AI & Robotics

Augtera today announced that it raised $4 million for its operation that takes data from datacenter networks to create AI systems for management and optimization. The money will be used to grow Augtera’s engineering and research and development teams and accelerate product adoption. Augtera uses network domain knowledge and semantics, together with data from a variety of sources, to train its…

Analyzing chest X-ray images with machine learning algorithms is easier said than done. That’s because typically, the clinical labels required to train those algorithms are obtained with rule-based natural language processing or human annotation, both of which tend to introduce inconsistencies and errors. Additionally, it’s challenging to assemble data sets that represent an adequately diverse…

Amazon Web Services today debuted Inf1, an instance that powers AI inference in the cloud that CEO Andy Jassy calls the lowest cost inference offering available in the cloud. “…it will have lower latency, it will have 3 times higher throughput, and up to 40% lower cost per instance compared to our G4 instance which is based on an Nvidia chip which previously was the lowest cost inference…

Amazon believes its latest Web Services tool will help doctors spend more time with their patients. The tool, called Amazon Transcribe Medical, allows doctors to easily transcribe patient conversations and add those interactions to someone’s medical records with the help of deep learning software. According to Matt Wood, vice president of artificial intelligence at Amazon Web Services, the…