“Last September, a data scientist named Peter Skomoroch tweeted: “As a rule of thumb, you can expect the transition of your enterprise company to machine learning will be about 100x harder than your transition to mobile.” It had the ring of a joke, but Skomoroch wasn’t kidding. Among the biggest obstacles is getting disparate record-keeping…
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The Best of AI: New Articles Published This Month (January 2019)
“Welcome to the January edition of our best and favorite articles in AI that were published this month. We are a Paris-based company that does Agile data development. This month, we spotted articles about reinforcement learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence legislation and more. We advise you to have a Python environment ready if you…
8 cool technologies that are revolutionizing retail
Juniper Research predicts retailers will spend $7.3 billion on AI by 2022, compared with the approximately $2 billion spent in 2018. Caper Introduces Smart Shopping Cart Brooklyn, New York-based retail technology vendor Caper has developed a smart, self-checkout shopping cart that uses computer vision, sensor fusion, and three cameras to automatically ring up items placed…
Artificial intelligence startup Databricks is now worth $2.75 billion after raising $250 million from Andreessen Horowitz and Microsoft
“‘Many companies are excited to AI, but they’re struggling. It’s because the problems they’re trying to solve is different from sexy A.I.,’ Ali Ghodsi, CEO and co-founder of Databricks, told Business Insider. “We’re the only company that focuses on how can you do the boring things and A.I. together. We don’t see any vendors out…
How HSBC Uses AI To Boost Its Digital Banking Immune System
“‘You have billions and, in some cases, trillions of transactions across global networks,’ Balkin said. “Finding a needle in a haystack, as it were, is done most effectively using the power of AI to look through massive data sets.” AI-generated fraud alerts that go directly to customers’ smartphones also put them on the front lines…