Artificial Intelligence

Facebook acquires Ctrl-labs to advance its brain-machine interface efforts

Facebook this evening announced it intends to buy Ctrl-labs, a New York-based startup developing a wristband that translates musculoneural signals into machine-interpretable commands. The acquisition hasn’t yet closed, and the terms weren’t revealed publicly. (CNBC pegs its size at approximately $1 billion, half the amount Facebook paid to acquire virtual reality company Oculus VR in […]

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A Conversation with Hilary Mason – Gigaom

Today’s leading minds talk AI with host Byron Reese About this Episode On this Episode of Voices in AI features Byron speaking with Hilary Mason, an acclaimed data and research scientist, about the mechanics and philosophy behind designing and building AI. Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com Transcript Excerpt Byron

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AWS launches GPU-powered G4 instances for machine learning, graphics rendering

Amazon Web Services Inc. is making its platform more attractive for companies adopting artificial intelligence. The cloud giant today announced the general availability of the G4 instance family, which consists of six virtual machines optimized for machine learning workloads. They succeed the G3 series that AWS introduced back in 2017. The performance difference is considerable:

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Predict Conference 2019 Bringing Data To Life, 1st October

That time of the year is here again when Predict Conference 2019 takes place covering the world of big data including data science, data analytics and predictive technologies like machine learning and AI. I chatted with Cronan McNamera, Founder and CEO of Creme Global who hosts Predict Conference here in Dublin, Ireland. He kindly answered

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Facebook has acquired Servicefriend, which builds ‘hybrid’ chatbots, for Calibra customer service – TechCrunch

As Facebook prepares to launch its new cryptocurrency Libra in 2020, it’s putting the pieces in place to help it run. In one of the latest developments, it has acquired Servicefriend, a startup that built bots — chat clients for messaging apps based on artificial intelligence — to help customer service teams, TechCrunch has confirmed.

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How machine learning in policing could fuel racial discrimination

The debate over the police using machine learning is intensifying – it is considered in some quarters as controversial as stop and search. Stop and search is one of the most contentious areas of how the police interact with the public. It has been heavily criticized for being discriminatory towards black and minority ethnic groups,

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Customer choice drives Pure’s offering with AWS as it expands hybrid cloud options

When it comes to storage capabilities, what does the hybrid cloud mean to an enterprise? For Pure Storage Inc., the answer is being able to send data inexpensively to the public cloud, having the ability to restore information either on-premises or in the cloud, and backing up data volumes across a multitude of platforms. “What

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Pure’s partnerships in cloud storage offerings position it for competitive future

This week’s Pure//Accelerate conference in Austin, Texas, was an opportunity for Pure Storage Inc. to unveil its hybrid cloud chops this week, and the company did not disappoint. Pure fleshed out its enterprise strategy by announcing the release of Cloud Block Store for Amazon Web Services Inc. and CloudSnap for Microsoft Azure. The firm also unveiled Pure as

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AI Weekly: Automation in the workplace could disproportionately affect women

As AI and machine learning transform industries by automating much of the work currently done by humans, women’s careers will be disproportionately affected. That’s according to a McKinsey Global Institute report published earlier this year (“The future of women at work: Transitions in the age of automation“), which found that in the 10 economies (Canada,

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A Conversation with Gary Marcus – Gigaom

Today’s leading minds talk AI with host Byron Reese About this Episode Episode 96 of Voices in AI features Byron speaking with author and psychologist Gary Marcus about the nature of intelligence and what the mind really means in relation to AI. Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com Transcript Excerpt

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