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Salesforce update brings AI and Quip to customer service chat experience
When Salesforce introduced Einstein, its artificial intelligence platform in 2016, it was laying the ground work for artificial intelligence underpinnings across the platform. Since then the company has introduced a variety of AI enhancements to the Salesforce product family. Today, customer service got some AI updates. The goal of any customer service interaction is to […]
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Yung Wu Contributor Yung Wu is the CEO of MaRS Discovery District, a Toronto-based innovation hub. More posts by this contributor To actually change the world, Big Tech needs to grow up The cancellation of Amazon’s planned expansion in New York exposes the truth about its HQ2 promises. In the end, the company seemed mainly […]
View More In big tech’s future expansion plans, public good should be the corporate incentiveOracle adds more AI features to its suite of sales tools
As the biggest sales and marketing technology firms mature, they are all turning to AI and machine learning to advance the field. This morning it was Oracle’s turn, announcing several AI-fueled features for its suite of sales tools. Rob Tarkoff, who had previous stints at EMC, Adobe and Lithium, and is now EVP of Oracle […]
View More Oracle adds more AI features to its suite of sales toolsNvidia announces its next-gen RTX pods with up to 1,280 GPUs
Nvidia wants to be a cloud powerhouse. While its history may be in graphics cards for gaming enthusiasts, its recent focus has been on its data center GPUs for AI, machine learning inference, inference and visualization. Today, at its GTC conference, the company announced its latest RTX server configuration for Hollywood studios and others who […]
View More Nvidia announces its next-gen RTX pods with up to 1,280 GPUsNvidia’s T4 GPUs are coming to the AWS cloud
In the coming weeks, AWS is launching new G4 instances with support for Nvidia’s T4 Tensor Core GPUs, the company today announced at Nvidia’s GTC conference. The T4, which is based on Nvidia’s Turing architecture, was specifically optimized for running AI models. The T4 will be supported by the EC2 compute service and the Amazon […]
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View More These Photos of Fake People Will Freak You OutTransportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin
Welcome back to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. We love the reader feedback. Keep it coming. Never heard of TechCrunch’s Transportation Weekly? Catch up by reading the first edition here or check out last week’s edition, which offered the gamut of mobility news from Lyft and Bird to […]
View More Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in AustinCoParenter helps divorced parents settle disputes using AI and human mediation
A former judge and family law educator has teamed up with tech entrepreneurs to launch an app they hope will help divorced parents better manage their co-parenting disputes, communications, shared calendar and other decisions within a single platform. The app, called coParenter, aims to be more comprehensive than its competitors, while also leveraging a combination […]
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View More Last day to save $100 on TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2019Facebook claims its new AI technology can automatically detect revenge porn
Facebook is ramping up its fight against revenge porn.
On Friday, the company announced the launch of its new AI technology that it says can proactively detect “near-nude” images and video shared without consent. Facebook says that with this tool it can now automatically flag revenge porn before anyone even reports it.
Facebook previously relied on its users, often times the victims themselves, to notify the social network about this type of nonconsensual content found on the platform. This posed a problem.
“Often victims are afraid of retribution so they are reluctant to report the content themselves or are unaware the content has been shared,” says Facebook’s global head of safety Antigone Davis in a post. Read more…
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View More Facebook claims its new AI technology can automatically detect revenge pornFacebook says its new A.I. technology can detect ‘revenge porn’
Facebook on Friday announced a new artificial intelligence powered tool that it says will help the social network detect revenge porn – the nonconsensually shared intimate images that, when posted online, can have devastating consequences for those who appear in the photos. The technology will leverage both A.I. and machine learning techniques to proactively detect […]
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