reader comments 68 with 52 posters participating Share this story December has been a rough month for Amazon—at least for Amazon Web Services. The massively popular cloud computing platform suffered its third outage of the month Wednesday, affecting Slack, the Epic Games Store, and several other services. The AWS Service Health Dashboard shows the problem… Read More: AWS suffers third outage of the month »
reader comments 57 with 26 posters participating, including story author Share this story Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories We’ve spent the past few weeks burning copious amounts of AWS compute time trying to invent an algorithm to parse Ars’ front-page story headlines to predict which ones will win an A/B test—and we learned… Read More: Sean Gallagher and an AI expert talk today about our… »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 78 with 65 posters participating Share this story Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories We may have bitten off more than we could chew, folks. An Amazon engineer told me that when he heard what I was trying to do with Ars headlines, the first thing he… Read More: Ars AI headline experiment finale—we came, we saw, we used… »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 79 with 57 posters participating, including story author Share this story Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories We’re in phase three of our machine-learning project now—that is, we’ve gotten past denial and anger, and we’re now sliding into bargaining and depression. I’ve been tasked with using Ars… Read More: Our AI headline experiment continues: Did we break the machine? »
Enlarge / Turning the lens on ourselves, as it were. reader comments 63 with 43 posters participating, including story author Share this story Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories There’s a moment in any foray into new technological territory when you realize you may have embarked on a Sisyphean task. Staring at the multitude… Read More: Feeding the machine: We give an AI some headlines and… »
Enlarge / A person browsing Parler in early January, before the site got into a fight with AWS. reader comments 84 with 56 posters participating Share this story Social media platform Parler has dropped a federal lawsuit alleging that Amazon colluded with Twitter to drive a rival offline—but in its place, the platform has filed… Read More: Parler sues Amazon (again), claims AWS ban sank a billion-dollar… »
reader comments 92 with 60 posters participating Share this story Amazon is rolling out cheap new tools that will allow factories everywhere to monitor their workers and machines, as the tech giant looks to boost its presence in the industrial sector. Launched by Amazon’s cloud arm AWS, the new machine-learning-based services include hardware to monitor… Read More: Amazon to roll out tools to monitor factory workers and… »