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IBM Watson exec on AI virtual agent providers: ‘No big players, except for us’

One area of AI that’s red-hot is virtual agents — smart software that companies are building to chat with their customers through text, voice, or a web chat box. IBM says it has emerged as the only serious provider of this technology for the enterprise. Rob Thomas, general manager at IBM overseeing data and AI, recently sat down with VentureBeat founder Matt Marshall for an interview. Thomas…
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5 areas of focus when adopting AI in your organization

Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize financial services. According to the MIT Sloan and Boston Consulting Group’s 2019 Global Executive Study and Research Report, 90% of respondents agree that AI represents a business opportunity for their companies.
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AI Weekly: NeurIPS proves machine learning at scale is hard

The world’s largest AI research conference is underway in Vancouver, Canada. Researchers are presenting more than 1,400 papers at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference, ranging from work that organizers believe has had the greatest impact over the past decade to Yoshua Bengio’s continued march toward consciousness for deep learning. But even as the conference showed…
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Google AI chief Jeff Dean interview: Machine learning trends in 2020

At the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference this week in Vancouver, Canada, machine learning took center stage as 13,000 researchers explored things like neuroscience, how to interpret neural network outputs, or how AI can help solve big real-world problems. With more than 1,400 works accepted for publication, you have to choose how to prioritize your time. For Google AI…
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YouTube's AI docuseries with Robert Downey Jr arrives on December 18th

If you’re going to throw megabucks at a show about AI, you’d better make sure you’ve got the right host for it — and most would agree that YouTube’s decision to get Robert Downey Jr, aka Iron Man, on board for their multimillion dollar The Age of AI endeavor was a pretty good shout. Announced last year, the eight-part show lands on YouTube on December 18th. Episodes…
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