The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to invest $2 billion in what the agency aims to define as a "third-wave" of AI technologies, exploring new theories and applications that could make it possible for machines to adapt to changing situations.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/10/2018
For the first time, Python -- a favorite tool for AI projects -- has cracked the top three positions in the TIOBE index, which tracks programming language popularity.
Chinese AI specialist Baidu launched a no-code platform for creating and deploying custom machine learning models in just four steps, targeting small and medium-sized enterprises.
Tibco Software and manufacturing services company Jabil have announced a new partnership that the companies say will help bring additional machine learning capabilities to embedded apps for IIoT use cases.
Microsoft has issued a new release of its enhanced edition of the R programming language, one of the primary languages used for artificial intelligence and machine learning development, along with Python.
PowerEdge MX, new hardware recently announced by Dell EMC, is designed to support machine learning artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) workloads.
Demand for artificial intelligence and machine learning skills is exploding, but industry efforts are underway to meet that need.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/24/2018
BigQuery ML, is designed to break down the barriers by providing a tool that does not require a data scientist to operate it. Google is also updating other products in its data analytics and Cloud AI services offering.
- By Richard Seeley
- 08/22/2018
It's both a software tools bundle and a protocol, designed to simplify the deployment of the model artifacts created during the process of ML training known as machine learning models by decoupling that process from framework-specific model implementations.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/20/2018
Calling it the "greatest leap since the invention of the CUDA GPU," Nvidia this week announced its new Nvidia Turing architecture: hybrid GPUs combining Tensor Cores (aimed at AI processing) and RT Cores.
Google recently announced Edge TPU, an ASIC designed to do exactly what its name suggests: run AI (and IoT) "on the edge."
While high-tech execs issue fevered warnings about the potential dangers of next-gen intelligent machines, the current generation of smart software could already pose a serious security threat.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/10/2018
ML.NET, the open source cross-platform machine learning framework introduced by Microsoft in preview several months ago, has been updated to version 0.4, with improved natural language processing highlighting several enhancements.