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January 26, 2021

Outcome based processes — an intelligent alternative?

A good starting point to explore outcome based processes would...

January 26, 2021

Sentiment Analysis on Covid19 news

In this article , we will go through a basic...

January 23, 2021

Bias in AI systems and efforts to fix it

Understand how racial and gender biases in artificial intelligence systems...

January 23, 2021

How to get the most out of Machine Learning Models

To enhance the model accuracy and avoid the regular split...

January 22, 2021

Interoperability is essential for AI development

Without interoperability, AI development opportunities will be limited to Big...

January 21, 2021

FB Prophet is not always the most suitable time series forecasting model

I have written a series of posts about a univariate...

January 26, 2021

Kili Technology unveils data annotation platform to improve AI, raises $7 million

Kili Technology raised $7 million for its service that allows enterprises to annotate raw data to improve datasets for AI.

January 26, 2021

AI-powered ‘Tinder for renting’: London-based Perchpeek raises £2M to help employees work anywhere

The global employee relocation management market is witnessing a surge as millions of employees are working remotely indefinitely since the outbreak of COVID-19. A survey by IBM discovered that 54 percent of people working remotely...

January 25, 2021

Cortical.io’s AI makes bulk contract analysis faster and more accurate

Reviewing large stacks of legal or financial documents can be a chore, but Contract Intelligence promises to cut analysis time by 80%.

January 25, 2021

Wingcopter raises $22 million to ramp up delivery drone production

Wingcopter, a Darmstadt, Germany-based drone manufacturer, today announced that it raised $22 million in a funding round led by Xplorer Capital and Futury Regio Growth Fund. The company says it will use the proceeds to...

January 25, 2021

A Taco with a Book in a Night, in the Style of Edward Hopper or Imagination in Machines According…

Recently an algorithm called The Big Sleep (Murdock, 2020) was released, which generates images from texts; that is, if someone writes, as in my case, A Taco with a book in a night city in...

January 25, 2021

How Amazon became the top dog in artificial intelligence

Amazon is a data company. At least, it is if we’re to go on what the leading figures in tech and ecommerce say. However, I beg to differ. In my opinion, Amazon is not just...

January 25, 2021

US leading race in Artificial Intelligence, China Rising: Survey

The United States is leading rivals in development and use of artificial intelligence while China is rising quickly and the European Union is lagging, a research report showed Monday. The United States leads, with an...

January 24, 2021

Amplifying Fintech and Artificial Intelligence

Institutional investment was one of the top talking points for the crypto space in 2020. It was quite understandable, with companies looking to stay positive on their balance sheets and make gains with Bitcoin. There are...

January 24, 2021

Perspectives on AI from the North Dakota Chief Data Officer

North Dakota has been very forward thinking in their use of data, automation, and AI. North Dakota’s Chief Data Officer Dorman Bazzell shares how states are approaching technologies such as automation and advanced data analytics,...

January 24, 2021

Let’s make Artificial Intelligence a greater force in 2021

A year ago, none the wiser about what 2020 would bring, I reflected on the pivotal moment that the AI community was in. The previous year had seen a series of high-profile automated failures, like...

January 24, 2021

Mental Models

Mental models are how we understand the world. Not only do they shape what we think and how we understand but they shape the connections and opportunities that we see.In a nutshell, they are the...

January 23, 2021

3 tech trends that COVID-19 will accelerate in 2021

Spending 2020 under the shadow of a pandemic has affected what we need and expect from technology. For many, COVID-19 accelerated the rate of digital transformation: as employees worked from home, companies needed AI systems...

January 23, 2021

VOGUE by Google, MIT, and UW: The AI-Powered online fitting room

I explain Artificial Intelligence terms and news to non-experts. Google used a modified StyleGAN2 architecture to create an online fitting room where you can automatically try-on any pants or shirts you want using only an...

January 23, 2021

Poker Bots and Game Theory optimal

I’m the CTO and developer of Poker Fighter — an artificial intelligent poker training software. In this post I’ll explain some basics about poker bots, how they work, what’s the theory behind their strategy and...

January 22, 2021

2020 NFL postseason predictions from Machine Learning Model — Conference

Bills favored due to surging offense and steady defense, Packers with slim edge. Over the first two weeks of the NFL playoffs, I shared my model (V 5.0) predictions (Wild Card, Divisional). After 10 games, model...

