News by Dmytro Spodarets
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France Forces Clearview AI to Eliminate the Data
Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that has accumulated a huge database of almost 10 billion images by collecting selfies off the Internet so it had the opportunity to sell its identity-matching services to law administration, has been commanded with another order to delete people’s data. Franch CNIL found that Clearview [https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/16/clearview-gdpr-breaches-france/] doesn’t have an established base in Europe, and it is accessible for regulatory actions that transve
Dec 28, 2021
How ML and AI Work in the Travel Industry?
Since AI has started growing in various industries, large companies have been successfully implementing AI to improve customer experience in travel industry [https://insidebigdata.com/2021/12/11/ai-and-machine-learning-in-the-travel-industry-how-to-do-it-right/] as well. Hotel chain “Hyatt” has recently unveiled their new Intelligent Virtual Assistant. As reported, it allowed the company to save $4.4 million on customer care without sacrificing the quality of service its customers expected. I
Dec 27, 2021
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
This is most magical period of the year. So, even if you are a hardcore science guy, let’s give each other a chance to believe in something special! Data Phoenix team wishes you health, peace, love, and joy this holiday season and throughout 2022. We appreciate every single one of you and we hope that in 2022 we would expand our family of data enthusiasts even more.
Dec 24, 2021
MLCommons presents free datasets for speech recognition
MLCommons [https://mlcommons.org], an organization that aims to build free, open-source AI development tools and resources, has just released the People’s Speech Dataset [https://mlcommons.org/en/peoples-speech/] and the Multilingual Spoken Words Corpus [https://mlcommons.org/en/multilingual-spoken-words/]. This is huge, given the amount of work the team had to do to put it together. According to the MLCommons team, the People’s Speech Dataset is one of the world’s most complex English speech d
Dec 17, 2021
Accurate AI prediction even with a small number of experiments
NIMS, Asahi Kasei, Mitsubishi Chemical, Mitsui Chemicals and Sumitomo Chemical report [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/27660400.2021.1963641] to have used the chemical materials open platform framework to develop a new AI technique that increases the accuracy of ML-based predictions of material properties by using material structural data from only a small number of experiments. This technique is likely to expedite the development of various materials, including polymers. The AI t
Dec 16, 2021
Eastern European bank creates AI supercomputer in collaboration with the Hungarian government
Marshall Choy, VP of product at SambaNova, said [https://venturebeat.com/2021/12/09/hungarian-gov-teams-up-with-eastern-european-bank-to-develop-ai-supercomputer/] that the AI supercomputer running such a powerful GPT model is not something any bank has done before. The supercomputer will be used for building one of the largest language models of the Hungarian language. OTP Bank and the government have agreed that the authorities will provide around half of the funding for development under con
Dec 16, 2021
BrainBox AI innovates the technology to manage the mechanical side of the buildings
Nowadays, it is important to be in sync with our planet and nature. That’s the reason why BrainBox AI [https://www.brainboxai.com] cofounder and chief technology officer, Jean-Simon Venne, considers the development of AI-powered autonomy technologies as fundamental. The main objective of the company is to come up with new methods of controlling air conditioning, heating, and ventilation in buildings, to make energy consumption more effective and efficient. They also work on getting neighboring
Dec 15, 2021
DeepMind claims that Player of Games is the first AI system that can play poker, chess, Go etc.
One of the latest, really impressive research papers on Arxiv.org [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.03178.pdf] explores how DeepMind has created Player of Games — an AI system with a general-purpose algorithm that unifies previous approaches, combining guided search, self-play learning, and game-theoretic reasoning. Player of Games is the first algorithm to accomplish strong empirical performance in large perfect information games like the Chinese board game Go and chess, and imperfect ones like poke
Dec 10, 2021
AI and machine learning announcements at AWS re:Invent 2021
Last week, we got a train of super interesting news and announcements from re:Invent 2021. Traditionally, some of them cover the expansion of AWS's prime AI/ML service — Amazon SageMaker. To strengthen the service, AWS has released such new features, capacities, and services as: * SageMaker Canvas — to expand access of business analysts and business people needing data capacity to at-hand ML through a visual point-and-click interface * SageMaker Training Compiler — to accelerate traini
Dec 9, 2021
Is the future of innovation in the hands of AI?
December is the best time to make predictions for the following year. The surveyors from nonprofit technical organization IEEE [https://www.ieee.org/] share this thought. According to their newly released survey, the biggest bet in 2022 is that AI and Machine Learning will completely run the future of innovation. IEEE study says that 95% tech leaders agree—including 66% who strongly agree—that AI will drive the majority of innovation across nearly every industry sector in the next one to five
Dec 8, 2021Webinar "Interpretable Machine Learning for Materials R&D"
Join Dr. Dean and Dr. Bazhirov on November 19th to learn more about Interpretable machine learning for materials research and development.
Nov 18, 2021
AI Ukraine 2021
Hello friends! Data Phoenix team wants to present to you — AltexSoft, a technology consulting company organizing AI UKRAINE 2021 Conference.
Oct 27, 2021