Day: April 24, 2020
Is Your Sales Data Clean Enough for a Machine-Learning World? – Business 2 Community
Today’s companies run on data. We track trends, assess results and analyze feedback. Data helps us manage risk, plan for future growth and allocate resources.Data is the foundation of our lead lists, sales pipelines and connections with customers. We collect contact records, integrate industry insight and profile companies based on their technographics (tech stack) and…
Artificial intelligence takes on song-composing duties in Eurovision-inspired contest – Science Magazine
Members of the Australian band Uncanny Valley trained an algorithm using sounds from koalas. Uncanny Valley Music, Sound, and Technology By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Apr. 24, 2020 , 3:30 PM A contest inspired by the popular annual Eurovision music competition has drawn entries composed with the help of unusual songwriters—artificial intelligence (AI) programs. For the…
What is the impact of AI and ML tools on cybersecurity?
89% of IT professionals believe their company could be doing more to defend against cyberattacks, with 64% admitting they are not sure what AI/ML means – despite increased adoption at a global scale, Webroot reveals. The report, which reveals how global IT professionals perceive and utilize these advancing technologies in business, also found that the…
IBM’s The Weather Channel app using machine learning to forecast allergy hotspots
The Weather Channel is now using artificial intelligence and weather data to help people make better decisions about going outdoors based on the likelihood of suffering from allergy symptoms. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, most people are taking precautionary measures in an effort to ward off coronavirus, which is highly communicable and dangerous. It’s no surprise…
Devlog 2 – Using Machine Learning to Create AI Opponents – Gamasutra
Gamasutra: Aaron Maus’s Blog – Devlog 2 – Using Machine Learning to Create AI Opponents Informa Gamasutra is part of the Informa Tech Division of Informa PLC This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them. Informa PLC’s registered office is 5 Howick Place, London…
Assessment of Supervised Machine Learning for Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanets – Space Ref
Status Report From: arXiv.org e-Print archive Posted: Friday, April 24, 2020 Matthew C. Nixon, Nikku MadhusudhanAtmospheric retrieval of exoplanets from spectroscopic observations requires an extensive exploration of a highly degenerate and high-dimensional parameter space to accurately constrain atmospheric parameters. Retrieval methods commonly conduct Bayesian parameter estimation and statistical inference using sampling algorithms such as Markov…
Microsoft Office 365: How these Azure machine-learning services will make you more productive and efficient – TechRepublic
Office can now suggest better phrases in Word or entire replies in Outlook, design your PowerPoint slides, and coach you on presenting them. Microsoft built those features with Azure Machine Learning and big models – while keeping your Office 365 data private. The Microsoft Office clients have been getting smarter for several years: the first…
What is the impact of AI and ML tools on cybersecurity?
89% of IT professionals believe their company could be doing more to defend against cyberattacks, with 64% admitting they are not sure what AI/ML means – despite increased adoption at a global scale, Webroot reveals. The report, which reveals how global IT professionals perceive and utilize these advancing technologies in business, also found that the…
Artificial intelligence: How machine-learning jobs are giving refugees a future in tech
The influx of refugees into the EU over the past five years has brought many challenges for its member states. But eastern EU countries have particularly felt the impact, in part because their economies are less developed than their western counterparts. However in Bulgaria, which remains the EU’s poorest member state, one company has managed…
Six from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2020
Six MIT faculty members are among more than 250 leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced Thursday. One of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, the academy is also a leading center for independent policy research. Members contribute to…