“The retail category as a whole will spend $5.9 billion this year on tools like automated customer service agents and product recommendation generators, while the banking sector is set to put $5.6 billion toward more security-oriented AI uses like fraud prevention and threat intelligence, according to the report. Total spending from businesses on AI is…
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Easy Money: Technology Is Reinventing Banking In Arkansas
“In BOND.AI’s case, that means incorporating artificial intelligence to turn your phone into an interactive money manager. One part personal shopper, one part hand-held monetary conscience, the app finds lower loan and credit card interest rates, critiques and optimizes spends and squares today’s outflow with future aspirations such as saving for retirement or a house….
Vice’s Creative Agency Built a Genderless AI Voice—And It Wants Big Tech to Adopt It
“Q, which debuted on Monday at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, is a composite of dozens of voices of people who identify as non-binary. To create the voice, Virtue and partners including Pride Copenhagen, linguists and technologists recorded the voices before creating a composite of all of them. The team then had 4,500 people…
Microsoft’s new AI Business School teaches execs how to lead AI initiatives, for free
“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.”…
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/