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AI Weekly: What ML practitioners are doing about climate change

September 12, 2020
A lot happened this week deserving of attention in the AI space. wrote an article with GPT-3 and again demonstrated that no matter what OpenAI paid to train and create the language model, the free marketing might be worth more. After losing the JEDI cloud contract appeal with the Pentagon, Amazon appointed Keith Alexander to its board — the man who oversaw the National Security Agency mass…
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Gary Marcus: COVID-19 should be a wake-up call for AI

September 12, 2020
The global pandemic has been cited as a “wake-up call” for many things — the environment, economic and social rights, and general global inequalities. However, scientist, author, and entrepreneur Gary Marcus thinks that the COVID-19 crisis should also be considered a…
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Congress probes how AI will impact U.S. economic recovery

September 11, 2020
AI has the potential to improve human lives and a company’s bottom line, but it can also accelerate inequality and eliminate jobs during the worst U.S. recession on record since the Great Depression. It’s that dual promise and peril that led members of the House Budget…
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Microsoft’s updated DeepSpeed can train trillion-parameter AI models with fewer GPUs

September 11, 2020
Microsoft today released an updated version of its DeepSpeed library that introduces a new approach to training AI models containing trillions of parameters, the variables internal to the model that inform its predictions. The company claims the technique, dubbed 3D parallelism, adapts to the varying needs of workload requirements to power extremely large models while balancing scaling…
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Intel and Samsung detail AI-powered fetal ultrasound tools

September 10, 2020
Intel and Samsung Medison, a division of Samsung developing ultrasonic devices, today detailed AI-powered, FDA-cleared ultrasound solutions — BioAssist and LaborAssist — that automate fetal health measurements. The companies claim BioAssist and LaborAssist can deliver a better understanding of a patient’s birthing progress by automatically taking metrics like fetal angle of progression…
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AI-powered CXM platform Sprinklr raises $200 million at a $2.7 billion valuation

September 9, 2020
AI-powered customer experience management (CXM) platform Sprinklr has raised $200 million at a $2.7 billion valuation from private equity firm Hellman & Friedman. The company has secured an additional $150 million in convertible securities from Sixth Street Growth. Global internet use has surged by up to 70% during the pandemic, according to some figures, with ecommerce seeing significant…
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