Juniper Research predicts retailers will spend $7.3 billion on AI by 2022, compared with the approximately $2 billion spent in 2018. Caper Introduces Smart Shopping Cart Brooklyn, New York-based retail technology vendor Caper has developed a smart, self-checkout shopping cart that uses computer vision, sensor fusion, and three cameras to automatically ring up items placed…
Month: February 2019
Gmail blocks 100 million spam messages daily with its A.I., Google says
“Effective spam blocking is yet another thing we can add to the ever-growing list of uses for artificial intelligence. Via a Google Cloud blog post published Wednesday, February 6, Google announced that it has been using an A.I. platform to further its spam-blocking endeavors with significant results. According to Google, TensorFlow is allowing the technology…
How AI can prevent a Marriott situation from happening again
Image Credit: Geralt / Pixabay “It is critical that organisations charged with protecting customer data take better steps to ensure that any cyber-attacks are quickly identified and stopped before damage is done. They should look towards smarter systems that utilise artificial intelligence to effectively and accurately identify genuine cyber threats in real time. It would…
New Relic acquires SignifAI to bring AI to IT operations
The digital intelligence firm New Relic has acquired SignifAI, a three-year-old company that specializes bringing artificial intelligence to IT operations — otherwise known as AIOps to predict and address performance issues. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/new-relic-acquires-signifai-to-bring-ai-to-it-operations/
Landing.ai hires Amazon director of computer vision Gopi Prashanth
Enterprise automation company Landing.ai has hired Amazon director of artificial intelligence and computer vision Gopi Prashanth to act as its new VP of engineering. Prashanth led a team that created the AI system behind Amazon Go, and previously worked as a development manager at Microsoft. Prashanth is one of the biggest hires yet for Landing.ai, a company…