AI – VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com Transformative tech coverage that matters Fri, 22 Jan 2021 19:10:09 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6 126020344Copyright 2021, VentureBeat VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/themes/vb-news/brand/img/logos/VB_Extended_Logo_40H.png https://venturebeat.com 144 23 Venturebeat.com Center for Applied Data Ethics suggests treating AI like a bureaucracy https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/22/center-for-applied-data-ethics-suggests-treating-ai-like-a-bureaucracy/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/22/center-for-applied-data-ethics-suggests-treating-ai-like-a-bureaucracy/#respond Fri, 22 Jan 2021 16:40:34 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663955
A new research paper suggests AI practitioners adopt anthropology terms to assess large machine learning models that harm people.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/22/center-for-applied-data-ethics-suggests-treating-ai-like-a-bureaucracy/feed/ 0 2663955Center for Applied Data Ethics suggests treating AI like a bureaucracy Why Microsoft’s self-driving car strategy will work https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/22/why-microsofts-self-driving-car-strategy-will-work/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/22/why-microsofts-self-driving-car-strategy-will-work/#respond Fri, 22 Jan 2021 15:03:53 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2664455
Self-driving car startup Cruise has just gotten a $2 billion infusion from Microsoft, which actually stands to gain more from the deal.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/22/why-microsofts-self-driving-car-strategy-will-work/feed/ 0 2664455Why Microsoft’s self-driving car strategy will work VAST Data allies with Nvidia on reference storage architecture for AI https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/21/vast-data-allies-with-nvidia-on-reference-storage-architecture-for-ai/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/21/vast-data-allies-with-nvidia-on-reference-storage-architecture-for-ai/#respond Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:00:25 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2664275
VAST Data collaborates with Nvidia to create reference architecture for attaching its storage systems to GPU servers.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/21/vast-data-allies-with-nvidia-on-reference-storage-architecture-for-ai/feed/ 0 2664275VAST Data allies with Nvidia on reference storage architecture for AI TripActions raises $155 million to help enterprises analyze travel and expense data https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/21/tripactions-raises-155-million-to-help-enterprises-analyze-travel-and-expense-data/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/21/tripactions-raises-155-million-to-help-enterprises-analyze-travel-and-expense-data/#respond Thu, 21 Jan 2021 13:00:42 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663902
TripActions, a business travel and expense management platform that offers real-time data and insights, has raised $155 million.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/21/tripactions-raises-155-million-to-help-enterprises-analyze-travel-and-expense-data/feed/ 0 2663902TripActions raises $155 million to help enterprises analyze travel and expense data University of Pisa leans into the I/O challenge AI applications create https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/university-of-pisa-leans-into-the-i-o-challenge-ai-applications-create/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/university-of-pisa-leans-into-the-i-o-challenge-ai-applications-create/#respond Wed, 20 Jan 2021 22:14:44 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2664117
University of Pisa adopts NVMesh software from Excelero to enable AI researchers to access Nvidia GPU servers more efficiently.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/university-of-pisa-leans-into-the-i-o-challenge-ai-applications-create/feed/ 0 2664117University of Pisa leans into the I/O challenge AI applications create Allen Institute launches GENIE, a leaderboard for human-in-the-loop language model benchmarking https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/allen-institute-launches-genie-a-leaderboard-for-human-in-the-loop-language-model-benchmarking/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/allen-institute-launches-genie-a-leaderboard-for-human-in-the-loop-language-model-benchmarking/#respond Wed, 20 Jan 2021 21:50:55 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2664199
In a research paper, coauthors propose GENIE, a leaderboard for human-in-the-loop evaluation of text generation.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/allen-institute-launches-genie-a-leaderboard-for-human-in-the-loop-language-model-benchmarking/feed/ 0 2664199Allen Institute launches GENIE, a leaderboard for human-in-the-loop language model benchmarking Swapp raises $7 million to automate construction planning with AI https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/swapp-raises-7-million-to-automate-construction-planning-with-ai/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/swapp-raises-7-million-to-automate-construction-planning-with-ai/#respond Wed, 20 Jan 2021 20:00:57 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663687
Swapp, a startup developing AI to automate construction planning, has raised $7 million in a funding round.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/swapp-raises-7-million-to-automate-construction-planning-with-ai/feed/ 0 2663687Swapp raises $7 million to automate construction planning with AI Researchers find conventional voice AI overlooks trans and nonbinary users https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/researchers-find-conventional-voice-ai-overlooks-trans-and-nonbinary-users/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/researchers-find-conventional-voice-ai-overlooks-trans-and-nonbinary-users/#respond Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:12:37 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2664147
