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The pandemic led to ‘significant’ increase in AI adoption across manufacturing, survey finds

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. New research from Google Cloud and The Harris Poll reveals that the pandemic led to a significant increase in AI use across manufacturers. According to a survey of senior executives at over 1,000 companies, two-thirds of manufacturers that use AI in their day-to-day operations report that their reliance on AI is increasing…
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How AI and mosquito sex parties can save the world

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Diptera.ai has raised a $3 million seed round to fight mosquitoes with mosquitoes — and AI-based sex sorting. Jerusalem-based Diptera.ai has figured out a way to use AI to fight the growing threat…
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Google used reinforcement learning to design next-gen AI accelerator chips

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. In a preprint paper published a year ago, scientists at Google Research including Google AI lead Jeff Dean described an AI-based approach to chip design that could learn from past experience and improve over time, becoming better at generating architectures for unseen components. They claimed it completed designs in under…
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How edge AI can make enterprises more agile

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of edge computing, or computation and data storage that’s located close to where it’s needed. According to the Linux Foundation’s State of the Edge…
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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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