“JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – Media OutReach – 18 January 2019 – There is so much more in store for the African retail industry. According to research conducted by PWC, many sub-Saharan African countries have emerged among the world’s fastest-growing economies. This kind of development is due, in part, to a great deal of economic and social change, but also because…
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Amazon sets conference on robotics, artificial intelligence
“The re:MARS conference in Las Vegas will include “visionary talks, interactive workshops, technical deep dives, roundtables, hands-on demos, and more,” an Amazon statement said. The conference called Machine learning, Automation, Robotics and Space on June 4-7 grew out of a private, invite-only event hosted by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in recent years. “We’re at the…
AI has a bias problem. This is how we can solve it
Rethinking AI “I would argue that the problems in our AI systems are not simply limitations of data or developers’ blind spots, but rather stem from our entire approach to how these systems are built. We have approached AI development from the top-down, largely dictated by the viewpoints of developed nations and first-world cultures. No…
Bold Commerce raises $16.5 million to bring AI to ecommerce stores on Shopify and elsewhere
AI in ecommerce “As is the case in pretty much every other industry, AI is increasingly infiltrating the ecommerce realm — and automation is also emerging as one of the major products in Bold Commerce’s arsenal of tools. The Bold Brain app is designed to help merchants automatically display personalized product recommendations to each of…
Former Facebook engineer picks up $15M for AI platform Spell
“In 2016, Serkan Piantino packed up his desk at Facebook with hopes to move on to something new. The former director of Engineering for Facebook AI Research had every intention to keep working on AI, but quickly realized a huge issue. Unless you’re under the umbrella of one of these big tech companies like Facebook,…