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Uber open-sources Manifold, a visual tool for debugging AI models

Debugging machine learning (ML) models isn’t a walk in the woods. Just ask the data scientists and engineers at Uber, some of whom have the unenviable task of digging into algorithms to diagnose the causes of their performance issues. To lighten the workload, Uber internally developed Manifold, a model-agnostic visual tool that surfaces the differences in distributions of features (i.e., the…
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IBM launches Advertising Accelerator with Watson to automatically optimize campaigns with AI

Marketing and sales departments prioritize AI and machine learning higher than any other in enterprise today. Forbes pegs the percentage at 40%, and it’s no wonder — AI embedded in software is anticipated to free up more than a third of data analytics in marketing organizations by 2022, enabling them to focus time on business priorities instead of personalization, lead scoring, anomaly…
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White House urges federal agencies and European allies to avoid overregulation of AI

The White House is calling on U.S. lawmakers and businesses, as well as European nations and allies, to avoid overregulation of artificial intelligence. The announcement comes as part of AI regulatory principles introduced today by the Trump administration. “Europe and our allies should avoid heavy handed innovation-killing models, and instead consider a similar regulatory approach. The best way…
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Toyota plans to build a town in Japan for testing AI, robots, and sustainable energy

Akio Toyoda, CEO of Toyota, said that the automotive company plans to build the town of the future on the site of a former car factory in Japan. Toyota Woven City will combine a wide array of technologies, including robotics, smart homes, autonomous vehicles, the internet of things, digital health, and sustainable energy. It will be built on 175 acres of land. The company unveiled the vision…
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