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The 2020 data and AI landscape

October 22, 2020
When COVID hit the world a few months ago, an extended period of gloom seemed all but inevitable. Yet many companies in the data ecosystem have not just survived but in fact thrived. Perhaps most emblematic of this is the blockbuster IPO of data warehouse provider Snowflake that took place a couple of weeks ago and catapulted Snowflake to a $69 billion market cap at the time of writing – the…
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Landing AI launches product inspection platform for manufacturers

October 21, 2020
Landing AI is today launching LandingLens, a computer vision platform that enables manufacturers to train AI models. The goal is to help businesses more quickly deploy AI for visual inspection of products ranging from automotive components to semiconductors and parts for steel manufacturing and appliance and electronics assembly. Landing AI founder Andrew Ng told VentureBeat LandingLens is…
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Salesforce’s Simulation Cards spell out uses, risks, and bias to make AI models more transparent

October 21, 2020
Salesforce recently open-sourced Foundation (formerly AI Economist), an AI research simulation for exploring tax policies. To accompany its release, the company this week published what it’s calling a Simulation Card, a file to document the use, risks, and sources of bias in published versions of the simulation. Simulation Cards join ongoing efforts to bring transparency to historically…
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Google revives its AI-fueled photo printing service

October 20, 2020
Google just made good on its promise to bring back its AI-based Photos printing service, and this time it’s more affordable. The upcoming premium print series will once again have machine learning select your 10 best photos each month, but you’ll now pay a slightly more…
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Cyberpunk 2077's dialogue was lip-synced by AI

October 20, 2020
Cyberpunk 2077 is just a few weeks away and the action-packed RPG will launch with support for dialogue in 10 languages and subtitle options for several others. CD Projekt Red is aiming to add a deeper layer of immersion for players by using artificial intelligence to lip sync the dialogue in multiple languages. The game’s lead character technical director, Mateusz Popławski, said in a…
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