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Vulnerabilities Surface as Kubernetes is Upgraded

Vulnerabilities Surface as Kubernetes is Upgraded

The second release this year of the upgraded Kubernetes cluster orchestrator includes no less than 26 enhancements, ...

Adobe Trains Neural Nets to Spot Fakes

Adobe Trains Neural Nets to Spot Fakes

The folks who transformed digital imagery nearly three decades ago with the introduction of Adobe Photoshop are ...

AI Failure: Machine Translation for Localization

AI Failure: Machine Translation for Localization

Neural machine translation is a natural AI application that would allow users to localize systems by automating ...

8 Questions to Ask Before Embarking on AI

8 Questions to Ask Before Embarking on AI

AI and ML are starting to transform business. Gartner estimates that AI technology will generate $3.9 trillion ...

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Vulnerabilities Surface as Kubernetes is Upgraded
June 24, 2019
The second release this year of the upgraded Kubernetes cluster orchestrator includes no less than 26 enhancements, including three deemed to be “stable.” Meanwhile, another security issue has turned up in a Kubernetes interface used to run commands against Kubernetes clusters. Community leaders noted that the latest Kubernetes upgrade focuses on easing installation, configuring and upgrading the cluster orchestrator ... Full article
Adobe Trains Neural Nets to Spot Fakes
June 21, 2019
The folks who transformed digital imagery nearly three decades ago with the introduction of Adobe Photoshop are now using deep neural networks to help detect doctored faces and other faked imagery. Add newer social media technologies to the mix, the company notes, “and those falsehoods fly faster than ever.” Adobe researchers are working with counterparts at the University of ... Full article
AI Failure: Machine Translation for Localization
June 20, 2019
Neural machine translation is a natural AI application that would allow users to localize systems by automating content translation into as many as 72 languages. Despite the AI-powered technique’s promise for adapting international brands to local markets, a survey by an AI vendor specializing in machine translation finds that most of those AI projects fall short. A white paper ... Full article
8 Questions to Ask Before Embarking on AI
June 19, 2019
AI and ML are starting to transform business. Gartner estimates that AI technology will generate $3.9 trillion in business value by 2022. Soon, companies that do not invest in AI risk falling behind competitively. But having said that, organizations should not adopt AI just to stay on trend. It’s crucial to build an AI business case, assess the company’s AI ... Full article
At ISC: For the HPC Industry, These Are the Good Old Days
June 18, 2019
For technology vendors in HPC and HPC-related markets driven by increased demand for AI, enterprise and exascale solutions, this is the best of times – with better times likely in the offing. HPC analyst firm Hyperion Research took the occasion of its semi-annual HPC market update breakfast today at the ISC conference in Frankfurt to announce it has increased ... Full article
Machine Learning Day Highlights ISC’s AI Lineup
June 12, 2019
ISC, the major European conference for advanced scale computing to be held next week at the Messe Frankfurt conference center, will feature an extensive lineup of presentations, birds-of-a-feather discussions and panels on all things AI. A highlight of AI at ISC: Machine Learning Day, on Wednesday, June 19. Here’s a rundown on the dates, times and locations of sessions ... Full article
Deep Learning that Keeps Learning – Near-Time Training at the Edge
June 11, 2019
Deep learning is still a stick-figure emulation of human learning. DL can be trained to a supercharged IQ based on an astounding amount of information, enabling it to execute some tasks beyond human capability. But deep learning has a learning disability. People learn continually (it’s hoped) – every day, in real time. But deep learning is typically based on ... Full article
Digital Transformation: AI, RPA and DPA
June 10, 2019
 Many businesses today seek to transform their operations using digital technology and automation. After years of encouragement from experts to migrate to the cloud, to automate processes and to prepare for waves of technology innovation, the path forward can still seem unclear. Organizations can get confused about what to automate, and how. But there’s a growing need to collect ... Full article
FAANGs under Fire: Congress, Administration Looking at Possible Antitrust, Data Ethics Abuses
June 5, 2019
The rising outcry against perceived anti-trust, data ethics and hate speech abuses of FAANG companies has sparked actions from Congressional committees, federal law enforcement agencies and regulators from both political parties looking into the activities of “Big Tech.” The Associated Press reports that  the U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are investigating Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple ... Full article
Microsoft, Oracle Link Their Clouds
