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Innovation

DRDO’s AI-based Face Recognition System Will Make Biometric Systems Redundant

Reading Time: < 1 minutes In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with mandated social distancing, companies and government offices have banned the biometric attendance. How else can one mark employees’ attendance? The Defence Research and Development Organization’s (DRDO) Defence Bio-engineering and Electromedical Laboratory are creating a face recognition system that uses artificial intelligence Read more…

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Ethics and Compliance

Can Scientists Teach An AI Moral Reasoning?

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Germany’s Darmstadt University of Technology (DUT) researchers fed their model news, books, and religious literature to teach the relations between different words and sentences. After the training, the researchers observed that the system adopted the values of the texts. The team claims that the Moral Choice Machine (MCM) calculates the Read more…

By AI Bytes, 4 years4 years ago

Innovation

Microsoft, In Partnership with OpenAI, Announces ‘World’s Fifth Most Powerful’ Supercomputer

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Microsoft builds powerful public supercomputer in the world that is touted to be the fifth most potent publically recorded supercomputer. The computer is to be hosted in the Azure cloud and is designed to train various Artificial Intelligence models. Kevin Scott, chief technical officer, Microsoft, emphasizes how the supercomputer will Read more…

By AI Bytes, 4 years4 years ago

Innovation

Sony’s New Sensors Utilize AI To Process Images On Camera

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Sony utilizes in-build Artificial Intelligence processing in its upcoming image sensors IMX 500 & IMX501 to enable image and object recognition on the camera. The company is making sensors for enterprise-class monitors and security cameras in industrial and retail equipment systems. Companies are increasingly using the Internet of Things (IoT) Read more…

By AI Bytes, 4 years4 years ago

Investment

Contentsquare, The Cloud-based Platform, Closed $190M Series D Funding

Reading Time: < 1 minutes The digital experience analytics platform, Contentsquare, gives businesses a sneak peek into how and why users interact with their websites, mobile, and apps. The company scored $190 million in Series D funding bringing the total funding to $310 million. BlackRock‘s Private Equity Partner’s Team led the round, with previous investors’ Read more…

By AI Bytes, 4 years4 years ago

Merger & Acquisitions

Accenture Acquires Ahemdabad-based Bytes Prophecy To Enhance Ai, Analytics Capabilities

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Accenture, a professional services firm, acquired Ahemdabad-based IT company Byte Prophecy to meet the increasing demand for large-scale AI and Digital Analytics solutions across the region. The financial terms of the acquisition remain undisclosed. The acquisition will make an addition of nearly fifty data scientists and data engineering experts, with Read more…

By AI Bytes, 4 years4 years ago

Ethics and Compliance

Tulsee Doshi Ensures All-inclusive Google Products

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Today, AI and ML are present in almost all walks of our life. They help to make the consumer experience more user friendly, inclusive, and personalized. Google products offer well maintained and monitored uniformity and inclusiveness, and we have Tulsee Doshi to thank for this. Tulsee Doshi, a Google product Read more…

By AI Bytes, 4 years4 years ago

Innovation

Intel Labs, UPenn Use Federated Learning For Early Brain Tumor Detection

Reading Time: 2 minutes Intel Labs and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) have come together to develop a technology to train AI models to identify brain tumors while prioritizing preserving privacy. The technique using a distributed ML approach is called federated learning, which enables organizations to collaborate on Read more…

By AI Bytes, 4 years4 years ago

Digital Transformation

AI Chatbots Take Over Call Centers

Reading Time: 2 minutes COVID-19 has taken a toll on all the industries and forced people to work remotely – leading to a shortage of staff at the workplace. Brian Pokorny, the IT director of Otsego County, New York, had to fire 50% of his team, mainly call center employees, on account of the Read more…

By AI Bytes, 5 years5 years ago

Digital Transformation

Pandemic Reveals Codependency In Humans & AI

Reading Time: 2 minutes AI Models Need Human Intervention To Function During Pandemic–The coronavirus pandemic has led to chaos and uncertainty around the globe, and it has taken its toll on Machine Learning systems programmed to make sense of our online behavior. During the outbreak, people started searching and buying toilet paper, hand sanitizer, Read more…

By AI Bytes, 5 years5 years ago