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Microsoft reins in AI facial and voice recognition tech

The tech giant plans to rein in some of its AI technologies based on facial and voice recognition to reduce or eliminate bias and discrimination and aim for 'inclusive AI.'

By Shaun Sutner • June 23, 2022

Alternative data, multimodal AI tech produce new insights

AI fuels the delivery of new sources of investment and corporate information, such as satellite imagery, contact center audio logs, employee sentiment and social media data.

By Shaun Sutner • June 13, 2022

Microsoft invites access to Azure OpenAI Service, GPT-3

Microsoft has invited corporate developers to apply for access to its cloud-based AI model for natural language processing. The service was invitation only.

By Antone Gonsalves • May 25, 2022

Domino Data Lab releases latest MLOps platform update

Domino 5.2 includes new features for data scientists to find the best model development environment and use Snowflake by automating model deployment to Snowflake's Data Cloud.

By Esther Shittu • May 5, 2022

AI’s effects on climate change: Both good and bad

With more companies building supercomputers and infrastructure that requires a lot of compute power, AI may be doing more harm than good to the planet.

By Esther Shittu • April 28, 2022

How Cerebras CS-2 update stands up to competitors’ offerings

The AI vendor's update now includes tighter support for PyTorch and TensorFlow. Focused on complex deep learning applications, Cerebras competes with Microsoft Azure and Nvidia.

By Esther Shittu • April 14, 2022

Stochastic point processes and their practical value

Data scientists learn and utilize stochastic point processes for myriad pragmatic uses. Data scientist Vincent Granville explains this in his new book.

By Cameron Hashemi-Pour • April 11, 2022

Channel partners prepare data analytics managed services

Customers may not fully understand AI and machine learning technology yet, but channel partners have been building their expertise to make the use cases a reality for clients.

By Esther Shein • March 8, 2022

Swiss retailer uses open source Ray tool to scale AI models

Ricardo uses Anyscale's Ray for scaling its product classification models. Ray helps enterprises scale their applications from a laptop to the cloud.

By Esther Shittu • March 7, 2022

Data crucial for finance companies using AI

Organizations in credit, banking and insurance must pay attention to data to build explainable models. This Q&A with an AI vendor CEO explores data, governance and explainability.

By Esther Shittu • March 4, 2022

Finance firms scrape alternative data from unexpected sources

Investment firms and individual investors use data from sources as diverse as Facebook and TikTok, private jet tracking, geolocation and sentiment analysis to buy and sell securities.

By Shaun Sutner • March 3, 2022

Finance industry giants disclose AI challenges

Education, explainability, privacy and integration are some of the problems institutions face when implementing machine learning tools and technology.

By Esther Shittu • March 3, 2022

How a soccer club uses facial recognition access control

The Los Angeles Football Club began using the Rock, an autonomous access platform, in 2021. Players and staff use the Rock to access facilities without a key system.

By Esther Shittu • Feb. 24, 2022

SambaNova unveils GPT Banking for financial industry

The product is aimed at giving financial institutions deep learning language capabilities. However, deep learning is hard to navigate in the finance industry.

By Esther Shittu • Feb. 23, 2022

AutoML platforms push data science projects to the finish line

Data science projects often have trouble reaching the production phase, but automated machine learning platforms are accelerating data scientists' work to help them come to fruition.

By Cameron Hashemi-Pour • Feb. 16, 2022

Biometric technology like facial recognition is here to stay

Despite resistance, government agencies and private companies continue to use the technology. A key issue is whether people are informed about how their information will be used.

By Esther Shittu • Feb. 15, 2022

IRS drops facial recognition plans after criticism

The agency said it will no longer require taxpayers to use a third-party website to authenticate identity and will develop its own tools to boost security and prevent fraud.

By Esther Shittu • Feb. 7, 2022

Fallout continues over IRS ID.me facial recognition login

Taxpayers and privacy advocates continue to protest the move by the government agency. The agency may be rethinking its reliance on ID.me's biometric technology.

By Esther Shittu • Feb. 2, 2022

AI’s growing cybersecurity role

Artificial intelligence capabilities are increasingly used to detect cybersecurity threats. As threats proliferate, AI cybersecurity capabilities will likely be the norm.

By John Burke • Jan. 27, 2022

Securing AI during the development process

AI systems can have their data corrupted or 'poisoned' by bad actors. Luckily, there are protective measures developers can take to ensure their systems remain secure.

By John Burke • Jan. 25, 2022

Ethereum

Ethereum is an open source, distributed software platform based on blockchain technology.

By Sean Kerner , Ben Lutkevich • Jan. 24, 2022

New U.S. Chamber of Commerce commission to promote AI

The bipartisan commission includes experts with a variety of technology backgrounds and is led by two former congressmen. A report by the commission is expected later this year.

By Esther Shittu • Jan. 20, 2022

Tips and tricks for deploying TinyML

A typical TinyML deployment has many software and hardware requirements, and there are best practices that developers should be aware of to help simplify this complicated process.

By George Lawton • Dec. 30, 2021

AI is the game-changer needed in customer service

The holiday season is a busy time for call center agents. However, problems in the CX industry are leading organizations to turn to machine learning for optimization.

By Esther Shittu • Dec. 29, 2021

Cryptocurrency broker uses Ada AI platform for better CX

LiteBit partnered with the customer service vendor in 2017 when the cryptocurrency market was booming. Since then, it has been using the vendor's AI-powered chatbot.

By Esther Shittu • Dec. 28, 2021