Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence has been boosting bottom lines and easing employee endeavors for years now and, while almost every organization at this point has begun implementing some AI tools of their own (or at least have it on their IT roadmap), it’s always exciting to hear new use-cases and the real-world results they’ve engendered. One of the most exciting areas for the … [Read more...] about How Artificial Intelligence is Driving Commerce

Posted on February 16th, 2021 by Emilio MilesThere are already many inventions that make use of artificial intelligence in a lot of different ways. One of the more fun, but still interesting, uses of AI is in gaming. I think it would be incredibly cool to create a role-playing game where the adventure ends when the user would like it to end. Most role-playing games have a … [Read more...] about Inventing AI with Ethics

Disclaimer: The Roko’s Basilisk thought experiment is considered to be an informational hazard. I do not regard the information as presenting any serious danger. Read at your discretion.In 2010, on the LessWrong forum, user Roko posted a hypothetical discussion about the idea of a superintelligence as a culmination of humanity’s efforts in general artificial intelligence. Upon … [Read more...] about Roko’s Basilisk: The Computational Characterization of Ethical Decisions

The FDA just released their latest guidance in January 2021 around AI software. Healthcare can expect to see the number of AI based software programs that clear the FDA to dramatically increase over the next 10 years. Bakul Patel, the founding director of the Digital Health Center of Excellence, is leading up these efforts. As a visionary in digital health, Bakul has made it a … [Read more...] about Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Use our new open-source starter kits to integrate with almost any service desk for web-based agent escalationsWe recently put out a blog showing off how Watson Assistant’s new and improved architecture model gives you and other enterprise companies a true end-to-end platform to build great assistants on, without having to abandon your existing customer care tools. In this post, … [Read more...] about Bring Your Own Service Desk to Watson Assistant

Create A ModelWith IBM STT the whole process can be managed via CURL commands. There are other ways also to interface with the STT environment.To create a language model with a customization id, run this curl command.The apikey and url are displayed when you create the service in the IBM Cloud console.curl -X POST -u "apikey:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" --header "Content-Type: … [Read more...] about Create Your Own Speech-To-Text Custom Language Model

The total amount of stuff shuffled around the world is truly dizzying. And everything produced based on a wrong forecast can only become waste.There are more than $2 trillion of inventory in the United States alone, $2.04 trillion last time I checked — $2,040 billions. And that is just the United States, a country that tracks figures closely. Keep in mind the US is a … [Read more...] about To Forecast, or Not To Forecast, That is the Supply Chain Question

Krisp, a startup that uses machine learning to remove background noise from audio in real time, has raised $9M as an extension of its $5M A round announced last summer. The extra money followed big traction in 2020 for the Armenian company, which grew its customers and revenue by more than an order of magnitude. TechCrunch first covered Krisp when it was just emerging from UC … [Read more...] about Krisp nearly triples fundraise with $9M expansion after blockbuster 2020 – TechCrunch

The rapid and relentless progress of technology has lifted many people out of poverty but at the same time it feels as though it has left many of us behind. Smartphones and the internet have brought unprecedented access to information, entertainment, connection and payment; as Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen put it nearly ten years ago “Software is eating the … [Read more...] about Welcome to the Tribe

Efficient and cost-effective vaccine distribution remains one of the biggest challenges of 2021, so it’s no surprise that startup Notable Health wants to use their automation platform to help. Initially started to help address the nearly $250 billion annual administrative costs in healthcare, Notable Health launched in 2017 to use automation to replace time-consuming and … [Read more...] about Notable Health seeks to improve COVID-19 vaccine administration through intelligent automation – TechCrunch