Deep Learning

Applying deep learning to PET/CT scans helps clinicians diagnose neurodegenerative disorders

Source: healthimaging.com Deep learning can segment white brain matter in PET/CT scans to help clinicians diagnose a variety of neurodegenerative disorders, according to a new study. A team of South Korean researchers created a type of artificial intelligence known as a generative adversarial network using an existing model called pix2pix, they said Feb. 10 in the Journal of Digital Read More

Machine Learning

Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning. Which Does Your Business Need?

Source: rtinsights.com In recent years, artificial intelligence research and applications have accelerated at a rapid speed. Simply saying your organization will incorporate AI isn’t as specific as it once was. There are diverse implementation options for AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning, and within each of them, a series of different algorithms you can leverage Read More

Google AI

Google’s new AI can intelligently crop videos for any screen size

Source: thenextweb.com How many times have you seen a video being badly cropped when you watch it on a mobile device? It’s quite frustrating and annoying, and most of the time, there’s not much you can do about it. To address this problem, Google’s AI team has developed an open-source solution, Autoflip, that reframes the Read More

Microservices

Migrating a Monolithic Architecture to Microservice Architecture

Source: towardsdatascience.com Microservice is a hot topic these days. But why does everyone talk about microservice? What is a monolithic architecture and what is microservices architecture? I will explain that by going through the migration process from a monolithic architecture to a microservice architecture. I will also introduce the characteristics, advantages of microservices architecture, and Read More

Reinforcement Learning

Sony imagines a world full of artificial intelligence, from kitchen bots to games

Source: newsdio.com In 1997, Hiroaki Kitano, a research scientist at Sony, helped organize the first Robocup, a robot soccer tournament that attracted teams of robotics and artificial intelligence researchers to compete in the picturesque city of Nagoya, Japan. At the beginning of the first day, two teams of robots took the field. While the machines Read More

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence to be $100 billion sector by 2025

Source: cxotoday.com AI, an effective tool for Indian Judiciary System  : CII Summit and Expo on AI Application & Digi-Tech Day two of Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) Summit and Expo on AI Application & Digi-Tech, kick started with a thought-provoking panel discussion on AI in Public Service. The session highlighted the benefits of AI interventions in Agriculture, Smart Cities, Read More

Google AI

Google’s Meena AI chatbot to eventually find its way into CX

Source: searchcustomerexperience.techtarget.com Meena, Google’s latest AI chatbot built on neural networks, is a technological leap forward toward human conversation, analysts said. While Meena has potential to improve web and call center customer service by taking on more complicated tasks than current chatbots, the rip-and-replace may be painful because the bot potentially will require more — Read More

Data Robot

Digital Surgery to add AI and data to Medtronic surgical robotics

Source: roboticsbusinessreview.com Medical technology leader Medtronic PLC announced today that it has acquired Digital Surgery, a privately-held pioneer in surgical artificial intelligence, data and analytics, and digital education and training. Medtronic said the purchase will strengthen its robot-assisted surgical platform and its broader portfolio. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Dublin, Ireland-based Medtronic has Read More

Machine Learning

Machine learning could help Apple Maps fix bogus GPS coordinates

Source: appleinsider.com While GPS is a widely-used technology for geolocation, one that is especially useful for navigation while driving, it isn’t necessarily as accurate as it could be. Mapping applications like Apple Maps occasionally show the wrong location for the user for a variety of different reasons. These issues can include interference in the GPS Read More

Microservices

Six Routing Challenges When Managing Microservices in Production and How to Avoid Them

Source: devops.com Even experienced DevOps teams can struggle with the nuances of managing microservices in production–where a greater spotlight on network communications can introduce new operational challenges beyond those common to traditional architectures. But, by being smart about your software-based routing components, it’s possible to avoid or reduce the impact of roadblocks in the following Read More

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

Top 10 Machine Learning-as-a-Service Providers 2020

Source: customerthink.com Machine learning as a service (MLaaS) is a set of cloud services that machine learning providers offer as a part of cloud computing services. MLaaS providers offer tools including face recognition, data visualization, application programming interface (APIs), predictive analytics, natural language processing, and deep learning. The main attraction of these services is that, Read More

Deep Learning

Deep Instinct, The Deep Learning Cybersecurity Innovator, Raises $43 Million Series C Financing To Accelerate Growth

Source: aithority.com Deep Instinct, the first and only cybersecurity company to successfully apply end-to-end deep learning to predict, identify, and prevent cyberattacks, announced its $43 million Series C funding. The round was led by Millennium New Horizons, with participation from Unbound, the London-based investment firm founded by Shravin Mittal, along with LG, and existing investor Read More

Big Data

Lost in Space; When the Lack of Big Data Fails to Lead the Way

Source: whichplm.com After a momentous 2019, ending with unexpected international travel lasting up to two days before Christmas, we were thankful to finally use the holiday break to sink into our cozy family room couch with our dogs Lilly and Oliver, browse our OTT app of choice, and catch up with the latest entertainment. We Read More

Data Science

Align Capital Partners’ E Source Platform Acquires TROVE Predictive Data Science

Source: aithority.com Align Capital Partners announced the closing of a third strategic add-on for its utility intelligence platform E Source. TROVE Predictive Data Science is a leading provider of predictive analytics solutions for the utility industry. TROVE’s talented team of data scientists and engineers have developed artificial intelligence software to help clients make better, data-driven decisions Read More

Big Data

How big data and AI can make supply chains better for consumers and the planet

Source: greenbiz.com “Big data.” “Artificial intelligence.” “Supply chain.” These buzzwords are fast becoming a part of our everyday lexicon. And because they’re bandied about so much, it’s worth taking a closer look at each of them and their role in shaping more responsible consumption. Consumerism isn’t going away — and we don’t believe it needs Read More

