“The UK government will, to the tune of £60m, bankroll two major research projects led by the country’s national institute for AI, the Alan Turing Institute: one to automate air traffic control, and the other for banking services. The second funded scheme, dubbed the Prosperity Partnership Project, is a collaboration between the institute and HSBC….
Month: July 2021
Dataiku, Rabobank extend partnership for AI innovation in banking
“Enterprise AI platform Dataiku has extended its partnership with Rabobank.Dataiku’s platform supports Rabobank’s Intelligence Lab in deploying AI projects across the organisation for hundreds of users. More than 100 AI initiatives have been successfully completed in less than two years. Rabobank started transforming into a data-driven organisation in 2011. During this time, the bank has…
What AI can do for credit unions
“Ayesha Khanna, co-founder & CEO, ADDO AI…encouraged credit unions to view AI as an assistant which can do a lot of repeatable tasks, analyse huge amounts of data, give reports and insights, and make recommendations. It also allows companies to be far more customer-focused and customise their services, she said. Her main recommendation to credit…
eBay taps computer vision to transform online shopping
“Offering buyers the ability to look for similar or exact items using images instead of text has become fairly standard in the industry, but launching the feature in 2017 was a big deal ‘First, we did our training separately,’ he explained. ‘We trained the models on the public cloud, where we could access [graphic processing…
Welcome to the first ever artificial intelligence that uses human-like ‘imagination’
“Now, a USC research team has developed an AI that uses human-like capabilities to imagine a never-before-seen object with different attributes. ‘Humans can separate their learned knowledge by attributes–for instance, shape, pose, position, color–and then recombine them to imagine a new object. Our paper attempts to simulate this process using neural networks.’ This is one…