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Companies are commercializing multimodal AI models to analyze videos and more

Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here. Earlier this month, researchers at the Allen Institute for AI — a nonprofit founded by late Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen — released an interactive demo of a system they describe as part of a “new generation” of AI applications that can analyze, search across, and respond to questions about videos “at scale.” Called…
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Dennis Fong’s GGWP raises $12M for AI to combat game toxicity

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! GGWP has raised $12 million in seed funding to use AI and content moderation to reduce toxicity in online games. Dennis “Thresh” Fong is still a pretty darn good gamer decades after he was one of the earliest esports celebrities. But when he played with some of his…
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Meta’s Yann LeCun strives for human-level AI

Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here. What is the next step toward bridging the gap between natural and artificial intelligence? Scientists and researchers are divided on the answer. Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta and the recipient of the…
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Andrew Ng predicts the next 10 years in AI

Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here. Did you ever feel you’ve had enough of your current line of work and wanted to shift gears? If you have, you’re definitely not alone. Besides taking part in the Great Resignation, however, there are also…
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Deep generative models could offer the most promising developments in AI

Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here. This article is contributed by Rick Hao, lead deep tech partner at pan-European VC Speedinvest. With an annual growth rate of 44%, the market for AI and machine learning is drawing continued interest from business leaders across every industry. With some projections estimating that AI will boost the GDP of some local economies…
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Examining the ethics of AI development

Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here. This article is contributed by Brian Gilmore, director of IoT Product Management at InfluxData. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a concept that gets batted around freely these days. Generally, the public tends…
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AI Weekly: New poll shows public’s view of facial recognition, DOJ isn’t tracking predictive policing spending

Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here. This week in AI, a new Pew Center poll shed light on Americans’ views of AI, including the use of facial recognition by police. In other news, the U.S. Justice Department revealed it hasn’t kept “specific record[s]” on its purchases of predictive policing technologies, a category of technologies that investigations have…
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