Facial recognition needs safeguards – Microsoft
Microsoft calls for regulation of facial recognition, and in the meantime adopts six principles for its own use of the rapidly developing technology.
New AWS director predicts continuing growth in Asia-Pacific
Ed Lenta, Managing Director of Amazon Web Services in Asia-Pacific, expects 2018 to be a great year for the cloud services platform, which is growing by nearly 50% per year.
Discovering the opportunities in exponential change
Stellar’s Nicholas Glanfield has been at the SingularityU Summit in Sydney, hearing about breakthrough solutions using artificial intelligence, robotics and digital biology.
Using machine learning to generate index structures
Researchers at Google have been looking at replacing traditional index structures in databases with models created using machine learning. The results are exciting.
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit a powerful and free DL framework
Raja Vasudevan looks at Cognitive Toolkit, a deep learning framework, and finds it feature-rich and efficient as well as supporting a wide variety of neural network types.
Business leaders have high hopes for AI, but action is rare
Only 20 per cent of companies are using AI or selling products that incorporate AI – and just five per cent are making use of AI “extensively.”
Stellar team heading to Microsoft conference in US
The annual gathering of Microsoft partners from around the globe has a new name this year. The Microsoft World Partners Conference is now Microsoft Inspire and it runs 9-13 July in Washington DC.