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Your Salesbot Connection: How Marketers Use AI to Generate New Leads
Marketers are using fake social media personas — enhanced by AI-generated portraits — to expand their reach without busting their budgets.
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Who Needs Programming? Behind the rise of no-code AI.
The next killer AI application may be developed by someone who has never heard of gradient descent. A rising generation of software development platforms serves users who aren’t familiar with AI — and even programming.
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Investorbots: Too Good to Be True? Stock market AIs fail at real world investing.
Machine learning models aren’t likely to replace human stock-market analysts any time soon, a new study concluded. Researchers pinpointed key flaws in prior research into models that predict stock-market trends.
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Colleague in the Machine: Your future co-worker may be powered by AI.
Your next coworker may be an algorithmic teammate with a virtual face. WorkFusion unveiled a line of AI tools that automate daily business tasks. One thing that sets them apart is the marketing pitch: Each has a fictitious persona including a name, face, and professional résumé.
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Remote Meter Reader: Computer vision tool reads analog gauges at industrial sites.
Industrial gauges are often located on rooftops, underground, or in tight spaces — but they’re not out of reach of computer vision. The Okinawa startup LiLz Gauge provides a system that reads analog gauges and reports their output to a remote dashboard.
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Let the Model Choose Your Outfit: Inside Amazon's AI-powered clothes stores.
Amazon’s first brick-and-mortar clothing store is getting ready to deliver automated outfit recommendations. The ecommerce giant announced plans to open a flagship Amazon Style location at a Los Angeles-area mall this year.
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AI Versus the Garbage Heap: How Amazon uses AI to cut waste.
Amazon reported long-term success using machine learning to shrink its environmental footprint. The online retailer developed a system that fuses product descriptions, images, and structured data to decide how an item should be packed for shipping.
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Robots in the Workplace: Google uses robot janitors to clean up offices.
Machines are doing light janitorial work in the uncontrolled environment of Google’s offices. Everyday Robots, a new spin-out from Google’s experimental X Development division, unleashed 100 robots to perform an array of cleanup tasks.
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AI Goes Underground: Computer Vision From SewerAI Classifies Defective Pipes
A system from California startup SewerAI analyzes videos of underground pipes to prioritize those in need of repair.
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Deep Learning for Deep Frying: White Castle Uses Robots to Cook French Fries
Flippy 2, a robotic fry station from California-based Miso Robotics, has been newly deployed in a Chicago White Castle location.
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Price Prediction Turns Perilous: How Covid Broke Zillow's Pricing Algorithm
The real-estate website Zillow bought and sold homes based on prices estimated by an algorithm — until Covid-19 confounded the model’s predictive power. Zillow, whose core business is providing real-estate information for prospective buyers, shut down its house-flipping division after...
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DeepMind Doubles Down on AlphaFold: DeepMind Launches Company to Commercialize AlphaFold 2
Isomorphic aims to build its business on AlphaFold 2, an ensemble of neural networks that finds the shapes of protein molecules.