Topic: ai

SD Times news digest: Make with Ada programming competition, ARCore updates, and Element AI raises $151 million for operationalizing AI

AdaCore announced the start of its 4th annual “Make with Ada programming competition” with the goal to design and implement an embedded software project in which Ada or SPARK are the primary languages used.  “Many programmers tend to discount Ada and SPARK because of the many myths surrounding Ada, including Ada is too complex to … continue reading

AI-powered code review now available for Visual Studio Code

DeepCode is bringing its AI-powered code review capabilities to Visual Studio Code. The company announced an open-source extension that will enable developers to use DeepCode to detect bugs and issues in Visual Studio Code.  RELATED CONTENT: Artificially intelligent “co-developers” Be (AI) smarter about your digital transformation New AI platform tackles ten steps of AutoML DeepCode … continue reading

Be (AI) smarter about your digital transformation

“Successful digital transformation is like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. It’s still the same organism, but it now has superpowers.” George Westerman, principal research scientist at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, first used the now popular analogy two years ago to explain the changes businesses were going through. But, over the last … continue reading

New AI platform tackles 10 steps of AutoML

A new artificial intelligence platform wants to automate the machine learning process for data scientists and developers from data to impact. AI company Aible announced Aible Advanced, an AutoML solution designed to generate predictive models for businesses.  According to the company, legacy AutoML solutions don’t provide proper access for both developers and data scientists, and … continue reading

SuperGLUE benchmark challenges natural language processing tasks

Artificial intelligence researchers want to advance natural language processing with the release of SuperGLUE. SuperGLUE builds off of the previous General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) benchmark, but aims to provide more difficult language understanding tasks and a new public leaderboard.  SuperGLUE was developed by AI researchers from Facebook AI, Google DeepMind, New York University and … continue reading

SD Times news digest: Quick Base acquires Cloudpipes, FileMaker rebrands as Claris, and NVIDIA announces breakthrough in BERT training time

Quick Base announced that it acquired cloud-based integration and automation platform Cloudpipes to provide an enterprise platform for low-code development, integration and workflow automation.  The new features that come with the integration include a UI builder, 150 pre-built connections to SaaS applications such as Salesforce, Google, OneDrive and Slack.  “Our customers will now have a … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: AI Explainability 360

IBM is releasing a new open-source project designed to help users understand how machine learning models make predictions as well as advance the responsibility and trustworthiness of AI. IBM’s AI Explainability 360 project is an open-source toolkit of algorithms that support the interoperability and explainability of machine learning models. According to the company, machine learning … continue reading

AI ethics: Early but formative days

AI use is growing rapidly. As with most “new” technologies, organizations are focusing on all the potential opportunities without giving equal weight to the potential risks. While it seems that just about everyone is talking about AI, less discussed, but growing in volume and frequency, is AI ethics which questions whether categories of AI systems … continue reading

Report: Businesses are struggling to obtain the benefits of AI

Despite the promises of artificial intelligence, companies are still trying to figure out how to stabilize and scale their AI initiatives. A newly released report revealed while 63.2 percent of businesses are investing between $500,000 and $10 million on AI efforts, 60.6 percent of respondents continue to experience a variety of operational challenges.  According to … continue reading

SD Times news digest: OpenAI and Microsoft partner on AI, Adobe introduces new way to prototype voice experiences, and TypeScript 3.6 beta released

OpenAI and Microsoft are partnering to accelerate breakthroughs in AI in Azure and help developers build the next generation of AI applications.  The companies said they are focusing on building a computational platform in Azure, which will train and run increasingly advanced AI models, including hardware technologies that build on Microsoft’s supercomputing technology. “AI is … continue reading

SD Times news digest: Mendix Summer 2019 release, ActiveState support for Python 2, and Tidelift and Ruby Together team up

Low-code and no-code tool provider Mendix introduced Mendix Studio: an IDE called Studio Pro, and Mendix Assist: an AI tool for building low-code apps, all included in the Summer 2019 release of the platform.  The company explained that the new release was designed to greatly expand the number of people who can fully participate in … continue reading

Report: Most companies prioritize AI, only few have a successful enterprise-wide strategy

About two-thirds of companies are emphasizing an “AI First” culture to take advantage of the many benefits that it offers, yet few can boast that they have obtained enterprise-wide success in implementing the technology. A recent report by the International Data Corporation (IDC) said that only a quarter of companies worldwide have an enterprise-wide AI … continue reading

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