A group of researchers from the Boston University School of Public Health and the VA Boston Healthcare System utilized machine learning to streamline the diagnosis tool for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). According to their new study, released in the journal Assessment, some of the questions imposed in the Structural Clinical Interview for the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (SCID-5) could be eliminated, leading to more relevancy of the veteran population. "Our study is only a first step--but an important one, because it shows that machine learning methods can be used to help inform efforts to make care more efficient, without sacrificing or degrading the quality of care provided," said co-author Jaimie Graudus, in a news release. The new research included data from the SCID-5 assessments related to more than 1,200 military soldiers, half of which were male and the rest female, who served during the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts. The use of random forests, a form of machine-learning system, was also incorporated into the study.

VANCOUVER, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: ZI), a global leader in modern go-to-market software, data, and intelligence, today announced it has agreed to acquire Chorus.ai, More than 20,000 global revenue teams trust ZoomInfo to power their go-to-market motions and drive efficient results. The planned acquisition of Chorus will add a new category of actionable insights to ZoomInfo's world-class intelligence layer, unlocking workflows and driving engagement informed by conversations. The acquisition expands ZoomInfo's total addressable market to $70 billion, and is expected to be accretive to growth immediately, generate positive adjusted operating income within 12 months, and be accretive to cash flow in the second half of FY 2022. Chorus uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to capture and analyze prospect and customer calls, meetings, and emails.

The Software Report is pleased to announce The Top 100 Software Companies of 2021. This year's awardee list is comprised of a wide range of companies from the most well-known such as Microsoft, Adobe, and Salesforce to the relatively newer but rapidly growing - Qualtrics, Atlassian, and Asana. A good number of awardees may be new names to some but that should be no surprise given software has always been an industry of startups that seemingly came out of nowhere to create and dominate a new space. Software has become the backbone of our economy. From large enterprises to small businesses, most all rely on software whether for accounting, marketing, sales, supply chain, or a myriad of other functions. Software has become the dominant industry of our time and as such, we place a significance on highlighting the best companies leading the industry forward. The following awardees were nominated and selected based on a thorough evaluation process. Among the key criteria considered were ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rene Buhay, VP of Sales and Marketing at AVer Europe, the award-winning provider of video collaboration systems, discusses how AI is helping to make business meetings more effective. Artificial intelligence (AI) isn't limited to sci-fi movies and robots. It's in your smartphone, perhaps your car, and almost everywhere you go. One place AI is making a big impact is the meeting room. AI video conferencing cameras and speakerphones are revolutionising meetings by making them more efficient, more engaging, and safer.

Marketing messaging is moving to local brands and locations, as customers want to have relationships with brands on a local level, and collaborative marketing helps local businesses market more effectively. AI and machine learning are delivering on their marketing promise to personalize the customer experience at a speed and scale never seen before, and collaborative marketing lets local marketers leverage these powerful technologies. The rising tide of privacy laws make third-party data more difficult to acquire, including the impending demise of third-party cookies disrupting the established digital advertising ecosystem, and collaborative marketing provides an alternative path. The pandemic has accelerated customers' move to digital channels and boosted demand for audience behavioral data, rich customer insights and testing methodologies, which collaborative marketing facilitates. Marketing messaging is moving to local brands and locations, as customers want to have relationships with brands on a local level, and collaborative marketing helps local businesses market more effectively.

AI diagnostics startup MediCircle Health has recently introduced in India a rapid spectrometry-based test that employs machine learning and artificial intelligence to detect COVID-19. Spectral Instant Test (SpectraLIT) is a point-of-care diagnostic platform that performs spectral analysis to accurately and instantly determine if a spectral pattern of a virus from a nasal or mouthwash sample resembles SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. The test can deliver results "within seconds of its use", according to a press release by MediCircle. The company shared that the portable solution can be used for entry screening at various airports, malls, schools and other venues. It can also potentially enable secure and real-time reporting to health and other designated authorities.

There is mounting public concern over the influence that AI based systems has in our society. Coalitions in all sectors are acting worldwide to resist hamful applications of AI. From indigenous people addressing the lack of reliable data, to smart city stakeholders, to students protesting the academic relationships with sex trafficker and MIT donor Jeffery Epstein, the questionable ethics and values of those heavily investing in and profiting from AI are under global scrutiny. There are biased, wrongful, and disturbing assumptions embedded in AI algorithms that could get locked in without intervention. Our best human judgment is needed to contain AI's harmful impact. Perhaps one of the greatest contributions of AI will be to make us ultimately understand how important human wisdom truly is in life on earth.

IBM Corp. and Heifer International announced today that blockchain-based IBM Food Trust and artificial intelligence platform IBM Watson are being used to help small-scale coffee and cocoa farmers in Honduras get higher crop yields and access new markets. Food Trust uses blockchain technology to track products from farm to point of sale, providing transparency along the entire supply chain. It is currently being used by coffee farmers in the Cooperativa Regional Agroforestal Nuevas Ideas Limitada, a farmer cooperative, and cocoa farmers that are part of Heifer's Chocolate4All project. According to a study published by Heifer International small-scale farmers operate at an average of 46% to 59% loss because of excessive middlemen. Increased transparency enables end buyers more opportunity to understand whom they are buying from and thus can create a competitive advantage for small-scale coffee and cocoa farmers.

Hugging Face is the technology startup, with an active open-source community, that drove the worldwide adoption of transformer-based models thanks to its eponymous Transformers library. Earlier this year, Hugging Face and AWS collaborated to enable you to train and deploy over 10,000 pre-trained models on Amazon SageMaker. For more information on training Hugging Face models at scale on SageMaker, refer to AWS and Hugging Face collaborate to simplify and accelerate adoption of Natural Language Processing models and the sample notebooks. In this post, we discuss different methods to create a SageMaker endpoint for a Hugging Face model. If you're unfamiliar with transformer-based models and their place in the natural language processing (NLP) landscape, here is an overview.

SAN ANTONIO, July 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CloudCommerce, Inc. (CLWD), a technology driven provider of digital advertising solutions, today announced that it has retained Dr. Peter Holden, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) strategist and IP expert, who will assist the Company with the expansion of AI capabilities to its SWARM platform and development and protection of its intellectual property to protect these innovations. "Great teams require great players and Dr. Peter Holden is a great player in the world of applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cognitive technologies to real-world problems," said Andrew Van Noy, CloudCommerce CEO. "We are very fortunate to have Peter advising us as we continue the process of transforming CloudCommerce into a true technology company." Dr. Holden has spent the last 25 years leveraging advanced or'deep' technologies as both an investor as well as hands-on operator having established and/or led three tech funds to date and taken multiple companies through to sale or IPO. His relevant technical background, holding a Ph.D. in A.I. and a Honda Post-Doctoral AI Fellowship award from Tokyo University, has allowed him to help companies embrace new and emerging Machine Learning, Deep Learning and cognitive technologies which enable transformative changes to create a competitive advantage.