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As the IBM Watson experience shows, the path to AI success is fraught with challenges. Yet overall, it has been a very good year for AI and the companies developing it. So much so that Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, in a recent podcast recorded by BBC, says: “I view [AI] as a very profound enabling technology. If you…
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If your company has yet to embrace AI, you’re in a race against the clock. And by my calculations, you have just three years left.
How did I arrive at 2024 as the deadline for AI adoption? My…
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Late last week, OpenAI confirmed it shuttered its robotics division in part due to difficulties in collecting the data necessary to break through technical barriers. After years of research into…
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There is a significant gap between an organization’s ambitions for using artificial intelligence (AI) and the reality of how those projects turn out, Intel chief data scientist Dr. Melvin Greer said in a conversation with VentureBeat founder and CEO Matt Marshall at last week’s Transf0rm 2021 virtual conference.
One…
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The pandemic spurred investments in AI across nearly every industry. That’s according to CB Insights’ AI in the Numbers Q2 2021 report, which found that AI startups attracted record funding…
Diverse AI teams are key to reducing bias
July 22, 2021
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An Amazon-built resume-rating algorithm, when trained on men’s resumes, taught itself to prefer male candidates and penalize resumes that included the word “women.”
A major hospital’s…
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A global survey published today finds nearly a third (31%) of respondents consider the social impact of bias in models to be AI’s biggest challenge. This is followed by concerns about the impact AI is likely to have on data privacy (21%). More troubling, only 10% of respondents said their organization has addressed…
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When it comes to filing taxes, some people prefer to handle it all by themselves. Other people prefer to let the experts take care of everything. For the people somewhere in the middle, Intuit has…
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BlueOcean, a software-as-a-service platform that taps AI to deliver brand strategy insights, today announced that it closed a $15 million series A round led by Insight Partners. The company says…
DNSFilter nabs $30M to fight DNS threats with AI
July 21, 2021
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DNSFilter, a Washington, D.C.-based provider of DNS content filtering and threat protection solutions, today announced that it closed a $30 million series A funding round led by investment firm Insight Partners. CEO Ken Carnesi said that the proceeds, which bring DNSFilter’s total raised to $36 million, will put…
