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Deep Neural Networks are Easily Fooled – Here’s How Explainable AI Can Help

Deep Neural Networks are Easily Fooled – Here’s How Explainable AI Can ...

Many deep neural networks (DNNs) make their predictions from behind an incomprehensible “black box,” which leads domain ...

Anaconda, IBM Expand Open AI Collaboration

Anaconda, IBM Expand Open AI Collaboration

IBM will integrate Anaconda’s Python-based data science platform into its Watson Studio and Cloud Pak data offerings ...

COVID Hurts Overall IT Spending, Cloud Benefits

COVID Hurts Overall IT Spending, Cloud Benefits

The pandemic was expected to slow global IT spending. The only questions being by how much and ...

Dell Integrates Bitfusion for vHPC, GPU ‘Pools’

Dell Integrates Bitfusion for vHPC, GPU ‘Pools’

Dell Technologies advanced its hardware virtualization strategy to AI workloads this week with the introduction of capabilities ...

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Deep Neural Networks are Easily Fooled – Here’s How Explainable AI Can Help
June 5, 2020
Many deep neural networks (DNNs) make their predictions from behind an incomprehensible “black box,” which leads domain experts to question the internal reasoning behind why the model made certain decisions. What features were considered with what weightage, and how do these factors affect the final prediction? This is exactly the problem Explainable AI (XAI) tries to solve. XAI focuses ... Full article
Anaconda, IBM Expand Open AI Collaboration
June 4, 2020
IBM will integrate Anaconda’s Python-based data science platform into its Watson Studio and Cloud Pak data offerings as a way to advance open source AI development. Watson Studio, IBM’s data prep and model building platform, will in turn be offered on Anaconda’s repository. Among the goals of the partnership announced on Thursday (June 4) is reducing technical, operational and ... Full article
COVID Hurts Overall IT Spending, Cloud Benefits
June 3, 2020
The pandemic was expected to slow global IT spending. The only questions being by how much and for how long. Hard numbers for the beginning of this year are coming in, with declines from a year ago approaching double digits along with tempering of cloud and colocation investments. Among the most closely watched results are from Gartner Inc., which ... Full article
Dell Integrates Bitfusion for vHPC, GPU ‘Pools’
June 2, 2020
Dell Technologies advanced its hardware virtualization strategy to AI workloads this week with the introduction of capabilities aimed at expanding access to GPU and HPC services via its EMC, VMware and recently acquired Bitfusion units. The result would be an “AI anywhere” capability in which machine learning and other workloads could scale on hybrid cloud infrastructure designed to support ... Full article
New Chip Approaches Seek to Keep Up with AI
June 1, 2020
Exploding data sets and complex software have made it harder for single-purpose platforms like ASICs to keep up with the growing demands of enterprise datacenters. Heavy investments in chip design and development therefore run the risk of obsolescence by the time they are deployed. In response, an ecosystem is emerging around greater programmability that promises to optimize hardware while ... Full article
COVID-19 HPC Consortium Expands to Europe, Reports on Research Projects
May 28, 2020
The COVID-19 HPC Consortium, a public-private effort delivering free access to HPC processing for scientists pursuing coronavirus research – some utilizing AI-based techniques – has expanded to more than 56 research teams and extended to supercomputing centers and programs in Europe. IBM, which in March helped form the consortium with the White House Office of Science & Technology, has ... Full article
Deep Learning Boosts Call Center Speech Recognition During the COVID-19 Crisis
May 27, 2020
A business operation hard hit by COVID-19 is the call center. Industries ranging from airlines to retailers to financial institutions have been bombarded with calls—forcing them to put customers on hold for hours at a time or send them straight to voicemail. Data reveals the picture. A recent study from Tethr of roughly 1 million customer service calls showed ... Full article
Managing the Data Management Maze in Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments
May 27, 2020
If your company is like most, it has multi-cloud or hybrid cloud aspirations. But how do you manage all your data in a secure and cohesive manner when it’s spread across multiple systems and locations? That’s a topic that is garnering intense interest across multiple sectors. The cloud is nearly ubiquitous at this point. Almost 90 percent of enterprises ... Full article
COVID-19 Roundup: Neural Nets Track Readmissions; ML Predicts Spread; Analyzing Brands’ Foot Traffic – & More
May 26, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, big data and AI have emerged as crucial tools for everything from diagnosis and epidemiology to therapeutic and vaccine development. Here, we collect the latest news in how big data is fighting back against COVID-19. Information Builders helps healthcare organizations apply data against COVID-19 Analytics provider Information Builders has announced enhancements to ... Full article
