Source: thenextweb.com An initiative that will use digital technologies such as artificial intelligence has been launched to empower community health workers, promising to help save the lives of at least six million children and women in ten countries by 2030. The Rockefeller Foundation initiative will be piloted in Uganda and India for its first phase that runs from this year to Read More
Source: infoq.com Horace He recently published an article summarising The State of Machine Learning Frameworks in 2019. The article utilizes several metrics to argue the point that PyTorch is quickly becoming the dominant framework for research, whereas TensorFlow is the dominant framework for applications deployed within a commercial/industrial context. He, a research student at Cornell University, counted the number of papers discusing either PyTorch or TensorFlow Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net analyticsinsight.net Artificial Intelligence has been gaining ground as an essential field of research that could revolutionize the world since the first computer revolution in the 1980s. The technology has seen several roller-coasters in its journey, and today, it has come out with many promises to society, accelerated by vast advances in computing capacity. Read More
Source: digitaltrends.com AlphaStar, an artificial intelligence program powered by Google’s DeepMind, was present at BlizzCon 2019, with the goal of beating any human that tried to go up against it in StarCraft II. Blizzard set up computers at the Blizzard Arcade section of BlizzCon 2019, which ran from November 1 to November 2 at the Anaheim Convention Center, Read More
Source: forbes.com You may have heard that Big Data is all the rage these days. Big Data this, Big Data that. Let’s acquire as much information as possible and try to wrestle with it to gain insights into everything from stock market performance to consumer preferences to health outcomes. And it’s great, I have no Read More
Source: supplychaindigital.com Watson is IBM’s suite of artificial intelligence (AI) services, applications and tools. Watson aims to help businesses unlock the value of data in new ways and remove repetitive tasks from employees to shift the focus to high-value work. This is in addition to allowing companies to predict and shape business outcomes in order to rethink Read More
Source: smithsonianmag.com Last January, during a livestream on YouTube and Twitch, professional StarCraft II player Grzegorz “MaNa” Komincz from Poland struck a blow for humankind when he defeated a multi-million-dollar artificial intelligence agent known as AlphaStar, designed specifically to pummel human players in the popular real-time strategy game. The public loss in front of tens of thousands of eSports Read More
Source: dqindia.com Artificial intelligence is already impacting our lives in a major way. Be it getting driving instructions through our smartphone or getting daily reminders by our fitness device to increase our workouts, all these are manifestations of how artificial intelligence is changing the way we function. What is often less understood is the significant Read More
Source: searchstorage.techtarget.com There are many routes an organization can follow when buying an AI storage platform. But one important goal should be to find a product that will enable the company to more effectively collect data and perform machine learning and AI tasks. Some of the key issues involved in evaluating and selecting AI data storage products Read More
Source: thefastmode.com MATRIXX Software this week introduced what it claims as the industry’s first 5G digital commerce platform including a 5G 3GPP-compliant Converged Charging System (CCS). The newly released MATRIXX Digital Commerce Platform delivers operational efficiencies and cost benefits by harnessing microservices and containers orchestrated with Kubernetes, says the Company. It features open-source Cloud Native Computing Foundation Read More
Source: devclass.com Microsoft will launch a raft of new features for its Azure Stream Analytics platform in preview next week, though you’ll have to wait at least a few weeks for general availability. Microsoft pitches Azure Stream Analytics as a platform for quickly developing and deploying complex serverless analytics on data streams. Top of the Read More
Source: itproportal.com In 2005, the National Science Board began advocating for a data science career path in an effort to ensure experts could manage the inevitable onslaught of future data. While the practice of data science reaches back to the 1960s, and includes several older disciplines like statistics, it wasn’t until these past 15 years Read More
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
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
