Source: www.globest.com These are the high holy days of the commercial real estate brokerage community. So said a speaker at a CRE event two years ago that was attended by Blaine Strickland, principal of HBS Resources. The comments struck a chord because the speaker went on to say that it is unclear how long this Read More
Source: eletimes.com In today’s global manufacturing sector, there are a few main ways in which AI is deployed along with robotics. AI is a highly useful tool in robotic assembly applications. When combined with advanced vision systems, AI can help with real-time course correction, which is particularly useful in complex manufacturing sectors like aerospace. AI Read More
Source: mit.edu Over the last century, scientists have developed methods to map the structures within the Earth’s crust, in order to identify resources such as oil reserves, geothermal sources, and, more recently, reservoirs where excess carbon dioxide could potentially be sequestered. They do so by tracking seismic waves that are produced naturally by earthquakes or Read More
Source: sdtimes.com The benefits of microservices over monolithic architectures are undeniable, but they don’t always come to fruition. Deven Phillips, a senior consulting engineer at Red Hat, explained while microservices accelerate delivery speeds, improve quality and reduce costs, it doesn’t happen instantly and it doesn’t provide a clear path to those results. “The major problem is that Read More
Source: yourstory.com Chethan KR and Ashish Koushik were working together at MSys Technologies, an IT services firm, where they helped large product companies and enterprises with digital transformation. They realised that though these companies aligned towards automation, cloud analytics, and machine learning, they were not ready for artificial intelligence (AI). Some of the challenges the Read More
Source: phys.org Applying deep learning to seismic data has revealed tremor and slip occur at all times—before and after known large-scale slow-slip earthquakes—rather than intermittently in discrete bursts, as previously believed. Even more surprisingly, the machine learning generalizes to other tectonic environments, including the San Andreas Fault. “The work tells us that the physics of Read More
Source: vaticannews.va Technological advancements in the field of medicine point to a projected increase in the integration of AI in the management and provision of healthcare. One open question in the field is how to accompany this important phenomenon with ethical guidance. Prof. Maria Chiara Carrozza, an Italian industrial bioengineer at the Santa’Anna School of Read More
Source: msdynamicsworld.com Hybrid cloud—environments that blend public and private cloud—are a central part of the modern IT landscape, particularly as organizations of all sizes work to incorporate legacy systems into future-looking digital strategies and while meeting regulatory requirements. Although well-established, hybrid cloud is often poorly understood by IT departments, CIOs and partners, and its long-term Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net Popular expressions, for example, “artificial intelligence”, “machine learning” and “Big Data” have without question become a significant topic in the present tech scene and they are digging in for the long-term. However, the advancement power behind Artificial Intelligence and its related perspectives have additionally discovered its way to the core phase of our Read More
Source: analyticsindiamag.com Data is the new oil for businesses, and therefore data science has emerged to be arguably one of the most preferred jobs of this decade. Data science is a competitive weapon and businesses of all sizes have been scrambling to find top talents. Therefore, the demand for data scientists is way higher than Read More
Source: thehill.com One of the few areas of agreement between Democrats and Republicans in Congress is the need to regulate the tech sector, and in particular large platforms like Facebook and Google that dominate the online ecosystem. Yet there are several obstacles to successful regulation, including resistance from tech companies themselves. This resistance takes many Read More
Source: deccanherald.com With the ease of access to the internet and mobile phones, people are embracing digital life than ever before. Now, users can hail a cab, transfer money, order food and do other stuff with just a few clicks on a handset’s screen, but you need to have an email ID to avail such Read More
Source: analyticsindiamag.com AI research startup DeepMind has now open-sourced new libraries for neural networks and reinforcement learning based on JAX. JAX is a numerical computing library launched by Google a couple of years ago, and can automatically differentiate native Python and NumPy functions. JAX uses XLA (Accelerated Linear Algebra) to compile and run your NumPy programs Read More
Source: phoneswiki.com At the moment, it is difficult to say whether Epic would follow the same plan for Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 as it has done earlier. The first season for Fortnite Chapter 2 was longer than usual and made some changes to the game. The second season arrived only a few days ago, and news Read More
Source: venturebeat.com In self-supervised learning — an AI technique where the training data is automatically labeled by a feature extractor — the extractor can exploit low-level features (known as “shortcuts”) that cause it to ignore useful representations. In search of a technique that might help remove these shortcuts autonomously, researchers at Google Brain developed a framework — Read More
