AI project matches brands with relevant Instagram influencers
In some circles, the mere mention of the word “influencer” is enough to elicit groans of protest. True, folks like Kylie Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Felix Kjellberg (i.e.,
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Anthony O’Neill, former Director of Eir’s Analytics Centre of Excellence – Irish Tech News
Welcome to episode four of AI in Action, the podcast that breaks down the hype and explores the impact that Data Science, Machine Learning and
Alation raises $50 million to index enterprise data
Data catalogs — hierarchical tools designed to organize tables, databases, and other critical bits of information — are a relatively new, but fast-growing, cottage industry
Want your sales teams to always be closing? Adopt AI (VB Live)
Artificial intelligence can increase your leads and appointments by 50 percent, reduce costs up to 60 percent, cut call time up to 70 percent, and
How Lyft envisions bringing VR and AR to your ride
Lyft is exploring ways to integrate virtual reality and augmented reality into your Lyft rides, according to a couple of patent applications TechCrunch came across
This AI learns from past matches to predict tennis shot placement
You might have heard about AI that teaches four-legged robots to walk and autonomous systems that generate photorealistic images of butterflies, but what about models
Amazon launches new re:MARS conference for cutting-edge tech and science
Every year, Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos hosts an invite-only event where attendees get a chance to see the world’s richest man recreate a
Facebook and Stanford researchers design a chatbot that learns from its mistakes
Chatbots rarely make great conversationalists. With the exception of perhaps Microsoft’s Xiaoice in China, which has about 40 million users and averages 23 back-and-forth exchanges,
Data catalog company Alation lands $50M funding round
Big-data company Alation Inc. has just landed a hefty $50 million later-stage round of funding as it looks to help more enterprises access corporate information
Prisma’s style transfer tech creeps into kids’ books
The style transfer craze kicked off by an app called Prisma a couple of years ago led to a tsunami of painterly selfies flooding social feeds
Facebook urged to give users greater control over what they see
Academics at the universities of Oxford and Stanford think Facebook should give users greater transparency and control over the content they see on its platform.
Fractal Analytics raises $200 million to boost enterprise efficiency with AI
The big data analytics market is worth big bucks. A recent report by Market Research Future pegged its value at $275 billion by 2023, and
Project Alias feeds smart speakers white noise to preserve privacy
Smart speakers have a problem: They occasionally record things they shouldn’t. In May of last year, a woman claimed that her Amazon Echo taped a
Neural Networks Restore Movement to Paralyzed Limbs
While diving into the Atlantic Ocean off the shores of North Carolina with his friends in 2010, Ian Burkhart, then a college student, sustained a
Alexa can now read your news like a newscaster
Alexa can now deliver the news with the tenor and tone of a professional newscaster, thanks to a new artificial intelligence (AI) technique. Starting today for
