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7 famous analytics and AI disasters

CIO

MIT Technology Review has chronicled a number of failures, most of which stem from errors in the way the tools were trained or tested. A similar example includes an algorithm trained with a data set that included scans of the chests of healthy children. Dataset trained Microsoft chatbot to spew racist tweets.

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AI-powered building design platform BeamUP emerges from stealth with $15M

TechCrunch

If teams don’t do their due diligence, they risk omitting from design documents important mechanical equipment, like exhaust fans and valves, for example, or failing to size electrical circuits appropriately for loads. “Construction and property management are among the last major industries to digitize.

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Il cliente al centro: come i CIO potenziano la customer experience mentre trasformano il business

CIO

Siamo stati il primo negozio digitale del settore ferramenta in Italia con il nostro canale e-commerce, lanciato come estensione del punto di vendita fisico nel 2002. Il CIO deve agire da interprete tra due mondi che parlano due lingue diverse, quella dell’azienda più strutturata e quella dell’impresa innovativa snella e veloce”.

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Driving Culture Change: Phorest’s Observability Transformation

Honeycomb

Phorest faced escalating costs and limited developer access due to New Relic’s pricing, which hampered crucial aspects of their development process—from smooth code deployment to effective resolution. We were particularly impressed by the hands-on experience offered through Honeycomb’s online training.

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Domestika raises $110M on a $1.3B valuation to expand its learning community for creative types

TechCrunch

Domestika has been around for years — it was founded back in 2002 — but its focus and the attention it is getting right now taps into a couple of areas that have proven to be especially popular recently with users, and in turn, investors. You are with your people, Cotorruelo said: “A home sweet home.”).

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The Newest FIFA World Cup Referee: Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning

Cloudera

C (Cloudera is headquartered in the US, but we also recognize the superiority of the metric system). The second notable fact about the 2022 World Cup is that this is only the second World Cup to be held entirely in Asia, the first being the 2002 tournament held in South Korea and Japan. A world-class machine learning solution.

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Fireside Project manifests a $200K fund to improve access to careers in psychedelic health

TechCrunch

In a nutshell, that’s what Fireside is tooling up to help support — instead of dialing 911 because you feel like the trees are breathing along with you and it’s a little scary to face your deepest demons head-on, talking to a trained volunteer might be a better option.

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