Source: siliconangle.com Google LLC today launched an enterprise version of TensorFlow, the popular open-source artificial intelligence framework it created to run machine learning, deep learning and other statistical and predictive analytics workloads. The TensorFlow framework simplifies the process of acquiring data, training models, serving predictions and refining future results. Common use cases include training algorithms for image Read More
Month: October 2019
Source: venturebeat.com Newark, New Jersey-based Duality Technologies, a provider of privacy-enhancing data science solutions, today announced that it’s raised $16 million in a series A round led by Intel Capital, with participation from Hearst Ventures and existing investor Team 8. Duality previously raised $4 million in a November 2018 round, which together with this latest Read More
Source: artificialintelligence-news.com Google has issued several updates for its Cloud AI Platform which aims to make it ‘faster and more flexible’ for running machine learning workloads. Cloud AI Platform is Google’s machine learning platform-as-a-service (ML PaaS) designed for AI developers, engineers, and data scientists. The platform is end-to-end and supports the full development cycle from Read More
Source: aithority.com There’s an old saying in the Artificial Intelligence community: once software starts working people stop calling it AI. You could make the argument that the opposite has taken place during the last ~6 years of the neural network renaissance with Machine Learning researchers returning to the term AI as the old stigma of exaggerated hype wears off. Read More
Source: business-standard.com In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the Tamil Nadu government is working on a policy for safe and ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI). It will set certain parameters that will need to be fulfilled before rolling out AI-based solutions, especially for the government. According to a senior state government official, a policy on Blockchain is also expected to be released Read More
Source: searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com Days after Microsoft won the $10 billion JEDI contract over AWS, industry observers are still unpacking its ramifications and the forces that led to the Department of Defense’s surprise decision. “We’re surprised about this conclusion,” an AWS spokesperson said in a statement. “AWS is the clear leader in cloud computing, and a detailed assessment Read More
Source: nature.com Players of the science-fiction video game StarCraft II faced an unusual opponent this summer. An artificial intelligence (AI) known as AlphaStar — which was built by Google’s AI firm DeepMind — achieved a grandmaster rating after it was unleashed on the game’s European servers, placing within the top 0.15% of the region’s 90,000 players. The Read More
Source: Most companies remain in the research and development phase of AI implementation, and one reason why few have actual AI deployments is that data science teams are facing data shortages. Analysts agree that the more data you have, the better trained your models will be. So how does a data shortage factor in when Read More
Source: infoworld.com Engineers at Google have unveiled Dex, a prototype functional language designed for array processing. Array processing is a cornerstone of the math used in machine learning applications and other computationally intensive work. The chief goal for the Dex language, according to a paper released by Google researchers, is to allow programmers to work Read More
Source: hbr.org Like any new technology, artificial intelligence is capable of immensely good or bad outcomes. The public seems increasingly focused on the bad, especially when it comes to the potential for bias in AI. This concern is both well-founded and well-documented. But what is AI? It is the simulation of human processes by machines. Read More
Source: techxplore.com Researchers from the University of Houston have developed an artificial intelligence-based ozone forecasting system, which would allow local areas to predict ozone levels 24 hours in advance. That would improve health alerts for people at heightened risk of developing problems because of high ozone levels. Yunsoo Choi, associate professor in the Department of Earth Read More
Source: forbes.com Google announced updates to its Cloud AI Platform that enhance training and prediction capabilities of machine learning and deep learning models. Google Cloud AI Platform is an end-to-end machine learning platform as a service (ML PaaS) targeting data scientists, ML developers, and AI engineers. The Cloud AI Platform has services to tackle the lifecycle of Read More
Source: auckland.ac.nz The University will lead one of four successful bids under the initiative, set up to harness the benefits of advanced data science and ensure strong data science collaborations in New Zealand and internationally. The focus of the project, Beyond Prediction: explanatory and transparent data science for life and social sciences, is to develop new Read More
Source: thenextweb.com Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the free and open-source Firefox web browser, is partnering with Montreal-based artificial intelligence startup Element AI to push for ethical use of AI. To that effect, the two companies are exploring the idea of data trusts, a proposed data collection approach that aims to provide individuals with greater control over Read More
Source: dqindia.com IIT Hyderabad has invited online applications from students for a PhD program in its newly launched Department of Artificial Intelligence. The Department of Artificial Intelligence was launched earlier this year to offer BTech, MTech. and PhD programs, as well as a number of minor programs in artificial intelligence. The IT industry currently requires Read More
