“Jack Ma’s online bank is leading a quiet revolution in the way China lends to small businesses, taking aim at a credit bottleneck that has held back Asia’s largest economy for decades. Using real-time payments data and a risk-management system that analyses more than 3,000 variables, Ma’s four-year-old MYbank has lent 2 trillion yuan (US$290 billion) to…
Month: July 2019
25 stunning advances in artificial intelligence
“Boston Dynamics ProFound AI AI Artwork AI Generated Human Faces TensirFlow AlphaGo GAN Autonomous Driving IBM Watson Siri AI Glass Deep Density Displacement Model Ghost Population Discovery AI Predicts Death AI in Mobile Phones Facebook Chats OpenAI DeepFakes Nautilus Cyc Amazon Deep Blue DARPA Grand Challenge Waymo Eliza” https://thestacker.com/stories/3336/25-stunning-advances-artificial-intelligence Image credit: vox.com
Cyber security in the age of AI
“In 2017, a unique cyberattack was reported by a renowned cybersecurity firm Darktrace. In this, machine learning was used to observe and learn normal user behavior patterns within a network. The malicious software started to copy normal behavior combining it into the background which became difficult for security tools to identify it. Failure by governments…
US at Number 4 in Government AI Readiness
“The study indicated that China surprisingly was ranked in the low position of 20th, even though central and local governments are implementing AI in public service delivery. However, it predicted that China, which was in fifth place in Asia-Pacific, is likely to perform better in next year’s ranking.” https://www.bangkokpost.com/tech/1719147/thailand-56th-in-ai-readiness-index
This Week In AI Stats: $7.4 Billion Invested In AI Startups In Q2
“Funding to AI startups worldwide in Q2 of 2019 totaled $7.4 billion in 488 deals, up from $5.2 billion in Q1 [CB Insights] $803 million were invested in the first half of 2019 in 43 VC deals worldwide involving the application of AI and machine learning to cybersecurity; last year’s total was $1.7 billion [KPMG]”…