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Facial Recognition in the Ethical Crosshairs

Facial recognition has become one of the most visible forms of AI, thanks to recent advances in deep learning and neural networks that have increased the accuracy to unprecedented levels. However, despite the progress, f Read more…

H2O.ai Tops Off Funding to Accelerate AI Adoption

Every company should become an AI company, according to Sri Ambati, the founder and CEO of H2O.ai. With $72.5 million in additional funding announced today and a new release of its autoML solution, Driverless AI, Ambati Read more…

Data Science Back to School: Accelerate Your Education

Are you looking to get a data science degree and join the workforce as a data scientist? Then you're not alone, as thousands of young people around the world are following that same path with the hope of tapping into the Read more…

GPU Storage Approach Targets Big Data Bottlenecks

An emerging storage technology aims to leverage faster GPUs by creating a direct path between local and remote storage, thereby overcoming I/O bottlenecks that are slowing the crunching of AI and HPC data sets. Nvidia Read more…

Common Sense Makes Progress with Deep Learning

We've witnessed incredible progress in the capability of deep learning models to not only understand text, but to generate it too. While the generated text is grammatically sound, the actual meaning of the words leaves s Read more…

MIT Aims to Ease AI Programming

A new AI programming language seeks to ease the process of writing inference algorithms and other predictive models without the hassle of grinding out complicated equations and code. Among the goals of the probabilist Read more…

HPE Pins AI Hopes on Services

HPE, like all the system vendors, has big plans to sell massive amounts of compute capability to companies to run machine learning and deep learning workloads that help transform their businesses. But the tech firm is ta Read more…

Facing Up to Image Fakery

The folks who transformed digital imagery nearly three decades ago with the introduction of Adobe Photoshop are now using deep neural networks to help detect doctored faces and other faked imagery. Add newer social me Read more…

AI-Driven Decision Platforms Live in the Moment

The emerging market for AI-driven digital decision-making is grounded in new applications developed using machine learning models designed to help analysts crunch data that would allow their bosses to make the right deci Read more…

How Advanced Analytics Is Helping to Flush Out Insurance Fraud

Advanced analytics and machine learning modeling require lots of data to be trained, and in the insurance business, there's no better place to get data than Verisk Analytics. Here's how the Jersey City, New Jersey-based Read more…

PayPal Feeds the DL Beast with Huge Vault of Fraud Data

PayPal is no stranger to fraud. As one of the Internet's first online payment services, PayPal has been exposed to every type of wire fraud imaginable (and some beyond imagination). Sometimes the fraudsters had the upper Read more…

‘Experiment Tracker’ Funded for Deep Learning

New software tools aimed at the builders of deep learning platforms and used to analyze and accelerate model training continue to advance as investors zero in on startups coming up with unique ways to track and replicate Read more…

Facebook Releases Another Deep Learning Tool

Facebook has released to open-source developers a deep learning framework that does double duty for computer vision and language tasks. Built on its PyTorch framework, Facebook is positioning Pythia as supporting “ Read more…

Microsoft Applies Deep Learning to Vector Search

Since acquiring GitHub last June, Microsoft has sought to make good on its pledge to retain the project collaboration platform’s “developer-first ethos.” This week it turned over to GitHub an AI search tool as an Read more…

EU Ethics Rules Seek to Balance AI Risks, Benefits

European regulators continue to take the lead on a range of critical technology policy issues spanning data privacy and, now, “trustworthy” AI. On the heels of its sweeping General Data Protection Regulation, cons Read more…

Inside IBM’s Rejiggered Watson Lineup

Think you know Watson? Think again, as IBM has made extensive changes to the lineup of AI and cognitive products and services that bears the name of its founder. Sumit Gupta, the VP of IBM's AI, machine learning, and HPC Read more…

Product Naming with Deep Learning

We do not usually associate artificial intelligence (AI) with creativity. Generally, AI algorithms are used to automatize repetitive tasks or predict new outcomes based on previously seen examples. The creative process c Read more…

Booz Allen Gives Government a Deep Learning Edge

The latest breakthroughs in deep learning technology have emanated from places like Silicon Valley and Toronto, where Turing Award-winner Geoffrey Hinton did his seminal work. But deep learning applications today are fin Read more…

What’s Behind SAS’s $1-Billion AI Investment

SAS's announcement last week that it plans to invest $1 billion in artificial intelligence over the next three years may have taken some by surprise. The Cary, North Carolina company, after all, is the standard-bearer fo Read more…

Nvidia Sees Green in Data Science Workloads

We already knew that GPUs are useful for lots of things besides making Fortnite uncomfortably realistic. All the biggest supercomputers in the world use GPUs to accelerate math, and more recently they've been used to pow Read more…

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