AI & Robotics

Berbix, a startup developing an “automated” identity verification platform, today closed a $9 million funding round. A spokesperson told VentureBeat the new capital is being earmarked for team and customer growth. According to McKinsey, the “ID-verification-as-a-service” market will grow from $10 billion in 2017 to between $16 billion and $20 billion in 2022. This boom is driven in part by…

The Vector Institute, an independent nonprofit dedicated to advancing AI, today established a team to commercialize its industrial and health care research. This group will create tools, frameworks, and model templates while helping organizations operationalize models within their markets. Moreover, Vector says it will be responsible for procuring computing infrastructure to scale the…

In his book, “T-Minus AI,” Michael Kanaan calls attention to the need for the U.S. to wake up to AI in the same way that China and Russia have — as a matter of national importance amid global power shifts. In 1957, Russia launched the Sputnik satellite into orbit. Kanaan writes that it was both a technological and a military feat. As Sputnik orbited Earth, suddenly the U.S. was confronted by…

In the big data domain, researchers need to ensure that conclusions are consistently verifiable. But that can be particularly challenging in medicine because physicians themselves aren’t always sure about disease diagnoses and treatment plans. To investigate how machine learning research has historically handled medical uncertainties, scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas; the…