Source: spglobal.com “Garbage in, garbage out” – it’s a cliché in machine learning circles. Anyone who works with artificial intelligence (AI) knows that the quality of the data goes a long way toward determining the quality of the result. But “garbage” is a broad and expanding category in data science – poorly labeled or inaccurate Read More
Source: simplilearn.com Many people fear that the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in any industry is going to eliminate their jobs. In healthcare, for instance, AI is already making a big splash in radiology. That’s deterring many students in medical school from pursuing a career in the field. But rather than eliminating the job of a radiologist, AI is Read More
Source:techrepublic.com Programmers and developers can tap into a variety of languages to build applications, websites, and other programs. Ultimately, your preferred language is going to be the one with which you’re most comfortable and that gets the job done most effectively. But one particular language emerged as the top choice in a study released in September by Read More
Source: financialexpress.com Google’s platform — Google Developers Launchpad to help startups grow will now support social impact startups in India. The platform has partnered with startup accelerator Social Alpha to help such startups with mentorship, tools, and methodologies for growing businesses. The tie-up will help the incubator develop learning programmes for startups based on information from a select Read More
Source: fastcompany.com The robot itself looks like if you crossed Honda’s Asimo with the glowing gamepad from Dance Dance Revolution. In other words, it’s your typical, white plastic humanoid robot, but with a twist. Built as part of new research out of the Technical University of Munich, the H-1 is the first robot in history to be covered Read More
Source: epsnews.com Autonomous cars have been recently hitting the headlines and dominating tech-talks. It’s seen as a post-Uber disruption to public commuting and transportation of goods. It is surely not a figment of imagination in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) which is being used to complement driverless cars. The combined might of AI and driverless Read More
Source: itproportal.com In recent years, UK businesses have invested billions in large scale digital transformation initiatives with a view to becoming more automated, efficient and agile. But in reality, not all of these digital bets have paid off. According to one study, 1 in 4 UK businesses have had a digital transformation project fail. As Read More
Source: fudzilla.com More than 76 percent of enterprise organisations are planning to rearchitect apps for microservices, according to a Forrester report. The Forester Research, backed by Ensonor and Wipro, found that enterprise adoption of microservices is continuing to increase as businesses transform themselves to compete in the digital era. The research found that 76 percent Read More
Source: neowin.net In May, Microsoft released the Robot Operating System for Windows 10 IoT Enterprise. In the same month, the tech giant also introduced IoT Plug and Play as part of its new intelligent edge offerings. More recently, a cross-Azure IoT collaboration with IoT Messaging was unveiled to simplify location and spatial intelligence usage. Today, during a keynote at CEATEC Read More
Source: nbc-2.com FORT MYERS, Fla. – Candidates running for political office in 2020 have the ability to track your phone without your knowledge. Their goal is to target you with ads and text messages to try to drive you to the polls. What many voters don’t realize is campaigns can now draw geo circles around Read More
Source: dpaonthenet.net The ultimate aim is to use this knowledge to design fly-like robots. “Just think about what a fly can do,” says Professor Pavan Ramdya, whose lab at EPFL’s Brain Mind Institute, with the lab of Professor Pascal Fua at EPFL’s Institute for Computer Science, led the study. “A fly can climb across terrain that a Read More
Source: venturebeat.com It’s often assumed that as the complexity of an AI system increases, it becomes invariably less interpretable. But researchers have begun to challenge that notion with libraries like Facebook’s Captum, which explains decisions made by neural networks with the deep learning framework PyTorch, as well as IBM’s AI Explainability 360 toolkit and Microsoft’s InterpretML. In a bid Read More
Source: news18.com Designers of machine translation tools still mostly rely on dictionaries to make a foreign language understandable. But now there is a new way: numbers. Facebook researchers say rendering words into figures and exploiting mathematical similarities between languages is a promising avenue, even if a universal communicator a la Star Trek remains a distant Read More
Source: techrepublic.com Electric scooters are invading America, with scooters from popular brands including Lime, Bird, Spin, Lyft, and Uber becoming commonplace in major city centers. These dockless scooters, which are controlled by mobile app, accounted for 45.8% of all micromobility trips in 2018; this number is significant, considering 84 million micromobility trips were taken in 2018 Read More
Source: forbes.com It’s been more than eight years since Facebook’s first data scientist told a Bloomberg reporter that “the best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” By the time the data scientist, Jeff Hammerbacher, delivered that infamous criticism in 2011, he was already a few years removed from the data team at Read More