Source: it.toolbox.com OpsRamp, a SaaS platform for discovery, monitoring, management, and automation of modern digital hybrid infrastructure, announced OpsQ, a capability for first response and incident remediation. OpsQ uses predictive analysis to reduce resolution time. OpsQ also houses AIOps, which is the AI for IT operations. AIOps provides transparency into machine learning-driven decisions. The release Read More
Source: healthitanalytics.com February 26, 2020 – The Department of Defense (DoD) has adopted a series of ethical principles for the use of artificial intelligence following recommendations made by the Defense Innovation Board last October. The recommendations came after 15 months of discussion among leading AI experts in commercial industry, government, academia, and the American public, which resulted in thorough Read More
Source: Distributing malware by attaching tainted documents to emails is one of the oldest tricks in the book. It’s not just a theoretical risk—real attackers use malicious documents to infect targets all the time. So on top of its anti-spam and anti-phishing efforts, Gmail expanded its malware detection capabilities at the end of last year to include more tailored Read More
Source: Roybi, the maker of a pill-shaped robot to teach language and math skills to young children, has acquired additional technology to power its educational features. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company has acquired the KidSense artificial intelligence engine developed by Kadho. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Based in Irvine, Calif., Kadho has spent Read More
Source: enterprisersproject.com How often do you now casually converse with a black (or white) box of some sort? Natural language processing (NLP) has become an integral part of our daily lives: Whether we’re asking our smartphone for directions or engaging with Alexa or Google, NLP and its sub-categories are hard at work behind the scenes, translating our Read More
Source: zdnet.com Artificial intelligence, for all its benefits, needs human oversight. Government reports, and experts all over the world have stressed the importance of keeping a human decision-maker in the loop when using AI. “Human agency and oversight” is the first key requirement laid out in the EU Commission’s white paper on the regulation of AI published Read More
Source: indiaeducationdiary.in New Delhi: Digital loans and savings company Shubh Loans has announced the appointment of Dr. Venkatesh Madyastha as the Chief Data Scientist. Venkatesh is a data scientist with 13+ years of experience in research and data analysis. Before joining Shubh Loans, he was a principal data scientist with the data science R&D team Read More
Source: pharmanewsintel.com February 24, 2020 – With the prevalence of antibiotic resistance rapidly rising, a new study published in Cell is offering a more efficient, cost-efficient strategy for antibiotic discovery using machine learning. There is an innate need to discover new antibiotics due to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. And antibiotics have become the cornerstone of modern medicine since the discovery Read More
Source: indiaeducationdiary.in New Delhi: Great Learning, India’s leading EdTech company for working professionals has launched a new program, the Data Science Fellows Program, aimed at providing unmatched learning and career outcomes to students and recent alumni (graduated less than 3 years ago) from the top 150 engineering colleges in the country. This competitive, seven-month program Read More
Google researchers use multiple cameras to reduce error rates for robot insertion and stacking tasks
Source: venturebeat.com Object-manipulating robots rely on cameras to make sense of the world around them, but these cameras often require careful installation and ongoing calibration and maintenance. A new study published by researchers at Google’s Robotics division and Columbia University proposes a solution, which involves a technique that learns to accomplish tasks using multiple color cameras without Read More
Source: tahawultech.com Sophia, the world’s first humanoid robot citizen, is set to speak at a specialised professional forum of internal auditors in Dubai. The event, which will be held on 12th to 14th April 2020 at the Dubai World Trade Centre, will see Sophia conduct a session “AI in the Internal Audit Profession” on the Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net Historically, commercial real estate (CRE) intelligence has been passed down from person to person, either through a brokerage company or a corporate structure. While this seems to be working, for now, the future that we can foresee for the CRE industry includes a combination of this human intelligence and technology-based systems. The blending of these Read More
Source: Dr Marc Warner is chief executive and co-founder of AI company Faculty, and a member of both the Digital Economic Advisory Council and the AI Council. But as Britain sets its own course on everything from immigration to fishing, there is one area where the battle for influence is only just kicking off: the Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Defenses against adversarial attacks, which in the context of AI refer to techniques that fool models through malicious input, are increasingly being broken by “defense-aware” attacks. In fact, most state-of-the-art methods claiming to detect adversarial attacks have been counteracted shortly after their publication. To break the cycle, researchers at the University of California, Read More
Source: eletimes.com Over 40% of privacy compliance technology will rely on artificial intelligence (AI) by 2023, up from 5% today, according to Gartner, Inc. “Privacy laws, such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), presented a compelling business case for privacy compliance and inspired many other jurisdictions worldwide to follow,” said Bart Willemsen, research vice president Read More