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Machine Learning, from Single Core to Whole Cluster

The demand for production-quality software for mining insights from datasets across scales has exploded in the last several years. The growing size of datasets throughout industry, government, and other fields has increa Read more…

Deep Learning Is Our Best Hope for Cybersecurity, Deep Instinct Says

Thanks to the exponential growth of malware, traditional heuristics-based detection regimes have been overwhelmed, leaving computers at risk. Machine learning approaches can help, but the bottleneck presented by the feat Read more…

From Amazon to Uber, Companies Are Adopting Ray

What if you could use your favorite machine learning library to code an AI program on your laptop, and have it automatically transferred to run in a massive, distributed fashion on the cloud? That’s the general idea be Read more…

How AI Plus HPC Equals the Future of Advanced Analytics

Combining artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) can unlock the potential of each of these powerful analytics disciplines. This in turn can drive increased business agility, innovation, and Read more…

A Nutrition Label for AI

It can be difficult to understand exactly what’s going on inside of a deep learning model, which is a real problem for companies concerned about bias, ethics, and explainability. Now IBM is developing something called Read more…

LLNL Uses ‘Self-Trained’ Deep Learning for Better Diagnosis

Improving disease diagnosis is one of the most popular applications for deep learning researchers – and now, they’re looking to streamline the process: new research from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Read more…

Five Real-World Applications for Sports Analytics

When Moneyball first published nearly two decades ago, it was a chronicle of an industry slow to adopt advanced statistical methods for evaluating player worth. Since then however, and due in no small part to the book it Read more…

DeepCube Unveils Deep Learning Suite

DeepCube is launching a new suite of products and services, including a software-based deep learning accelerator which runs on a range of current and next-generation hardware. The suite targets neural network training Read more…

One Model to Rule Them All: Transformer Networks Usher in AI 2.0, Forrester Says

The recent advent of massive transformer networks is ushering in a new age of AI that will give customers advanced natural language capabilities with just a fraction of the skills and data previously required, according Read more…

XPRIZE Seeks AI That Balances COVID-19 Containment, Economic Impact

Half a million dollars are up for grabs in the latest XPRIZE competition, which pits dozens of data science teams against one another to find prescriptive models that contain the spread of COVID-19 without strangling the Read more…

How AI Accelerates the Fight Against Fake News

Microchips in coronavirus vaccines. Pedophile rings in pizza restaurants. Jewish space lasers. The Internet--bless its heart--has always suffered from its share of wacky wingnuts and conspiracy theories. But in the wake Read more…

In Australia, AI is Building Bridges – or At Least, Maintaining Them

Infrastructure maintenance isn’t necessarily the most eye-catching application of futuretech like AI, but the potential is enormous: in the U.S. alone, increasingly dilapidated infrastructure is costing taxpayers trill Read more…

Researchers Use Deep Learning to Plow Through NASA Snow Radar Data

From 2009 through 2019, NASA’s Operation IceBridge sent out observation flights over the Arctic, Antarctic, and Alaska. Those 11 years of flights produced detailed data on the dimensions and fluxes of snow, sea ice, gl Read more…

Advanced Analytics and AI: Two Divergent But Synergistic Capabilities

Two commonly cited use cases for advanced analytics across financial services entail risk management and fraud detection; specifically, the use of advanced analytics to detect and reduce incidents of false positives. Read more…

AWS Leans on Custom Silicon for Processing Advantage

You may know Amazon Web Services as a leading provider of public cloud services. But it’s also investing substantial sums into designing its own line of custom chips that can save customers a lot of money compared to I Read more…

Optimizing AI and Deep Learning Performance

As AI and deep learning uses skyrocket, organizations are finding they are running these systems on similar resource as they do with high-performance computing (HPC) systems – and wondering if this is the path to peak Read more…

Lowering Precision Does Not Mean Lower Accuracy

It is important to understand the difference between accuracy and precision in the context of Neural Networks. It’s a tricky concept because, at face value, the words are very similar. Most people would assume that pre Read more…

Lightweight Kubernetes Pushes Orchestrator to the Edge

Kubernetes, the evolving cluster orchestrator, has gone on a diet, stepping off the scales as a lightweight, resilient clustering tool that switches to autopilot once three or more nodes are clustered. The slimmed-dow Read more…

AWS Cuts Prices for SageMaker GPU Instances

Amazon Web Services is cutting prices on its SageMaker managed service for machine learning and deep learning as it attracts more financial services, healthcare and retail customers building and training ML models in Read more…

AI Startup Uses FPGAs to Speed Training, Inference

The latest AI startup emerging from stealth mode claims to be the first to integrate model training and inference for deep learning at the network edge, replacing GPUs with FPGA accelerators. Deep AI Technologies said Read more…

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