AI & RoboticsNews

AI improves driver safety with actionable real-time insights

Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here. Crashes and unsafe driving incidents are ever-present concerns in the trucking industry.  According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), there were 4,447 fatal crashes and 114,000 injury crashes among large commercial vehicles in 2019. These were largely the result of distraction, inattentiveness and poor…
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Stanford report shows that ethics challenge continue to dog AI field as funding climbs

Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here. Private investors are pouring more money into AI startups than ever before. At the same time, AI systems are becoming more affordable to train — at least when it comes to certain tasks, like object classification. Troubling, though, language models in the same vein as OpenAI’s GPT-3 are exhibiting greater bias and generating…
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Selector, which develops AIops tools for networking monitoring, raises $28M

Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here. AIops — the practice of applying AI to automate and improve IT operations — has gained currency during the pandemic. As businesses embrace digital transformation strategies involving “multicloud,” or the use of services from more than one cloud vendor, there’s an increasing need to improve the observability and analytics…
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How far should AI’s decision-making authority go?

Perhaps the leading value proposition for artificial intelligence  (AI)  is its propensity to help humans make decisions. With the right data and the right analytics, people can choose a course of action based on solid information, not hunches or guesses, and this is expected to bring dramatic improvements to the business model. Elsewhere, however, AI won’t focus on the choices that humans…
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