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SoftBank CEO: Japan should make AI mandatory subject for college entrance exams

(Reuters) – SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son said on Tuesday Japan should make artificial intelligence (AI) a mandatory subject for college entrance exams, to counter the yawning gap with the United States and China in the nascent field. Japanese students “don’t study if they are not asked… let’s put it as mandatory, then Japanese students will catch up,” Son told a government…
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Intel's latest acquisition is a $2 billion push into AI

Intel just spent approximately $2 billion to acquire Israel-based AI firm Habana Labs. The partnership will “turbo-charge” Intel’s AI offerings for data centers, Intel said in a press release. Habana Labs makes programmable deep learning accelerators. Its Gaudi AI Training Processor, for instance, is expected to deliver up to four-times the throughput of systems built with the…
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CallMiner raises $75 million to derive insights from phone calls with AI

Despite people of a certain generation’s preference for texting, phone calls haven’t gone the way of the dodo. A recent survey of over 30 million calls conducted by Invoca found a 40% increase in calls across industries, and 75% of consumers say a phone call is the quickest way to get a response from businesses. Plus, phone calls have a 30% to 50% conversion rate, compared to only 1% to 2% for…
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Instagram uses AI to warn users before they post offensive captions

Instagram is launching a new feature that is designed to make users think twice before posting videos or photos with offensive captions. Moving forward, whenever someone tries to post a caption that Instagram detects as being potentially offensive, the user will see an alert asking them to reconsider their words. The alert system is entirely automated, with Instagram leaning on data garnered from…
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