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Levi-Strauss’ Dr. Katia Walsh on why diversity in AI and ML is non-negotiable

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. As part of VentureBeat’s series of interviews with women and BIPOC leaders in the AI industry, we sat down with Dr. Katia Walsh, chief strategy and artificial intelligence officer, Levi Strauss & Co. In her career she has forged paths for people from every intersection of race, culture, class, and education…
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Tably is an AI Camera App That Reveals Your Cat’s Mood

Think you have a good pulse on how your cat is feeling? Tably is a new AI-powered app that can help confirm whether your suspicions are correct. Simply use your smartphone camera to take a picture of your feline friend and the app will use machine learning to decode its…
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Some Governments Stole Journalists’ Photos in Attempts to Silence Them

A group of women journalists and activists have shown how and why, in an attempt to intimidate and silence them, authoritarian governments hacked into their phones, stole their private photos, and posted them on social media. In early July, a report emerged that more than 50,000 phone numbers owned by mostly journalists, activists, politicians, and business executives were targetted by multiple…
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Real-Life SpongeBob and Patrick Captured by Deep-Sea Camera

Here’s an under-the-sea wildlife photo that may be of particular interest if you’re a fan of the hit animated TV series SpongeBob SquarePants. A research vessel has captured SpongeBob and Patrick look-alikes at the bottom of the ocean. NPR reports that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Okeanos Explorer research ship was about 200 miles off the Atlantic coast of the US…
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AI-driven HR seeks to balance ‘human’ and ‘resources’

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Human resources (HR) is an area that is ripe for automation, and in particular, the kind of automation made possible by artificial intelligence (AI). HR, after all, is a cost center at most organizations, which means organizations are always looking for ways to keep costs as low as possible. And yet, HR is rife with…
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