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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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Microsoft open-sources Counterfit, an AI security risk assessment tool

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Microsoft today open-sourced Counterfit, a tool designed to help developers test the security of AI and machine learning systems. The company says that Counterfit can enable organizations to conduct assessments to ensure that the algorithms used in their businesses are robust, reliable, and trustworthy. AI is being…
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Zammo unfurls conversational AI integration service

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Zammo.ai today launched a conversational AI platform that makes it simpler to engage customers via multiple voice assistants, interactive voice response (IVR)/telephony, and chatbots without having…
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Reinforcement learning competition pushes the boundaries of embodied AI

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Since the early decades of artificial intelligence, humanoid robots have been a staple of sci-fi books, movies, and cartoons. Yet after decades of research and development in AI, we still have nothing that comes close to The Jetsons’ Rosey the Robot. This is because many of our intuitive planning and motor skills —…
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