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KeepTruckin uses Ambarella AI chips to monitor truck drivers

August 12, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. KeepTruckin, a fleet management company, said today it will use Ambarella AI processors in its dashboard camera to monitor both road conditions and truck driver awareness. KeepTruckin will use the chips in its AI Dashcam, which can signal alerts if a driver is unaware of an upcoming hazard, or if the driver is simply…
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AI datasets are prone to mismanagement, study finds

August 11, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Public datasets like Duke University’s DukeMTMC are often used to train, test, and fine-tune machine learning algorithms that make their way into production, sometimes with controversial…
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Audit finds gender and age bias in OpenAI’s CLIP model

August 11, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. In January, OpenAI released Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), an AI model trained to recognize a range of visual concepts in images and associate them with their names. CLIP performs quite well on classification tasks — for instance, it can caption an image of a dog “a photo of a dog.” But according…
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Deepbrain boosts AI-powered virtual avatars with $44M raise

August 10, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Deepbrain AI (formerly Moneybrain), a conversational AI startup based in Seoul, South Korea, has raised $44 million in a series B round led by Korea Development Bank at a post-money valuation of $180 million. The capital will be used to expand the company’s customer base and operations globally, CEO Eric Jang said in…
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Data labeling platform Snorkel AI nabs $85M

August 9, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Data labeling platform Snorkel AI today announced it has raised $85 million in a series C round co-led by Addition and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, with participation from Greylock…
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Eden AI launches platform to unify ML APIs

August 9, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Large cloud vendors like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and IBM offer APIs enterprises can use to take advantage of powerful AI models. But comparing these models — both in terms of performance and…
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AI’s real effect on jobs? It’s complicated

August 9, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. To some, AI is a job killer. To others, it is a job enhancer. But like every other form of labor development since the first farmer hitched an ox to a plow and displaced a hundred field hands, AI’s impact on the modern job market will be mixed. Without question, AI will take on many tasks that humans are doing now.
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