Microsoft AI advises governments on lockdown strategies
Researchers have designed an AI framework that recommends cities and regions lockdown and home isolation strategies to combat the spread of the coronavirus. They claim that their AI is superior to the modeling tools used so far.
Artificial intelligence, according to researchers at Microsoft, the... Read more
Dell EMC announces turnkey solutions for AI
Dell EMC will bring to market about eight ready-to-use solutions that allow data scientists and researchers to start creating and setting up AI models right away. The solutions include bundles of reference architectures and preconfigured workstations and storage.
The infrastructure specialist wa... 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
Tableau 2020.1 announced, includes animated visualisations
The new version of Tableau recently announced has a number of new features, including visualisation animations, dynamic parameters and a number of new management capabilities. The updates should provide users with deeper insights into their data.
In Tableau 2020.1, the company adds a number of n... Read more
Google wants to promote AI development with new Open Images version
Google has released a new version of Open Images, the photo-dataset that helps with Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects. There are additional possibilities for labelling objects and a feature that is described as 'localised narratives'.
Open Images makes millions of photos available to data sc... Read more