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Google sets the bar for AI language models with PaLM
Google’s new large language model (LLM) called PaLM (Pathways Language Model) is the first outcome of Pathways, Google’s new AI…
Business
Working from home means working different hours, but not necessarily more
The National Bureau of Economic Research analyzed the side effects of remote work using data…
What will applied AI look like in 2022?
AI adoption has skyrocketed throughout the last 18 months. Besides Joe McKendrick, who wrote the…
Taking the world by simulation: The rise of synthetic data in AI
Would you trust AI that has been trained on synthetic data, as opposed to real-world…
2022 technology trend review, part two: AI and graphs
AI and graphs have a few things in common: they are multi-faceted, ubiquitous in their…
Edge Impulse wants to bring machine learning at the edge to everyone, announces $34M Series B funding
55.000 projects, 30.000 developers, $54M funding, and customers, including the likes of NASA, in a…
Technical
Lexmark looks to strengthen its IoT solution to remain competitive
Arguably, two of the most iconic examples of digital transformation are Kodak and Amazon. Kodak…
Andrew Ng predicts the next 10 years in AI
Did you ever feel you’ve had enough of your current line of work and wanted…
Faros AI raises $16M to shine a light on developer productivity, launches free open source platform
What if what you think you know about developer productivity and the value of software…
The rise of first-mile observability: Calyptia enables enterprises to log all the things
Cloud-native is the name of the game for application development. The creators of the Fluent…
Aporia takes aim at ML observability, responsible AI and more
Is there a line connecting machine learning observability to explainability, leading to responsible AI? Aporia,…
Socio-Technical
Scientific fact-checking using AI language models: COVID-19 research and beyond
Fact or fiction? That’s not always an easy question to answer. Incomplete knowledge, context and…
Graph analytics and knowledge graphs facilitate scientific research for COVID-19
State of the art in analytics and AI can help address some of the most…
Data science vs the COVID-19 pandemic: Flattening the curve — but how?
Whether they are epidemiologists or not, a few people have attempted to use data and…
Data science vs social media disinformation: the case of climate change and the Australian bushfires
While a newly released World Weather Attribution study ties the Australian bushfires to anthropogenic climate…
Make software great again: can open source be ethical and fair?
Is there a way to go beyond open source, and have ethical, fair software in…
Amazon and commercial open source in the cloud: It’s complicated
What do the data tell us about the relationship between cloud vendors — specifically, Amazon…
Use Cases
NBA analytics and RDF graphs: Game, data, and metadata evolution, and Occam’s razor
Three-point shooting, Steph Curry, and coming up with stories. If you feel like doing your…
Human in the loop: Machine learning and AI for the people
HITL is a mix and match approach that may help make ML both more efficient…
GDPR in real life: Fear, uncertainty, and doubt
Part one: Why are most organizations still not ready for GDPR? And what are the…
Planet analytics 1.0: From the UN lab to the globe
The United Nations (UN) is developing initiatives that leverage data and analytics to measure and…
Conway’s Law and the future of healthcare data management: Genome, Blockchain, and GDPR
Maladies in healthcare data management are obvious, but what about solutions? From selling Genome data…
Healthcare’s $3 trillion question: Should the likes of Google and Facebook control this data?
How is data managed? Do users get to have consent over how their data is…