Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning explained
Up until the last 10 years or so, artificial intelligence was the stuff of science fiction: machines that could learn from a variety of interactions to make decisions and take actions that would normally require a human to execute. Because of that science fiction, there are those who fear AI as the beginning of the rise of intelligent robots. So, ethical development of AI has become an important issue in the IT community.
Artificial intelligence is having a big impact on application development. Today, we see AI in many different computing environments. It is also popping up in customer service call centers, in dialog boxes on websites, in the Industrial Internet of Things, as well as in our children’s toys, our homes and businesses. When coupled with automated processes, machines can take over many of the more mundane tasks businesses have to complete on a daily basis.
Of course, applications of AI are much broader and more sophisticated. AI can be found in automotive controls, such as applying the brake when your car is quickly approaching the one ahead. It’s found in data analytics, processing and management, where AI can learn to spot anomalies in data and trigger alerts and actions to remediate the issue.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that it is ramping up its computing power with two new Cray supercomputers in Virginia and Arizona, each with 12 petaflops of capacity, bringing NOAA’s total power up to 40 petaflops. These computers will unlock new possibilities for better forecast model guidance through higher-resolution and more comprehensive … continue reading
SD Times news digest: DeepCode’s C/C++ support, Microsoft extends Windows ML and DirectML, and Google ends support for JSON-RPC protocol
DeepCode, the platform for AI-powered code reviews, has announced support for C/C++. “C and C++ are dominant in the realm of software that is close to the hardware, such as operating systems or software with high performance or even real-time aspects,” the DeepCode AI team wrote in a post. Additionally, DeepCode engineer Jan Eberhardt stated: … continue reading
8 top open-source community and data tools
As organizations wake up to the multitude of ways advanced technologies can augment their businesses, developers with relevant skills are becoming ever more valuable. Data is the key to a whole kingdom of opportunity, and when combined with AI and machine learning tools, the bounds of this kingdom are practically limitless. Even for those without … continue reading
Google introduces Cloud AI Platform Pipelines
Google launched the beta of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines, which combines repeatable machine learning pipelines along with monitoring, auditing, version tracking, and reproducibility. It aims to deliver an enterprise-ready, easy to install, secure execution environment for ML workflows. AI Platform Pipelines were created because machine learning workflows can involve many steps with dependencies on each … continue reading
Analyst View: The climb to quantum supremacy
The story of Moore’s Law describes well how computing hardware has evolved and grown in performance over the life of modern computing and how in the current era the pace of that law has saturated. The switch from single to multi-core CPUs has helped keep the curve from going completely flat, but what is creating … continue reading
premium Software 3.0: Enterprise AI systems and the brave new economy
Machine learning (ML) and other artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are powerful tools with the potential to transform a wide range of processes for both consumers and companies. Though many of these technologies are still commercially nascent, a number of startups have emerged that provide ML-based software solutions to enterprises. We believe that these “enterprise AI … continue reading
A role in identity verification
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Augmented intelligence will help, not replace, human workers
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SD Times news digest: Babylon.js 4.1, DataStax acquires Apache Cassandra services company, Waymo announces first external investment round
The release of Babylon.js 4.1 includes performance optimizations, a new Node Material Editor that offers a cross-platform development experience with Babylon Native, Cascaded Shadows, Navigation Mesh, updated WebXR and gITF support. The new Node Material Editor removes the complexity of writing GPU programs without sacrificing power. Now developers can simply connect nodes together, according to … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Parasoft C/C++test, Datical updates Liquibase, and Syncsort and Databricks partner on mainframe data
Parasoft introduced the new release of its C/C++test solution this week at Embedded World. The solution is a unified C and C++ development testing solution for real-time safety- and security- critical embedded applications and enterprise IT. “With the new release of C/C++test, we are bringing unique AI and ML capabilities to help organizations with the … continue reading
Microsoft releases Threat Protection with support for iOS and Android
Microsoft has announced the general availability of its cybersecurity solution. Microsoft Threat Protection (MTP) is designed to provide security checks across users, emails, applications, and endpoints. The solution alerts users and takes action using AI so that security professionals can automatically detect, investigate, and stop coordinated multi-point attacks, Microsoft explained In addition, it weeds out … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Automation Anywhere Discovery Bot, Obviously AI’s ML platform, and CircleCI’s new learning platform
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