Google update technology behind Contact Center AI for better voice recognition
Google has announced its Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology behind its Contact Center AI service to update to improve voice recognition. Contact Center AI is based on Dialogflow and Cloud Speech-to-Text.
The first update is for Dialogflow, writes Silicon Angle. Dialogflow is a cloud-based servi... Read more
Facebook comes up with AI tools for OpenStreetMap community
Facebook, with the help of AI, has mapped more than 300,000 miles (about 482,000 km) of roads in Thailand. Also in a number of other countries where digital mapping was still very low, the company has put hundreds of thousands of kilometres of roads literally on the map on OpenStreetMap.
The differe... Read more
Capgemini launches automation platform Intelligent Automation Platform
Capgemini has launched its Intelligent Automation Platform (CIAP). This platform should enable the rapid implementation of automation to scale. CIAP enables end-to-end automation for applications, IT and business operations.
CIAP is based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and enables Capgemini's custo... Read more
Microsoft and OpenAI draw AI deal of 1 billion
Microsoft has invested a billion dollars in OpenAI, a company specializing in artificial intelligence from San Francisco. The companies have announced a multi-year partnership to develop a high-level AI that will ultimately approach human intelligence.
The goal of OpenAI is to develop a complex AI... Read more
AI from DeepMind can generate realistic videos from YouTube videos
DeepMind, a sister company of Google, has written a paper in which it describes an artificial intelligence (AI) that can generate realistic videos using YouTube videos.
The AI - Dual Video Discriminator GAN (DVD-GAN) - can create coherent 256 by 256 pixel videos with remarkable reliability and a len... Read more
Google’s new technology accelerates training AI models
Data Echoing, a new technique from Google, would dramatically accelerate the training of AI models in the early stages of the training process, reports VentureBeat. That's what scientists at Google Brain, Google's AI research department, report in a recent paper.
AI accelerators such as Intel's Nerv... Read more
Enterprises want to double AI deployments in 2020
Many enterprises with Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning deployments want to double their projects in the coming year. That's what Gartner's research shows, reports ZDNet.
According to Gartner, 59 percent of organizations now have a form of AI-deployment in place. An average company ha... Read more
Blue Prism makes trial available on Microsoft Azure
Blue Prism and Microsoft have made a free enterprise trial of the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) platform available on the Azure Marketplace. The trial aims to introduce new users with the benefits of a Digital Workforce on Azure, with easy access to a temporary version of connected RPA.
The trial... Read more
Nuance Lightning Engine combines voice biometrics and NLU for speech control
Nuance has introduced a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool that combines voice biometrics and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) for a personalized, human experience on different speech-driven channels.
The Nuance Lightning Engine should enable a smart speaker, virtual assistant or IVR to recog... Read more
One in four companies fail half of their AI projects.
Half of the artificial intelligence (AI) projects in no less than a quarter of the companies fail. This is the result of research conducted by IDC among 2,473 organisations that use AI solutions for their activities, according to Venturebeat.
Of the organizations that already use AI, only 25 percent... Read more