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When the Computer is YOU: Rise of the Proxy AI

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In 1945, Vannevar Bush published "As We May Think." In it he proposed a Memex, a massive microfilm storage device where users could navigate between documents to concepts throughout the database. His concept directly inspired the invention of hypertext by Ted Nelson and Douglas Engelbart. The hyperlinking that enables so much of our online experience-- such as this link regarding hypertext-- owes much to Bush's vision. What new media might arise as a result of advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI)?


Ducati Corse Races Ahead of the Pack with Accenture and Machine Learning

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Ducati Corse Races Ahead of the Pack with Accenture and Machine Learning Intelligent MotoGP Racing Bikes Build New Aptitude for Optimal Results MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA; February 27, 2017 โ€“ Ducati Corse, the racing department of Ducati Motor Holding, a world leader in sports motorcycle manufacturing, is working with Accenture (NYSE: ACN) to integrate Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence technologies into the testing of its MotoGP racing bikes. Ducati Corse wants to make testing its race bikes faster, cheaper and more effective. Accenture Analytics, already Official Digital Partner to the Ducati Team racing in the MotoGP World Championship, has lately been working with them to create an intelligent testing approach with a bespoke analytics engine. Integrated Machine Learning technologies mean that the more data that enters the system, the more configurations are available for testing with increasingly accurate performance predictions. Data visualization tools designed for an intuitive user experience will allow testing engineers to interact with insights, tweaking them at any point to create a new perspective on configurations and race times.


JPMorgan Software Does in Seconds What Took Lawyers 360,000 Hours

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At JPMorgan Chase & Co., a learning machine is parsing financial deals that once kept legal teams busy for thousands of hours. The program, called COIN, for Contract Intelligence, does the mind-numbing job of interpreting commercial-loan agreements that, until the project went online in June, consumed 360,000 hours of work each year by lawyers and loan officers. The software reviews documents in seconds, is less error-prone and never asks for vacation. Attendees discuss software on Feb. 27, the eve of JPMorgan's Investor Day. While the financial industry has long touted its technological innovations, a new era of automation is now in overdrive as cheap computing power converges with fears of losing customers to startups.


Infographic: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Law

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Northwestern MutualVoice: Should You Be Worried About How Artificial Intelligence Will Affect the Economy?

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I imagine if we were sitting in a room decades ago as farmers, we would rightfully be worried about our future employment. However, as the world evolved, new jobs were created in industries we never would have fathomed would exist. Brent Schutte is the chief investment strategist of Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company. Today Americans seem to be at odds with themselves when it comes to their feelings on economic growth. People are worried about a future lack of economic growth due to a less productive workforce.



The Drone Center's Weekly Roundup: 2/20/17

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Telecommunications firm Verizon has acquired Skyward, a drone operations management company. Skyward develops software for drone operators to manage flight tracking and logging, maintenance scheduling, and contract management. The drone startup will join Verizon's Internet of Things portfolio. Kenya's government has implemented regulations for commercial drone use. The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority will begin allowing businesses to import and use drones for a range of operations.


OracleVoice: Artificial Intelligence Shows Promise As Clinical Development Tool

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During a typical day, we use a variety of applications that, by virtue of their artificial intelligence, automatically understand our speech and provide near-real-time feedback to support decision-making. But is machine learning, one of a number of AI techniques, ready for clinical applications, specifically to accelerate drug development and/or reduce development costs? Machine learning encompasses a variety of algorithmic techniques that clinical drug developers can use to identify and infer patterns to support enhanced/automated decision-making. One such technique is Natural Language Processing, which can be used to "read" scientific text and infer its semantic context in order to search and find information more easily. The main benefit of machine learning and natural language processing is that they can be used to either augment or replace the error-prone manual analysis work performed by people, and they can scale infinitely as the volume and variety of data grow.


Baidu's 'Ring Allreduce' Library Increases Machine Learning Efficiency Across Many GPU Nodes

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Baidu's SVAIL used the ring allreduce algorithm to train state of the art speech recognition models, and now it hopes that others will take advantage of the group's implementation to do even more interesting things. The group released its ring allreduce implementation as both a standalone C library as well as a patch for TensorFlow.


Retail Chatbots: Dangerous Territory

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Are you chatting with a human or a bot? Chatbots increasingly make it hard to tell. Chatbots are getting a lot of attention in retail these days. At the NRF Big Show in January, several vendors, startups and established alike, featured chatbots in their booths at the show. They could do everything from interact with you about new products and what you liked about them, to help you figure out the opening hours of your local store.