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Node raises $6 million to help businesses without AI expertise launch projects

Node today announced the close of a $6 million funding round to enable developers and businesses with little machine learning experience or coding ability to deploy AI in areas like contact centers or talent and customer retention. The round was led by Mark Cuban, with participation from Artco, NewView Capital, Canaan Partners, Gingerbread Capital, and former Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman. Node focuses on…
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IBM’s AI classifies seizures with 98.4% accuracy using EEG data

In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org this week, IBM researchers describe SeizureNet, a machine learning framework that learns the features of seizures to classify various types. They say that it achieves state-of-the-art classification accuracy on a popular data set, and that it helps to improve the classification accuracy of smaller networks for applications with low memory and…
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Researchers’ AI recommends lockdown strategies to curb coronavirus

A preprint paper coauthored by researchers at Microsoft, the Indian Institute of Technology, and TCS Research (the R&D division of Tata Consultancy Services) describes an AI framework designed to help cities and regions make policy decisions about lockdowns, closures, and physical distancing in response to pandemics like COVID-19. They claim that because it learns policies automatically as a…
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Tech leaders highlight military AI and 5G investments they call essential to U.S economy and national security

Some of the biggest names in AI at companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are making recommendations about how the U.S. military and federal government should fund 5G adoption and AI initiatives as part of the forward-looking work of the National Security Council on AI (NSCAI). The NSCAI gives a select group of tech executives agency to make recommendations with the power to affect not just…
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