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January 21, 2021

AI and control of Covid-19 coronavirus

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used as a tool to support the fight against the viral pandemic that has affected the entire world since the beginning of 2020. The press and the scientific community are...

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

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

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

I have written a series of posts about a univariate dataset of shampoo sales dating back from 1901 to 1903. This series of posts would not be complete, however, without a post on Facebook Prophet,...

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

Gen Z is defining digital banking – FinTech is listening

Gen Zers are the true digital natives. From streaming to sharing, those between the ages 18 to 24 expect seamless connectivity — and their finances are no exception. The banking industry has shifted servicing dramatically from its beginnings as a brick-and-mortar stalwart to become far more...

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

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 20, 2021

AI is transforming the Logistics Landscape: Here’s a glimpse at how, why and by when

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to put pressure on supply chains worldwide, the prospect of leveraging AI logistics tech has become more attractive than ever. Data-driven solutions are giving companies the power to increase profitability,...

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

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

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 19, 2021

Best Machine Learning/ AI Books for the 2021

As a developer, AI/ML has been a really lucrative and interesting field. For my 2021 years resolution, I am going to jump back into this field and focus on learning more and practicing. I have...

January 18, 2021

Which Data-Science skills are the most vital in 2021?

There are a lot of industry standard tools that any aspiring data scientist will certainly want to be familiar with. Experience with these tools is almost always presented as a requirement on job listings because...

January 18, 2021

Peeking into AI’s ‘black box’ brain — with physics

Cats aren’t dogs. Even modern AI knows that. But how exactly AI distinguishes cat images from those of dogs is not clear. Standard neural networks are akin to a black box, as even the people...

January 18, 2021

AI leaders make the most of the COVID-19 crisis to increase the role of AI

There is little doubt that COVID-19 has been the single most influential driver of our lives and livelihoods in 2020. The impact of the pandemic however has been very mixed for certain groups of society,...

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....

January 17, 2021

Computer Science Degrees: Are they Worth Getting in 2021?

Is a computer science degree worth it? For me, partially. For you? You tell me. In August 2018, I enrolled in college to get my computer science degree. However, I wasn’t your typical CS student....

January 17, 2021

Using Linear Regression to predict the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index

The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” — Fischer“A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are...

January 17, 2021

How AI transforms Copywriting

What if marketers could leverage artificial intelligence for copywriting to deliver content that resonates with specific audiences? What if, instead of relying on gut instinct alone, creative teams could be mathematically certain about the words...

January 17, 2021

AI & ML in education: Real-life use cases

After all, that one term seemed to be the default correct answer for every question in MBA. I could relate to that as an analogy because during this pandemic, we can safely say that today,...

January 17, 2021

How I built this: Machine learning with Amazon Personalize and a Customer Data Platform

By making off-the-rack machine learning models accessible for anyone to use, cloud ML services like Amazon Personalize help make ML-driven customer experiences available to teams at any scale. You no longer need in-house data science and machine...

January 17, 2021

Marketers who deploy AI can have an upper hand in lead generation

Artificial intelligence is now a part of our day-to-day lives and it’s an ideal opportunity to utilize the numerous AI lead generation tools in your business. Artificial intelligence dominates at extricating insights about leads from...

January 17, 2021

The Triangular Moving Average: Another way to find Support & Resistance Levels

Moving averages are a great way to provide support and resistance levels among other uses. There are many types of moving averages and in this article, we will discuss the Triangular Moving Average and some...

January 16, 2021

Incoming White House science and technology leader on AI, diversity, and society

Technologies like artificial intelligence and human genome editing “reveal and reflect even more about the complex and sometimes dangerous social architecture that lies beneath the scientific progress that we pursue,” said Dr. Alondra Nelson today...

January 16, 2021

OpenAI’s text-to-image engine, DALL-E, is a powerful visual idea generator

Once upon a time in Silicon Valley, engineers at the various electronics firms would tinker at their benches and create new inventions. This tinkering was done, at least in part, to show to the engineer...

January 16, 2021

Why we might be looking at the Brain in the wrong way

The mind tries to understand the world in terms of concepts, most of which are dressed in language and in some cases, in mathematics. But our conceptual understanding of the world suffers from a chicken-and-egg...

January 16, 2021

The clash of the dark side and the bright side. What is human-friendly AI?

Is it time yet we thought of a “red safety button” in the event AI gets out of control? Or should we respond to our fear of an algorithmic armageddon more constructively by designing human-friendly...

January 16, 2021

Behavioral Finance in Fintech: Ideas from Revolut, Momo E-Wallet, Eagle Alpha, and Other Pros…

Behavioral finance became a reality once fintech met AI. Since its inception in fintech, AI has been improving analytics in the domain, providing more data sources to process — the ones based on user behavior....

