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Facebook proposes NetHack as a grand challenge in AI research

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Facebook today proposed NetHack as a grand challenge for AI research, for which the company is launching a competition at the NeurIPS 2021 AI conference in Sydney, Australia. It’s Facebook’s assertion that NetHack, an ’80s video game with simple visuals that’s considered among the hardest in the world, can enable…
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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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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 report, digital health care, manufacturing, and retail businesses are particularly likely to expand their use of edge computing…
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IBM releases AI model toolkit to help developers measure uncertainty

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. At its Digital Developer Conference today, IBM open-sourced Uncertainty Quantification 360 (UQ360), a new toolkit focused on enabling AI to understand and communicate its uncertainty. Following in the footsteps of IBM’s AI Fairness 360 and AI Explainability 360, the goal of UQ360 is to foster community practices across…
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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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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 Cisco can hardly go a blog post without trumpeting a different attribute: “inclusive.” The latest buzzword, and the product…
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