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One-third of organizations are using AI, IBM survey finds

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Almost a third of organizations are using some form of AI, with 43% reporting that their rollout accelerated as a result of the pandemic. That’s according to a new Morning Consult study commissioned by IBM, which revealed that while AI adoption was flat over the last year, momentum shifted with changing business…
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U.S. Senate committee revised a draft bill to fund AI, quantum, biotech

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. (Reuters) -U.S. Senate committee leaders have drafted a compromise $110 billion measure for basic and advanced technology research and science over five years and the creation of a White House chief manufacturing officer in the face of rising competitive pressure from China, according to a copy of the 131-page draft…
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AI is turning us into de facto cyborgs

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Progress in technology and increased levels of private investment in startup AI companies is accelerating, according to the 2021 AI Index, an annual study of AI impact and progress developed by an…
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The four most common fallacies about AI

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. The history of artificial intelligence has been marked by repeated cycles of extreme optimism and promise followed by disillusionment and disappointment. Today’s AI systems can perform…
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AI Weekly: Qualcomm’s AI research and development efforts

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. This week marked the start of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2021, an event dedicated to research in deep learning, a subfield of AI inspired by the structure of the brain. One of the world’s largest machine learning conferences, it accepted 860 research papers from thousands of…
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It’s time to train professional AI risk managers

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Last year I wrote about how AI regulations will lead to the emergence of professional AI risk managers. This has already happened in the financial sector where regulations patterned after Basel…
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How AI is helping Nvidia improve U.S. Postal Service delivery

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Nvidia this week detailed a partnership with the U.S. Postal Service to transform the latter’s mail operations with AI. According to Nvidia, its machine learning resources and tools enabled the Postal Service to process over 20 terabytes of images a day from more than 1,000 mail processing machines using 195 edge…
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