Source: techrepublic.com Artificial intelligence (AI) not only helps businesses operate more efficiently, but also generates critical insights businesses use to improve. AI has proliferated through the enterprise, becoming a crucial component of successful businesses. This success fuels AI’s continued growth, with AI devices predicted to increase by 1.8 billion in the next five years, ABI Research Read More
Source: newswise.com Newswise — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Social media, cameras, sensors and more generate huge amounts of data that can overwhelm analysts sifting through it all for meaningful, actionable information to provide decision-makers such as political leaders and field commanders responding to security threats. Sandia National Laboratories researchers are working to lessen that burden by Read More
Source: techspot.com. The big picture: As trade tensions between China and the US continue to make headlines, Apple has found itself in the general conversation once again. Apparently, the company shares some data with a Chinese tech giant, which has led some to believe that it isn’t able to hold up to its high standards for Read More
Source: focustaiwan.tw Washington, Oct. 12 (CNA) Taiwan and the United States are considering sharing big data related to healthcare, to help facilitate medical research on both sides, Lee Po-chang , the head of Taiwan’s health insurance administration, said in Washington on Saturday. Lee said the American National Institutes of Health (NIH) is interested in the Read More
Source: dailymaverick.co.za South Africa’s overall investment in artificial intelligence (AI) over the last decade is significant, with around $1.6-billion invested to date. These investments have seen businesses experimenting with a range of different technologies, including chatbots, robotic process automation and advanced analytics. This is a welcome reminder that fears about AI, automation and the impact Read More
Source: financialexpress.com Artificial Intelligence has begun to enter every spectrum of business and every day life. We have started experiencing transformation in travel, entertainment, shopping, food delivery, banking, learning, personal assistants, to name a few. In many of these examples, AI is playing assistive, augmentative or sometimes, autonomous force. Competitive forces impacted by AI are Read More
Source: venturebeat.com In an interview with AVSIM, the head of Microsoft’s upcoming Microsoft Flight Simulator stated that the team will “try our darnedest” to add VR support. Last week, we reported on Microsoft telling YouTubers at their preview event that the sim will not support VR at launch, but “maybe” later on. Microsoft Flight Simulator was announced at E3 Read More
source: tech.africa Microsoft South Africa has announced the availability of Python support in Azure Functions for South Africans. This means that developers can now build their serverless functions using Python 3.6, based on the open-source and cross-platform Functions 2.0 runtime, and publish to a Linux-based hosting platform in Azure. This ensures an end-to-end experience for Read More
Source: ventsmagazine.com There has been quite a speculation about artificial intelligence and machine learning, but Artificial Intelligence has an overkill of data, opening new doors to technology. Though the two terms Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning are always together, several people are unaware of the difference between the two. Therefore, let us kick off with the example Read More
Source: devops.com Enterprise adoption of microservices is continuing to rise. Its popularity is so strong that 86% of development professionals internationally expect microservices to become the default application architecture within the next five years. Looking out even longer, nearly all professionals see microservices becoming their company’s default application architecture. At its core, a microservice approach centers Read More
Source: neowin.net Dark matter and dark energy have been the subject of study for cosmologists and physicists who are striving the understand the world around us in its entirety. The composition of the universe is an age-old inquiry that these researchers have probed into. And while we do have estimates of the likely percentages of Read More
Source: theguardian.com Artificial intelligence is on a par with human experts when it comes to making medical diagnoses based on images, a review has found. The potential for artificial intelligence in healthcare has caused excitement, with advocates saying it will ease the strain on resources, free up time for doctor-patient interactions and even aid the development of Read More
Source: redmondmag.com Azure Sentinel, Microsoft’s cloud-based security information and event management (SIEM) solution, has reached the “general availability” release stage, Microsoft announced on Tuesday. The solution had been at the preview stage back in February, but now it’s deemed ready by Microsoft for commercial use. Microsoft worked with its partners to fine-tune Azure Sentinel, and got “feedback Read More
Source: itproportal.com The insights gained from Big Data analytics can be incredibly valuable to a business. Yet, every new data stream creates a new potential attack vector, making classic perimeter defences obsolete and leaving the organisation vulnerable. In the past, data security executives and data scientists had to choose between analytics and security but now Read More