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Ryanair taps up AWS machine learning tech to manage in-flight refreshment stocks

Low-cost airline Ryanair has revealed how it is using Amazon’s cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) tools to forecast what in-flight refreshments it should stock to avoid disappointing its passengers. The airline is known to be a long-term Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer, with the firm’s public cloud technology in widespread use across Ryanair’s operations, enabling […]

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California’s AI-Powered Wildfire Prevention Efforts Contend With Data Challenge

California-based utility companies are increasingly investing in artificial intelligence for wildfire mitigation but say they are struggling to collect enough data to train the AI. Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric Co. and PG&E Corp. say they see promise in AI algorithms that use images captured by drones and other means to detect […]

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AI Traffic Light System Aims To End Congestion

Long queues at traffic lights could be a thing of the past, thanks to a new artificial intelligence system developed by Aston University researchers. The system – the first of its kind – reads live camera footage and adapts the lights to compensate, keeping the traffic flowing and reducing congestion. The system uses deep reinforcement […]

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Google Has a Plan to Stop Its New AI From Being Dirty and Rude

Silicon Valley CEOs usually focus on the positives when announcing their company’s next big thing. In 2007, Apple’s Steve Jobs lauded the first iPhone’s “revolutionary user interface” and “breakthrough software.” Google CEO Sundar Pichai took a different tack at his company’s annual conference Wednesday when he announced a beta test of Google’s “most advanced conversational […]

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AI Rudder’s $50 Million Series B From Sequoia, Tiger

AI Rudder offers AI voice assistants with the aim of replacing or supplementing human call agents. The Singapore-based startup said the technology can support Southeast Asia’s digital economic boom. Here’s an exclusive look at the deck it used to raise funds from Tiger Global, Coatue, and Sequoia. Singapore-based startup AI Rudder has raised a $50 […]

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Google’s AI Test Kitchen lets you experiment with its natural language model

Google is announcing news at breakneck pace at its I/O developer conference today, and as usual it’s flexing its machine-learning smarts. In addition to unveiling its new LaMDA 2 conversational AI model, the company also showed off a new app called AI Test Kitchen. The app offers three demos that showcase what LaMDA 2 can […]

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The global Call Center AI Market size is to grow from USD 1.6 billion in 2022 to USD 4.1 billion by 2027, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 21.3%

ReportLinker during the forecast period. The major factors driving the growth of the Call Center AI Market are the advent of AI by organizations to offer enhanced customer support services is driving the growth of the call center AI market. New York, May 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report […]

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Google announces AlloyDB, a faster, hosted version of PostgreSQL

We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 – 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Data-laden users will have a new option for storing their information in the cloud now. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) today announced a new database […]

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This startup hopes photonics to will get us to AI systems faster – TechCrunch

The problem with waiting for quantum computing to bring in the next wave of AI is that it’s likely to arrive a lot slower than people would like. The next best options include increasing the speed of existing computers somehow – but there’s now an important added ijmperative: power-efficient systems that mean we don’t burn […]

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Why Relying on AI for Automated Detection and Response is Dangerous

One of the major use cases for artificial intelligence (AI) in cybersecurity is using the technology to automate threat detection and response. With so much hype around how AI can improve threat detection rates and replace security analysts in the security investigation process (an extremely in-demand benefit in the age of the great resignation and […]