Artificial Intelligence

Empowering Industry 4.0 with Artificial Intelligence

Source: dqindia.com The next step in industrial technology is about robotics, computers and equipment becoming connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) and enhanced by machine learning algorithms. Industry 4.0 has the potential to be a powerful driver of economic growth, predicted to add between $500 billion- $1.5 trillion in value to the global economy Read More

Data Robot

Robot analysts outwit humans on investment picks, study shows

Source: batimes.com.ar They beat us at chess and trivia, supplant jobs by the thousands, and are about to be let loose on highways and roads as chauffeurs and couriers. Now, fresh signs of robot supremacy are emerging on Wall Street in the form of machine stock analysts that make more profitable investment choices than humans. Read More

Machine Learning

Oracle unleashes cloud-based data science platform

Source: cio.com Oracle Wednesday staked its claim in the data science platform space with the availability of the Oracle Cloud Data Science Platform. The platform, built on the foundation of DataScience.com acquired by Oracle in 2018, is geared for teams of data scientists working collaboratively. Its capabilities include shared projects, model catalogs, team security policies, Read More

Machine Learning

Swiss Researchers Create Machine Learning Thermostat

Source: rtinsights.com Smart thermostats have been around for a while, but researchers at Swiss federal laboratory Empa have gone one step further, adding machine learning to the heating control systems. Initial results, (which will be published along with other findings next month), are promising, with the AI control system providing greater comfort and lower energy costs. Read More

Google AI

Google’s ClearGrasp AI model helps robots better recognize transparent objects

Source: venturebeat.com Optical sensors such as cameras and lidar are a fundamental part of modern robotics platforms, but they suffer from a common flaw: transparent objects like glass containers tend to confuse them. That’s because most of the algorithms analyzing data from those sensors assume all surfaces are Lambertian, or that they reflect light evenly Read More

Deep Learning

Deep Instinct nabs $43M for a deep-learning cybersecurity solution that can suss an attack before it happens

Source: techcrunch.com The worlds of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity have become deeply entwined in recent years, as organizations work to keep up with — and ideally block — increasingly sophisticated malicious hackers. Today, a startup that’s built a deep learning solution that it claims can both identify and stop even viruses that have yet to Read More

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

Sri Lanka’s first agriculture-based app to run on Microsoft Azure

Source: colombogazette.com Govipola, the cloud-based mobile app designed to facilitate direct selling platforms for fruit and vegetable farmers—a move aimed at cutting out middlemen and containing food inflation in Sri Lanka, will run on Microsoft Azure, a collection of cloud-based services for building reliable, scalable, and maintainable applications. The platform lowers the total cost of Read More

Microservices

Is microservices adoption right for your organization?

Source: searchapparchitecture.techtarget.com Microservices architecture became popular for its ability to create applications that are flexibly scalable, resilient and independently deployable. But despite the on-paper benefits, not all organizations will gain much from microservices adoption, due to the inherent operational complexity of these architectures. That’s what makes it important to make the transition to microservices a Read More

Reinforcement Learning

HOW TO IMPROVE GENERALISATION IN DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING?

Source: analyticsindiamag.com A team at NYU and Modl.ai have posited in their recent work, that simple image processing techniques (listed below) can improve the generalisation in deep reinforcement learning systems.  RL systems are typically trained on gaming platforms which are test beds for teaching agents new tasks through visual cues. By exploiting the field of views of Read More

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence: Tackling the risks for consumers

Source: moderndiplomacy.eu Artificial intelligence and automated decision making processes can pose certain threats to consumers. Find out how the European Parliament wants to protect them. What is artificial intelligence and why can it be dangerous? As learning algorithms can process data sets with precision and speed beyond human capacity, artificial intelligence (AI) applications have become Read More

Human Intelligence

Tickeron Announces Unprecedented AI Feature Precalculating Trading Success Odds

Source: aithority.com Tickeron, an artificial and human intelligence platform delivering unparalleled trading insights and analysis, announces its AI-driven feature generating instant historic and predictive analysis by precalculating the odds of success for self-directed investors and investment advisors. Tickeron is a subscription-based market intelligence platform giving access to the latest trading news and AI-generated predictions. This Read More

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

Microsoft speeds up PyTorch with DeepSpeed

Source: sg.channelasia.tech Microsoft has released DeepSpeed, a new deep learning optimisation library for PyTorch, that is designed to reduce memory use and train models with better parallelism on existing hardware. According to a Microsoft Research blog post announcing the new framework, DeepSpeed improves PyTorch model training through a memory optimisation technology that increases the number of possible parameters Read More

Data Robot

Robot analysts outwit humans on investment picks, study shows

Source: livemint.com NEW YORK : They beat us at chess and trivia, supplant jobs by the thousands, and are about to be let loose on highways and roads as chauffeurs and couriers. Now, fresh signs of robot supremacy are emerging on Wall Street in the form of machine stock analysts that make more profitable investment choices Read More

Microservices

Tufin Unifies Management of Cloud Cybersecurity Policies

Source: securityboulevard.com Tufin today announced the availability of Tufin SecureCloud, which combines two existing offerings to manage cybersecurity policies for both monolithic applications and emerging microservices-based application environments. Company CTO Reuven Harrison said rather than moving forward with separate products, previously known as Tufin Orca and Tufin Iris, Tufin is aiming to appease IT organizations Read More

Google AI

ZeroFOX launches AI-powered Advanced Email Protection for Google and Microsoft platforms

Source: helpnetsecurity.com ZeroFOX, the leading provider of public attack surface protection, announced it has extended its artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform to now include advanced protection capabilities to solve intractable challenges in the cloud email security market and complement existing email security. The ZeroFOX Advanced Email Protection suite includes capabilities that address Business Email Compromise Read More