Machine learning is being used to power the automatic management of workloads for the Amazon Redshift data warehouse.
Google has released its Coached Conversational Preference Elicitation (CCPE) and Taskmaster-1 English dialog datasets to open source. The two collections of pairs of people engaged in spoken conversations are now available to developers of AI assistants as training material for modeling natural language.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/16/2019
Kryon, a leading provider of robotic process automation solutions, announced this month the launch of AI Booster, a set of artificial intelligence (AI) services based on Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service to be integrated into the Kryon Automation Suite later this fall.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/06/2019
An International Data Corporation (IDC) report predicts that worldwide AI spending will grow two-and-a-half times from $37.5 billion to $97.9 billion between 2018 and 2023, a compound annual growth rate of 28.4 percent over the five-year period.
- By Richard Seeley
- 09/05/2019
Huawei Technologies has announced the commercial availability of the Ascend 910 chip, the long-awaited AI processor aimed at datacenters and designed to compete with top U.S. chip makers. The company also launched a new AI computing framework, called MindSpore.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/03/2019
A recent survey of about 450 global executives and board members reveals that top executives are both excited and concerned about the emergence of artificial intelligence and its impact on business operations.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/23/2019
The 2019 Homomorphic Encryption Standardization Workshop aims to develop standards around an advanced data encryption scheme that can revolutionize secure data storage.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/21/2019
The universe of voice-enabled devices could be expanding, thanks to recent advances in ultra-low power microcontrollers that use deep learning to recognize common wake words.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/16/2019
Chip-maker Intel and leading computer manufacturer Lenovo announced a multiyear collaboration to leverage the convergence of high performance computing and artificial intelligence.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/12/2019
The Microsoft Research has taken a step toward "democratizing AI" with a project aimed at developing a new open-source framework that will leverage blockchain technology.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/31/2019
VMware seeks to bolster next-generation carrier networks and applications with the acquisition of Uhana, a startup providing highly-scalable, low-latency, real-time stream processing and AI services to improve network performance.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/31/2019
Since 1993, the Top 500 list has ranked supercomputers based on their performance in the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark. Now Nvidia proposes that the organization expand its testing suite to include an AI-savvy benchmark called HPL-AI.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/26/2019
A report by Zion Market Research projects that spending around machine learning is growing sharply, from about $1.58 billion in 2017 to $20.83 billion in 2024.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/23/2019