While civic leaders believe AI could help reinvent government services, they are also aware of citizens’ profound privacy concerns.
To navigate this challenge, the Finnish city of Espoo is conducting experiments that mix consultations, transparency, and limited use cases to demonstrate the potential of civic AI. Espoo has already conducted AI trials that initially required overcoming technical…
Natural language models typically have to solve two tough problems: mapping sentence prefixes to fixed-sized representations and using the representations to predict the next word in the text. In a recent paper, researchers at Facebook AI Research assert that the first…
More than 40% of U.S. federal agencies and departments have experimented with AI tools, but only 15% currently use highly sophisticated AI, according to analysis by Stanford University computer scientists published today in “Government by Algorithm,” a joint report from…
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Google used AI and human moderation to take down over 75 million Google Maps reviews
February 19, 2020
Hundreds of millions of people contribute over 20 million reviews, ratings, and other pieces of content to Google Maps’ over 200 million points of interest daily — it’s how the platform continues to grow so rapidly. But user contributions are intrinsically fraught.
SentinelOne raises $200 million for its AI security platform at a $1 billion valuation
February 19, 2020
SentinelOne has raised $200 million in a venture capital round that pushes its valuation past $1 billion as investors continue to bet big on artificial intelligence to bolster cybersecurity.
The Mountain View-based startup has developed a platform that automates endpoint…
Amazon researchers train AI to rewrite queries for better spoken language understanding
February 19, 2020
Ever heard of query rewriting? It’s a technique used to mitigate errors in spoken language understanding (SLU) pipelines like those underpinning Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple’s Siri, and other voice assistants. Many SLU systems are split into two components — an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system responsible for converting audio to text and a natural language understanding…
EU introduces AI strategy to build ‘ecosystem of trust’
February 19, 2020
The European Commission unveiled today a sweeping set of proposals that it hopes will establish the region as a leader in artificial intelligence by focusing on trust and transparency.
The proposals would lead to changes in the way data is collected and shared in an effort…
Dynamics 365, Microsoft’s line of enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management apps, is gaining enhancements intended to aid enterprises in “transforming” their operations. A Dynamics Customer 365 Insights update will bring connectors designed to…
OnSiteIQ raises $4.5 million to improve construction safety using AI and 360-degree imagery
February 18, 2020
OnSiteIQ today announced that it has raised a $4.5 million series A round to grow its AI-powered safety analysis of 360-degree imagery from construction sites.
In addition to supplying computer vision for risk assessment reports, the company’s platform is made to stitch together imagery so construction site managers can examine progress, skimming through footage for a guided tour like Google…
