AI & Robotics

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…

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Device42, a cloud discovery platform, this month launched a multicloud migration and recommendation engine the company claims is the first to support all major cloud providers. Using machine learning to drive its suggestions, Device42 says the service can perform real-time discovery of IT resources to create an…

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Late last week, OpenAI confirmed it shuttered its robotics division in part due to difficulties in collecting the data necessary to break through technical barriers. After years of research into machines that can learn to perform tasks like solving a Rubik’s Cube, company cofounder Wojciech Zaremba said it makes sense…

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. An Amazon-built resume-rating algorithm, when trained on men’s resumes, taught itself to prefer male candidates and penalize resumes that included the word “women.” A major hospital’s algorithm, when asked to assign risk scores to patients, gave white patients similar scores to Black patients who were…