Source: techcrunch.com As the ways we consume content multiply and change, media creators are hard-pressed to adapt their methods to take advantage. Short-form audio and video news is one growing but labor-intensive niche — and Agolo aims to help automate the process, pulling in the AP as a client and Microsoft, Google and Tensility as investors. Agolo Read More
Source: forbes.com Among fictional buzzwords like “telepathy,” “cyberspace,” “parallel universe,” and so on – what’s undeniably popular and real is “AI” — artificial intelligence. The idea that a machine can exhibit the same level of intelligence and sentience as a human being has captured much interest today. This idea has increasingly become popular in the Read More
Source: bdtechtalks.com There are many parallels between self-driving car and artificial intelligence. They are goals that, the closer we get to them, the more difficult they seem. In 1956, scientists John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky proposed that a “2-month, 10-man study of artificial intelligence” would unlock the secrets of the human mind. We would soon be able Read More
Source: fedscoop.com Two former high-ranking national security officials are criticizing Google for developing artificial intelligence in China while backing out of working with the Department of Defense, a move they said could benefit Chinese military and intelligence services. Ash Carter, secretary of Defense under President Barack Obama, said Thursday that Google could be helping the Chinese military without knowing it. And Read More
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com I was in Kolkata last week and trying to book accommodation through some new applications downloaded two days before my upcoming herculean travel plan for the next two months, visiting 9 states in 35 different locations. My logical mind told me to book at the last moment after 6 pm as chances are Read More
Source: healthitanalytics.com To advance the use of machine learning in medical imaging, researchers will have to examine radiologists’ perceptions of the technology, as well as the cost-effectiveness of these tools, according to a study published in JMIR Medical Informatics. Countless studies have shown the diagnostic accuracy of machine learning tools. Organizations across the care continuum, from research universities to companies Read More
Source: pulsenews.co.kr KEB Hana Bank on Monday announced an upgrade to its digital evolution by completing big data platform designed to analyze and utilize its stock of internal and external data related to transactions and customer services. The banking industry’s first big data system dubbed Hana Big Data Platform was built by a consortium of Read More
Source: newkerala.com Livongo Members can now connect their smartwatches to the Livongo mobile app to receive real-time Livongo notifications on the surface of their choice enabling Livongo to provide more timely and relevant information to Members and their care teams. Smartwatches are one of the fastest growing new technologies today and it is estimated that Read More
Source: modernghana.com If we were to strip away artificial intelligence (AI) as we know it today, I’m not convinced humans would know how to cope with life. Without AI, there’d be no Waze or Google Maps to show us where to go. There would be no Siri or Alexa to handle our Google searches or Read More
Source: cbronline.com Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has integrated two of its AI-centric tools. The move connects the “What-If” tool, announced last year, with GCP’s AI Platform: the company’s code-based data science development environment. What-If is an AI/ML model visualisation tool that lets data scientists and other users analyse how an ML model would perform if you tweaked various Read More
Source: mesalliance.org Microsoft reported stronger results for its fourth quarter (ended June 30) that it said were once again helped by continued growth in its Azure cloud computing business. Revenue in Microsoft’s overall Intelligent Cloud business grew 19% from a year earlier, to $11.4 billion, the company said July 18. Within that business, server products Read More
Source: financialdirector.co.uk Facebook seeks to placate lawmakers over Libra but Mnuchin raises “serious concerns”Facebook has made known that it won’t launch its digital currency Libra until it receives regulatory approval especially after US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin expresses very serious concerns that Libra could be misused by terrorists. Apart from being supervised by the Swiss Read More
Source: itproportal.com Data Scientist’ was recently named the most sought-after role from a recruitment perspective in the US according to figures from Glassdoor, and it’s been at the top spot for the last four years. Businesses are increasingly looking at those in this role to deliver business growth, and, in turn they are seen as Read More
Source: aiin.healthcare A former executive from payment platform PayPal has launched a new deep learning health intelligence platform, Global Care Analytics, to provide claims-and-cost clinical data and predictive analytics for healthcare companies. The company’s president, Scott Guilfoyle, formerly served as CTO of PayPal, as well as CIO of LendingTree, and other major companies. The move underscores Read More
Source: thestar.com.my SEATTLE: Several dozen activists chanted and held banners on July 15 outside Amazon’s Seattle headquarters calling on the company to stop providing technology to US government immigration authorities, in one of several pressure campaigns focused on the commerce giant during its Prime Day summer sale. Jennifer Lee of the American Civil Liberties Union of Read More
