“Microsoft on Monday launched a free, online AI Business School to help business leaders navigate creating an AI strategy. Courses include: “Introduction to AI technology for business leaders,” “Define an AI strategy to create business value,” “Discover ways to foster an AI-ready culture in your business,” “Identify guiding principles for responsible AI in your business.”…
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SXSW Panelists Discuss Benefits, Hurdles of Government AI Development
“AI is going to learn what we teach it, so if we have applications in the [Defense Department] where the humans that are involved in the process of training the data are all white 22-year-old soldiers, then there’s going to be bias in the datasets that end up in the algorithms,” Metzger said. https://www.meritalk.com/articles/sxsw-panelists-discuss-benefits-hurdles-of-government-ai-development/
Mark Cuban says you — yes, you — need to understand how AI works
“’If you go in my bathroom, there’s a book, Machine Learning for Idiots,’Cuban said on the latest episode of Recode Media. ‘Whenever I get a break, I’m reading it.’ That’s because Cuban — the Broadcast.com co-founder who went on to become an internet investor, Shark Tank star, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks — believes…
Startup Showcases Sign Language Based Artificial Intelligence at SXSW
“Following on-screen prompts to sign series of single letters, users can order a customized coffee as the computer (a modest but powerful laptop on an adjacent pedestal) registers the letters faster than one can blink. Created by Stradigi AI, an artificial intelligence research and solutions company based in Montreal, the program is the result of…
Yum China banking on robot servers, AI menus to defy slowdown
Robotic Servers “KFCs here take payment by facial recognition, ice cream is served by robotic arms and customers can control the background music through their mobile phones like a new-age jukebox. Taco Bells in China have artful graffiti on the walls and hip-hop music, while Pizza Hut offers millennial inventions like fig and cranberry pizza.”…