Source: scroll.in In this version of the future, people will still have a role working alongside smart systems: either the technology will not be good enough to take over completely, or the decisions will have human consequences that are too important to hand over completely to a machine. There’s just one problem: when humans and Read More
Source: bankinfosecurity.com Big data analytics and search tools give organizations the ability to analyze information faster than ever before. But too many organizations deploy Elasticsearch, Amazon S3 buckets, MongoDB and other cloud-based databases in a manner that leaves the data being stored exposed to the internet for anyone to see. That’s despite many of these tools explicitly Read More
Source: infoq.com Facebook AI Research (FAIR) has released Detectron2, a PyTorch-based computer vision library that brings a series of new research and production capabilities to the popular framework. Since its release in 2018, the original Detectron object detection platform has become one of FAIR’s most widely adopted open-source projects. While the first Detectron was written in Caffe2, Detectron2 represents Read More
Source: zdnet.com Today’s Earth scientists are spending less time standing in fields collecting soil samples, and more time behind a computer screen. Most geoscience data is automatically collected by sensors and satellites. The big challenge is making sense of all that data so that scientists can get back to what they do best: Observing the Read More
Source: timesleader.com Thanks to the information revolution, a stunning 90% of the data created by humanity has been generated in just the past two years. Yet the math taught in U.S. schools hasn’t materially changed since Sputnik was sent into orbit in the late 1950s. Our high school students are taught algebra, geometry, a second Read More
Source: inc.com The future is one of my favorite things to think about. The future holds potential and possibility. The ability to think about the future, imagine the possibilities and take action in the present moment is what separates successful people from others. In business, seeing the future can help you innovate and invest in that future. The Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt urged cooperation with Chinese scientists, warned against the threat of misinformation, and advised against overregulation by governments today in a broad-ranging speech about AI ethics and regulation of big tech companies. He also talked about conflict deterrence between nation-states in the age of AI and pondered how secretaries Read More
Source: techxplore.com Advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) are enabling the development of artificial agents designed to assist humans in a variety of everyday settings. One of the many possible uses for these systems could be to escort humans or valuable goods that are being transferred from one location to another, defending them from Read More
Source: theday.com What happens to artists when they have to answer to online polls? Two decades ago, widespread adoption of the Internet created a seismic shift in artistic industries. Piracy, file-sharing and other freely available content disrupted (and sometimes destroyed) dominant players in music, film and other creative trades. Now, we’re experiencing a sort of Read More
Source: syncedreview.com After running the industrial robot operating system startup “Cobot” for three years, founder Miao Li has decided to axe 98 percent of the company’s “fancy services” and just focus on drug logistics and sorting mushrooms. Although the countless pages of operating system manuals he’d produced represented an investment of over US$15 million, Miao Read More
Source: thespoon.tech Artificial intelligence (AI) is a vague, slightly tech-y term that is overused by marketing departments trying to show some bona fides. But if you want some real insights on what artificial intelligence is and what it can do, then you should check out these talks that Chris Satchell of Zume and Erik Andrejko Read More
Source: NEW DELHI: Beating frontrunner Amazon, Microsoft on Friday won the lucrative $10 billion Cloud-computing contract from the US Department of Defense known as “JEDI”, the short-form for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud project. Exactly a year ago — on October 25, 2018 — the software giant’s CEO Satya Nadella addressed ethical concerns surrounding Read More
Source: zdnet.com Melbourne-based gold producer Newcrest Mining, together with Microsoft and Insight Enterprises, has rolled out cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies at its underground Cadia Valley gold mine in New South Wales to monitor and manage crushed ore bin levels. The decision to deploy the monitoring technologies was made as Read More
Source: thejakartapost.com British billionaire Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways and a campaigner for LGBT+ rights, cannot be in all places at all times. Technology could soon change that. Uncannily familiar in appearance and voice, avatars of Branson and two human rights activists displayed on tablet devices were unveiled at a youth summit in Read More
Source: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au The rise of ‘deep learning’ has caused a lot of excitement around the revolutionary capabilities of these artificially intelligent agents. But it’s also raised fear and suspicion about what exactly is going on inside each algorithm. One way for us to gain some understanding of our silicon-based friends (or foes?) is for them Read More