Generational shift drives the future of B2B pricing
Pew Research reports that 2020 saw the largest exodus of Baby Boomers retiring from the workforce to date: 28.6 million retired, more than double the number who retired in 2019. As this generation leaves the workforce, they are being replaced by workers raised in the age of the internet. Exacerbating the challenge of industry veterans exiting the workforce is that this transition will produce an inevitable and serious gap in skills and knowledge.
Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot is securing its position in a niche market
Boston Dynamics has just released the latest update for its quadruped robot Spot. It gives it better capability to make inspections and collect data without the need for human intervention. The new update could have a huge impact on Spot’s position in the industrial mobile robot market, where it can reduce the costs of IoT instrumentation and the risks of exposing human operators to environmental hazards.
The age of end-user first SaaS is here
The age of end-user first SaaS is here, it’s either adapt or die. CEO of Kolide, a B2B software company, has taken note of major upheavals in company power structure and cultural attitudes at even the most despotic organizations. Employees, not the employers, are now running the show, and employees must adapt. This is creating an unprecedented number of opportunities for swift, agile and innovative companies.
Computer vision and deep learning provide new ways to detect cyber threats
A group of cybersecurity researchers created a machine learning model that could detect malware based on images created from the content of application files. The same technique was used to develop a system that detects phishing websites. The combination of binary visualization and machine learning is a powerful technique that can provide new solutions to old problems. It is showing promise in cybersecurity, but it could also be applied to other domains.
Dream Come True: Building websites by thinking about them
Brain-Computer Interfaces have become one of the most promising technologies for assisting people who have lost their motor control due to stroke, spinal cord injury, paralysis, or ALS. Using this technology, they can now type, walk and grasp things just by imagining writing the same using their own hands. Researchers at Stanford University implemented this using the recorded neural signals from the hand “knob” area of the participant’s left-hemisphere (dominant) precentral gyrus implanted with electrodes.
Why lifeless AI is not intelligent
The ability to solve complex problems in a new way of life is crucial to understanding the nature of intelligence, author says. We need to find out which life forms are intelligent enough to solve these problems, he says. He says. Life is a matter of survival, not intelligence, but intelligence is a function of life itself, and it is necessary to be able to replicate itself.
PyCaret 2.3.5 Is Here! Learn What’s New
PyCaret is an open-source, low-code machine learning library in Python that automates machine learning workflows. DummyClassifier and DummyRegressor are added in the model zoo of and modules. When you run it will train a dummy model (classifier or regressor) using simple rules and the results will be shown on the leaderboard for comparison purposes.
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
DALL·E is a 12-billion parameter version of GPT-3 trained to generate images from text descriptions. We’ve found that it has a diverse set of capabilities, including creating anthropomorphized versions of animals and objects, combining unrelated concepts in plausible ways, rendering text, and applying transformations to existing images. In the future, we plan to analyze how models like DALL ·E relate to societal issues like economic impact on certain work processes and professions.
Can AI learn to reason about the world like children?
IBM, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University have developed a series of tests that will help evaluate the capacity of AI models to reason like children. The AGENT project focuses on the kinds of reasoning capabilities humans learn before being able to speak. It is critical for machine agents to develop an adequate capacity of understanding human minds in order to successfully engage in social interactions, the researchers say.
Amazon’s Astro robot: A feat of science or a successful product?
Amazon’s Astro robot has a ten-inch screen, camera, sensors, and a bunch of other gadgets to go around your home and make Wall-E noises. It can carry drinks to specific destinations, play music and video, and provide remote monitoring of different parts of your home. Astro still has much to do before it shows its real potential (or lack thereof)
5 Things That Set a Data Scientist Apart From Other Professions
Data Scientist, Data Engineer & Other Data Careers, Explained, is a popular data-related profession. I recently wrote an article about the role of data scientists. I tried to come up with a single overarching differentiation feature, the five of which could be worked together into a flowchart. Here are five things that, when taken as a whole, help set the data scientist apart from other professions.
Industrial computer vision is getting ready for growth
Landing AI, a California-based startup led by Google Brain co-founder Andrew Ng, nabbed $57 million in series A for its computer vision platform. As industrial computer vision platforms mature, they can bring great productivity, cost-efficiency, and safety to different domains. Most successful uses of computer vision are aimed toward general applications, such as classifying images, detecting objects, and recognizing faces.
A Thousand Brains Book Release and more | March 2021
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins is now on sale. Hawkins talks about the discoveries he made with the Numenta team that led to the ground-breaking theory of how the brain works. Hawkins will kick off his virtual book tour on March 10 with an evening at Kepler’s Literary Foundation in a discussion with Anil Anathaswamy and introduction by our CEO Donna Dubinsky.
Can AGI take the next step toward genuine intelligence?
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the hypothetical ability of an intelligent agent to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can do. We have a ready-made model for AGI in the human brain. We know intelligence and thinking occur largely in neurons in the neocortex due to their spiking function. The maximum complexity of AGI software is limited. As a result, the brain and AGI must be possible with repeating patterns of simpler neural circuits and generic rules.
Top 4 Data Integration Tools for Modern Enterprises
A code-free, reliable tool is imperative for a streamlined and simplified data integration process. Astera Centerprise is one of the leading data integration tools available in the market. By 2027, the global market value of enterprise data integration is anticipated to reach USD 3843.4 million. The following four tools are among the best solutions for modern enterprises to create a data repository that serves as a single source of truth.
Students Are Now Using AI to Write Their Essays
The age of artificial intelligence aided life is here: students are using machine learning to write their essays and assignments. The most popular of these AI essay writing websites, the-good-ai.com, markets itself as being able to write high quality essays in seconds. While many say this marks the end of school essays altogether, others think it’s an opportunity to reform how we instruct students and measure performance.
Scholars 2021: Final Projects
OpenAI Scholars program is a way of strengthening your research skills and moving into industry research or engineering positions. My project explores how much pre-training on English helps when transferring across different languages as we vary model size and dataset size. I found that pre-trained English models help most when learning German, then Spanish, and finally Chinese. My advice to someone starting in deep learning research is to take your time to understand insights from fundamental papers.
How can predictive AI transform customer connection?
Predictive analytics is bringing smarter insights and better efficiency into many areas of our lives. As access to third-party cookies fades, predictive technologies offer an opportunity to use first-party data as the basis for building marketing and advertising strategies that operate effectively in a privacy-centric world. Companies that have watched leading players such as Amazon harness AI engines to fuel ever-more refined product suggestions are starting to see advanced tools as a potential solution to many issues.
GPT-3 Powers the Next Generation of Apps
Over 300 apps are using GPT-3 across varying categories and industries, from productivity and education to creativity and games. Viable identifies themes, emotions, and sentiment from surveys, help desk tickets, live chat logs, reviews and more. Fable Studio is creating a new genre of interactive stories using the API to help power their story-driven Virtual Beings.
How AI is shaping Adobe’s product strategy
Adobe’s Max 2021 event featured product reveals and other innovations happening at the world’s leading computer graphics software company. The company is leveraging deep learning to improve its applications and solidify its position in the video and image editing market. In turn, the use of AI is shaping Adobe’s product strategy. Sensei, Adobe’s AI platform, is now integrated into all the products of its Creative Cloud suite.