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Vector Institute’s AI makes predictions about random events like market trades

A paper coauthored by researchers at the University of Toronto’s Vector Institute and Google describes an AI technique tailored to health, science, and finance predictions called neural stochastic differential equations (SDEs). It enables the modeling of random events that might affect a person, price, or the state of a complex system — a system comprised of many parts that might interact…
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Dtex raises $17.5 million to detect cyberthreats with AI while preserving privacy

Cybersecurity threat remediation provider Dtex today announced it has raised $17.5 million. The funds will be used to expand into new and existing verticals, including banking and financial services, critical infrastructure, government, defense, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, and manufacturing. Dtex differentiates itself in the multi-billion-dollar threat intelligence market with a GDPR-compliant…
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How Microsoft, OpenAI, and OECD are putting AI ethics principles into practice

Microsoft’s AI ethics committee helped craft internal Department of Defense contract policy, and G20 member nations wouldn’t have passed AI ethics principles if it weren’t for Japanese leadership. That’s according to a case study examining projects at Microsoft, OpenAI, and OECD out this week. Published Tuesday, the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) case study examines…
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Facebook’s AI detects gender bias in text

In a technical paper published this week, Facebook researchers describe a framework that decomposes gender bias in text along several dimensions, which they used to annotate data sets and evaluate gender bias classifiers. If the experimental results are any indication, the…
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PinkLion’s Jennifer Bonine: AI is dramatically changing game testing

Presented by PinkLion.AI “Now that we’re all in this unique situation with COVID-19, do we have an opportunity to do something dramatically different together?” asked Jennifer Bonine, co-founder and CEO of PinkLion.AI, at GamesBeat 2020. “What are some of the new strategies we’re going to leverage in our companies to change the way we’ve been doing things and re-architect how we look…
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