January 15, 2021

“Don’t just beat the market – crush it”

When I was reviewing our new flagship SaaS TradersAlmanac.ai, I thought that the charts could use a little extra 'oomph' to make them do their conversion magic more powerfully. Indeed, in versions gone by of...

January 15, 2021

DevSecOps and DevOps: A Deep Dive

First of all you must be thinking, what is DevOps? What the hell is DevSecOps? And will we keep adding more acronyms to it? It could look like something like this in the coming years.

January 15, 2021

Feature store repositories emerge as an MLOps linchpin for advancing AI

A battle for control over machine learning operations (MLOps) is beginning in earnest as organizations embrace feature store repositories to build AI models more efficiently. A feature store is at its core a data warehouse...

January 15, 2021

Facebook claims its AI can anticipate COVID-19 outcomes using X-rays

Researchers at Facebook and New York University (NYU) claim to have developed three machine learning models that could help doctors predict how a COVID-19 patient’s condition might develop. The open-sourced models, all of which require...

January 15, 2021

The AI Incident Database wants to improve the safety of machine learning

AI systems’ failures have become a recurring theme in technology news. Credit scoring algorithms that discriminate against women. Computer vision systems that misclassify people with darker skin. Recommendation systems that promote violent content. Trending algorithms...

January 15, 2021

Voice AI in 2021 — will it finally speak out?

New year, new voice AI solutions? Well, why not? Artificial intelligence doesn’t laze around and constantly influences all of its fields of expertise. Although voice technologies are quite fresh, they found their own place on...

January 15, 2021

Oqton raises $40 million to apply AI to additive manufacturing

Oqton, a startup developing an operating system that integrates engineering software with manufacturing hardware, has raised $40 million.

January 14, 2021

IBM’s Squawk Bot AI helps make sense of financial data flood

In our recent work, we detail an AI and machine learning mechanism able to assist in correlating a large body of text with numerical data series used to describe financial performance as it evolves over...

January 14, 2021

Automated CI/CD platform Harness raises $115 million at a $1.7 billion valuation

Harness, an automated CI/CD platform for engineering and DevOps teams, has raised $115 million at a $1.7 billion valuation.

January 14, 2021

Swedish edtech startup Sana Labs bags £13M to redefine workplace training with AI

Sana Labs, a Stockholm-based online training platform, raised $18 million (approx £13.1 million) in a Series A round led by EQT Ventures. The funding round brings the total amount raised to $23 million (approx £17...

January 14, 2021

Automation Software landscape

We have mapped over 120 companies; new and old, large and small, according to their subsegment and the precise type of automation they provide. Find an intro & explanation to the map.

January 14, 2021

And this, in a nutshell’s nutshell, is “Machine Learning”

Combining Part 1 and 2: Probably imagining a robot or terminator when asking about machine learning, in reality, machine learning is beyond and involved in almost all application you can imagine in our today world....

January 14, 2021

Facebook Prophet can forecast the temperatures in Melbourne

As I have been studying forecasting time series analysis... I endeavored to use the code that I already have and was able to forecast the values using Facebook Prophet and also statsmodels. The dataset I...

January 14, 2021

Supervised ML Algorithm: Support Vector Machines (SVM)

An introduction and detailed explanation of SVM (an ML algorithm used for classification, regression problems, and outlier detection).

January 13, 2021

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Fire & Safety

Being a student secretary of the Fire and Security Association of India at my college, I have conducted various surveys and workshops on methodologies to avert the dangers caused due to fire. As an AI...

January 13, 2021

AI, Quantum patents soared in 2020

Machine learning was among the fastest growing technologies in terms of U.S. patent grants during 2020, an annual survey reveals. AI and machine learning ranked fourth in a list of patent applications and awards, followed...

January 13, 2021

Honing In on AI, U.S. Launches National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office

To drive American leadership in the field of AI into the future, the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office has been launched by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The new agency...

January 13, 2021

The AI arms race comes to enterprise content management

Enterprise content management (ECM) platforms that have historically been employed to manage files are, thanks to the rise of AI, about to evolve into central repositories for keeping track of relationships between a much wider...

January 13, 2021

Nayya raises $11 million to guide employee health benefits decisions with AI

Nayya, an insurance benefits management platform, today announced it has closed $11 million in a series A round led by Felicis Ventures. Nayya says the funds will be put toward product research and development as...

January 13, 2021

Molecula raises $17.6 million for its AI feature store technology

Molecula, which is developing a cloud-based feature store for AI and machine learning workloads, today announced it has raised $17.6 million. The company says the proceeds will be put toward accelerating the launch of its...

