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Researchers’ AI system strips identifiable attributes like gender from speech recordings

In a study accepted to the 2020 International Conference on Machine Learning last week, researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology and the RISE Research Institutes of Sweden propose a privacy-preserving technique that learns to obfuscate attributes like gender in speech data. They use a model that’s trained to filter sensitive information in recordings and then generate new and private…
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eBay CTO: AI is now an ‘ecosystem’ for us

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 Jose-based company has made no secret of its AI ambitions over the past four years, hoovering up technical talent via…
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Cloudera built its conversational AI chops by keeping things simple

When enterprise data software company Cloudera looked into using conversational AI to improve its customer support question-and-answer experience, it didn’t want to go slow, said senior director of engineering Adam Warrington in a conversation at Transform 2020. When your company is new to conversational AI, conventional wisdom says you might gradually ease into it with a simple use case and an…
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Graphcore claims its M2000 AI computer hits 1 petaflop

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…
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Abacus.ai, founded by Amazon and Google alums, raises $13 million to match projects with AI models

AI startup Abacus.ai today announced the close of a $13 million series A round for its cloud platform for AI services. The company was founded last year by a team with experience scaling AI projects at AWS and Google, including BigQuery cocreator Siddartha Naidu, former AWS manager of AI vertical services Bindu Reddy, and former Uber engineer Arvind Sundararajan. The company also announced today…
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