delip Rao e/σ @deliprao]

PhD should be called RLAF. (Reinforcement Learning with Advisor Feedback)

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@whybansal @imkelvinxu @AnthropicAI Do you have that Google form link somewhere?

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@aditimavalankar @DeepMind Congratulations! :D

[Akanksha Atrey @akanksha_atrey]

On a new note, I’m on the job market for summer 2023! Looking for industrial research positions in ML, distributed systems, edge computing and/or privacy. If you or someone you know is looking for a candidate, please let me know!

#jobmarket #phdgrad #AcademicTwitter

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@pshenoy @akanksha_atrey Congratulations @akanksha_atrey ! 🥳🥳

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@Adam_D_Cobb @StarHistoryHQ 🥳🥳

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Here's a picture with my amazing committee: Ben Marlin (advisor), Deepak Ganesan, @MajiSubhransu , and @andrewgwils !

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Some news: Earlier this week, I successfully defended my PhD thesis, bringing an end to my almost five years here at UMass! Grateful to everyone who has been a part of this journey - my family, friends, advisor, committee, collaborators, and everyone else.

[alewkowycz @alewkowycz]

Very excited to present Minerva🦉: a language model capable of solving mathematical questions using step-by-step natural language reasoning.
Combining scale, data and others dramatically improves performance on the STEM benchmarks MATH and MMLU-STEM. https://t.co/bQJOyMSCD4