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AI vendors must offer more solutions for niche use cases

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Most AI vendors develop solutions that target broad use cases with large markets. This is because investors have shown they are only interested in a target market if it is worth several billion dollars. Therefore smaller markets have been excluded, and AI solution ideas designed for niche markets often die out and the…
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AI Weekly: AI adoption is driving cloud growth

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. The adoption of cloud technologies continues to accelerate. According to the newest report from Canalys, in Q2 2021, companies spent $5 billion more on cloud infrastructure services compared to…
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How to approach AI more responsibly, according to a top AI ethicist

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Enterprise AI platform DataRobot says it builds 2.5 million models a day, and Haniyeh Mahmoudian is personally invested in making sure they’re all as ethically and responsibly built as possible. Mahmoudian, a winner of VentureBeat’s Women in AI responsibility and ethics award, literally wrote the code for it. An…
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DeepMind’s XLearn trains AI agents to complete complex tasks

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. DeepMind today detailed its latest efforts to create AI systems capable of completing a range of different, unique tasks. By designing a virtual environment called XLand, the Alphabet-backed lab says that it managed to train systems with the ability to succeed at problems and games including hide and seek, capture the…
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InVia Robotics raises $30M for warehouse robotics push

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. InVia Robotics, an industrial robotics company based in Los Angeles, California, today announced it has raised $30 million in a series C round co-led by Microsoft’s M12 Ventures and Qualcomm…
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Can you teach AI common sense?

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Even before they speak their first words, human babies develop mental models about objects and people. This is one of the key capabilities that allows us humans to learn to live socially and cooperate (or compete) with each other. But for artificial intelligence, even the most basic behavioral reasoning tasks remain a…
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