Quantexa buys Aylien for NLP and AI capabilities
Quantexa recently acquired Natural Language Processing (NLP) and AI player Aylien. Through the acquisition, Quantexa aims to expand the capabilities of its Decision Intelligence Platform. It should also expand its market reach.
The acquisition of Aylien, of which no financial details were disclo... Read more
Petals develops free distributed network for ChatGPT-like AI models
The technology allows the users of an AI model to contribute hardware capacity. Operating costs are distributed as a result.
The world was introduced to natural language processing (NLP) over the past few weeks. The branch of artificial intelligence focuses on speech and text. NLP models have b... Read more
Avaya launches Virtual Agent, an out-of-the-box service bot
Avaya Virtual Agent is now available. The solution allows organizations to automate customer service without programming.
Avaya develops communications technology, ranging from video conferencing to complete call centre platforms. The most recent introduction is Virtual Agent. The solution enabl... Read more
H2O introduces AI grandmaster-powered NLP to its organization
The latest product by H2O, Hydrogen Torch, can deliver web giants’ AI capabilities globally
Of the 1200 chess grandmasters globally, only 250 are AI. Grandmaster in chess and AI is an achievement that is only reserved for the best of the best, and when it comes to AI, this honor is given to th... Read more
‘Open-source initiatives drive adoption and revenue of NLP’
Large-scale open source-based Natural Language Processing (NLP) models are increasingly in demand. More and more open-source NLP initiatives emerge. According to tech website Venture Beat, these initiatives are driving the revenue of NLP-as-a-service.
Venture Beat says budgets for NLP-based AI m... Read more
Microsoft develops AI tool for detecting programming errors
Researchers at Microsoft have developed BugLab, an autonomous AI tool capable of detecting errors in programming code. In this way, security incidents can be prevented.
BugLab is an autonomous tool for fixing and detecting programming errors. Autonomous refers to the model used to train the tool... Read more
Zoom launches live transcription and subtitling of meeting speech
Zoom introduces Auto-Generated Captions. Users of Zoom's paid and free services can enable the real-time conversion of meeting speech to subtitle text. As it stands, the feature is solely available for English speakers.
Auto-Generated Captions can be enabled per user, user group or company accou... 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
Salesforce finds new way to reduce gender bias in AI models
Salesforce has developed a new way to reduce gender bias in word embedding in collaboration with researchers from the University of Virginia. Word embeddings are used to train AI models to summarize, translate, and perform other prediction tasks.
Word embeddings capture semantic and syntactic me... Read more
Microsoft comes up with toolkit for conversational AI
Microsoft introduced Icecaps, a toolkit for conversational AI, on Thursday. This is a subfield in Natural Language Processing for creating realistic conversations with AI. Icecaps is an acronym for Intelligent Conversation Engine: Code and Pre-trained Systems.
The tool uses multitask learning to cre... Read more