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Hungryroot delivers AI-powered grocery experience

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. There’s Netflix for movies. Stitch Fix for clothes. Hungryroot, an AI-powered delivery service, hopes to occupy a similar niche for online groceries in the United States. The recommender system uses a collaborative filtering, supervised learning model to match consumer preferences to foods. Customers answer questions…
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OpenAI disbands its robotics research team

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. OpenAI has disbanded its robotics team after years of research into machines that can learn to perform tasks like solving a Rubik’s Cube. Company cofounder Wojciech Zaremba quietly revealed on a…
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Announcing the winners of the Women in AI Awards at Transform 2021

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. One of the goals of Transform 2021 is to bring a broad variety of expertise, views, and experiences to the stage — virtual this year — to illustrate all the different ways AI is changing the world. As part of VentureBeat’s commitment to supporting diversity and inclusion in AI, that also means being mindful of who…
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What to do when AI brings more questions than answers

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. The concept of uncertainty in the context of AI can be difficult to grasp at first. At a high level, uncertainty means working with imperfect or incomplete information, but there are countless…
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AI Weekly: Can AI predict labor market trends?

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Perhaps more than any other part of the economy, the labor market is unpredictable. In June, U.S. weekly jobless claims increased unexpectedly even while layoffs eased, to offer one recent…
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AI and financial processes: Balancing risk and reward

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Of all the enterprise functions influenced by AI these days, perhaps none is more consequential than AI and financial processes. People don’t like when other people fiddle with their money, let alone an emotionless robot. But as it usually goes with first impressions, AI is winning converts in monetary circles, in no…
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Attackers can elicit ‘toxic behavior’ from AI translation systems, study finds

Did you miss today’s livestream? Watch the AI at the Edge & IoT Summit on demand now. Neural machine translation (NMT), or AI that can translate between languages, is in widespread use today, owing to its robustness and versatility. But NMT systems can be manipulated if provided prompts containing certain words, phrases, or alphanumeric symbols. For example, in 2015 Google had to fix a…
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