AI software development
AI software development

Four Suggestions for Using a Kaggle Competition to Test AI in Business

According to a McKinsey report, only 20% of companies consider themselves adopters of AI technology while 41% remain uncertain about the benefits that AI provides. Considering the cost of implementing AI and the organizational challenges that come with it, it’s no surprise that smart companies seek ways to test the solutions before implementing them and get […]

Code Obfuscation for AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Earlier in my career, I was hired to reverse engineer a million lines of code for a system that the original developer had long since disappeared. He had left behind no documentation. The firm had at least gotten him to provide a copy of the source code. Nobody […]

Here are the Top 5 Languages for Machine Learning, Data Science

Careers in data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and related technologies are considered among the best choices to pursue in an uncertain future economy where many jobs may end up automated and performed by robots and AI. Yet in spite of the likely strong and secure future of these careers, the job marketplace remains fundamentally […]

Solving Sparse-Reward Tasks with Curiosity

By Arthur Juliani, Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Unity Technologies Now there is an easy way to encourage agents to explore the environment more effectively when the rewards are infrequent and sparsely distributed. These agents can do this using a reward they give themselves based on how surprised they are about the outcome of their […]

Here Are 10 Open-Source Tools/Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence

Here are 10 open-source tools/frameworks for today’s hot topic, AI. TensorFlow An open-source software library for Machine Intelligence. TensorFlow™ is an open-source software library, which was originally developed by researchers and engineers working on the Google Brain Team. TensorFlow is for numerical computation using data flow graphs. Nodes in the graph represent mathematical operations, while […]

Adobe’s CTO Leads Company’s AI Business Strategy

By Ron Miller, TechCrunch Reporter There isn’t a software company out there worth its salt that doesn’t have some kind of artificial intelligence initiative in progress right now. These organizations understand that AI is going to be a game-changer, even if they might not have a full understanding of how that’s going to work just […]

Executive Interview: Atul Arya, Blackstraw.ai

Blackstraw.ai Seeks to Fast-Track AI Adoption with Smart Building Blocks AI Trends recently caught up with Atul Arya, CEO and Founder of Blackstraw. The veteran machine learning leader most recently at Nielsen is transforming the AI space using his real-world experience of implementing AI with speed in enterprises. Story by Jeff Orr of AI World. […]

IBM Attracting Developers With AI and Open Source ML Projects

Already a leader in the advancement of artificial intelligence, IBM has brought AI technology to developers with open arms. IBM recently launched a series of projects for developers to access open source code and services to build AI and machine learning applications. The vendor wants to democratize these technologies, so they can be easily accessed […]

Normalization of Deviance Endangers AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider The movie “Deepwater Horizon” provides an entertaining and informative glimpse at what transpired in April 2010 that ultimately led to a floating oil drill platform explosion, and generated the worst oil spill ever in the United States. I suppose that I should have said “spoiler alert” and not […]

How Three AI Software Companies Position to Deliver on Projects Incorporating AI

AI software companies today are trying to figure out how to make a buck, what configuration of software and services is going to work. It’s difficult to do in such a rapidly-changing environment. Here we look at three companies – Veritone, Sapient and Cognitive Scale  – to see how they are going about it. Veritone […]