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In doing “more with less”, far too many organizations own a potential “suite” (of integrated apps and data) that they don’t really know they have. In other words, these organizations are well-positioned to actualiz… Continue reading Better Business Decisions via an Application “Suite” You Already Own
Seven new investments span IoT, retail, and — of course — smart assistants
Microsoft has said it wants to “democratize AI” and be the Gutenberg press of the machine learning age. Now it is putting its money where its mouth is and dedicating an (unspecified) chunk of its Microsoft Ventures fund to “AI companies focused on inclusive growth and positive impact on society.”
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Two new AI training grounds — one from Google, the other from the non-profit OpenAI — hope to help jumpstart general AI that can quickly gain competency across a variety of tasks, from driving a car to juggling your calendar for you.
The… Continue reading AI labs provide a training ground for tomorrow’s bots
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Amazon.com Inc. introduced an image recognition service, a speech-to-text service dubbed Polly and “Lex,” which will let customers build conversation… Continue reading Amazon Unveils Image Recognition, Voice-Activated Cloud Services
Sisense, a company which helps customers link multiple data sources and summarize them in a single dashboard view, has not shied away from experimenting with new ways of interacting with the data inside its business intelligence product. Earlier this year, it announced integration with the Amazon Echo, enabling users to simply ask Alexa for certain data. Today, the company announced new… Read More Continue reading Sisense announces bots for Slack, Skype, Facebook Messenger and Telegram
Microsoft Teams offers a three primary ways to connect with third-party apps, each with its own strengths and nuances
When Microsoft Teams hits General Availability early next year, its slated to have over 150 integrations, ranging from partners like Asana, Hootsuite, and Zendesk to, of course, Microsoft’s own product lines, including PowerPoint and Power BI.
But how each of those integrations will work and be presented to users will vary widely, with some appearing as chat bots right alongside other conversations and others taking over a tab that provides an interactive view right into the application that users can tweak right from within Teams.
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Continue reading The Differences Between Microsoft Teams’ Tabs, Connectors, and Bots
Watson is using Big Data to build a better digital doctor
There’s a general consensus being able to analyze massive amounts of data has the potential to help launch an AI … Continue reading Dear Patient, the Database Will See You Now
While the gears of research are turning fast developing new methods of machine intelligence, another, perhaps more impactful, trend is brewing in the field. Open source frameworks like Apache Spark are hitting their stride at the ideal time to put data analytics in the hands of the business development analyst without forgetting about the needs of the data scientist. IBM’s new… Read More Continue reading IBM releases DataWorks to give enterprise data a home and a brain
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When Brazil’s Isaquias Queiroz dos Santos pulled ahead of rivals from Russia and Moldova to win a silver medal in the 1,000-meter canoe sprint, he owed som… Continue reading Brazil Taps GE’s Big Data in Path to Canoeing Medal in Rio