A study submitted to the Association for Computing Machinery finds issues with the way conventional voice assistants treat gender.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/researchers-find-conventional-voice-ai-overlooks-trans-and-nonbinary-users/feed/ 0 2664147Researchers find conventional voice AI overlooks trans and nonbinary users Microsoft researchers tap AI for anonymous data sharing for health care providers https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/microsofts-felicia-taps-ai-to-enable-health-providers-to-share-data-anonymously/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/microsofts-felicia-taps-ai-to-enable-health-providers-to-share-data-anonymously/#respond Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:50:59 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663954
Microsoft and University of British Columbia researchers propose FELICA, a system that leverages AI to let health providers share data.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/microsofts-felicia-taps-ai-to-enable-health-providers-to-share-data-anonymously/feed/ 0 2663954Microsoft researchers tap AI for anonymous data sharing for health care providers Google targets AI ethics lead Margaret Mitchell after firing Timnit Gebru https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/google-targets-ai-ethics-lead-margaret-mitchell-after-firing-timnit-gebru/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/google-targets-ai-ethics-lead-margaret-mitchell-after-firing-timnit-gebru/#respond Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:36:25 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2664083
Margaret Mitchell leads the Google AI ethics team following the firing of Timnit Gebru. Now Google said Mitchell is under investigation.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/google-targets-ai-ethics-lead-margaret-mitchell-after-firing-timnit-gebru/feed/ 0 2664083Google targets AI ethics lead Margaret Mitchell after firing Timnit Gebru Pandemic drove VC funding for health care to record $80.6 billion in 2020 https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/pandemic-drove-vc-funding-for-health-care-to-record-80-6-billion-in-2020/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/pandemic-drove-vc-funding-for-health-care-to-record-80-6-billion-in-2020/#respond Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:00:01 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663968
According a new report by CB Insights, health care startups raised $80.6 billion in 2020, up from $53.7 billion in 2019. Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/pandemic-drove-vc-funding-for-health-care-to-record-80-6-billion-in-2020/feed/ 0 2663968Pandemic drove VC funding for health care to record $80.6 billion in 2020 AlphaICs raises $8 million for AI-at-the-edge processors https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/alphaics-raises-8-million-for-ai-at-the-edge-processors/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/alphaics-raises-8-million-for-ai-at-the-edge-processors/#respond Wed, 20 Jan 2021 12:00:43 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663983
AlphaICs has raised $8 million in funding for artificial intelligence processors for edge computing applications such as cars and wearables.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/alphaics-raises-8-million-for-ai-at-the-edge-processors/feed/ 0 2663983AlphaICs raises $8 million for AI-at-the-edge processors Trump pardons former Google self-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/trump-pardons-former-google-self-driving-car-engineer-anthony-levandowski/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/trump-pardons-former-google-self-driving-car-engineer-anthony-levandowski/#respond Wed, 20 Jan 2021 10:37:41 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2664061
Donald Trump has given a full pardon to Anthony Levandowski, a former Google engineer who stole trade secret on self-driving cars.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/trump-pardons-former-google-self-driving-car-engineer-anthony-levandowski/feed/ 0 2664061Trump pardons former Google self-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski Aurora partners with Paccar to develop driverless trucks https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/aurora-partners-with-paccar-to-develop-driverless-trucks/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/aurora-partners-with-paccar-to-develop-driverless-trucks/#respond Tue, 19 Jan 2021 21:00:03 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663609
Self-driving startup Aurora inked a partnership with Paccar to develop driverless trucks to be deployed in North America.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/aurora-partners-with-paccar-to-develop-driverless-trucks/feed/ 0 2663609Aurora partners with Paccar to develop driverless trucks Sensory’s VoiceHub promises to add multilingual NLU to any product https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/sensorys-voicehub-promises-to-add-multilingual-nlu-to-any-product/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/sensorys-voicehub-promises-to-add-multilingual-nlu-to-any-product/#respond Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:30:29 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663656
