Machine learning algorithms aren’t just technological novelties relegated to tasks like picking out faces in crowded places. In the enterprise, they can surface patterns and relationships that would otherwise have been missed. To do just that, Outlier.ai’s business analysis platform extracts data from internal and external sources and analyzes it to spot critical changes in behavior.
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ServiceNow acquires AI for IT startup Loom Systems
January 22, 2020
ServiceNow today announced that it has acquired Loom Systems to strengthen automated insights for customers using the Now platform in order to help them quickly fix IT issues. Loom Systems CEO Gabby Menachem and some members of the Loom Systems team will join ServiceNow as…
Why the hybrid AI compromise isn’t a solution at all
January 22, 2020
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In recent years, AI has emerged as an undisputed competitive advantage, which means smart business leaders facing the digital transformation have some really familiar questions: How do you measure success? What questions do you need to ask to ensure…
GTCI: AI offers significant opportunities for emerging markets, but skills are scarce
January 22, 2020
Will the proliferation of AI and machine learning reinforce the worldwide digital divide? It’s one of the questions the Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI) and Global Cities Talent Competitiveness Index (GCTCI) seek to answer by benchmarking the ability of countries and cities to compete for talent. An answer has historically proven elusive, but the 7th annual reports published by Insead…
It’s already possible for robots to navigate without maps, but having them navigate well is another matter. You don’t want them to waste time backtracking, let alone fall down if they bump into an unexpected obstacle. Facebook might have a solution. It…
LumApps raises $70 million to fuel development of AI for its workplace collaboration platform
January 22, 2020
LumApps has raised a $70 million round of venture capital as the Paris-based startup seeks to bring more AI and machine learning capabilities to its workplace collaboration platform.
The company’s Social Intranet service is deployed internally by companies with the goal of…
Ever heard of FlyHash? It’s an algorithm inspired by fruit flies’ olfactory circuits that’s been shown to generate hash codes — numeric representations of objects — with superior performance compared with classical algorithms. Unfortunately, because FlyHash uses random projections, it can’t learn from data. To overcome this limitation, researchers at Princeton, the University of San…
Facebook’s AI learns the relationships between physical places from first-person video footage
January 21, 2020
Computer vision systems generally excel at detecting objects but struggle to make sense of the environments in which those objects are used. That’s because they separate observed actions from physical context — even those that do model environments fail to discriminate…
Snyk raises $150 million at $1 billion valuation for AI that protects open source code
January 21, 2020
Snyk, a cybersecurity platform that helps developers find vulnerabilities in their open source applications, has raised $150 million in a round of funding led by New York-based private equity firm Stripes, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Coatue, Tiger Global…
IBM unveils Policy Lab, advocates ‘precision regulation’ of AI
January 21, 2020
During a panel discussion hosted by IBM CEO Ginni Rometty at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday with Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Coordination Chris Liddell, and OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria, IBM formally announced the IBM Policy Lab, an initiative aimed at providing policymakers with recommendations for emerging problems in technology. The company…
