Source: solutionsreview.com Analyst house Gartner, Inc. recently released the 2020 version of its Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. Gartner defines this software space as enabling “expert data scientists, citizen data scientists and application developers to create, deploy and manage their own advanced analytic models.” The market is seeing rapid changeover as vendors incorporate Read More
Source: startupbeat.com ClouDhiti today announces the launch of its AI Apps with the aim to empower online retailers, especially small and medium businesses (SMBs), with AI capabilities. With these five new apps, all available on the ClouDhiti Marketplace, SMBs don’t have to hire expensive technical developers or buy software that they don’t understand nor know how to Read More
Source: rtinsights.com One of the great promises of continuous intelligence (CI) is in its ability to provide decision support (augmenting the work of a human) or decision automation in reaction to real-time events. To realize the benefits CI can deliver in such applications requires predictive analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that derive actionable information. Read More
Source: aithority.com Gartner has recognized SAS as a Leader in its 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. The report evaluated SAS for its completeness of vision and ability to execute. This is the seventh consecutive year for SAS to be recognized as a Leader in this Magic Quadrant. “Machine learning, and more broadly Read More
Source: unite.ai A new study led by researchers at Linköping University demonstrates how an artificial neural network (ANN) can reveal large amounts of gene expression data, and it can lead to the discovery of groups of disease-related genes. The study was published in Nature Communications, and the scientists want the method to be applied within precision medicine and individualized Read More
Source: techrepublic.com Tech education firm O’Reilly has released its annual study of how students used its platform in the past year, and its findings deserve attention from tech decision makers. The report, which combines both usage and search data from O’Reilly’s online learning platform, paints an excellent picture of what’s trending in the tech world. By looking at Read More
Source: analyticsindiamag.com From microelectronics to mechanics and machine learning, the modern-day robots are a marvel of multiple engineering disciplines. They use sensors, image processing and reinforcement learning algorithms to move the objects around and move around the obstacles as well. However, this is not the case when it comes to handling objects such as glass. Read More
Source: bu.edu Craving a bite out of a freshly grilled ballpark frank? Two robots named Jaco and Baxter can serve one up. Boston University engineers have made a jump in using machine learning to teach robots to perform complex tasks, a framework that could be applied to a host of tasks, like identifying cancerous spots Read More
Source: zdnet.com Alphabet’s Google unit is trying out artificial intelligence programs to advance its internal development of dedicated chips to accelerate its software, according to Google’s head of AI research, Jeff Dean. “We are using it internally for a few chip design projects,” said Dean in an interview with ZDNet Monday, following a keynote talk he gave at the Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Reinforcement learning, which spurs AI to complete goals using rewards or punishments, is a form of training that’s led to gains in robotics, speech synthesis, and more. Unfortunately, it’s data-intensive, which motivated research teams — one from Google Brain (one of Google’s AI research divisions) and the other from Alphabet’s DeepMind — to prototype more Read More
Source: ciodive.com Like Spartan arrows blocking out the sun, imagine a slew of cyberattacks hitting a company’s defenses. Each attempt to breach through the gates symbolizes negative business outcomes. It’s a potentially unrecoverable wire transfer landing in an offshore account. It’s a trove of sensitive data sent to an impostor and sold in a corner of Read More
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com Chennai-based technology institute IIT-Madras will collaborate in a project backed by search giant Google to develop AI-driven systems to predict engagement and churn in a phone-based information system meant for expectant mothers. IIT Madras has tied up with Google for its “AI for Social Good” initiative and will handle two projects with accredited Read More
Source: poetsandquants.com From Wall Street trading floors to Amazon’s huge knowledge base on customer preferences to Tesla’s self-driving software to Major League Baseball’s analytics-driven front offices, Big Data—which, when connected to machine learning and/or artificial intelligence, aggregates massive datasets to analyze patterns of behavior and performance—appears to offer unlimited upside. As of 2015, information and Read More
Source: forbes.com Years ago, Marvin Minsky coined the phrase “suitcase words” to refer to terms that have a multitude of different meanings packed into them. He gave as examples words like consciousness, morality and creativity. “Artificial intelligence” is a suitcase word. Commentators today use the phrase to mean many different things in many different contexts. As AI Read More
Source: newindianexpress.com BHUBANESWAR: Technical students in Odisha will soon have the opportunity to get training on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to develop smart machines. Skill Development and Technical Education Minister Premananda Nayak said a Centre of Excellence has been set up by Tech Mahindra and Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) at the College of Engineering Read More