Creating voice-controlled products used to be difficult, but Sensory has created easy-to-use tools that run on cheap ARM chips and devices.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/sensorys-voicehub-promises-to-add-multilingual-nlu-to-any-product/feed/ 0 2663656Sensory’s VoiceHub promises to add multilingual NLU to any product Google launches suite of AI-powered solutions for retailers https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/google-launches-suite-of-ai-powered-solutions-for-retailers/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/google-launches-suite-of-ai-powered-solutions-for-retailers/#respond Tue, 19 Jan 2021 14:00:47 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663398
Google's new Product Discovery Solutions for Retail aims to address ecommerce challenges during the pandemic with AI and machine learning.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/google-launches-suite-of-ai-powered-solutions-for-retailers/feed/ 0 2663398Google launches suite of AI-powered solutions for retailers Trovata.io raises $20 million to aggregate enterprise bank accounts with AI https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/trovata-io-raises-20-million-to-aggregate-enterprise-bank-accounts-with-ai/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/trovata-io-raises-20-million-to-aggregate-enterprise-bank-accounts-with-ai/#respond Tue, 19 Jan 2021 13:45:02 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663139
Trovata.io, a startup that aggregates enterprise bank accounts using AI, raised $20 million in a venture round.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/trovata-io-raises-20-million-to-aggregate-enterprise-bank-accounts-with-ai/feed/ 0 2663139Trovata.io raises $20 million to aggregate enterprise bank accounts with AI OncoHost raises $8 million to develop AI that predicts cancer treatment responses https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/oncohost-raises-8-million-to-develop-ai-that-predicts-cancer-treatment-responses/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/oncohost-raises-8-million-to-develop-ai-that-predicts-cancer-treatment-responses/#respond Tue, 19 Jan 2021 13:00:42 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663636
OncoHost, a startup developing an AI platform to predict cancer treatment responses and identify drug targets, has raised $8 million.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/oncohost-raises-8-million-to-develop-ai-that-predicts-cancer-treatment-responses/feed/ 0 2663636OncoHost raises $8 million to develop AI that predicts cancer treatment responses Quali raises $54 million to automate cloud management and deployment https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/quali-raises-54-million-to-automate-cloud-management-and-deployment/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/quali-raises-54-million-to-automate-cloud-management-and-deployment/#respond Tue, 19 Jan 2021 13:00:10 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663346
Quali, a startup developing a cloud orchestration and management platform, has raised $54 million in venture funding.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/quali-raises-54-million-to-automate-cloud-management-and-deployment/feed/ 0 2663346Quali raises $54 million to automate cloud management and deployment Swimlane raises $40 million to automate cybersecurity operations https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/swimlane-raises-40-million-to-automate-cybersecurity-operations/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/swimlane-raises-40-million-to-automate-cybersecurity-operations/#respond Tue, 19 Jan 2021 12:30:39 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2662752
Swimlane, a Denver-based security operations management software provider, has raised $40 million in venture capital.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/swimlane-raises-40-million-to-automate-cybersecurity-operations/feed/ 0 2662752Swimlane raises $40 million to automate cybersecurity operations K Health raises $132 million to launch AI-powered telemedical pediatric service https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/k-health-raises-132-million-to-launch-ai-powered-telemedical-pediatric-service/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/k-health-raises-132-million-to-launch-ai-powered-telemedical-pediatric-service/#respond Tue, 19 Jan 2021 12:00:17 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2661584
K Health, a telemedical service using AI to diagnose and treat illnesses, has raised $132 million in venture capital.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/k-health-raises-132-million-to-launch-ai-powered-telemedical-pediatric-service/feed/ 0 2661584K Health raises $132 million to launch AI-powered telemedical pediatric service Researchers develop AI framework that predicts object motion from image and tactile data https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/18/researchers-develop-ai-framework-that-predicts-object-motion-from-image-and-tactile-data/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/18/researchers-develop-ai-framework-that-predicts-object-motion-from-image-and-tactile-data/#respond Mon, 18 Jan 2021 22:15:05 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663715
Researchers developed an AI framework that can predict the motion of objects from visual and tactile data.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/18/researchers-develop-ai-framework-that-predicts-object-motion-from-image-and-tactile-data/feed/ 0 2663715Researchers develop AI framework that predicts object motion from image and tactile data Cure.fit acquires AI body tracker Onyx to enable two-way workout videos https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/18/cure-fit-acquires-ai-body-tracker-onyx-to-enable-two-way-workout-videos/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/18/cure-fit-acquires-ai-body-tracker-onyx-to-enable-two-way-workout-videos/#respond Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:36:14 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663591
