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How AI can reduce customer service costs by up to 30% (VB Live)

September 15, 2020
Presented by DefinedCrowd Customer experience is key to a customer retention rate that leads to more deals and revenue. Learn how companies like MasterCard are implementing AI strategies that are transforming how customer experience is done when you join this VB Live event. Register here for free. Every year, businesses spend over $1 trillion on customer service calls. But AI and natural…
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Boston Dynamics CEO talks profitability and the company’s next robots

September 14, 2020
Founded in 1992, Boston Dynamics is arguably the best-known robot company around, in part because its demonstration videos tend to go viral. Now it is attempting to transform from an R&D company to a robotics business, with an eye on profitability for the first time. When we interviewed Boston Dynamics founder and former CEO Marc Raibert in November 2019, we discussed the company’s…
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The promise of voice AI in game development

September 14, 2020
AI voices are sounding more realistic today than ever before in the history of synthetic voice technology. What started as simple text-to-speech (TTS), combined with hundreds of hours of recorded dialog, has evolved into more natural-sounding AI voices, synthesized from just…
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AI Weekly: What ML practitioners are doing about climate change

September 12, 2020
A lot happened this week deserving of attention in the AI space. wrote an article with GPT-3 and again demonstrated that no matter what OpenAI paid to train and create the language model, the free marketing might be worth more. After losing the JEDI cloud contract appeal with the Pentagon, Amazon appointed Keith Alexander to its board — the man who oversaw the National Security Agency mass…
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Gary Marcus: COVID-19 should be a wake-up call for AI

September 12, 2020
The global pandemic has been cited as a “wake-up call” for many things — the environment, economic and social rights, and general global inequalities. However, scientist, author, and entrepreneur Gary Marcus thinks that the COVID-19 crisis should also be considered a…
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Congress probes how AI will impact U.S. economic recovery

September 11, 2020
AI has the potential to improve human lives and a company’s bottom line, but it can also accelerate inequality and eliminate jobs during the worst U.S. recession on record since the Great Depression. It’s that dual promise and peril that led members of the House Budget…
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Microsoft’s updated DeepSpeed can train trillion-parameter AI models with fewer GPUs

September 11, 2020
Microsoft today released an updated version of its DeepSpeed library that introduces a new approach to training AI models containing trillions of parameters, the variables internal to the model that inform its predictions. The company claims the technique, dubbed 3D parallelism, adapts to the varying needs of workload requirements to power extremely large models while balancing scaling…
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