Tag: Artificial Intelligence
How tech is transforming the intelligence industry
Shay Hershkovitz Contributor Shay Hershkovitz is a Senior Research Fellow at The Intelligence Methodology Research Center (IMRC). At a conference on the future challenges of intelligence organizations held in 2018, former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats argued that he...
Drone analytics startup Aria Insights suddenly shutters
Earlier this year, Helen Greiner-founded drone startup Cyphy Works announced a major change. The company was rebooting and renaming itself Aria Insights, a move that arrived with a new-founded, AI/data-driven focus. Now, just over two months later, the company is...
Top eLearning Trends Shaping 2019
The term e-learning was initially understood as PowerPoint presentations in Flash format when it only appeared back in the early 90s. Well, it was a long time ago. Right now, as technology evolved and the Internet became ubiquitous, the e-learning...
Using AWS AI and Amazon Sumerian in IT Education
This guest post is by AWS Machine Learning Hero, Cyrus Wong. Cyrus is a Data Scientist at the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Lee Wai Lee) Cloud Innovation Centre. He has achieved all nine AWS Certifications and enjoys sharing...
Amazon SageMaker Neo – Train Your Machine Learning Models Once, Run Them Anywhere
Machine learning (ML) is split in two distinct phases: training and inference. Training deals with building the model, i.e. running a ML algorithm on a dataset in order to identify meaningful patterns. This often requires large amounts of storage and...
Amazon Forecast – Time Series Forecasting Made Easy
The capacity to foresee the future would be an incredible superpower. At AWS, we can’t give you that, but we can help you use machine learning to forecast time series in a few steps. The goal of time series forecasting...
Boost your face recognition accuracy with this quick step
I admit, we’ve made it almost too easy to deploy a state-of-the-art face recognition machine learning model. So easy in fact, the only thing you need to know to try it for yourself is how to copy and paste commands...
How to save A.I in 3 easy steps
Do the benefits of artificial intelligence outweigh the risks? The philosophy of Artificial Intelligence is a riddle so confounding that it is unclear where, and how, one would even begin to address the questions plaguing its era. Is A.I a revolution...
Chatbot Development Challenges?-?Part 1
Last October, virtual assistants were placed at the Peak of Inflated Expectations in 2017 Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. It was a substantial jump from the middle of the Innovation Trigger part of the cycle in 2016. Around the...
Amazon Translate Adds Support for Japanese, Russian, Italian, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, and Czech
Today I’m excited to announce that Amazon Translate has added support for Japanese, Russian, Italian, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, and Czech! Amazon Translate is a translation API that delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Translate was originally released in preview...
3 Leading Fintech Trends For Businesses To Capitalize On Now
Financial services including banking and insurance are not just facing changes to their operations, as in the past. This time, entire business models are facing disruption. Let’s review the latest fintech trends and analyse their impact on businesses. Technology has...
“Hello,” from the Mobile Side: TensorFlow Lite in Speaker Recognition
The Alibaba tech team explored a new approach to voice recognition on mobile, addressing main challenges in this field Voice biometrics, or voiceprints, are already used by banks such as Barclays and HSBC to verify customer identity. As the technology...
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning: Using Machine Learning for Machine Learning
Today I’m excited to announce the general availability of Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning. Automatic Model Tuning eliminates the undifferentiated heavy lifting required to search the hyperparameter space for more accurate models. This feature allows developers and data scientists to...