India's top fitness app company is buying a U.S.-based AI health startup, creating a digital personal trainer that can track body motions.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/18/cure-fit-acquires-ai-body-tracker-onyx-to-enable-two-way-workout-videos/feed/ 0 2663591Cure.fit acquires AI body tracker Onyx to enable two-way workout videos Language AI is really heating up https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/17/language-ai-is-really-heating-up/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/17/language-ai-is-really-heating-up/#respond Sun, 17 Jan 2021 18:25:25 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663456
Any procedure that still requires a human to understand language is now at the verge of being disrupted or automated.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/17/language-ai-is-really-heating-up/feed/ 0 2663456Language AI is really heating up Incoming White House science and technology leader on AI, diversity, and society https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/16/incoming-white-house-science-and-technology-leader-on-ai-diversity-and-society/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/16/incoming-white-house-science-and-technology-leader-on-ai-diversity-and-society/#respond Sat, 16 Jan 2021 22:30:28 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663511
Incoming White House science and technology leader Dr. Alondra Nelson addressed the relationship between AI development an inclusion.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/16/incoming-white-house-science-and-technology-leader-on-ai-diversity-and-society/feed/ 0 2663511Incoming White House science and technology leader on AI, diversity, and society OpenAI’s text-to-image engine, DALL-E, is a powerful visual idea generator https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/16/openais-text-to-image-engine-dall-e-is-a-powerful-visual-idea-generator/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/16/openais-text-to-image-engine-dall-e-is-a-powerful-visual-idea-generator/#respond Sat, 16 Jan 2021 16:51:26 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663450
DALL-E brings AI one step closer to human-like creativity, and the images it generates could seed all kinds of new ideas.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/16/openais-text-to-image-engine-dall-e-is-a-powerful-visual-idea-generator/feed/ 0 2663450OpenAI’s text-to-image engine, DALL-E, is a powerful visual idea generator Researchers propose using the game Overcooked to benchmark collaborative AI systems https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/15/researchers-propose-using-the-game-overcooked-to-benchmark-collaborative-ai-systems/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/15/researchers-propose-using-the-game-overcooked-to-benchmark-collaborative-ai-systems/#respond Fri, 15 Jan 2021 22:41:01 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663461
Researchers propose using the video game Overcooked as a robustness test for collaborative AI and machine learning systems.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/15/researchers-propose-using-the-game-overcooked-to-benchmark-collaborative-ai-systems/feed/ 0 2663461Researchers propose using the game Overcooked to benchmark collaborative AI systems AI Weekly: Meet the people trying to replicate and open-source OpenAI’s GPT-3 https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/15/ai-weekly-meet-the-people-trying-to-replicate-and-open-source-openais-gpt-3/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/15/ai-weekly-meet-the-people-trying-to-replicate-and-open-source-openais-gpt-3/#respond Fri, 15 Jan 2021 19:30:33 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663164
A grassroots group of researchers is attempting to create an open source language model as powerful as OpenAI's GPT-3.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/15/ai-weekly-meet-the-people-trying-to-replicate-and-open-source-openais-gpt-3/feed/ 0 2663164AI Weekly: Meet the people trying to replicate and open-source OpenAI’s GPT-3 Feature store repositories emerge as an MLOps linchpin for advancing AI https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/15/feature-store-repositories-emerge-as-an-mlops-linchpin-for-advancing-ai/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/15/feature-store-repositories-emerge-as-an-mlops-linchpin-for-advancing-ai/#respond Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:57:24 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663333
A race to build an MLOps ecosystem around feature store repositories is now underway as organizations look to accelerate AI projects.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/15/feature-store-repositories-emerge-as-an-mlops-linchpin-for-advancing-ai/feed/ 0 2663333Feature store repositories emerge as an MLOps linchpin for advancing AI Microsoft’s new settings let users contribute recordings to improve its speech recognition systems https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/15/microsofts-new-settings-let-users-contribute-voice-clips-to-improve-its-speech-recognition-systems/ https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/15/microsofts-new-settings-let-users-contribute-voice-clips-to-improve-its-speech-recognition-systems/#respond Fri, 15 Jan 2021 17:20:01 +0000 https://venturebeat.com/?p=2663360
Microsoft's new settings allow users to contribute voice clips that'll be used to improve the company's AI speech technologies.Read More]]> https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/15/microsofts-new-settings-let-users-contribute-voice-clips-to-improve-its-speech-recognition-systems/feed/ 0 2663360Microsoft’s new settings let users contribute recordings to improve its speech recognition systems