January 13, 2021

Rapyd raises $300 million for its unified payments platform

Transform 2021 Join us for the world’s leading event about accelerating enterprise transformation with AI and Data, for enterprise technology decision-makers, presented by the #1 publisher in AI and Data Learn More Rapyd, which is...

January 13, 2021

40 TOP Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning free online resources for beginners

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January 12, 2021

What this bald eagle and neural network depiction have to do with future U.S. AI strategy

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) today announced the launch of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office, an organization that will coordinate and oversee national AI policy initiatives for the United...

January 12, 2021

Google Research: Looking Back at 2020, and Forward to 2021

When I joined Google over 20 years ago, we were just figuring out how to really start on the journey of making a high quality and comprehensive search service for information on the web, using...

January 12, 2021

Google trained a trillion-parameter AI language model

Parameters are the key to machine learning algorithms. They’re the part of the model that’s learned from historical training data. Generally speaking, in the language domain, the correlation between the number of parameters and sophistication...

January 12, 2021

Workato raises $110 million for its business workflow automation platform

Workato, which offers an integration and automation platform for businesses, today announced it has raised $110 million at a post-money valuation of $1.7 billion. The company says it will put the funds toward product innovation...

January 12, 2021

M-Files raises $80 million for AI that automates enterprise information management

M-Files announced it has raised $80 million as the Finnish company develops AI that automates the messy process of organizing and tracking internal documents and data for enterprises. Bregal Milestone led the round, which included...

January 12, 2021

What is a Time Series GAN?

This post was originally published by Sejuti Das at Analytics India Magazine Identifying anomalies in time series data can be daunting, thanks to the vague definition of anomalies, lack of labelled data, and highly complex...

January 11, 2021

Deploying Machine Learning into production: Don’t do Labs.

In my experience building analytics products at Best Buy Canada, applied data science projects rarely fail because of the science. They fail because the model couldn’t be integrated into existing systems and business operations. We...

January 11, 2021

$400M in C2 funding raised by automotive AI Chip vendor Horizon Robotics

Horizon Robotics, a Chinese automotive AI chip startup that is developing specialized, complex chips for use in autonomous vehicles, has raised another $400 million in its latest C2 round of funding. That’s on top of...

January 11, 2021

Pegasystems acquires Qurious.io to apply speech analytics to customer service

Pegasystems announced today it has acquired Qurious.io, a provider of a cloud service that analyzes voice calls in real time to enable customer service representatives to better determine their next best course of action. Terms...

January 11, 2021

Komodo raises $44 million and acquires Mavens to bring data-driven insights to life sciences

Komodo Health, a company that is meshing big data, AI, and analytics to create a digital map of the U.S. health care system, announced that it quietly secured a $44 million cash injection last year...

January 11, 2021

Dina raises $7 million for its AI-powered at-home care platform

Dina, a Chicago-based startup developing an AI-powered at-home care platform, today announced it has raised $7 million. The company says the capital will be used to expand its products and support its mission to help...

January 11, 2021

Ambarella unveils 8K AI vision processor for car, drone, and robot cameras

Ambarella has unveiled the CV5 AI Vision Processor to handle 8K image processing for car, consumer, crone, and robot cameras. The new 5-nanometer camera system on chip (SoC) is the latest in the company’s CVflow...

January 11, 2021

Know more about IOT and Artificial Intelligence

Internet of Things or IOT is a newest and remarkable take on Internet itself. The Internet is a fantastic thing itself. The Internet ensures you to do things that were earlier admired impossible. Usually the...

January 10, 2021

The cosmetics and beauty industry could use an AI FaceLift

The size of the beauty and corrective industry is monstrous, with its valuation ascending as high as $532 billion USD. Notwithstanding, it actually hasn't seen the entrance of cutting edge innovations, even subsequent to having a...

January 10, 2021

Self-driving cars and the chicken that crossed the road

The fabled "chicken crossing the road" provides useful fodder for considering the advent of self-driving cars coping with erratic intrusions in the roadway.

January 10, 2021

Understand what drives your customer behavior in clicks

What drives your customers to churn? What leads to a wow experience? What makes them buy your product? In a nut-shell, understand the factors that drive a metric you’re interested in. Power BI makes excellent...

January 10, 2021

How to retain your institutional knowledge when employees retire (& how can AI simplify this)

Since skills, knowledge and experience are vital to a successful business and the pace in which it innovates, retaining existing institutional knowledge is an increasing priority. How can you guarantee that your company’s know-how won’t...

January 10, 2021

Automation and Artificial Intelligence in software engineering: Experiences, challenges, and…

This article is about Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering: Experiences, Challenges, and Opportunities. It represents a paper published at a highly ranked HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES (HICSS).

