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Mastercard’s VP of AI talks bots, NLP, and why fintechs need AI for customer service (VB Live)

September 23, 2020
Presented by DefinedCrowd Companies like Mastercard are implementing AI strategies that are transforming how customer experience is done. Join this VB Live event for insights on why AI is essential for fintech companies, plus how to implement it, how to make it perfom, and more. Register here for free. AI has been around for a long time — it’s only in the last three or four years that people…
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YouTube's AI can automatically age-restrict inappropriate videos

September 23, 2020
YouTube already uses machine learning to flag inappropriate content for its Trust and Safety team to review, but moving forward, the company plans to expand the use of the technology. Starting later this year, YouTube will use machine learning to add age restrictions to inappropriate videos automatically. As part of the same initiative, YouTube plans to make it more difficult for children to…
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Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model

September 22, 2020
Microsoft today announced that it will exclusively license GPT-3, one of the most powerful language understanding models in the world, from AI startup OpenAI. In a blog post, Microsoft EVP Kevin Scott said that the new deal will allow Microsoft to leverage OpenAI’s technical innovations to develop and deliver AI solutions for customers, as well as create new solutions that harness the power of…
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AI Weekly: Cutting-edge language models can produce convincing misinformation if we don’t stop them

September 19, 2020
It’s been three months since OpenAI launched an API underpinned by cutting-edge language model GPT-3, and it continues to be the subject of fascination within the AI community and beyond. Portland State University computer science professor Melanie Mitchell found evidence that GPT-3 can make primitive analogies, and Columbia University’s Raphaël Millière asked GPT-3 to compose a response to…
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