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Stoke nabs $15.5M to boost its AI-driven freelance management system

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Stoke is announcing it has raised $15.5 million in a series A round of funding. The company, which offers a freelance management system (FMS) to help enterprises manage independent contractors, freelancers, consultants, agencies, and gig workers, will use the funds to build out engineering, product marketing, and sales…
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AI-powered transcription startup Verbit raises $157M

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Verbit today announced the close of a $157 million series D round that the company says will bolster its product R&D and hiring efforts. CEO Tom Livne, who noted that the raise brings the…
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Bias and discrimination in AI: whose responsibility is it to tackle them? 

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. We all have our individual biases hardwired into our perceptions and actions. One might think artificial intelligence (AI) would eliminate our biases and create a level playing field. This is not the case. Since humans create the algorithms that enable AI to learn and make inferences, their biases are inherently…
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Video chat apps tout ‘inclusive’ AI features

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. (Reuters) — Video conferencing services have for years boasted that their technology is “intuitive” to use or “integrated” to function with other tools, but now vendors such as Google and…
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Machine learning security needs new perspectives and incentives

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. At this year’s International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), a team of researchers from the University of Maryland presented an attack technique meant to slow down deep learning models that have been optimized for fast and sensitive operations. The attack, aptly named DeepSloth, targets “adaptive deep…
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AI Weekly: China’s massive multimodal model highlights AI research gap

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. This week, researchers at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) announced the release of Wu Dao 2.0, a multimodal AI model capable of generating text indiscernible from human-crafted prose — and more. Containing 1.75 trillion parameters, the parts of the machine learning model learned from historical…
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