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Source: pcquest.com Data is the new oil. While there is a huge amount of data being generated across industries and applications, the hard part is manipulating and making sense of it. Every organization needs someone to analyse this data, to be able to make better decisions—and this is where a data scientist comes into the Read More
Source: hindustantimes.com Microsoft and AI software provider, C3.ai have partnered with a bunch of US-based universities including to form a research consortium that is focused on innovative efforts to advance the digital transformation of business, government, and society. The consortium, which also includes educational institutes like the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Read More
Source: gadgets.ndtv.com On December 30, researchers using artificial intelligence systems to comb through media and social platforms detected the spread of an unusual flu-like illness in Wuhan, China. It would be days before the World Health Organization released a risk assessment and a full month before the UN agency declared a global public health emergency Read More
Source: healthitanalytics.com March 25, 2020 – Using machine learning algorithms, two data scientists are working to quickly discover effective treatments for COVID-19. Andrew Satz and Brett Averso, graduates of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University, have launched a startup called EVQLV that creates algorithms capable of computationally generating, screening, and optimizing hundreds of millions of therapeutic antibodies. Using Read More
Source: aithority.com Data Science has quickly become a buzzword and popular career course in the last few years but the ideas that make up this field have been around for almost 3 centuries. According to John Foreman, VP of Product Management at MailChimp “Data Scientists are kind of like the new Renaissance folks, because Data Science is inherently multidisciplinary.” The Read More
Source: eponline.com Data has quickly become one of the most valuable resources for any organization. New tools and data-collection schemes have made it possible to gather and analyze massive sets of data—dubbed “big data.” These data sets allow us to discover patterns and relationships that we couldn’t have found with traditional approaches. One area being Read More
Source: winbuzzer.com Since the COVID-19 outbreak started in in January, we have seen many tech events cancelled or converted to virtual conferences. Form Mobile World Conference (MWC) being cancelled and Microsoft’s Build 2020 heading online, tech events have taken a beating. Among them was NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC), which went virtual. The conference is Read More
Source: technologynetworks.com A simulation system invented at MIT to train driverless cars creates a photorealistic world with infinite steering possibilities, helping the cars learn to navigate a host of worse-case scenarios before cruising down real streets. Control systems, or “controllers,” for autonomous vehicles largely rely on real-world datasets of driving trajectories from human drivers. From Read More
Source: jaxenter.com Developers and their applications are the backbone of organisations across the world. But in recent years, large scale security breaches have put data protection at the forefront for product development teams. With the likes of the GDPR now in place, security must be a priority. So who is stepping up to take responsibility for the Read More
Source: What’s worse than bumping into your co-worker with coffee-in-hand? Maybe bumping into a roaming robot, but Google and the University of California, Berkely researchers are using artificial intelligence to help avoid this embarrassing scenario. Per a Venture Beat article, “autonomous robot navigation has the potential to enable many critical robot applications, from service robots that Read More
Source: ameinfo.com If we were to strip away artificial intelligence (AI) from the world as we know it today, I’m not convinced humans would know how to cope with work and life. Let’s consider some likely scenarios. Without AI, there’d be no Waze or Google Maps to show us where to go. There would be Read More
Source: legalcheek.com In new research delving beyond the PR-driven puffery, Oxford profs found that 27% of respondents used AI-based tech for “legal research” tasks, 16% for “due diligence” exercises, and just 12% for “e-discovery/e-disclosure/technology assisted review”. Half of those surveyed said they received some lawtech training within the past three years, with the most common type Read More
Source: crn.com.au Deloitte has acquired Brisbane-based data analytics and financial performance management specialist Bistech for an unspecified sum. Bistech will join Deloitte’s data analytics team in Brisbane, with Bistech co-owners Shane Morgan, Justin Hoareau and Brad Culbert in leadership roles. All 17 consultants will also join Deloitte. “We’re incredibly excited and pleased to be joining Read More
Source: siliconangle.com Researchers at Google have open-sourced a new framework that can scale up artificial intelligence model training across thousands of machines. It’s a promising development because it should enable AI algorithm training to be performed at millions of frames per second while reducing the costs of doing so by as much as 80%, Google noted in Read More
Source: outlookindia.com New York, March 24 (IANS) Researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to detect Vietnam War-era bomb craters in Cambodia from satellite images – with the hope that it can help find unexploded bombs in near future. The new method increased true bomb crater detection by more than 160 per cent over standard methods, Read More
