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EarthOptics helps farmers look deep into the soil for big data insights

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Using high-tech imaging techniques, the company claims to map the physical and chemical composition of fields faster, better, and more cheaply than traditional techniques, and has raised $10M to scale its solution. The imaging hardware can be mounted on ordinary tractors or trucks, and pulls in readings every few feet. The $10.3M

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Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

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For instance, the IRCTC online booking portal came into India well before tech giants like Amazon and was responsible for many of the mainframes that started the planning and scheduling of trains. All our standard processes like shop floor management are digitized, and we collect data to perform analytics for preventive maintenance.

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Generally Intelligent secures cash from OpenAI vets to build capable AI systems

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” Qiu, the former chief of staff at Dropbox and the co-founder of Ember Hardware, which designed laser displays for VR headsets, co-founded Generally Intelligent in 2021 after shutting down her previous startup, Sourceress, a recruiting company that used AI to scour the web. ” Image Credits: Generally Intelligent.

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Stability AI backs effort to bring machine learning to biomed

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An April 2021 study , for example, found that statistical models used to predict suicide risk in mental health patients performed well for white and Asian patients but poorly for Black patients. DeepMind spent days training AlphaFold 2 on tensor processing units (TPUs), Google’s costly AI accelerator hardware.

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Radar Trends to Watch: October 2022

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Google’s Sparrow is an experimental AI chatbot that has been trained not to generate “dangerous” replies (ranging from hate speech to financial advice and claims of sentience). Have I been trained is a web application that searches for specific images in the LAION-5B data set, which was used to train several image generation models.

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The General Purpose Pendulum

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If we look at hardware, machines have gotten faster and faster–and more flexible in the process. GPUs are specialized hardware for high-speed computation and graphics; however, they’re much less specialized than their ancestors, dedicated vector processors. So, why do I think this pendulum might start swinging the other way?

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Radar trends to watch: December 2021

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Facebook will stop using facial recognition technology and is deleting its face database, although it is keeping the model trained on that database. It’s not fully end-to-end encrypted (among other things, Google performs spam detection), but it’s by far the easiest approach to securing email out there. Security and Privacy.

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