Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

Retail is Applying AI in Four Main Areas – Data Remains a Challenge

If you’ve been paying attention to the application of artificial intelligence in retail, you may feel like the buzz around the topic has gone from zero to “arrived” in less than a year. In retail time, even at the speed of the modern consumer, that is incredibly fast. Some of the hype has come from […]

Here Are 5 Ways Big Data Is Revolutionizing the Agriculture Industry

Big data and analytics are helping to improve and transform a multitude of industries in the modern world. The most impactful thing such technologies do is provide detailed and real-time insights into operational and financial activities. In agriculture, this very thing is playing out as we speak. Farmers, for instance, are using data to calculate […]

AI Researchers Have a Plan to Save Coral Reefs

Climate change has been bleaching coral reefs, decimating the local marine species that call them home, since at least the first major observations were recorded in the Caribbean in 1980. Thankfully, new A.I. cataloguing designed to identify the geographic regions where coral is still thriving hopes to reverse the trend, saving some of the world’s most dense and […]

Intel buys Seattle artificial intelligence startup – OregonLive.com


OregonLive.com

Intel buys Seattle artificial intelligence startup
OregonLive.com
Intel, eager to expand into new markets beyond the fading PC sector, said Thursday it has purchased a three-year-old Seattle artificial intelligence startup called Vertex.AI. It’s Intel’s second acquisition since the abrupt exit of chief executive
Intel acquires Seattle-based deep learning startup Vertex.AI to bolster artificial intelligence effortsGeekWire
Intel buys deep-learning startup Vertex.AI to join its Movidius unitTechCrunch

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This machine-learning coach could get you into shape – Mashable

MashableThis machine-learning coach could get you into shapeMashableThis machine-learning coach could get you into shape. Share on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Michelle Yan about 9 hours ago. Tonal is like a personal trainer mounted to the wall of your …

DE Shaw taps academic to set up new machine learning group … – Financial Times

Institutional InvestorDE Shaw taps academic to set up new machine learning group …Financial TimesDE Shaw, the $50bn quantitative hedge fund founded above a Marxist bookshop, has hired a prominent academic in the field of artificial intelligence to se…

Artificial Intelligence Still Isn’t All That Smart – Bloomberg


Bloomberg

Artificial Intelligence Still Isn’t All That Smart
Bloomberg
In the business world, machine learning often goes by the annoying moniker of “artificial intelligence.” That science-fiction buzzword evokes visions of godlike sentient computers, when in fact, the product is much closer to a statistical regression

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New interactive machine learning tool makes car designs more … – Science Daily

Science DailyNew interactive machine learning tool makes car designs more …Science DailyWhen engineers or designers wanted to test the aerodynamic properties of the newly designed car or an airplane, the procedure usually took hours or even a …..

Salesforce open-sources TransmogrifAI, the machine learning … – VentureBeat

VentureBeatSalesforce open-sources TransmogrifAI, the machine learning …VentureBeatSalesforce is open-sourcing TransmogrifAI, the machine learning library for structured data that powers its Einstein platform.Salesforce plans to open-source the techn…

Artificial Intelligence Makes Inroads in Broadcasting – TV Technology

TV TechnologyArtificial Intelligence Makes Inroads in BroadcastingTV Technology“In a machine learning/artificial intelligence solution, the system could learn enough about the content types [by watching content] and could experiment with various combin…