AWS unveils RedShift ML to make machine learning more accessible
Amazon's VP of machine learning, Swami Sivasubramanian, offered a keynote on machine learning during the second week of Amazon Web Services' re:Invent conference.
During the keynote, Sivasubramanian announced that SageMaker, the company's middleware platform for machine learning, will go forward... Read more
ServiceNow to acquire Canadian startup Element AI
The acquisition will help ServiceNow to deliver AI services to enterprises.
ServiceNow this week announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Element AI, a Canadian startup. The young company has already become a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company with deep AI capabilities, accordin... Read more
IBM is cutting 10,000 employees from its European services unit
IBM plans to cut 10,000 jobs from its European services unit to minimize costs before they spin off the division in 2021, according to Bloomberg report released today. The job cuts will affect about 20% of IBM staff in the region, with offices in the U.K. and Germany facing the biggest cuts. Office... Read more
Salesforce Einstein makes 80 billion predictions daily
Einstein, Salesforce's AI platform, is now used to make more than 80 billion predictions every day. This is over ten times as much as it dit one year ago.
Einstein is the name Salesforce uses for its AI services. After it was launched in September 2016, its use has grown rapidly to 6.5 billion d... Read more
Study finds that an AI’s machine language still lacks common sense
"Two dogs are throwing Frisbees at each other" sounds good to the AI, but not to us.
Despite advances in natural language processing, an AI still doesn’t have the common sense to understand human language, according to a new study.
A team of computer scientists from the University of South... Read more
Workday adds ML, predictive forecasting to its ERP suite
Updated Workday Accounting Center will add new levels of visibility and control.
Workday this week announced the availability of Workday Accounting Center and machine learning (ML)-driven predictive forecasts for Workday Adaptive Planning.
The company also unveiled additional functionality ac... Read more
Intel Geospatial delivers data and analytic applications to industry
Introducing a Cloud Geovisual Data Management Platform Featuring Multi-Source 3D Data and AI-Powered Analytics
This week Intel launched its Intel Geospatial offering. The platform provides access to a wide range of high-quality 2D and 3D geospatial data and analytic applications through Intel's ... Read more
Microsoft releases deep learning software with simple interface
Microsoft has released a program that allows users to perform deep learning on images without the need for programming knowledge.
The app consists of a simple interface that, in three steps, lets the user make the software recognize and add custom labels to images. The steps are explained in the... Read more
Blue Prism Announces Service Assist to automate contact centers
The solution offers AI-integration ready automation to boost performance and reduce costs.
Blue Prism has announced the availability of Blue Prism Service Assist. This is a solution aimed at automating next generation contact center operations.
The new product "delivers a real-time, unified ... Read more
IBM AI model helps predict Alzheimer’s with 71 percent accuracy
Big Blue has teamed up with Pfizer to create a program that uses small language samples to make the prediction.
IBM announced last week that its researchers, working together with a team from Pfizer, had developed an AI model that could correctly predict Alzheimer's in patients with 71 percent a... Read more