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DataRobot integrates Feature Discovery tool into Snowflake
The product integration comes months after Snowflake Ventures invested in DataRobot and the two vendors agreed to a strengthened partnership.
By Mark Labbe • Feb. 16, 2021 -
Autonomous truck startup raises $200M but faces competition
The investment will fund Plus' autonomous driving software, which could enable long-haul trucks to drive themselves along long stretches of highway.
By Mark Labbe • Feb. 11, 2021 -
Nuance touts CX benefits of AI in healthcare during pandemic
Nuance acquires speech transcription vendor Saykara, adding the startup's tech to Nuance's arsenal of health IT systems. Meanwhile, Nuance and Best Buy Health execs tout CX benefits from AI.
By Mark Labbe • Feb. 9, 2021 -
KDD in data mining assists data prep for machine learning
While data scientists are often familiar with data mining, the deeper knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) procedure can help prepare data to train machine learning algorithms.
By Joseph Carew • Dec. 31, 2020 -
AWS digs into its new machine learning industrial products
Amazon Monitron and Lookout for Equipment use sensor data to help industrial customers predict when their machines will break. Amazon's GM of machine learning and AI explains.
By Mark Labbe • Dec. 18, 2020 -
Emerging AI startups to look at in 2021
AI startups in the legal, MLOps, NLP and data training markets make this year's list of emerging AI vendors to look out for.
By Mark Labbe • Dec. 17, 2020 -
Sharing medical imaging data with AI apps raises concerns
Opening the door to third-party AI apps is a double-edged sword for patients. Its potential for healthcare is promising, but privacy is still a work in progress.
By Makenzie Holland • Dec. 9, 2020 -
AWS releases machine learning services for industrial clients
AWS released a mix of hardware, software and cloud-based services to help manufacturing clients better manage workplace safety and machine health.
By Mark Labbe • Dec. 1, 2020 -
ServiceNow will acquire AI startup Element AI
ServiceNow's acquisition of an AI startup based in Montreal marks the latest move by the cloud computing giant to add more automation and intelligence to its platform.
By Mark Labbe • Nov. 30, 2020 -
Google AI art tool turns 2D creatures into 3D models
These 3D chimera creatures are brought to you by Google's Chimera Painter, an AI-powered tool that turns 2D images into 3D creature models.
By Mark Labbe • Nov. 20, 2020 -
UiPath platform update makes it easier to deploy smarter bots
A new platform upgrade for UiPath makes it easier for users to develop and use robots at scale, as well as makes the bots more resilient to UI changes.
By Mark Labbe • Nov. 17, 2020 -
DataRobot pre-IPO funding raises company valuation to $2.7B
Amid the pandemic, Boston-based AI vendor DataRobot raised $270 million in a pre-IPO fundraising round. The company is likely to file for an IPO.
By Mark Labbe • Nov. 17, 2020 -
How to avoid overfitting in machine learning models
Overfitting remains a common model error, but data scientists can combat the problem through automated machine learning, improving AI literacy and creating test data sets.
By Joseph Carew • Nov. 16, 2020 -
Opinion // Bookshelf
A basic design pattern for image recognition
Learn how a design pattern based on convolutional neural networks can be adapted to create a visual graphics generator model for image recognition.
By Andrew Ferlitsch, Manning Publications • Nov. 13, 2020 -
AWS launches P4d instances for deep learning training
AWS released its EC2 P4d instances, the tech giant's newest GPU-backed instances. The instances speed up AI training and supercomputing workloads.
By Mark Labbe • Nov. 3, 2020 -
General AI vs. narrow AI comes down to adaptability
AI today has limited and specific applications, but the continual growth of the technology may just lead to the replication of human intelligence through general AI.
By Kathleen Walch • Oct. 23, 2020 -
Natural language processing in action
GPT-3 AI language model sharpens complex text generation
GPT-3 is the latest natural language generation model, but its acquisition by Microsoft leaves developers wondering when, and how, they'll be able to use the model.
By Ron Schmelzer • Oct. 22, 2020 -
Google, Unilever partnership uses AI for sustainable sourcing
Unilever says it will use Google Earth Engine, Google Cloud Storage and BigQuery, as well as AI technologies, to create a deforestation-free supply chain by 2023.
By Mark Labbe • Sept. 25, 2020 -
Future of autonomous vehicles depends on driver attitudes
Getting the public behind the idea of an autonomous vehicle means peeling back the black box nature of AI and proving the safety of self-driving technology.
By Joseph Carew • Aug. 26, 2020 -
Machine learning limitations marked by data demands
Machine learning has impressive capabilities in the enterprise, but with high-data requirements and struggles with explainability, it remains unable to reach widespread use.
By Ron Schmelzer • Aug. 19, 2020 -
4 ways AI and digital transformation enable deeper automation
Organizations that are going beyond the enterprise adoption of digitization are entering a new wave of AI-enabled digital transformation.
By Lisa Morgan • Aug. 19, 2020 -
Process automation in education helps school during COVID-19
Using process automation, a school in Sydney helped keep classes going online by automating the daily roll call process. Organizations have increasingly turned to automation and AI during COVID-19.
By Mark Labbe • Aug. 13, 2020 -
Autoencoders’ example uses augment data for machine learning
Autoencoders are neural networks that serve machine learning models -- from denoising to dimensionality reduction. Seven use cases explore the practical application of autoencoder technology.
By George Lawton • July 31, 2020 -
AIoT applications prove the technology’s adaptability
The combination of artificial intelligence and IoT has led to better predictive capabilities for devices, informed data storage, and enterprise machine optimization.
By Joseph Carew • July 31, 2020 -
14 best machine learning platforms for 2020
Turn ever-growing volumes of data into enterprise insights with the right platform for machine learning. Learn more about the vendors and products in this cutting-edge market.
By Bob Violino • July 28, 2020