January 10, 2021

Top-down and end-to-end governance for the responsible use of AI

Responsible AI is a broad topic covering multiple dimensions of the socio-technical system called Artificial Intelligence. We refer to AI as a socio-technical system here as it captures the interaction between humans and how we...

January 9, 2021

Microsoft releases Unadversarial examples: Designing objects for robust vision – a complete hands-on guide

In a recent work by Microsoft Research, a new framework is introduced which can address these problems of data models to create “unadversarial objects,” inputs that are optimized particularly for more robust model performance. This...

January 9, 2021

How the Dunning-Kruger effect can explain why your data science proposals don’t get buy-in

Consider the Dunning-Kruger effect to get your proposals taken seriously. Many brilliant data science proposals never make it beyond the paper they’re written on. I’d like to start off by painting you a picture. Imagine...

January 8, 2021

Equifax will pay $640 million for Kount’s AI-driven identity and fraud prevention tools

Equifax today announced that it would pay $640 million to acquire Kount, a company that uses artificial intelligence to drive its fraud prevention and digital identity services. In a press release, Equifax executives said the...

January 8, 2021

Blue Prism launches venture fund to expand global use of cloud RPA

Last April, robotic process automation firm Blue Prism bolstered its own balance sheet with a $124 million financing round, enabling the maker of enterprise-class software robots to expand its suite of AI agents and dashboards....

January 8, 2021

Stanford researchers propose AI that figures out how to use real-world objects

One longstanding goal of AI research is to allow robots to meaningfully interact with real-world environments. In a recent paper, researchers at Stanford and Facebook took a step toward this by extracting information related to...

January 8, 2021

Top 10 Computer Vision papers 2020

Even with everything that happened in the world this year, we still had the chance to see a lot of amazing research come out. Especially in the field of artificial intelligence and more precisely computer...

January 8, 2021

When will AI become superhuman?

In 2018, IBM released the world’s smallest computer — 1mm x 1mm. It has enough computing power to handle basic AI tasks, and can even work with blockchain. AI is now able to detect cancer...

January 8, 2021

11 programming books that can help you become a better programmer

A reading guide for those serious about programming. There’s no single programming book that will make you a better programmer. The best books to learn to code can vary based on what language you’re pursuing,...

January 8, 2021

This biotech startup just raised £5.15M to build the future of medicines with AI

Budapest-based private biotech company Turbine develops a simulation-based, AI-driven, scalable drug discovery platform. The company’s Stimulated Cell unlocks novel therapies for high unmet oncology. Turbine’s technology has been validated in several collaborations with pharmaceutical companies...

January 8, 2021

UK biotech startup Peptone grabs £1.84M to make drug discovery faster and more effective with AI

The global COVID-19 pandemic has unveiled a grave issue – the requirement to develop efficient drugs quickly. 2020 has been a tough year that has seen scientists heralded as heroes and the future of protein-based...

January 7, 2021

The Machine Learning soccer pundit

Recently, in December, the 2020 season of Major League Soccer ended after a tough year. Although I have a distant relationship with the sport nowadays, the subject ends up being very natural to me as...

January 7, 2021

Where do I start with AI?

Over the last 7+ years, I've worked with many leaders who were looking to embark on their first AI journey. Most of them did not know how or where to start. Some thought they did....

January 7, 2021

Glia raises $78 million to digitize customer service interactions

Customer service startup Glia today announced it raised $78 million. The funds will be used to expand departments across its organization, the company says, with a focus on product development and strategic acquisitions. Multimodality is...

January 7, 2021

Media Distillery raises £2.7M: Dutch startup strives to change the map of video search with AI

Amsterdam-based Media Distillery is a leading provider of AI technology, which understands what’s inside video. In a recent development, Media Distillery raised €3M (nearly £2.7M) from a group of entrepreneurs and executives from the global...

January 7, 2021

Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing the startup industry

Throughout history, the world has seen 3 mechanical unrests: Right now, we are amidst the fourth mechanical upset which is driven by man-made consciousness.

January 7, 2021

U.K. competition regulator to probe Nvidia’s $40 billion Arm takeover

(Reuters) — Britain’s competition regulator said on Wednesday it would start an investigation into Nvidia Corp’s $40 billion deal to buy UK-based chip designer Arm Holdings. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it was...

January 7, 2021

Contract AI Tools bring together the best in Human and Artificial Intelligence

CenzaJust now·2 min readContracts are a source of valuable information in the event of disputes, renewals, or certain strategic decisions. They need to be maintained and tracked to ensure obligations are met by all parties...

January 7, 2021

The future of commercial Deep Learning

How do we balance its benefits and integrity going forward? Underlying modern AI is deep learning, algorithms through which computers learn to perform intelligent tasks without being explicitly programmed. These algorithms train artificial neural networks,...

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