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Moody's Analytics Wins Best AI Technology Initiative for QUIQspread

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Moody's Analytics has won Best AI Technology Initiative at the 2020 American Financial Technology Awards. We earned this award for our QUIQspread solution, which helps financial institutions automate the spreading of financial statements. This press release features multimedia. Every bank has its own unique lending criteria. But all banks start the loan origination review process by gathering and standardizing the loan recipient's financial records, a process known as financial spreading.


IoT News - AWS Announces Five Industrial Machine Learning Services - IoT Business News

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Together, these five new machine learning services help industrial and manufacturing customers embed intelligence in their production processes in order to improve operational efficiency, quality control, security, and workplace safety. The services combine sophisticated machine learning, sensor analysis, and computer vision capabilities to address common technical challenges faced by industrial customers, and represent the most comprehensive suite of cloud-to-edge industrial machine learning services available. This is why more than a hundred thousand customers are using AWS for machine learning, and why customers of all sizes and across all industries are using AWS services to make machine learning core to their business strategy. Companies are increasingly looking to add machine learning capabilities to industrial environments, such as manufacturing facilities, fulfillment centers, and food processing plants. For these customers, data has become the connective tissue that holds their complex industrial systems together.


ServiceNow BrandVoice: A Little Bit AI, A Little Bit Human

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In the movie "Outsourced," a call center manager named Todd is asked to train his replacement as his company moves its call center from Seattle to Mumbai. Throughout the movie, his singular focus shifts from reducing the team's "minutes per incident" to building a strong team culture that makes employees happier and more productive (not to mention funnier!). It's a great movie but one that hasn't quite stood the test of time. Today, the best way to save money is not by outsourcing, but by moving customer service operations and infrastructure to the cloud. This reduces the time and cost of setting up and running a service desk while providing built-in artificial intelligence (AI) and a great agent workspace experience.


No PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X? Here's How to Get Your Next-Gen Gaming Fix at Any Budget

TIME - Tech

It's been just a few weeks since the Microsoft Xbox Series S/X and Sony PlayStation 5 consoles hit store shelves, with people scrambling to pick up what little available stock there is before the holidays arrive. But said consoles are hundreds of dollars a pop, and right now they aren't worth the price of admission considering how few next-gen titles are available. So what's a gamer with a slim wallet and a dream to play the latest games to do? With streaming services on the rise thanks to advances in broadband internet speeds, now is the time to look to game streaming as just another option, like video and music streaming. Whether you're just itching to play the latest titles on your outdated laptop, or want to enjoy your own personal library on the go, there are multiple game streaming services to choose from, all catering to different needs.


Are A Conscious Artificial Intelligence & Smart Robots Possible?

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Even the most advanced Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have no real understanding of what they are really doing. The first autonomous cars had fatal accidents when their human drivers were not paying attention as they were programmed to deal with only a set of cars with pre-determined speeds and could not cope up with the complexity of continuous interactions with human drivers they faced (and if they had tested in India, they would have gone crazy with the vehicles coming headlong, or even on the wrong side of the road!). Similarly, a facial recognition system for identifying criminals failed because the input dataset was skewed by police mug-shots in which no-one was smiling. Over the years, AI has become so ubiquitous that we do not even think we are using it. Web Searches, Google Translate, Voice Assistants like Alexa and Siri, fraud alerts from credit-card companies, Amazon recommendations, Spotify playlists, traffic directions, weather forecasts are all taken for granted.


Amazon Echo 2020 review: the best-sounding smart speaker under ยฃ100

The Guardian

Amazon's fourth-generation Echo Alexa smart speaker is a complete redesign in form and audio, with the popular device transformed into a ball of sound. The Echo costs ยฃ89.99 and is Amazon's mid-range speaker, sitting above the ยฃ49.99 Echo Dot and below the ยฃ189.99 The first smart speaker on the market, the original Echo set the standard in 2014 with a tall cylinder shape and 360-degree audio โ€“ resembling a Pringles can with a speaker in it. Six years later and on its fourth generation, Amazon has now broken the mould with a new spherical shape and directional audio. The plastic and mesh fabric ball has one woofer and two tweeter speakers producing directional, stereo sound โ€“ and is designed to sit in the corner of a room rather than the centre of it.


Machine Learning Market Size, Share, Growth, Trends, Outlook, Scope and Forecast to 2027

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Global Machine Learning Market report has added committed areas covering the tendencies of the target crowd and the opposition as of now present onย โ€ฆ


Detecting Insincere Questions from Text: A Transfer Learning Approach

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The internet today has become an unrivalled source of information where people converse on content based websites such as Quora, Reddit, StackOverflow and Twitter asking doubts and sharing knowledge with the world. A major arising problem with such websites is the proliferation of toxic comments or instances of insincerity wherein the users instead of maintaining a sincere motive indulge in spreading toxic and divisive content. The straightforward course of action in confronting this situation is detecting such content beforehand and preventing it from subsisting online. In recent times Transfer Learning in Natural Language Processing has seen an unprecedented growth. Today with the existence of transformers and various state of the art innovations, a tremendous growth has been made in various NLP domains. The introduction of BERT has caused quite a stir in the NLP community. As mentioned, when published, BERT dominated performance benchmarks and thereby inspired many other authors to experiment with it and publish similar models. This led to the development of a whole BERT-family, each member being specialized on a different task. In this paper we solve the Insincere Questions Classification problem by fine tuning four cutting age models viz BERT, RoBERTa, DistilBERT and ALBERT.


Efficient and Scalable Structure Learning for Bayesian Networks: Algorithms and Applications

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Structure Learning for Bayesian network (BN) is an important problem with extensive research. It plays central roles in a wide variety of applications in Alibaba Group. However, existing structure learning algorithms suffer from considerable limitations in real world applications due to their low efficiency and poor scalability. To resolve this, we propose a new structure learning algorithm LEAST, which comprehensively fulfills our business requirements as it attains high accuracy, efficiency and scalability at the same time. The core idea of LEAST is to formulate the structure learning into a continuous constrained optimization problem, with a novel differentiable constraint function measuring the acyclicity of the resulting graph. Unlike with existing work, our constraint function is built on the spectral radius of the graph and could be evaluated in near linear time w.r.t. the graph node size. Based on it, LEAST can be efficiently implemented with low storage overhead. According to our benchmark evaluation, LEAST runs 1 to 2 orders of magnitude faster than state of the art method with comparable accuracy, and it is able to scale on BNs with up to hundreds of thousands of variables. In our production environment, LEAST is deployed and serves for more than 20 applications with thousands of executions per day. We describe a concrete scenario in a ticket booking service in Alibaba, where LEAST is applied to build a near real-time automatic anomaly detection and root error cause analysis system. We also show that LEAST unlocks the possibility of applying BN structure learning in new areas, such as large-scale gene expression data analysis and explainable recommendation system.


SenseTime Scores Three Wins in World-Class Computer Vision Challenges at CVPR 2020--Newsroom--SenseTime

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SenseTime is focused on clinical needs to empower the entire workflow of "diagnosis-treatment-recovery". SenseTime is focused on clinical needs to empower the entire workflow of "diagnosis-treatment-recovery".