Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Aims To Augment The Brain To Keep Pace With AI
March 28, 2017

Elon Musk has launched another new company, Neuralink, which focuses on developing the capabilities of the brain through technological augmentation so that humans can one day keep up with artificial intelligence. According to TechCrunch, the company has been in the works for a while, with...

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Synechron Launches 14 AI Accelerators For Financial Services Mkt
March 24, 2017

Synechron, the global financial services consulting and technology company, announced Thursday (March 23) the launch of “Neo,” a set of artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools for the financial services industry. In a press release, Synechron said that with Neo, financial institutions will be able deploy AI solutions that...

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Lantern Credit Buys Machine Learning Library To Enhance Offers
March 13, 2017

Lantern Credit, the financial technology company aiming to solve systematic inefficiencies in the consumer credit industry, announced Friday (March 10) that it has acquired the Abstract Regression-Classification (ARC) Machine Learning Library. In a press release, the company said the purchase is aimed at enhancing its...

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Kasisto Bumps Up Conversational AI
March 07, 2017

In the chatbot space, there are a myriad of companies developing new ways to seamlessly integrate bots or virtual assistants into customer service interactions. One of the industries that may be moving ahead of the others is the financial space, where there have recently been...

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IBM, Salesforce To Share AI
March 07, 2017

IBM and Salesforce announced their global strategic partnership on Monday (March 6), allowing both companies to deliver joint solutions leveraging artificial intelligence (AI). Through the partnership, IBM’s natural-language AI program Watson will be integrated with Salesforce’s Einstein to “enable an entirely new level of intelligent customer...

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China’s New AI Advantage
February 06, 2017

When it comes to AI, China is making inroads in the technology, rapidly taking shape as the next frontier in business globally and also warfare. As reported by The New York Times, the strategic monopoly in those realms no longer belongs to the United States....

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How Clarifai Envisions Commerce — Literally
January 26, 2017

Industries around the world have caught AI fever. Developers around the world have made more ways than ever for the technology to automate, optimize and enable different services. Facebook, Alphabet, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon and other major companies are all working on AI projects, along with...

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Your Brain On AI
January 12, 2017

Almost overnight, talking to one’s computer or other electronics changed from being something people rarely did unless they were extremely angry (who hasn’t yelled at a computer that ate their file?) to something that is well on its way to becoming as normal as flipping...

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New $27M Fund Is Focused On Driving AI Market
January 11, 2017

Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, and Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn, are among a group of investors that have created a $27 million fund, with the money going toward the humanities, the social sciences and other disciplines in an effort to develop artificial intelligence. According to...