Source: breezejmu.org Many fear about the future of artificial intelligence and robotics. There are multiple factors supporting the claim that AI is in fact not a threat to humankind, but rather an advantage. One factor is that humans thrives off of social interaction and human communication, which robots evidently can’t provide. While online chatbots are Read More
Source: thestreet.com his might seem a particularly bad time to be investing in big tech. President Trump said Tuesday morning that his administration would look into accusations that Google has been secretly working with the Chinese military. The charge came from Peter Thiel, a PayPal (PYPL – Get Report) co-founder and strong supporter of the president. On the other hand, Bloomberg reported Tuesday Read More
Source: devops.com Today’s customers overwhelmingly favor the simplicity of subscription models, in which they pay a flat monthly fee for access to a product in the form of a service. For example, consumers no longer buy or rent DVDs; they subscribe to Netflix. And more prefer to use the services of Uber or Lyft over Read More
Source: indiatoday.in Two consecutive budgets read by two Finance Ministers (Arun Jaitley and Piyush Goyal) had provisions for a National Artificial Intelligence Portal. But, almost two years have passed since AI (artificial intelligence) was given prominence. It looks like the project it stuck in red tape. Both the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Read More
Source: clearancejobs.com The next time you’re unhappy with your annual pay raise, you might not be able to blame your boss – you might need to blame a machine. In the ongoing quest to replace human resources functions with artificial intelligence, some companies are championing AI as the better (and less biased) tool to determine who Read More
Source: searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com The latest AtScale platform update, released Wednesday, aims to simplify data searches and speed up the process of data analysis. With the rollout of its 2019.2 platform, AtScale is attempting to make accessing and analyzing big data simpler and faster across both different databases and business intelligence platforms. AtScale is a data virtualization warehouse vendor Read More
Source: forbes.com The impact of automation in the workforce extends far beyond any individual employee, organization or even industry. As artificial intelligence advances and companies adopt this technology, we’re beginning to see an economic shift. In 2017, JPMorgan estimated that automation has the potential to increase global gross domestic product by more than $1.1 trillion over the Read More
Source: engadget.com Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have created an artificial intelligence system that can solve a Rubik’s Cube in an average of 1.2 seconds in about 20 moves. That’s two seconds faster than the current human world record of 3.47 seconds, while people who can finish the puzzle quickly usually do so in about 50. However, UC Irvine’s Read More
Source: devclass.com Databricks, the company behind open source project Apache Spark, has given its Runtime a good old polishing, buffing the version number up to 5.5. The new Databricks Runtime is, amongst other things, able to use AWS Glue instead of Hive, and R notebooks have been added to the Python and Scala spanning list of Read More
Source: devclass.com IBM has launched a repository of datasets for training which data scientists can pick and mix to train their deep learning and machine learning models. The IBM Data Asset eXchange (DAX) is designed to complement the Model Asset eXchange it launched earlier this year, which offers researchers and developers models to deploy or train with Read More
Source: siliconangle.com Uber Technology Inc. has open-sourced a conversational artificial intelligence engine called the Plato Research Dialog System that’s set to compete with similar offerings such as Google LLC’s Dialogflow, Microsoft Corp.’s Bot Framework, and Amazon.com Inc.’s Lex. In a blog post today, Uber’s AI research team explained that Plato is designed for building, training and deploying prototype and demonstration systems. It Read More
Source: pesmedia.com With the industry in the midst of a skills shortage, businesses are struggling to fill the gap. Here Ramya Sriram, digital content manager of online platform for freelance scientists Kolabtree, discusses the rise of the citizen data scientist. The incessancy of big data shows no sign of slowing down – so much so that if Read More
Source: martechadvisor.com Adobe today announced that is partnering with Avanade, Microsoft and Accenture’s joint venture, to help customers rapidly develop, implement and derive value from Adobe and Microsoft’s digital business solutions. Marketers will benefit from their combined capabilities to excel in CXM. Avanade will build an Adobe practice, connecting Adobe Experience Cloud with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Read More
Source:sciencedaily.com More than half of the world’s active volcanoes are not monitored instrumentally. Hence, even eruptions that could potentially have rung an alarm can occur without people at risk having a clue of the upcoming disaster. As a first and early step towards a volcano early warning system, a research project headed by Sébastien Valade Read More
Source:digit.in Earlier this year, Microsoft had invited us to its Bengaluru campus for a two-day briefing on how it’s incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) in many of its business solutions, including Azure, Power BI, Teams, and Office 365. In addition to letting a few of its business partners explain how these AI-enabled services help them, the Read More