June 5, 2019
Public cloud rivals Microsoft and Oracle are collaborating to allow customers to migrate and run enterprise workloads across each other’s cloud. Market analysts said the partnership illustrates how multi-cloud deployments are creating opportunities for cloud providers to offer services that interoperate with competitors. The cloud partners said Wednesday (June 5) the interoperability arrangement would for example allow Azure users ... Full article
AI Pitfalls and the Hidden Value of the ‘Citizen Data Scientist’
June 5, 2019
Buzzy new technologies are commonly perceived, at least for a while, as panaceas. When Big Data emerged some years ago, Hadoop hype was rampant. Addison Snell, CEO of industry watcher Intersect360, jokes about data analytics project managers viewing Hadoop as something of a magic potion. “There was this big notion of ‘Hey, I've got this data, let's get a ... Full article
PayPal Feeds the DL Beast with Vault of Fraud Data
June 4, 2019
PayPal is no stranger to fraud. As one of the Internet’s first online payment services, PayPal has been exposed to every type of wire fraud imaginable (and some beyond imagination). Sometimes the fraudsters had the upper hand, but now, thanks to deep learning (DL) models running on high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure, PayPal is leveraging its vast repository of ... Full article
Air Force, MIT Collaborate on AI Research
May 30, 2019
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is working with the U.S. Air Force to develop new AI technologies with potential dual-use applications. The Air Force plans to invest about $15 million annually in the MIT-Air Force AI Accelerator. Basic research will focus on rapid prototyping and application of AI algorithms and systems to “improve Air Force operations while also addressing ... Full article
VC Investment in AI Slows, But Don’t Expect Another AI Winter Just Yet
May 30, 2019
AI firms attracted a record $9.33 billion in investments from venture capital firms in 2018, nearly a 10 percent increase from 2017. So far this year, AI funding has dipped a bit, but that doesn’t mean another AI winter is coming. AI firms attracted $2.0 billion in investments during the first quarter of 2019, according to PwC’s MoneyTree report. It ... Full article
Nvidia EGX Pushes Real-Time AI to the Edge
May 28, 2019
Nvidia is putting a combination of its GPU processors and AI software stack out at the edge within a scalable compute platform designed to enable low latency edge AI “to perceive, understand and act in real time on continuous streaming data between 5G base stations,” according to the company. Announced at Computex in Taipei, Nvidia’s new EGX was created ... Full article
Microsoft AI ‘Distills’ Knowledge with New NLP Approach
May 24, 2019
A technique known as “ensemble learning” has been used to improve the performance of natural language processing models. However, the approach typically consists of hundreds of different deep neural network models, making deployment prohibitively expensive owing to the heavy computing costs associated with inference runtimes. AI researchers at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) came up with a way of compressing multiple ... Full article
AI Projects Stalled by Messy Data
May 23, 2019
Tens of billions will be spent this year on AI development, but those efforts continue to be stymied by ratty data that has undermined model training efforts and burned through project budgets. That’s the sobering conclusion of a vendor survey of data scientists, AI technologist and business executives that uncovered widespread problems with data quality, specifically data labeling required ... Full article
Machine Learning and Supercomputing Ferret out Phishing
May 23, 2019
The relentless ingenuity driving cyber hacking is a global engine that knows no rest. Anyone with a laptop, some programming skills and a mother’s basement can buy or rent a phishing kit and start attacking – or it can be done by professionals with increasingly devious techniques. For cyber-crooks, it’s a numbers game: the one in 10,000 user fooled ... Full article
Kubernetes Seen Driving Bare-Metal Comeback
May 21, 2019
Hardware vendors are betting the transition to 5G wireless networks supporting myriad connected consumer and industrial devices also will accelerate the shift to heavy-duty bare-metal servers as a way to provision cloud-native tools like the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator. The expansion of the Kubernetes ecosystem as a de facto standard for managing application containers is reflected in adoption of the ... Full article
Microsoft Transfers Vector Search To GitHub
May 17, 2019
Since acquiring GitHub in June 2018, Microsoft has sought to make good on its pledge to retain the project collaboration platform’s “developer-first ethos.” This week it turned over to GitHub an AI search tool as an open-source project. The vector search approach encapsulated in an algorithm called Space Partition Tree and Graph attempts to address the reality that growing data ... Full article

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