Source: pandaily.com Beijing based AI startup Megvii announced today that it will open source its deep learning framework MegEngine. The open sourced framework will allow global developers to create AI solutions for industrial and commercial scenarios and foster an ecosystem around Megvii’s new generation AI productivity platform, Brain++. Initially developed in 2014 and now in Read More
Source: venturebeat.com In a study published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Google and University of California, Berkely researchers propose a framework that combines learning-based perception with model-based controls to enable wheeled robots to autonomously navigate around obstacles. They say it generalizes well to avoiding unseen buildings and humans in both simulation and real-world environments and that it Read More
Source: it.toolbox.com More than a decade ago, VMware moved its virtualization software for cloud computing into a separate product family. Now, the Silicon Valley company is taking another major step: deploying container tech and tools to ease cloud migrations. The NYSE-listed subsidiary of Dell EMC is touting the seventh iteration of its vSphere platform as Read More
Source: iotforall.com A paper published by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, San Francisco research firm OpenAI, Facebook AI Research, the University of California at Berkeley, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University describes a paradigm that scales up multi-agent reinforcement learning, where AI models learn by having agents interact within an environment such that the agent population increases in Read More
Source: healthitanalytics.com March 24, 2020 – Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) have developed a portable surveillance tool that leverages machine learning and real-time data to monitor flu-like illnesses and flu patterns. The device, called FluSense, can detect coughing sounds and crowd size in real time, and could add to the collection of tools used to Read More
Source: techxplore.com To effectively interact with their surrounding environment, robots should be able to identify characteristics of different objects just by touching them, like humans do. This would allow them to get hold of and manage objects more efficiently, using feedback gathered by sensors to adjust their grasp and manipulation strategies. With this in mind, Read More
Source: towardsdatascience.com The following is based on my observations of machine learning teams — not an academic survey of the industry. For context, I’m a contributor to Cortex, an open source platform for deploying models in production. This March, Starsky Robotics—the popular autonomous trucking startup—announced they would be shutting down. In his post-mortem, founder Stefan Seltz-Axmacher explained Read More
Source: hackernoon.com When envisioning pop culture, depending on what generation you might be born into, the perceptions range from HAL 9000’s glowing Red Eye from 2001 to Ava from Ex-Machina. However, the most modern concept of pop culture comes hand in hand with artificial intelligence. To make the experience wholesome, we look at artificial intelligence Read More
Source: helpnetsecurity.com Python backdoor attacks are increasingly common. Iran, for example, used a MechaFlounder Python backdoor attack against Turkey last year. Scripting attacks are nearly as common as malware-based attacks in the United States and, according to the most recent Crowdstrike Global Threat Report, scripting is the most common attack vector in the EMEA region. Python’s Read More
Source: devclass.com Google AI researchers have looked into ways of making reinforcement learning scale better and improve computational efficiency. The result is called SEED RL and can now be explored via GitHub. SEED stands for scalable, efficient, deep reinforcement learning and describes a “modern RL agent that scales well, is flexible and efficiently utilises available Read More
Source: techwireasia.com Business intelligence (BI) is nothing new to enterprises that have been relying on data processing and analysis to deliver insightful reports that reflect business performance. These tools are a great match for enterprises that value the data their operations generate. BI software and programs work together to turn data into actionable insights that can Read More
Source: rcpmag.com Microsoft recently described the ways in which its artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning offerings, as well as its Azure cloud, are being used by researchers and other public health groups responding to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In one collaboration announced Friday, Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. and Microsoft are using Azure to map the immune Read More
Source: geospatialworld.net We are witnessing the impact of evolving technology on multiple levels: data collection, analysis, storage, output representation. The cutting-edge collection techniques can gather much more data than ever before at the fastest rates possible. Not just the same data we once obtained, but data sets that now include new metrics such as color, intensity, even temperature. LIDAR data, for Read More
Source: news.mit.edu A simulation system invented at MIT to train driverless cars creates a photorealistic world with infinite steering possibilities, helping the cars learn to navigate a host of worse-case scenarios before cruising down real streets. Control systems, or “controllers,” for autonomous vehicles largely rely on real-world datasets of driving trajectories from human drivers. Read More
Source: nextplatform.com (Sponsored Content) HPC workloads are rapidly moving to the cloud. Market sizing from HPC analyst firm Hyperion Research shows a dramatic 60 percent rise in cloud spending from just under $2.5 billion in 2018 to approximately $4 billion in 2019 and projects HPC cloud revenue will reach $7.4 billion in 2023, a 24.6 percent compound annual Read More
