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
Accenture patents machine learning module for quantum computing
Accenture has been granted a patent related to quantum computing. The patent describes a method of using machine learning to determine which workloads or problems are most suitable for quantum computers, and which are more suitable for standard, digital computers.
According to Accenture, the patent ... Read more
IBM and Trifacta work together on data preparation tool for AI models
IBM and Trifacta have jointly created a tool to prepare data for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models. The tool has InfoSphere Advanced Data Preparation and should speed up the preparation of data for self-service analytics.
According to Big Blue and Trifacta, data pr... Read more
Google Cloud integrates Kaggle with BigQuery
Google has announced that it will integrate its BigQuery cloud data warehouse and analytics service with Kaggle. Kaggle is an online community for data scientists and other interested parties in machine learning to analyze and share their work.
By combining BigQuery with Kaggle - which Google acqui... Read more
Cisco wants to put AI and machine learning deeper into the network with updates
Cisco has unveiled a series of software enhancements designed to bring artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning deeper into the network. These include new network automation and analytics tools, which give IT teams more insight and visibility into network data.
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AWS makes Amazon Personalize widely available
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made Amazon Personalize widely available to all its customers. Announced at re:Invent last November, Amazon Personalize is an API for working with machine learning without the need for a developer to have experience.
With Amazon Personalize, developers can add their own... Read more
AWS makes solution to extract text from documents widely available
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made Textract widely available. Textract is a fully managed service that uses machine learning to automatically extract text and data from documents, including tables and forms.
Textract does use machine learning, but does not require expertise in machine learning to u... Read more
Facebook uses robots to develop artificial intelligence
Facebook researchers are experimenting with robotics to find out more about artificial intelligence. That's what IT Pro says.
"Robotics offer important opportunities for the further development of artificial intelligence, because learning machines to learn things for themselves in the physical world... Read more
Unit4 announces smart services for ERP and new cloud extensions
Unit4 has announced to make new Smart Automation Services available to Business World ERP customers. It also unveiled new cloud extensions for the company's applications, as well as a fixed-price cloud migration solution.
The new Smart Automation Services use machine learning to automatically alloc... Read more
Apple and SAP bring Core ML to Cloud Platform SDK for iOS
SAP and Apple have announced that Core ML will be available as part of the Cloud Platform SDK for iOS. Core ML is Apple's on-device machine learning technology. In the new version of the Cloud Platform SDK, this makes it possible to create your own, intelligent iOS apps, driven by SAP Leonardo.
The... Read more