[Photo: Randallbritten/Wikimedia Commons] “Amazon has lately courted controversy with its Rekognition service, a facial scanning software used by law enforcement agencies like ICE, as well as many of its other cloud customers. Facebook is well known for its facial recognition algorithm, allowing the company to identify users and target ads at them accordingly. Last month, Microsoft’s…
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AI Weekly: 2018 in machine learning – Khari Johnson
“On the AI assistant front, we saw Alexa and Cortana begin to work together. We documented how this fall Google, Facebook, and Amazon simultaneously fought major scandals while at the same time entering full pitch mode for smart displays, and we looked at the need for trust in AI assistant adoption. One of my favorites from Kyle Wiggers is about the danger…
Microsoft Partners With Fintech Startup ZestFinance To Bring Transparency To AI-Powered Financial Models
“Microsoft said Wednesday that it is entering a strategic partnership with financial technology startup ZestFinance to make it easier for its financial services customers to adopt AI and machine learning tools. The answer we get with deep learning might be accurate, but in the case of credit applications, that isn’t enough.” What Zest does is…
ai eCommerce News Sept 4th
Image credit: eweek.com — Alexa-Cortana Deal to Boost AI and Voice-Enabled Commerce Markets “The Aug. 30 announcement by Microsoft and Amazon that they will enable their respective virtual assistant technologies, Cortana and Alexa, to talk to one another, is being regarded by industry experts as the first crack in the wall that separates today’s leading virtual…