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The White House’s new AI principles won’t solve regulatory problems

This week, the White House released 10 AI Principles, intended as guidance for federal agencies while they consider how to appropriately regulate AI in the private sector. It’s an effort to reduce AI’s potential harms, which have come under scrutiny all over the world, while maintaining the maximum benefits to society. The industry has been awaiting this moment amid lingering uncertainty…
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Brazil is emerging as a world-class AI innovation hub

Brazil’s government has big plans for AI, despite having come late to the party. In Oxford Insights’ AI Readiness Index 2019, Brazil was ranked 40 out of 192 countries, a sign that the South American powerhouse is moving up in the AI world. The report looks at how ready…
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Warner Bros. will use AI to help make decisions on movie releases

AI is about to play more of a role in the movie-making process. Warner Bros. Pictures has unveiled plans to use Cinelytic’s AI project management system to assist in making decisions on movies during the “greenlight process.” No, it won’t have the final say on whether or not a movie goes forward. Rather, this will help the studio predict a movie’s revenue, gauge…
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Evolv raises $30 million to expedite security screenings with AI

Perhaps the worst thing about air travel is having to wade through congested airport security. Wait times at airports like Salt Lake City International and Washington Dulles regularly exceed half an hour on average, and that’s assuming folks follow TSA instructions. The founders of Evolv Technology, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based security startup specializing in tech-based screening technology…
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Lyft releases Flyte, a platform for maintaining AI workflows

Hot on the heels of Uber’s open-sourcing of an AI debugging tool this morning, Lyft announced the release of Flyte, which it describes as a structured and distributed platform for concurrent, scalable, and maintainable machine learning workflows. The company says that Flyte has been serving AI model training and data processing internally for over three years, becoming the tool of choice for…
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