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Leaders from Google, Adobe, and more talk benefits and bias at the Conversational AI Summit

July 21, 2020
Presented by Cloudera  “I’m extremely excited about the future of the intersection between conversational AI and the multitude of platforms that are being developed around these capabilities,” said Linden Hillebrand, VP Global Customer Success and Support at Cloudera during his opening remarks at the Transform 2020 Conversational AI Summit. Over the course of the day tech giants from Adobe…
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AI needs systemic solutions to systemic bias, injustice, and inequality

July 18, 2020
Watch all the Transform 2020 sessions on-demand right here. At the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion breakfast at VentureBeat’s AI-focused Transform 2020 event, a panel of AI practitioners, leaders, and academics discussed the changes that need to happen in the industry to make AI safer, more equitable, and more representative of the people to whom AI is applied. The wide-ranging conversation…
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eBay CTO: AI is now an ‘ecosystem’ for us

July 18, 2020
While eBay could have used any number of existing AI platforms to enhance its various products, the company instead elected to build its own AI system — dubbed Krylov — in-house and make it open source for anyone to use. That decision appears to be paying off. The San…
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Adobe CIO Stoddard: AI bots can ‘cut toil,’ reduce demands for IT help

July 16, 2020
While average people know Adobe mostly as the company behind Photoshop, their consumption of digital and printed content created by Adobe apps is incalculable, thanks largely to its Creative Cloud of increasingly AI-driven professional applications. So Adobe CIO Cynthia Stoddard’s fireside chat at VentureBeat’s Transform 2020 digital conference was of special interest today, as the senior…
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Graphcore claims its M2000 AI computer hits 1 petaflop

July 15, 2020
Last Chance: Register for Transform, VB’s AI event of the year, hosted online July 15-17. Graphcore, a U.K.-based company developing accelerators for AI workloads, this morning unveiled the second generation of its Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs), which will soon be made available in the company’s M2000 IPU Machine. Graphcore claims this new GC200 chip will enable the M2000 to…
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