January 22, 2021

All you need to know about video content analysis and its application

AI-enabled video content analysis is more than a surveillance system. AI’s capabilities to analyze and draw insights from data have empowered video content analysis systems to venture into new applications. In this article, we learn...

January 21, 2021

Prediction 2021: The Year AI Became Normal

A clear pattern of growth has already emerged in AI: in 2018–19, the phase of experimentation became mature; in 2020, adoptions began in a serious way and suddenly, COVID-19 gave the business leaders an opportunity...

January 21, 2021

Google’s AI ethics flap widens

Google’s AI ethics mess continues to spread, with reports this week that the company is investigating a second AI ethicist for scanning company files in search of examples of discriminatory treatment of ousted Google researcher...

January 21, 2021

A quick reflection on some ethical implications of creative AI

AI is increasingly being applied to more creative areas, raising concerns about the protection of intellectual property. Recently I started to analyze a trend taking AI towards a more “creative” space with the integration with...

January 21, 2021

Artificial Intelligence (AI) market size, share & COVID-19 impact analysis

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market Size, Share & COVID-19 Impact Analysis, By Component (Hardware, Software, and Services), By Technology (Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Others), By Deployment (Cloud, On-premises), By Industry (Healthcare, Retail,...

January 21, 2021

TripActions raises $155 million to help enterprises analyze travel and expense data

TripActions, a booking and management platform that offers enterprises real-time data, automated reporting, and insights into business travel and expenses, has raised $155 million in a series E round of funding co-led by existing investor...

January 21, 2021

How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning can help in Agriculture

Artificial Intelligence is growing at a rapid pace. With advances in computational capabilities and increased cloud penetration, wider parts of the world economies have started to reap the benefits of Artificial Intelligence. (Machine Learning). Agriculture...

January 21, 2021

How to help the Helping Hands — AI for Case Management

Bridging the gap between technical models and how they relate with social caseworkers. What would the world look like for a social worker if AI helped them every step of the way? How many more...

January 21, 2021

Cambridge-based OBRIZUM bags £1.8M funding to create AI training programmes for organisations

OBRIZUM, a B2B corporate learning and knowledge management company, has secured $2.4 million (approx £1.8 million) funding in Pre-Series A venture round. How will the funding be used? The company will use the funding to...

January 21, 2021

This startup says its AI can better spot a healthy embryo — and improve IVF success

With every year, AI is beginning to bring more standardized levels of diagnostic accuracy in medicine. This is true of skin cancer detection, for example, and lung cancers. Now, a startup in Israel called Embryonics...

January 20, 2021

University of Pisa leans into the I/O challenge AI applications create

At a time when workloads that employ machine and deep learning algorithms are being built and deployed more frequently, organizations need to optimize I/O throughput in a way that enables those workloads to cost-effectively share...

January 20, 2021

Allen Institute launches GENIE, a leaderboard for human-in-the-loop language model benchmarking

There’s been an explosion in recent years of natural language processing (NLP) datasets aimed at testing various AI capabilities. Many of these datasets have accompanying leaderboards, which provide a means of ranking and comparing models....

January 20, 2021

Swapp raises $7 million to automate construction planning with AI

Swapp, a company that leverages AI for construction planning, today announced that it raised $7 million in venture capital. The company plans to put the funds toward “continued market expansion” and growing its platform’s AI...

January 20, 2021

Microsoft researchers tap AI for anonymous data sharing for health care providers

The use of images to build diagnostic models of diseases has become an active research topic in the AI community. But capturing the patterns in a condition and an image requires exposing a model to...

January 20, 2021

Google targets AI ethics lead Margaret Mitchell after firing Timnit Gebru

Google has revoked Ethical AI team leader Margaret “Meg” Mitchell’s employee privileges and is currently investigating her activity, according to a statement provided by a company spokesperson. Should Google fire Mitchell, it will mean the...

January 20, 2021

Moving beyond the self-reported scale: Objectively measuring chronic pain with AI

Pain is something we will all experience at some point, with some people suffering from it chronically. Still, measuring and treating pain remains one of the most difficult and complex healthcare issues. Together with Boston...

