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DeepMind's latest AI breakthrough can accurately predict the way proteins fold

Alphabet-owned DeepMind may be best known for building the AI that beat a world-class Go player, but the company announced another, perhaps more vital breakthrough this morning. As part of its work for the 14th Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction, or CASP, DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 AI has shown it can guess how certain proteins will fold themselves with surprising accuracy. In…
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Playing psychotherapist to a troubled AI in 'Syntherapy'

In the visual novel Syntherapy, everyone has a complex: The president of the university, the Clippy-like OS assistant and especially the depressed AI who you’ve been sent to help. Not to mention the protagonist. Set about 20 years in the future, the game’s narrative is…
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SmartCow’s new dev kit promises conversational AI, video apps

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. Enterprises needing to beef up development of conversational AI and video-based applications may want to know about SmartCow.ai, an AI engineering company specializing in video analytics and AIoT devices that use containers for deployments. The artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) is a newly named IT…
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Why AI is a small business’s best friend

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. Artificial intelligence is rapidly making its way into the small-and-medium business (SMB) layer of the economy, with the same promises and pitfalls that it has brought to large…
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Report: A majority of consumers believe AI will have a positive impact in the next decade

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. A new study from Prolego found a new and growing group — the AI native, defined by their ability to build relationships with the surrounding AI. They have an intuitive understanding of the rules of AI and how to shape it for their needs. They co-create with artificial intelligence and are willing to…
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Aporia takes aim at ML observability, responsible AI and more

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. Is there a line connecting machine learning observability to explainability, leading to responsible AI? Aporia, an observability platform for machine learning, thinks so. After launching its platform in 2021, and seeing good traction, Aporia today announced a $25 million series A funding…
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