Category: AI
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Pixel-Perfect Perception: How AI Helps Autonomous Vehicles See Outside the Box
NVIDIA Blog – 10.25.19 (10.23.19) For highly complex driving scenarios, it’s helpful for the autonomous vehicle’s perception system to provide a more detailed understanding of its surroundings. With our panoptic segmentation DNN approach, we can obtain such fine-grained results by segmenting image content with pixel-level accuracy. Source: Pixel-Perfect Perception: How AI Helps Autonomous Vehicles See Outside…
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Got Creative Block? Alexa Can Help with That. Introducing the Adobe Inspiration Engine
Adobe Blog – 10.23.19 (10.21.19) At Adobe, we empower people to realize their creative potential. Traditionally, that has meant building tools that test creative frontiers, streamline workflows and enable collaboration. However, a recent Adobe study reported that while 71% of people consider themselves creative, 89% say they struggle to find inspiration. Today, we’re excited to…
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Here’s how AI is helping secure water for your future
Microsoft Blogs – 10.23.19 (10.22.19) Last year, Cape Town, South Africa, came within days of running out of water. This summer, Chennai, India, ran dry, with residents standing in line for hours for government water supplies. Source: Here’s how AI is helping secure water for your future
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Watson Anywhere: The Future
IBM Blog – 10.22.19 (10.21.19) There’s a paradox in the world of AI: While it’s the largest economic opportunity of our lifetime (estimated to contribute $16 trillion to GDP by 2030), enterprise adoption of AI was less than 4% in 2018. A recent Gartner survey said that the 4% in 2018 has now grown to…
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How AI is helping children overcome their speech disabilities
Microsoft Blog – 10.21.19 (10.17.19) In Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, there are over 5 million children with some form of disability. With the right support, many of these can thrive in mainstream education. Unfortunately, that isn’t always available. As a result, up to 75 percent of these children are excluded from quality…
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The 3 Beachheads of AI
IBM Blog – 10.16.19 We have been partnering with and assisting clients on their data needs and strategies for years. It’s clear that data and AI are two-sides of the same coin; in fact, this understanding spawned the AI Ladder concept. We’ve developed skills training in the areas of data science and machine learning; we’ve partnered…
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Using AI to give people who are blind the “full picture”
Google Blog – 10.15.19 (10.11.19) Everything that makes up the web—text, images, video and audio—can be easily discovered. Many people who are blind or have low vision rely on screen readers to make the content of web pages accessible through spoken feedback or braille. Source: Using AI to give people who are blind the “full…
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Technology is transforming the banking industry, and you’re at the centre
Microsoft Blogs – 10.15.19 Around four thousand years ago, merchants in Assyria, India and Sumeria began giving out grain loans to farmers and traders who transported goods between cities. Fast forward to ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, and lenders in temples were providing loans, accepting deposits, and changing money, paving the way for the…
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IBM Watson: Reflections and Projections
IBM Blog – 10.10.19 AI has gone through many cycles since we first coined the term “machine learning” in 1959. Our latest resurgence began in 2011 when we put Watson on national television to play Jeopardy! against humans. This became a cornerstone event, demonstrating that we had something unique. And we saw early success, putting Watson to…
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5 times Hollywood has taken on AI
Microsoft Blogs – 10.10.19 (10.8.19) Artificial intelligence is a staple of many movie plots – and those thrilling stories often revolve around the potential dangers of AI, rather than the good it can do. Since popular culture plays a part in shaping attitudes about technology, it’s not surprising that questions surrounding AI are informed by…