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It seems that everyone agrees that meetings are a time suck. There have been many attempts to use technology to make it easier to organize and run them, but Voicera, a Bay area startup, is attacking the problem from a different angle. It wants to make … Continue reading Voicera lands $13.5 million with help from big enterprise investors
Google Cloud announced two updates this morning to its Natural Language API. Specifically users will now have access to content classification and entity sentiment analysis. These features are particularly valuable for brands and media companies … Continue reading Google Cloud’s Natural Language API gets content classification and more granular sentiment analysis
We have all seen the studies — some American workers spend upwards of six hours a day handling email. It’s not a great use of time, it destroys productivity and it ultimately costs businesses money. A new paper written by a team Salesforce MetaMind researchers could eventually provide summaries of professional communication. More effective text summarization tools would… Read More Continue reading Salesforce aims to save you time by summarizing emails and docs with machine intelligence
One small search engine for lunar rocks led to one giant search engine for mankind. Continue reading How NASA’s Forgotten Search Engine for Moon Rocks Boosted AI
Talla, a Cambridge, MA startup wants to help companies ease into artificial intelligence, and they have come up with a new service assistant bot that gives companies whatever degree of intelligence-fueled power they are looking for. The tool, cal… Continue reading Talla service bot lets IT ease into AI
Microsoft has picked up another productivity app — announcing the acquisition of AI-powered scheduling tool Genee. In a blog post today the software giant said it will be plugging Genee into its cloud productivity suite, Office 365. Read More Continue reading Microsoft buys AI scheduling tool Genee to make Office 365 smarter
Sisense, a company which helps customers link multiple data sources and summarize them in a single dashboard view, has been working on ways to understand the data outside of the context of a computer. Today, the company announced an initiative called Business Intelligence Virtually Everywhere. That could involve asking questions to a voice-driven system like the Amazon Echo or… Read More Continue reading Sisense-Amazon Echo integration lets you ask Alexa questions about your business data
Part of Microsoft Accelerator’s batch 3 of startups, DefinedCrowd is filling a niche in the big data and machine learning community, providing near-real-time feeds of rich language data, checked by actual well-informed humans all over the world. Read More Continue reading Microsoft Accelerator startup DefinedCrowd connects machine learning with native speakers
Wouldn’t it be nice (and, of course, revenue-producing) if Facebook’s algorithms understood you need a taxi? Welcome to DeepText – it knows! Continue reading Facebook’s new DeepText AI understands almost everything we write
Quantifying what we eat is hard even for computers. Continue reading How Machine Learning Will Change Our Relationship to Food