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Yelp built an AI system to identify spam and inappropriate photos

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Malicious actors are constantly finding ways to circumvent platforms’ policies and game their systems — and 2020 was no exception. According to online harassment tracker L1ght, in the first few weeks of the pandemic, there was a 40% increase in toxicity on popular gaming services including Discord. Anti-fraud experts…
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Edge AI chipset developer Sima.ai raises $80M

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Sima.ai, a company developing embedded edge hardware for machine learning applications, today announced that it raised $80 million in a series B round led by Fidelity Management & Research…
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Mythic raises $70M to disrupt AI chips with analog and flash components

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Mythic has raised $70 million to fund the analog-based AI processors it plans to launch later this year. Mythic has spent nine years coming up with a patented, potentially disruptive way to compete with other makers of artificial intelligence chips. The company emphasizes energy efficiency and lower cost with its design…
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IBM’s CodeNet dataset aims to train AI to tackle programming challenges

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. At its Think conference this week, IBM introduced Project CodeNet, which the company claims is the largest open source dataset for benchmarking around AI for code. Consisting of 14 million code examples, 500 million lines of code, and 55 programming languages including C++, Java, Python, Go, COBOL, Pascal, and FORTRAN…
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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 complicated tasks in a wide range of areas, such as mathematics, games, and photorealistic image generation. But some of the early…
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