Data sets are fundamental building blocks of AI systems, and this paradigm isn’t likely to ever change. Without a corpus on which to draw, as human beings employ daily, models can’t learn the relationships that inform their predictions.
But why stop at a single corpus? An intriguing report by ABI Research anticipates that while the total installed base of AI devices will grow from 2.69 billion…
NYC creates a high-level position to oversee ethics in AI
November 22, 2019
New York City wants to avoid bias in AI and other algorithms, and it’s creating a role primarily to ensure that equal treatment. Mayor Bill de Blasio has issued an executive order creating a position for an Algorithms Management and Policy Officer. Whoever holds the…
AI is data Pac-Man. Winning requires a flashy new storage strategy.
November 22, 2019
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When it comes to data, AI is like Pac-Man. Hard disk drives, NAS, conventional data center and cloud-based storage schemes can’t sate AI’s voracious appetite for speed and capacity, especially for real time. Playing the game today requires a…
Facebook trains AI to generate worlds in a fantasy text adventure
November 22, 2019
Procedurally generating an interesting video game environment isn’t just challenging — it’s incredibly time-consuming. Tools like Promethean AI, which tap machine learning to generate scenes, promise to ease the design burden somewhat. But barriers remain.
That’s why researchers at Facebook, the University of Lorraine, and the University College London in a preprint research paper…
We’ve seen Google apply its expertise in artificial intelligence in a variety of different fields, including the science of scent. Now the company says it wants to see what AI and machine learning can do when turned to creative fields like fashion and dance. To that…
The latest McKinsey Global Survey released today found that artificial intelligence is having a positive impact on business outcomes, with 63% of respondents reporting an increase in revenue after adoption of the technology. However, only 30% of companies apply AI to…
OpenAI releases Safety Gym for reinforcement learning
November 21, 2019
While much work in data science to date has focused on algorithmic scale and sophistication, safety — that is, safeguards against harm — is a domain no less worth pursuing. This is particularly true in applications like self-driving vehicles, where a machine learning system’s poor judgement might contribute to an accident.
That’s why firms like Intel’s Mobileye and Nvidia have proposed…
Buttigieg and Yang say AI is essential to U.S. national security
November 21, 2019
Presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg and Andrew Yang called artificial intelligence essential to U.S. national security in the fifth Democratic debate on Wednesday.
Buttigieg said the U.S. is spending a fraction of the attention and resources on AI research China is. “If…
Route raises $12 million to track packages with AI
November 21, 2019
It’s a busy time of year for ecommerce retailers — perhaps the busiest by the numbers. An estimated 165.8 million people shopped between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday in 2018, and each purchased an average of 16 gifts during that time frame. Collectively, their haul…
Celonis raises $290 million for AI-powered process mining at $2.5 billion valuation
November 21, 2019
Celonis today closed a $290 million series C round for its solution that uses AI-driven data and process mining to make companies more efficient. This round raised the company’s valuation to $2.5 billion. Today’s news follows a $50 million funding round in June 2018 that was led by Accel and 83North and raised Celonis’ valuation to $1 billion.
Celonis sits on top of existing enterprise IT…
