IBM and Red Hat introduce models to do AI more energy efficient
AI hardware accelerators are some of the most potent tools we can use for scientific discovery. However, they are not energy efficient. Now, IBM Research, claims that it has identified a new way of tackling this problem.
During the IEEE CAS/ADS AI Compute Symposium IBM Research unveiled new par...
Google releases several updates for its Search engine
Google announced several improvements to its core search engine, focusing on the deployment of AI to help users. With these improvements, the search engine will better answer questions with specific answers or those with very broad scopes.
The company also announced a new algorithm that will han...
Microsoft plans to make AI more inclusive of people with disabilities
In a new initiative, Microsoft is launching a new series of AI systems that will make AI more accessible to people with disabilities. The project wants to address what it’s calling a ‘data desert’ that has left machine learning algorithms without adequate, relevant data that can be effective ...
VMware and Nvidia partner to make AI chips easier for enterprise
VMware and Nvidia will work together, the partnership aims to speed up AI adoption among data centre business customers.
VMware and Nvidia announced a partnership to make VMware’s software work better with Nvidia’s artificial intelligence (AI) chips.
The announcement was made at at VMworl...
Global AI spend is going to double in less than five years
Over the next four years, businesses worldwide will spend double the current budgets on AI. The new report from IDC claims that global spending will surpass $110 billion by 2024, from the current $50.1 billion.
According to the stats for the 2019-2024 period, the compound annual growth rate will...
LinkedIn’s Fairness Toolkit to measure fairness in AI models
LinkedIn released an open-source software library named the LinkedIn Fairness Toolkit (LiFT). The design of the toolkit enables the measurement of fairness in AI and machine learning models. LinkedIn says that LiFT can train and score the AI and machine learning models, based on biases, input in th...
Immersive Reader from Azure is now available for the public
Microsoft announced that their Immersive Reader, a service for developers who want to add text-to-speech and other reading comprehension tools to their apps, is now available to the general public.
The Immersive Reader is part of Azure's Cognitive Services suite in Ai products. It allows develop...
Enterprises using data collection will have challenges to leverage it
Seagate and IDC conducted a survey on the actions businesses and enterprises will have to take, to leverage their collected data. The survey was conducted between December 2019 and January 2020. A total of 1,500 respondents from all over the world were involved.
A glance at the report shows that...
The new CAIAC alliance will deploy AI in the fight against COVID-19
The Collective and Augmented Intelligence Against Covid-19 (CAIAC), is a newly formed global alliance of think tanks that are working to deliver a platform, driven by AI to curb the effects of Covid-19 on the economy and public health.
The aim is to fight the virus's effects by way of advising p...
Amazon sells technology cashless stores to other retailers
Amazon is going to sell its technology for cashless stores to other retailers. The technology is already being used in the Amazon Go stores in the United States, but could now also be used by other supermarkets, such as the European Ahold/Delhaize or Carrefour.
Amazon Go technology allows you to...
AWS announces cloud machine learning updates
Amazon Web Services wants to make machine learning more accessible for developers, so the company is launching a number of updates for machine learning in the cloud. This should make it easier to add artificial intelligence (AI) predictions to applications and services.
To make machine learning ...
Scientists develop new framework that keeps AI in check
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Stanford claim to have developed an algorithmic framework to ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) does not exceed certain limits.
The framework uses so-called Seldonian algorithms, as opposed to machine learning (ML) algorithms, which...