A handful of new research projects from Google, IBM and the Allen Institute for AI highlight the ongoing quest to build computer systems capable of analyzing written language based on understanding… Read more »
Facebook’s latest update to its ranking algorithm is supposedly designed to combat “clickbait” headlines in the content shared on the network — but all it does is reinforce how little we… Read more »
Predictive analytics methods are extremely useful when dealing with the likes of fraudulent activity, imminent hardware failures, or credit risk. But these analytics algorithms are still somewhat limited. Here’s what IT… Read more »
Just as it does for the code behind software, opening up the data behind news stories and other forms of journalism has a number of benefits, including the fact that it’s… Read more »
The promise of the internet of things is in cheap data, but we need to turn that data into insights to make it useful. And before we do that, we need… Read more »
Jeremy Howard, the former president and chief scientist of predictive-modeling platform Kaggle, is back with a new startup he thinks can revolutionize medical diagnostics using deep learning. There’s a lot of… Read more »
Microsoft is expanding its Azure platform again, this time rolling out a NoSQL database service as well as a new search tool. It’s the kind of innovation Microsoft needs to focus… Read more »