Source: drugtargetreview.com An artificial neural network has revealed patterns in huge amounts of gene expression data and discovered groups of disease-related genes. The developers, from Linköping University, Sweden, hope that the method can eventually be applied within precision medicine and individualised treatment. The scientists created maps of biological systems based on how different proteins or genes Read More
Source: marketsmedia.com Gareth Coltman, global head of automation at MarketAxess, the electronic platform for fixed income trading and reporting, said the industry is going through a second revolution which will lead to radical changes in market structure. Coltman told Markets Media: “The first revolution in electronic trading involved automating request for quotes and Open Trading. Read More
Source: viterbischool.usc.edu Drones, specifically quadcopters, are an adaptable lot. They’ve been used to assess damage after disasters, deliver ropes and life-jackets in areas too dangerous for ground-based rescuers, survey buildings on fire and deliver medical specimens. But to achieve their full potential, they have to be tough. In the real world, drones are forced to Read More
Source: The terminology humans have conceived to explain and study our own brain may be mis-aligned with how these constructs are actually represented in nature. For example, in many human societies, when a baby is born either a “male” or a “female” box is checked on the birth certificate. Reality, however, may be less black Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net The continuous advancements in technology and the increasing use of smart devices are leading tremendous growth in data. Considering reports, more than 2.5 Quintilian bytes of data are generated on a daily basis and it is expected that 1.7 Mb of data will be produced every second in the near future. This is Read More
Source: One of the coolest things serverless offerings do is allow you to “mix and match programming languages and frameworks like never before,” as Gartner research director Raj Bala has said. This means, as he suggested, you can write a Java application that calls Python libraries, for example, using a functions-as-a-service (serverless) platform. It may also mean, however, Read More
Source: siliconrepublic.com The new president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, committed to introducing a new European regulation for artificial intelligence (AI) in Europe during her first 100 days in office. While a fully fledged regulation is unlikely in that timeframe, we can expect to see a vision for a new regulatory framework for Read More
Source: inc42.com As the Indian government plans modernisation of railways, the government’s plans for the future of technology interactions within railways include internet of things (IoT), big data and artificial intelligence. Speaking at an industry summit in Bhubaneswar, RailTel chairman and managing director Puneet Chawla said the Indian Railways will rely heavily on technology as it focusses Read More
Source: dailygalaxy.com Following the appearance of the neocortex some 250,000 years in our past, Homo sapiens evolved as the only species on planet Earth that created sophisticated technology from the clock to the radio and the quantum computer. In Apeman to Spaceman, the BBC reported that about two million years ago, something extraordinary started happening in Read More
Source: pulse2.com Aviso — a pioneer in AI-powered sales guidance and forecasting — announced it has appointed veteran artificial intelligence and machine learning researcher Joy Mustafi as Chief Data Scientist. Mustafi is a former Principal Researcher for Salesforce’s Einstein platform and he will utilize decades of experience to help Aviso customers accelerate deal-closing and expand Read More
Source: syfy.com See Spot walk. See Spot sit. See Spot roll over. See Spot run onto a Norwegian oil rig to sniff out lethal gas leaks! Boston Dynamics’ next-generation robotic device, affectionately nicknamed Spot, will soon be embarking on a new test mission aboard an offshore oil rig for petroleum product producer Aker BP and Read More
Source: allaboutcircuits.com Machine learning’s ability to perform intellectually demanding tasks across various fields, materials science included, has caused it to receive considerable attention. Many believe that it could be used to unlock major time and cost savings in the development of new materials. The growing demand for the use of machine learning to derive fast-to-evaluate Read More
Source: miragenews.com Monash University and Eastern Health’s Turning Point are using a $1.2 million (AUD) grant from Google to address major mental health challenges in society. A joint project between Monash University and Eastern Health’s Turning Point, are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to streamline the coding of national suicide-related ambulance data to help paramedics respond Read More
Source: gigabitmagazine.com Artificial intelligence (AI) relies on big data and machine learning for myriad applications, from autonomous vehicles to algorithmic trading and from clinical decision support systems to data mining. The availability of large amounts of data is essential to the development of AI. But the scandal over the use of personal and social data Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net Artificial intelligence has transformed pretty much every industry in which it’s been embraced, including healthcare, the stock markets, and, increasingly, cybersecurity, where it’s being utilized to both enhance human work and strengthen defenses. As a result of recent improvements in machine learning, the dreary work that was once done by people, filtering through Read More