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AI experts warn Facebook’s anti-bias tool is ‘completely insufficient’

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Facebook today published a blog post detailing Fairness Flow, an internal toolkit the company claims enables its teams to analyze how some types of AI models perform across different groups. Developed in 2018 by Facebook’s Interdisciplinary Responsible AI (RAI) team in consultation with Stanford…
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Cloudera Foundation merger strengthens data science and AI support for nonprofits

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Today, the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation and the Cloudera Foundation, software company Cloudera’s philanthropic arm, announced a merger that will launch an initiative to accelerate data and AI maturity within nonprofits. In a definitive agreement, Silicon Valley-based Cloudera Foundation will merge its…
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Reinforcement learning: The next great AI tech moving from the lab to the real world

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful type of artificial intelligence technology that can be used to learn strategies to optimally control large, complex systems such as manufacturing plants, traffic control systems (road/train/aircraft), financial portfolios, robots, etc. It is currently transitioning…
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Avvir raises $10M for AI that spots construction site errors

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Avvir, a startup using laser scans and AI to catch construction mistakes, today announced that it raised $10 million in a funding round led by Trust Ventures. The New York-based startup, which is valued at $40 million, says it’ll use the funds to expand its workforce while improve its technology…
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