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Diverse AI teams are key to reducing bias

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…
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BlueOcean raises $15M to measure brand sentiment with AI

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. BlueOcean, a software-as-a-service platform that taps AI to deliver brand strategy insights, today announced that it closed a $15 million series A round led by Insight Partners. The company says that the funds will be used to grow its  team, deepen existing investments in AI, and build on BlueOcean’s existing…
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DNSFilter nabs $30M to fight DNS threats with AI

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. DNSFilter, a Washington, D.C.-based provider of DNS content filtering and threat protection solutions, today announced that it closed a $30 million series A funding round led by investment firm…
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Kohl’s CTO on empowering people and optimizing supply chain with AI

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Say you have a product at a store you want customers to be able to grab off the shelf and buy. How do you balance that with selling the same inventory to people ordering online? How do you decide how much of your inventory you sell online? When someone makes an order online, how do you decide whether to fulfill the…
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Freshworks: 93% of IT managers have deployed AI, or plan to soon

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Nearly all IT managers (93%) are currently exploring or deploying some level of AI to streamline help desk systems, according to a new report from Freshworks.  Half of IT managers said they have already implemented AI tools. Nearly 70% of IT managers said AI is either critical or very important for upgrading and…
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