Tag: AI

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: J2AI Blog Editor; The post Making Data Simple: This week AI and Rob Thomas discuss leadership, hybrid cloud and data platforms appeared first on Journey to AI Blog ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rohan Kumar. For any organization to succeed in a world of unprecedented uncertainty, a new level of agility is required. Core to that agility is the ability to quickly gain insights from data at any scale, power ultra-low latency applications that deliver personalized experiences, and empower all users in an organization, regardless of size. This requires a computing platform that provides limitless scale, performance, and possibilities for what can be achieved with data. To help organizations achieve these limitless capabilities, we shared several announcements today at Microsoft Ignite: Unmatched analytics Our commitment to customers is ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Roanne Sones. In today’s fast-paced world, there is often a need for instantaneous, real-time responses. Companies are finding the computing needed to support this 24/7 mentality generates staggering amounts of data, often from devices out in the physical world. This influences a shift in priorities as companies look for technology that gives them the flexibility to innovate anywhere in their environment. The biggest trend: the evolution of cloud strategies to include edge and hybrid investments. This hybrid cloud journey gives companies the flexibility to easily handle future growth and technology needs. Add in the movement ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Cristina McComic; AI adoption is critical for business success in the changing, competitive market. A HIMMS and IBM study found that 64% of respondents said their organizations placed a “critical” or “high” strategic priority on AI. However, many organizations are still reluctant to fully adopt AI into their processes and decision-making for fear of the unknown. “To many who aren’t data scientists, AI is still a black box and that scares us,” says Kelly Combs, Director of Emerging Technologies Risk Services at KPMG. So how do organizations go about establishing trust in their AI? The ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Eric Boyd. Tens of thousands of customers, such as Pepsi, Amway, Airbus, BBC, and Progressive Insurance are using Azure AI to deliver immersive customer experiences, identify new business opportunities, and drive impact. As more organizations use AI in their production workloads, they have an increased need for secure, scalable, and responsible AI development. Today we’re announcing new Azure AI capabilities that will empower organizations to use AI with even more confidence. Train machine learning (ML) models on-premises and in multi-cloud environments with Azure Arc support for Azure Machine Learning. Deliver cutting-edge search experience in ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Josefin Rosén. Artificial intelligence is a powerful force for good and an extraordinary competitive advantage. But, as Peter Parker’s uncle Ben nicely put it, "With great power comes great responsibility.” Or as my friend the Swedish character Pippi Longstocking says, “If you are very strong you must also be very kind!” They are both onto something important: It is important to use powerful techniques responsibly. Bias in data leads to bias in output All humans are biased by nature. By bias, I simply mean our prejudices and preconceived opinions that we use, for instance, when we ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Mehrnoosh Vahdat, PhD.; The collaboration of the IBM Data Science and AI Elite (DSE) with Rolls-Royce continues to yield significant results for the Emergent Alliance. This not-for-profit alliance supports innovation and resilience as organizations move toward a post-COVID-19 future. The team’s first project involved creating a risk-pulse index to help governments understand the impact of COVID-19 on several aspects of the economy. The IBM and Rolls-Royce team pressed on developing analytics tools to help policymakers better understand the data used to shape strategies in response to COVID-19. They aimed to provide further insights to ... Read More

Feed: Events. Author: . Making a technology company thrive is all about making good decisions, such as where to build and deploy applications, how to reduce friction and complexity when scaling, and how to help your already-stretched teams deliver faster. Drawing on the experience of our customers, the Google Cloud Born-Digital Summit will offer practical guidance on building a resilient and scalable foundation for great customer experiences. Over this half-day event, we’ll highlight proven best-practice approaches to data, architecture, diversity & inclusion, and growth with Google Cloud solutions. Inspiring digital leadersBorn-Digital is an event for app developers, technology innovators and business leaders ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. In our previous post, we introduced PyDeequ, an open-source Python wrapper over Deequ, which enables you to write unit tests on your data to ensure data quality. The use case we ran through was on static, historical data, but most datasets are dynamic, so how can you quantify how your data is changing and detect anomalous changes over time? At Amazon, we’ve leveraged PyDeequ on AWS Glue to address this problem. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that allows you to easily prepare and combine your data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Annie Bustos. As populations continue to grow, government departments around the world are exploring new ways to scale their delivery of client services. The Public Services Health & Safety Association (PSHSA), a transfer payment agency of the Ontario government’s Ministry of Labour Training and Skills Development, turned to an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot to better serve customers by addressing their occupational health and safety training and consulting questions. PSHSA provides training, consulting, and resources to reduce workplace risks and prevent occupational injuries and illnesses for the 10,000 organizations in the health and community care, ... Read More