Olivier Blais of Moov.ai has had a lot of experience building AI initiatives for organizations. He's been a lot of places and is well aware of the hype and hysteria surrounding AI. He's here to help you and your company build better AI initiatives, democratize Artificial Intelligence, and alleviate some of the biggest worries your employees and customers may have about the AI revolution. The understanding of AI from a data scientist perspective is often very different from the business understanding. Democratizing your data within a business context requires you to dispel these common myths. Companies are creating these initiatives, but it's not just about being the next cool thing.

Similarly, engineers working for companies like Zipline and Fusemachines in Nepal and Rwanda are able to build and adapt autonomous drones to deliver medicine in remote villages in countries with poor road infrastructure. This would not only save lives but also remarkably change the livelihood of villagers who would otherwise have to trek for days to get to the nearest pharmacy. This is one example of the numerous ways artificial intelligence can be used to improve health care, fight poverty and raise the standards of living in developing countries. For that, it's important that we invest in educating and enabling talented young engineers in such countries.

Similarly, engineers working for companies like Zipline and Fusemachines in Nepal and Rwanda are able to build and adapt autonomous drones to deliver medicine in remote villages in countries with poor road infrastructure. This would not only save lives but also remarkably change the livelihood of villagers who would otherwise have to trek for days to get to the nearest pharmacy. This is one example of the numerous ways artificial intelligence can be used to improve health care, fight poverty and raise the standards of living in developing countries. For that, it's important that we invest in educating and enabling talented young engineers in such countries.

WIRE)--H2O.ai, the leading company bringing AI to enterprises, today announced it has completed a $40 million Series C round of funding led by Wells Fargo and NVIDIA with participation from New York Life, Crane Venture Partners, Nexus Venture Partners and Transamerica Ventures, the corporate venture capital fund of Transamerica and Aegon Group. The Series C round brings H2O.ai's total amount of funding raised to $75 million. The new investment will be used to further democratize advanced machine learning and for global expansion and innovation of Driverless AI, an automated machine learning and pipelining platform that uses "AI to do AI." H2O.ai continued its juggernaut growth in 2017 as evidenced by new platforms and partnerships. The company launched Driverless AI, a product that automates AI for non-technical users and introduces visualization and interpretability features that explain the data modeling results in plain English, thus fostering further adoption and trust in artificial intelligence. H2O.ai has partnered with NVIDIA to democratize machine learning on the NVIDIA GPU compute platform.

OpenText launches new artificial intelligence platform by leveraging open standards. Enterprise information management (EIM) services provider OpenText announced yesterday that its new AI platform, OpenText Magellan, is now available. According to the company, OpenText Magellan is a flexible AI and analytics platform that combines open source machine learning with advanced analytics and the capabilities to acquire, merge, manage and analyze big data and content. OpenText Magellan was first demonstrated at OpenText Enterprise World 2017. Designed to be easily integrated across any EIM architecture, it's touted as offering affordable machine-assisted decision making, automation and business optimization.

Just under a year after their $12.5 million Series A funding round, Israeli Artificial Intelligence for ecommerce startup Twiggle announced today the release of their Semantic API product, bringing their accumulated expertise in search to the wider online shopping market. Twiggle was co-founded in December of 2013 by CEO Dr. Amir Konigsberg, previously one of the members of Google's emerging markets operations, and Dr. Adi Avidor, a former engineering tech lead at Google. In the time since their Series A, they have picked up another $5 million from Alibaba, doubled their team, and moved shop to new offices overlooking Tel Aviv. Describing what they have built in short, this company has made search for ecommerce usable to the point that it becomes a near enjoyable experience. Their engine processes through lists of products, understanding the attributes that make them what they are.

We are at an incredible moment in technology history. Thanks to cloud computing power, more advanced algorithms and the availability of massive amounts of data, the artificial intelligence (AI) field has exploded – allowing computer scientists to create technology many of us only dreamed about just a few years ago. Using deep learning, computers today can recognize the words in a conversation about as well as a person does and provide real-time translation. Thanks to advances in fields such as reinforcement learning, we are making tangible progress in the effort to build systems that have true artificial intelligence. At Microsoft, we believe everyone deserves to be able to take advantage of these breakthroughs, in both their work and personal lives.

We are at an incredible moment in technology history. Thanks to cloud computing power, more advanced algorithms and the availability of massive amounts of data, the artificial intelligence (AI) field has exploded – allowing computer scientists to create technology many of us only dreamed about just a few years ago. Using deep learning, computers today can recognize the words in a conversation about as well as a person does and provide real-time translation. Thanks to advances in fields such as reinforcement learning, we are making tangible progress in the effort to build systems that have true artificial intelligence. At Microsoft, we believe everyone deserves to be able to take advantage of these breakthroughs, in both their work and personal lives.

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