“The Seattle company today announced that team ChaNJestimate — whose members include Chahhou Mohamed, Jordan Meyer, and Nima Shahbazi, hailing from Morocco, the U.S., and Canada, respectively — will take home the $1 million prize for a model that bested the Zillow “Zestimate” benchmark by approximately 13 percent. (The Zestimate’s nationwide error rate is 4.5…
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Protecting Retail Profits With Artificial Intelligence
“Retailers can use AI to reduce losses resulting from error, faulty processes and intentional fraud. According to the 2018 National Retail Security Survey from the National Retail Federation, more than 50% of retail shrink (the difference between actual on-hand inventory and the inventory level recorded in the computer system) was due to employee theft or…
Android Q might include an equivalent to Apple’s Face ID
“To date, Android phone makers who’ve wanted to include face recognition have had to craft their own secure solutions or else use basic face detection that you can fool with a photo. Soon, however, it might be relatively commonplace. Sleuthers at XDA and 9to5Google have discovered code in an early Android Q version that hints…
Blue Prism launches connected-RPA to transform the market
eCommerce/vending machine capability enables users to buy and sell solutions and services on the Digital Exchange (DX) making it a true eCommerce site. Technology partners, developers and anyone who has a best of breed AI or cognitive solution can join the Blue Prism DX community to market and sell on it. Blue Prism Digital Exchange…
AI Weekly: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Marc Benioff, and the future of the world
“The future of AI was a main topic at Davos this week, but it was also on the mind of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), a woman quickly becoming the most popular freshman Congresswoman in recent memory. According to a Brookings Institution report out this week, AI will create some jobs and disrupt many others, disproportionately affecting…