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Natural language understanding tough for neural networks

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. One of the dominant trends of artificial intelligence in the past decade has been to solve problems by creating ever-larger deep learning models. And nowhere is this trend more evident than in natural language processing, one of the most challenging areas of AI. In recent years, researchers have shown that adding…
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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…
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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 podcast hosted by startup Weights & Biases that OpenAI has shifted its focus to other domains, where data is more…
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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 different potential sources of uncertainty. Some, like missing information, unreliable information, conflicting information…
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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…
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A quarter of Taiwanese companies are well into their AI journey

Join live for the final day of Transform 2021, including the AI Innovation & Women in AI Awards. Watch now. At least a quarter of Taiwanese companies have begun operationalizing AI in the organization and reaping the business benefits, according to the latest State of Taiwan Enterprise AI report. A little less than 25% of respondents have either entered, or moved past,  the level 4 stage of…
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