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AI tool has potential to predict future heart attacks

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In research funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), the team developed the biomarker, or'fingerprint' โ€“ called the fat radiomic profile (FRP), using machine learning. The FRP reveals biological red flags in the perivascular space lining blood vessels which supply blood to the heart. Furthermore, the tool identifies inflammation, scarring, and changes to these blood vessels, which all indicate the chances of a heart attack in the future. Very often when an individual goes to the hospital with chest pain, a standard component of care is to have a coronary CT angiogram (CCTA). This is a scan of the coronary arteries to check for any narrowed or blocked segments.


AI as A Competitive Differentiator for Asset Managers - TEK2day

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Business Intelligence, Reporting & Analytics have been central to Asset Manager marketing efforts for years. Now, Advanced Analytics and AI are increasingly playing a role across Sales & Marketing operations. For example, Microsoft has incorporated AI capability into its Office 365 product suite. Similarly, Microsoft's social network/ business development platform โ€“ LinkedIn โ€“ centrally manages its machine learning models with a homegrown "AI Automation" platform named "Pro-ML". Salesforce will accelerate its AI/ML/data effort with its recent acquisition of Tableau Software.


Think You Know How Disruptive Artificial Intelligence Is? Think Again

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Of all the technologies that drive digital transformation in the enterprise, people often tout artificial intelligence (AI) as perhaps the most disruptive of all. As automation becomes increasingly sophisticated, there's no question that AI is in the process of disrupting people's day-to-day jobs. As a result, the buzz has largely focused on whether AI will put people out of work vs. whether it will shift work to more productive tasks, as automation takes the grunt work off of everybody's plate. While such discussions are clearly important, they miss the larger transformative story. Digital transformation, after all, takes place at the organizational or even the industry level.


REVIEW: Amazon Echo Dot 3rd Gen (Lazada Philippines) Mielygraphy

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One of my dreams, when I was young, is to be able to control things by clapping or snapping. I wanted to learn wizardry back then just to do that. Now that I am old and technology gets upgraded from time to time, there are now things that we can control by voice(which is almost similar to my clapping and snapping dream). This is somehow the start of making my childish dreams possible. I am so excited to write about this thing because I find it really exciting to use not just for me but for everyone in our family.


Compositional Embeddings Using Complementary Partitions for Memory-Efficient Recommendation Systems

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Modern deep learning-based recommendation systems exploit hundreds to thousands of different categorical features, each with millions of different categories ranging from clicks to posts. To respect the natural diversity within the categorical data, embeddings map each category to a unique dense representation within an embedded space. Since each categorical feature could take on as many as tens of millions of different possible categories, the embedding tables form the primary memory bottleneck during both training and inference. We propose a novel approach for reducing the embedding size in an end-to-end fashion by exploiting complementary partitions of the category set to produce a unique embedding vector for each category without explicit definition. By storing multiple smaller embedding tables based on each complementary partition and combining embeddings from each table, we define a unique embedding for each category at smaller cost. This approach may be interpreted as using a specific fixed codebook to ensure uniqueness of each category's representation. Our experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach over the hashing trick for reducing the size of the embedding tables in terms of model loss and accuracy, while retaining a similar reduction in the number of parameters.


How Does Artificial Intelligence Enhance UI/UX Designs? Blog Trunk

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Analysis of data: Nowadays, the data collected by the user's preferences are implemented into the design by testing it with tests like A/B tests, data usage, usability tests, and heat maps. These methods would soon lose their use as the AI comes into play. AI can collect and analyze huge blocks of data and suggest practical ways to enhance viewer experience and in turn sales. As an example, an e-commerce store can analyze the data of its visitors and their preferences, and give out correct ways to increase the sales and generate more leads. The designers can improve UI/UX based on the analysis performed by the AI feature.


10 ways your Echo can help with football season

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

Football is back and fans across the country are sporting their favorite player jerseys and cheering on their top teams. There are a number of ways to get ready for kick-off--prepping the delicious tailgate food and upgrading to a big-screen TV to name a few--but did you know that your Amazon Echo can help you do even more to celebrate the return of football season? Whether you have the ever-popular Echo Dot or the screen-enabled Echo Show, there are plenty of ways that the Alexa-enabled speakers can help you out this season. Planning a watch party and need to find out when the game is on? Or maybe you want to check the latest stats on your hometown team?


The Evolution of the AI Conversation Agent

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In order to make the experience of a conversation agent thoroughly equivalent to a human interaction, and not just in phone calls with a ticketing agents, but a true Virtual assistant, the user should not be limited to simple text interactions or static information output. The unified knowledge curation and presentation platform provides the ability to interlink various forms of data (video, images, text etc.) and present it to the user in a way that they can then further interact with. So imagine being able to request information about a particular product, retrieve a diagram of this product, and then interact with that diagram to further engage the agent with additional questions.


Artificial Intelligence is Reinventing Human Resources - Here's 9 Ways It Does

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According to IBM's survey of 6,000 executives, 66% of CEOs believe that cognitive computing can drive significant value in the Human Resource domain. About half of the HR executives back that up, saying that they recognize that cognitive computing and AI has the power to transform various crucial areas of Human Resource. Also, 54% of HR executives believe that AI or cognitive computing will affect their key roles in the HR organization. The Human Resources Professional Association (HRPA) reported in a survey that about 52% of respondents indicated their businesses were unlikely to adopt AI or cognitive computing in their HR departments in the next 5 years or so. Also, approximately 36% believe their company was too small to do it, while 28% said that their senior leadership didn't see the need for such technology in the near future.


The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace

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Despite its nascent nature, the ubiquity of AI applications is already transforming everyday life for the better. Whether discussing smart assistants like Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa, applications for better customer service or the ability to utilize big data insights to streamline and enhance operations, AI is quickly becoming an essential tool of modern life and business. In fact, according to statistics from Adobe, only 15 percent of enterprises are using AI as of today, but 31 percent are expected to add it over the coming 12 months, and the share of jobs requiring AI has increased by 450 percent since 2013. Leveraging clues from their environment, artificially intelligent systems are programmed by humans to solve problems, assess risks, make predictions and take actions based on input data. Cementing the "intelligent" aspect of AI, advances in technology have led to the development of machine learning to make predictions or decisions without being explicitly programmed to perform the task.