January 20, 2021

AlphaICs raises $8 million for AI-at-the-edge processors

AlphaICs has raised $8 million in funding for artificial intelligence processors for edge computing. The round was led by Emerald Technology Ventures and Endiya Partners. The Milpitas, California-based company was started in 2016 by Vinod...

January 20, 2021

BCBSA backs Lumiata’s $14M round to boost COVID-19 risk management using AI

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a pivotal time for advances in artificial intelligence as organizations use the technology to drive research, find new treatments and analyze patient data. San Mateo, California-based Lumiata is ramping up its efforts to...

January 20, 2021

Can Blockchain and AI together be the next big thing?

The highly secured Blockchain and the analytical predictive power of AI are two powerful technologies that are synonymous with modern digitization. Can Blockchain and AI be combined? What is the future of this convergence?

January 20, 2021

Can AI and proteins stop climate change?

In 2020, a virus showed us how fragile our world is. Before that, our awareness of a much greater threat has grown: climate change. To secure our future in the long term, we need solutions...

January 19, 2021

What Biden, Democrats may mean for Tech and Investing

Changes in the White House and Congress could portend revisions to taxes, regulations and policies that may affect tech and investing in Silicon Valley and beyond.

January 19, 2021

Google launches suite of AI-powered solutions for retailers

Google today announced the launch of Product Discovery Solutions for Retail, a suite of services deigned to enhance retailers’ ecommerce capabilities and help them deliver personalized customer experiences. Product Discovery Solutions for Retail brings together...

January 19, 2021

Trovata.io raises $20 million to aggregate enterprise bank accounts with AI

Banking technology startup Trovata.io today announced it has raised $20 million in a series A round led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital. The investment will be used to deliver new services and accelerate multi-bank APIs...

January 19, 2021

OncoHost raises $8 million to develop AI that predicts cancer treatment responses

OncoHost, a company developing AI technology to characterize, analyze, and predict patient response to treatment, today announced it raised $8 million. The company says the funds will be used to finance OncoHost’s ongoing clinical trials,...

January 19, 2021

Quali raises $54 million to automate cloud management and deployment

Quali, a company developing sandbox software for cloud and DevOps automation, today announced it has raised $54 million. The company says the funds will be put toward expanding its customer base and enabling new partnerships...

January 19, 2021

Who needs a teacher? Artificial intelligence designs lesson plans for itself

This post was originally published by Matthew Hutson at Science Mag An artificial intelligence taught itself to manipulate blocks by setting increasingly difficult goals. OPENAI Unlike human students, computers don’t seem to get bored or frustrated...

January 19, 2021

Swimlane raises $40 million to automate cybersecurity operations

Swimlane, a Denver-based security operations management software provider, today announced it raised $40 million. The funding will be put toward accelerating partnerships and alliances, expanding R&D, and enabling further global expansion, the company says. According to Markets...

January 19, 2021

K Health raises $132 million to launch AI-powered telemedical pediatric service

New York City-based K Health today closed a $132 million series E funding round led by GGV Capital and Valor Equity Partners, bringing the company’s total raised to date to over $271 million. In conjunction with...

January 19, 2021

An intro to the fast-paced world of artificial intelligence

The field of artificial intelligence is moving at a staggering clip, with breakthroughs emerging in labs across MIT. Through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), undergraduates get to join in. In two years, the MIT...

January 19, 2021

Human-centered AI Design process — Part 1

Introduction to the role of Human-centered Design (HCD) in the development of AI-driven services. The design field has spread across several domains and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) will not be an exception.

January 18, 2021

Cure.fit acquires AI body tracker Onyx to enable two-way workout videos

Cure.fit’s acquisition of Onyx is significant for technical decision makers because it demonstrates how applied computer vision AI technologies will upend or dramatically improve well-established businesses. As impressively produced as Cure.fit’s workout videos may be,...

January 18, 2021

How Industries will move past the Pandemic and thrive in 2021 using AI

The response from COVID-19’s gradual recovery will be top of mind for nearly every firm and industry in 2021. Some businesses may become stagnant or never recover. Others will view the shakeup as an unprecedented...

January 17, 2021

The Social Dilemma in 2021: Personal Data Privacy

It's needless to say we are living in the digital era. Nowadays our life is not as difficult as it was before the age of technological advancements. We can connect to the world in seconds....

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AI and control of Covid-19 coronavirus

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