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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

CIO

Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. And the opportunities for tech-enabled sustainability solutions are wide ranging. Now is no time for sideline sitting, however.

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How machines learned to chat

CIO

SmarterChild could engage in human-like conversations and retrieve information from the internet. (At And because these bots are trained on Internet data, they’re prone to the same biases, inaccuracies, and falsehoods that exist online. These small language models (SLMs) require much less data for training and less complexity.

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Radar trends to watch: November 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

It’s also important that machine learning seems to have taken a step (pun somewhat intended) forward, with robots that teach themselves to walk by trial and error, and with robots that learn how to assemble themselves to perform specific tasks. Is it possible to reverse-engineer the data on which a model was trained?

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Natural Language Processing: A Guide to NLP Use Cases, Approaches, and Tools

Altexsoft

But despite failing to understand us in some instances, machines are extremely good in making sense of our talking and writing in other examples. Natural language processing or NLP is a branch of Artificial Intelligence that gives machines the ability to understand natural human speech. So, what is possible with NLP?

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OTA Rates and Building ?ommission Engine: Best Practices and Lessons Learnt

Altexsoft

They help hotels, airlines, car rental services, and other suppliers sell inventory to end customers — and charge fees for this mediation. Some OTAs invest up to 50 percent of their revenue in online marketing to increase visibility on the Internet — you can learn more about it from our video. Understanding marketing in travel.

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Short-Term and Vacation Rental Data: Sources and Analysis

Altexsoft

This term refers to hotel alternatives that can be booked for several days or weeks (hence, the second name — short-term rentals.) Vacation rentals usually offer guests more attractive prices than hotels along with a more private setting. Before going any further, let’s make it clear what vacation rentals are.

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Dynamic Pricing Explained: Use in Revenue Management and Pricing Optimization

Altexsoft

We talked with experts from Perfect Price, Prisync, and a data science specialist from The Tesseract Academy to understand how various businesses can use machine learning for dynamic pricing to achieve their revenue goals. Approaches to dynamic pricing: Rule-based vs machine learning. The risk of the race to the bottom.