Monthly Archives: April 2017

LONDON – You may not have heard of Crimson Hexagon, but the chances are it’s heard of you. http://uk.businessinsider.com/analytics-firm-crimson-hexagon-uses-social-media-to-predict-stock-movements-2017-4?r=US&IR=T

The island nation of Kiribati suspected that Marshalls 203 had violated its recently created no-fishing zone, but it didn’t have sufficient proof. That’s where Global Fishing Watch came in. http://uk.businessinsider.com/global-fishing-watch-catches-illegal-fishing-vessel-2016-11

In this podcast interview, I caught up with Anusua Trivedi, a Data Scientist on Microsoft’s ADS team, to get her take on the upward trajectory of AI and deep learning that we’re seeing in the industry today. http://insidebigdata.com/2017/04/13/interview-anusua-trivedi-data-scientist-microsofts-advanced-data-science-strategic-initiatives-team/?platform=hootsuite

Artificial intelligence and drones will be key policing tools in the future amid budget and job cuts, Gwent Police’s chief constable has said. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-39529504

This week Google released a report detailing the design and performance characteristics of the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), its custom ASIC for the inference phase of neural networks (NN). Google has been using the machine learning accelerator in its datacenters … Continue reading →

Artificial intelligence is tailor-made for sifting through massive amounts of data to find patterns. GoogLeNet AI just used image recognition and bested human doctors at detecting breast cancer. https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/04/04/google-ai-just-beat-human-pathologists-at-detectin.aspx?utm_content=buffer36f1f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Microsoft is opening its third IoT & AI Insider lab, in Munich. Combined with sister labs in Redmond and Shenzhen, a slew of cloud services and a developer toolkit, Microsoft is clearly pivoting to an Internet of Things + artificial … Continue reading →