Chatbots have a checkered past of often not delivering the performance their providers have promised. This is especially true in the IT service management (ITSM) and multilingual NLP spaces, where service desks found support teams deluged with complaints — yes, about the support chatbots.
Just getting English language nuance right and how enterprises communicate often require chatbots to be…
4 things VCs get wrong about AI
October 24, 2021
VCs have a detailed playbook for investing in software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies that has served them well in recent years. Successful SaaS businesses provide predictable, recurring revenue that can be grown by acquiring more subscriptions at little additional cost…
Mailchimp employs AI to boost email marketing campaigns
October 22, 2021
Earlier this month, Mailchimp released Content Optimizer, a new product that uses artificial intelligence to help improve the performance of email marketing campaigns.
Thanks to its vast trove of data, Mailchimp is in a unique position to discover common patterns of…
Medtronic, the world’s largest medical device company, is significantly increasing its investments into AI and other technologies, in what it says is an effort to help the health care industry catch up with other industries.
While many other industries have embraced technology, health care has been slower. Studies reveal that only 20% of consumers would trust AI-generated health care…
NATO launches AI strategy and $1B fund as defense race heats up
October 22, 2021
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the military alliance of 30 countries that border the North Atlantic Ocean, this week announced that it would adopt its first AI strategy and launch a “future-proofing” fund with the goal of investing around $1 billion.
FACT-Finder, a company that offers ecommerce companies tools to personalize their site with things like AI-driven recommendations, said it has acquired Loop54, a company that provides personalized search results.
It’s the latest in a trend of consolidation in the ecommerce…
AI-driven strategies are becoming mainstream, survey finds
October 21, 2021
Deloitte today released the fourth edition of its State of AI in the Enterprise report, which surveyed 2,857 business decision-makers between March and May 2021 about their perception of AI technologies. Few organizations claim to be completely AI-powered, the responses show, but a significant percentage are beginning to adopt practices that could get them there.
In the survey, Deloitte explored…
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Deep North, a Foster City, California-based startup applying computer vision to security camera footage, today announced that it raised $16.7 million in a…
Nvidia announced today that Isaac, its developer toolbox for supporting AI-powered robotics, will deepen support of the Robot Operating System (ROS).
The announcement is being made this morning at ROS World 2021, a conference for developers, engineers, and hobbyists who work…
Intel open-sources AI-powered tool to spot bugs in code
October 21, 2021
Intel today open-sourced ControlFlag, a tool that uses machine learning to detect problems in computer code — ideally to reduce the time required to debug apps and software. In tests, the company’s machine programming research team says that ControlFlag has found hundreds of defects in proprietary, “production-quality” software, demonstrating its usefulness.
“Last year, ControlFlag…