Microsoft’s AI Supercomputer on Azure: ‘Combinations of Perceptual Domains’
May 20, 2020
Microsoft has unveiled a supercomputing monster – among the world’s five most powerful, according to the company – aimed at what is known in scientific and philosophical circles as the “emergent property,” or at least a version of it. In AI, this means taking a step beyond “narrow AI,” the current state of things in which AI doing a ... Full article
Holistic Data Used to Track AI Bias
May 19, 2020
Bias creeps into AI models as they are trained. Hence, experts warn that data sets and model training techniques must to be cleansed of bias at each step in the process. Among the tools promoted to eliminate bias are holistic data sets, so-called because they incorporate historical, out-of-domain and previously unused data. Another approach involves what one vendor bills ... Full article
Bitcoin is Having a ‘Halving’ Amidst a Pandemic
May 15, 2020
In the world of Bitcoin a “halving” takes place about every four years. This past Monday, May 11, 2020, witnessed the third such event. It’s a big deal. It points to the steady maturing and acceptance of Bitcoin in particular and cryptocurrencies in general. That it happened in the middle of a pandemic and economic shutdown gives it more ... Full article
Nvidia Expands Healthcare Platform to Combat COVID
May 14, 2020
A new set of AI models released by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in collaboration with Nvidia is designed to help clinicians detect and examine novel coronavirus infections using chest CT scan data. The AI models are part of a package of tools and partnerships announced this week by the GPU leader as part of its expanding ... Full article
Nvidia Unveils Two Edge AI Offerings for ‘Smart Everything’
May 14, 2020
Extending latency-sensitive AI workloads to the edge is the objective of two new products from Nvidia, announced today at the company’s annual (virtual) GPU Technology Conference (GTC), based on its new Ampere GPU architecture and built to run on Nvidia’s EGX Edge AI platform announced last October. Converged with Nvidia Mellanox’s new ConnectX-6 Dx SmartNIC over 5G networks, Nvidia ... Full article
Cloud Hosting Companies Help Customers Contain Costs – Winning Trust and Loyalty
May 13, 2020
Gartner predicts that through 2020, 80 percent of organizations will overshoot their cloud IaaS budgets. Gartner attributes cloud cost management problems to three main causes: Companies are increasingly adapting complex multi-cloud environments, and billing can vary greatly across providers; DevOps teams lack the expertise to manage costs in the cloud; Leaders are struggling to align their organizational cloud strategies ... Full article
Startup MemVerge Launches Memory-centric Mission
May 12, 2020
Memory situated at the center of the computing universe, replacing processing, has long been envisioned as instrumental to radically improved data center systems performance. Combined with accelerated processing (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.), faster interconnects (NVLink, optical) and more powerful networks (5G and its successors), the result will be next-generation, memory-centric compute enabling whole new classes of enterprise AI, HPDA and ... Full article
Inspur Takes OCP Beyond Hyperscalers
May 12, 2020
Inspur, China’s server leader, is expanding its AI offerings based on Open Compute Project specifications, including an OCP “cloud optimized” server geared to SAP HANA workloads and running Intel’s Optane persistent memory backed by its latest Xeon Scalable processor. The computing and networking adoption initiative also addresses the increased number of complex AI workloads filling up datacenters. Among the ... Full article
Blockchain: Streamlining Disrupted Supply Chains During COVID Crisis
May 7, 2020
Supply chains are increasingly subject to disruption in recent years from trade wars and pandemics, as well as from new demands driven by new technologies, regulations and materials. Modern supply chains have become long and complex and oriented around just-in-time manufacturing and logistics principles. Efficiency has been prioritized over robustness. They are not designed to handle dislocations and shocks; ... Full article
Intel Expands Mobileye, Nvidia Buys Cumulus Networks
May 4, 2020
Intel Corp. moved this week to expand its Mobileye unit with the acquisition of a transportation data startup while GPU leader Nvidia acquired network software specialist Cumulus Networks as it seeks to make headway in software-defined datacenters relying more heavily on open networking schemes. The CPU leader (NASDAQ: INTC) said Monday (May 4) it is acquiring Moovit, a mobility-as-a-service ... Full article
IBM Extends Jupyter Notebooks for AI Development
May 1, 2020
IBM has released a new open source toolkit with AI extensions to the popular Jupyter Notebooks data science development platform. The Elyra AI Toolkit extends the industry standard JupyterLab user interface with the goal of simplifying development of AI and other data science models. IBM said this week the initial release includes a visual editor for building AI pipelines along with the ability ... Full article

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