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AI/Digital Startups within the US Government And the Hunt for AI Talent

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In 2014, the president founded a startup in the US White House called the United States Digital Service, with the aim to gather the best technology, design and government talent to help tackle immigration, healthcare, and veteran’s benefits. For USDS, the MO is to recruit top designers, engineers, product managers, and digital policy experts and …

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Warren Enskat – Weekly AI Summary Dec 23-2018 (WE-WAIS)

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Warren Enskat / Weekly AI Summary (WE-WAIS) / 12-23-2018 Some of the AI developments and thoughts from this past week: – The AI Index 2018 … artificial intelligence outpaces computer science in research; Europe is the largest publisher of AI papers, followed by China and the US; ML and probabilistic reasoning top the list of …

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Amazon, Google, and IBM and How AI Monitors Your Emotional State

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Alexa now uses transfer learning and self-learning to improve on its own…  TL: deep-learning to model many domains and transfer the knowledge from one to the next SL: autocorrecting based on context clues And in October 2018, Amazon patented a new technology for Alexa to monitor emotions through the pitch and volume of speech. The …

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Apple Names Head of AI and ML to Executive Team

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How important is AI? Apple Senior Vice President, Machine Learning and AI Strategy, John Giannandrea (brought in from Google earlier this year), was just promoted to the executive team, reporting directly to Tim Cook. “Machine learning and AI are important to Apple’s future as they are fundamentally changing the way people interact with technology, and already …

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Facebook is open-sourcing PyText for faster NLP development

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Facebook AI Research is open-sourcing PyText, a modeling framework that blurs the boundaries between experimentation and large-scale deployment (built on PyTorch, its open source deep learning framework). FB wants to make to make it easier to build and deploy NLP systems for developers, according to a blog post by Ahmed Aly Hegazy and Christopher Dewan …

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NeurIPS 2018: The ComiCon of AI… Themes, Sponsors, New AI Breakthroughs

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The Neural Processing Information Systems conference is the Woodstock of artificial intelligence. Currently in its 32nd year, the conference sold out in less than 10 minutes… better than most rock stars for Madison Square Garden. In short, NIPS is a big deal. Well, it‘s not NIPS anymore, now that the organizers changed it to NeurIPS …

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China vs US Artificial Intelligence: Business Model Comparisons

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We keep writing about Tencent, Didi, SenseTime and other AI tech firms in China… Kai-Fu Lee in his new AI book makes some fascinating business model comparisons… US vs China AI:  A) Yelp stayed with its app, while Dianping in China 5 years ago spent heavily to hire and manage an army of scooter-riders to …

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How does the US Army deal with AI

How does the US Army deal with AI? RCO, AFC, AI Signals and PE firms

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How does the US army deal with Artificial Intelligence? Two years ago it set up the “Rapid Capabilities Office”, RCO, to deal with emerging technologies and to focus on top modernization priorities, especially AI. As of November 2018, the RCO is led by COL John Eggert as the acting Executive Director. Eggert enlisted in the …

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MasterCard jumpstarts AI Express with Brighterion Smart Agent Tech

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MasterCard last summer bought Brighterion for an undisclosed sum to help accelerate its Artificial Intelligence capabilities, adding the San Francisco headquartered firm’s Smart Agent technology to its advanced AI suite of security products. Ajay Bhalla, president of enterprise risk and security for MasterCard sees “unprecedented use of artificial intelligence … to fully realize the promise …

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