By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor Before AI, software testing was a crucial step in the software development life cycle. After AI, it still is. But now AI can help with the testing. AI and machine learning are being applied to software testing, defining a new era that makes the testing process faster and more […]Read More
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With Machine Learning, More Business Processes Will be Automated
By AI Trends Staff Machine learning has the potential to automate many more business processes than are currently automated in enterprise software, based on all the previous generations of software development methods. That is a suggestion put forward by Claus Jepsen, chief technology officer at Unit4, an ERP software supplier based in Denmark. Claus Jepsen, […]Read More
Cookie, Candy Companies Among Those Fielding Digital Humans in Marketing
By AI Trends Staff Ruth the Cookie Coach is a digital human being introduced by the Toll House brand of Nestle Global to provide baking assistance on a 24-7 basis, using an avatar incorporating AI that exhibits a degree of emotional intelligence, according to the company. Ruth is named after the creator of the Nestle […]Read More
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor The AI Infrastructure Alliance is taking shape, adding more partners who sign up to the effort to define a “canonical stack for AI and Machine Learning Operations (MLOps).” In programming, “canonical means according to the rules,” from a definition in webopedia. The mission of the organization also includes, according to its […]Read More
Chief Data Scientist Seen as Bridging CTO to Business Managers
By AI Trends Staff The role of the Chief Data Scientist is needed to help the Chief Technology Officer bridge to business managers who are defining how AI is to deliver on the company’s business strategy. The required amount of guidance and monitoring of data scientists is not likely to happen from the CTO’s office, […]Read More
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor Mary Barra, Chairman and CEO of General Motors outlined GM’s move into all-electric vehicles including autonomous self-driving cars, in a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronic Show held virtually this week. While global market penetration of all-electric vehicles stands at about three percent today, “We believe that is […]Read More
AI Research at Amazon: Brand Voice, Entanglement Frontier, Humor Recognition
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor The most popular articles, blog posts, and downloaded publications of 2020 published on the Amazon Science website can serve as an update on AI work at Amazon. The most popular article of 2020 was an account of advances in text-to-speech technologies. Amazon’s Alexa voice service has been on the market for […]Read More
Startup: Truera Raising Money to Get AI Explainability Solution to Market
By AI Trends Staff In the black box problem in machine learning, data goes in, suggested decisions come out, and how the model arrived at its suggestions may or may not be explainable. This problem intrigued Prof. Anupam Datta of Carnegie Mellon University, who in 2014 with his PhD student Shayak Sen began researching explainable […]Read More
Google Move Into Healthcare Leveraging its AI Getting More Pronounced
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor Google is making a more pronounced move into healthcare, leveraging its power to acquire companies and to use AI technology to disrupt the industry. From an investment point of view, the company’s move has attracted attention. Google now has 57 digital health startups in its portfolio, according to […]Read More
New AI Chips, Managed Services Among Flood from AWS at re:Invent 2020
By AI Trends Staff Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy delivered a three-hour keynote at a virtual event on Dec. 1, the AWS re:Invent 2020 event. Jassy, who has been with Amazon for over 23 years, and who is now seen as the most likely successor to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, made many, many announcements. Andrew Jassy, […]Read More