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Moogsoft Adds Virtual Network Operations Centre Capability
AIOps platform vendor, Moogsoft, has announced the release of Moogsoft Enterprise 8.0, featuring a capability for technology teams to build a virtual Network Operations Centre (NOC). Moogsoft Enterprise consolidates monitoring tools with the intention of helping technology teams reduce noise, prioritize incidents, reduce escalations and ensure uptime.
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Blender, Facebook State-of-the-Art Human-Like Chatbot, Now Open Source
Blender is an open-domain chatbot developed at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), Facebook’s AI and machine learning division. According to FAIR, it is the first chatbot that has learned to blend several conversation skills, including the ability to show empathy and discuss nearly any topic, beating Google's chatbot in tests with human evaluators.
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Audi Releases Autonomous Driving Dataset
Researchers at Audi have released the Audi Autonomous Driving Dataset (A2D2) for developing self-driving cars. The dataset includes camera images, lidar point clouds, and vehicle control information, and over 40,000 frames have been segmented and labelled for use in supervised learning. The dataset can be used for commercial purposes.
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OpenAI Approximates Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
Artificial intelligence company OpenAI studies empirical scaling laws for language models using cross entropy loss to determine the optimal allocation of a fixed compute budget.
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Report Validates Impact of Visual AI on Test Automation
Empirical data from 288 quality engineers across 101 countries provide insight and credibility behind a report demonstrating the benefits of Visual AI in the field of test automation. The report comes from Applitools, a company that sells functional and visual testing tools using visual AI.
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Amazon Announces General Availability of AWS Deepcomposer
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of Deepcomposer, a service in AWS, which provides developers with a creative way to learn Machine Learning (ML). Deepcomposer is a machine learning-enabled keyboard for developers, and is available for purchase.
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COVID-19 and AI: Virtual Conference at Stanford Discusses the Future
The Stanford Institute For Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence approaches COVID-19 from a wide variety of perspectives.
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AlphaFold Algorithm Predicts COVID-19 Protein Structures
DeepMind uses AlphaFold to predict 3D protein structures straight from amino acid sequences for novel coronavirus 2019 (NCOVID-2019).
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Data Science Community Reacts to COVID-19 Pandemic
The data science community has reacted with fervor to the COVID-19 pandemic, with numerous articles from a data-oriented perspective and both official and grassroot efforts to provide access to data and utilize ML techniques to help deal with the crises across industry, academia and governmental organizations worldwide.
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Google Announces Cloud AI Platform Pipelines to Simplify Machine Learning Development
In a recent blog post, Google announced the beta of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines, which provides users with a way to deploy robust, repeatable machine learning pipelines along with monitoring, auditing, version tracking, and reproducibility.
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Researchers Publish Survey of Explainable AI
A team of researchers from IBM Watson and Arizona State University have published a survey of work in Explainable AI Planning (XAIP). The survey covers the work of 67 papers and charts recent trends in the field.
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Amazon Updates Transcribe with Automatic Redaction of Personally Identifiable Information Feature
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service, allowing customers to add speech-to-text capabilities to their applications. Recently, the public cloud provider made a significant update to the service with an automatic redaction of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) feature.
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Google Expands Open Images Dataset and Adds New Localized Narratives Annotation
Google AI has just released a new version (V6) of their photo dataset Open Images, which now includes an entirely new type of annotation called localized narratives. These multimodal descriptions of images incorporate synchronized voice, text, and mouse trace annotations that provide more in-depth training data for what is already one of the largest open "source annotated" image datasets.
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Oracle Cloud Now Offers Data Science and Machine Learning Services
Oracle recently announced the availability of its Cloud Data Science Platform, a native service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), which the software designed to let teams of data scientists collaborate on the development, deployment and maintenance of machine learning models.
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MIT CSAIL TextFooler Framework Tricks Leading NLP Systems
A team of researchers at the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) recently released a framework called TextFooler which successfully tricked state-of-the-art NLP models (such as BERT) into making incorrect predictions.