Israel wants to be able to predict corona outbreaks with AI
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute are using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict how the coronavirus will spread among the population. By having AI predict where a new outbreak of the virus is likely to occur, the scientists hope that the spread in an area can be contained quickly.
The sci... Read more
Alibaba Cloud makes AI technology free of charge to fight Coronavirus
Public cloud platform Alibaba Cloud provides medical staff and researchers with various AI tools, free of charge, in the fight against the COVID-19 virus. The tools should help provide faster diagnostics and more data-based insights.
According to the public cloud provider, this is a trial versio... Read more
Dataiku version 7 makes collaboration between data scientists easier
Dataiku will release a version 7 of its platform. The update adds functionalities to promote collaboration between data scientists. It also provides additional insight into the impact of enterprise artificial intelligence (AI).
The platform now has improved Git integration, allowing data scienti... Read more
AWS supports PyTorch for Amazon Elastic Inference service
The tech giant and cloud specialist indicates that it now also supports the PyTorch open source machine learning library for its Amazon Elastic Inference service. This would enable customers to make significant savings on their forecast expenditure using an existing trained AI model for deep learni... Read more
‘Better data usage leads to more profit and lower costs’
Companies that use data to improve their operations generate more profit and reduce operational costs. This is shown by a recent study by Splunk and the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).
The global study by the data specialist and consultants examined the relationship between the use of data with... Read more
New chip from Intel can identify chemical odours
Researchers at Intel Labs and Cornell University have developed a new research chip called Loihi. This is a chip based on structures in the human brain, which allows the Loihi chip to identify certain hazardous chemicals based on their smell.
Loihi was able to identify each tested chemical via i... Read more
Tech giants release dataset for corona virus research
A group of American technology companies and organisations have published the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). The dataset gives researchers access to popular scientific sources around the coronavirus, to support their fight against the virus.
CORD-19 consists of more than 24,000 articl... Read more
Google launches TensorFlow tool for quantum AI models
Google has made available an extension to its TensorFlow open source platform called TensorFlow Quantum. It focuses on building artificial intelligence (AI) models for quantum computers.
To exploit the potential of quantum computing, which can perform complex calculations that computers are curr... Read more
Alphabet wants to use AI to make fish farms more efficient
In an effort to contribute to making it easier to breed certain species of fish, Alphabet, Google's parent company, created Tidal. It is a system that can be used on fish farms to recognise different fish species and fish populations.
Tidal has mainly focused on implementing a system that is cap... Read more
Facebook AI tracks 900 million fake accounts in 2 years
With over two and a half billion users, Facebook has a lot of work to do in tracking down fake accounts. These accounts are used to push pages or promote content. Facebook's advanced AI makes the task of tracking down fake accounts a little easier, as the program has tracked down hundreds of millio... Read more