Day: April 3, 2020
Talking About How We Talk About the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence – NC State News
If you want to understand how people are thinking (and feeling) about new technologies, it’s important to understand how media outlets are thinking (and writing) about new technologies. A recent analysis of how journalists have dealt with the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) suggests that reporters are doing a good job of grappling with a…
AI and ML move into financial services
Depending on who you ask, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are at different stages of maturity in the finance industry, but there is widespread agreement that the technologies are trending upward. On a global scale, AI is expected to become a major business driver across the financial services industry, according to the World…
Royal Dutch Shell reskills workers in artificial intelligence as part of huge energy transition
The Royal Dutch Shell logo Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Working at Royal Dutch Shell’s Deepwater division in New Orleans gives Barbara Waelde a front-row seat to how the right data can unlock crucial information for the oil giant. So when her supervisor asked her last year if she was interested in a…
Royal Dutch Shell reskills workers in artificial intelligence as part of huge energy transition – CNBC
The Royal Dutch Shell logoChris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWorking at Royal Dutch Shell’s Deepwater division in New Orleans gives Barbara Waelde a front-row seat to how the right data can unlock crucial information for the oil giant. So when her supervisor asked her last year if she was interested in a program that…
Seattle machine learning startup OctoML raises $15M from Amplify and Madrona – GeekWire
OctoML CEO Luis Ceze. (Madrona Photo) OctoML is charging ahead with its machine learning deployment software and on Friday announced a $15 million investment round to help support growth. The Seattle startup spun out of the University of Washington this past July, when it raised a $3.9 million seed round. Founded by a group of…
The Artificial Intelligence Index – Wall Street Journal
By Irving Wladawsky-Berger Apr 3, 2020 7:46 am ET Artificial Intelligence has emerged as the defining technology of our era, as transformative over time as the steam engine, electricity, and the internet. While still in its early stages, AI is already reshaping the economy, society, our personal lives and the very nature of work, with…
Google is using machine learning to improve the quality of Duo calls – The Verge
Google has rolled out a new technology to improve audio quality in Duo calls when the service can’t maintain a steady connection called WaveNetEQ. It’s based on technology from Google’s DeepMind division that aims to replace audio jitter with artificial noise that sounds just like human speech, generated using machine learning. If you’ve ever made…
Google and USCF collaborate on machine learning tool to help prevent harmful prescription errors – TechCrunch
Machine learning experts working at Google Health have published a new study in tandem with the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) computational health sciences department that describes a machine learning model the researchers built that can anticipate normal physician drug prescribing patterns, using a patient’s electronic health records (EHR) as input. That’s useful because…
Top Artificial Intelligence Funding and Investments in March 2020 – Analytics Insight
April 3, 2020 0 comments What Artificial Intelligence has in its baggage is known to everyone and thus realizing its potential its funding projections are expected to rise to $46 billion spending by 2020. Billions of dollars are being invested by the venture capital industry to catalyze the rapid technological breakthroughs to enable a future…
AI and ML move into financial services
Depending on who you ask, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are at different stages of maturity in the finance industry, but there is widespread agreement that the technologies are trending upward. On a global scale, AI is expected to become a major business driver across the financial services industry, according to the World…