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AI Assistants

Taking a Leap Forward with Multimodal AI

AI has often taken inspiration from human learning to take big leaps forward. One such important stride is multimodal AI, where the AI agent processes video, images, audio, language, etc. and jointly learns how to do a task....

Mental health

Can AI be used to detect and treat mental health disorders?

It cannot be argued that the development of AI over the last few years has been incredibly exciting and something which has offered potential solutions to problems which could be deemed far too...

Women in AI

Ada Lovelace Day - A Celebration of Women in STEM

The second Tuesday of every October marks Ada Lovelace day, a women whom is considered by many to be the first computer programmer in History. Ada Lovelace and her visionary approach to computer science built the foundation for the development of computers (...)...

Montreal

30 Influential Women Advancing AI - Montreal Edition

Montreal is considered to be a global hub for the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and business applications, with an abundance of expertise and thought-leading organisations working in the Canadian AI ecosystem....

Business Applications

What Leaders Need to Know About AI for Customer Service

Many of us are already interacting daily with AI-infused conversational assistants like Siri and Alexa, and businesses around the world are trying to figure out how to get in on the action....

Event Highlights

The World's Biggest Deep Learning Summit Returns to San Francisco

For the 6th year running, the Deep Learning Summit is returning to San Francisco. With one ticket, attendees will be able to access sessions from all rooms covering topics from Neural Networks, Robotics, NLP, Image Retrieval, Speech Recognition, Computer Vision, Business Case Studies and more....

Recommendation Systems

Fairness in Machine Learning: Recommender Diversity

You’ve doubtless come across recommenders before. You’ll certainly have been on the receiving end of a few. The question is, what do they look like on the inside?...

Business Applications

For Effective Treatment of Churn, Don’t Predict Churn

In the business to consumer market, there are two strategies to grow market share: gaining new customers, and retaining existing customers....

Event Highlights

Deep Learning & AI in London, Day 2: What Did You Miss From Global Experts?

After a hugely successful day at the Deep Learning Summit, AI Assistant Summit and AI in Retail and Advertising Summit in London, we were back for the second day in London. Find out what you missed here....

Event Highlights

Europe's Biggest Deep Learning Summit: Day 1 Highlights

Today at the 6th annual Deep Learning Summit in London, attendees congregated to hear from industry leaders, academics, researchers and innovative startups, presenting both the latest cross-industry technological advancements and industry application methods. What did you miss?...

Natural Language Processing

How NLP and BERT Will Change the Language Game

Natural language processing (NLP) is the ability to extract insights from and literally understand natural language within text, audio and images. Language and text hold huge insight, and that data is often prevalent and widespread in many organizations....

Finance

How AI is Changing the Financial Services Industry

While the focus has historically been on fintech but artificial intelligence (AI) may well be the future of the financial services industry....

Image Analysis

Supervised Learning for Food Recognition

There are apps that allow users to track their diet and uncover nutritional information. Most of these apps involve typing every food you eat, which can be very tedious. LiveSmart have built a model where users upload photos of their meal and the algorithm can identify the food....

Event Highlights

Day 2 Highlights: AI in Finance & Insurance in New York

"The best place to look for the lead in change is outside this industry." Baiju Devani from AVIVA went on to explain that “the algorithmic revolution is happening everywhere. We need to be thinking algorithms first, not just AI first.”...

Event Highlights

AI in Finance & Insurance: What did you miss in New York today?

‘Data science is as much business as it is science, and data based “decision-ing” is at the core of every step of the customer journey in retail finance.’ - Anurag Setty, Barclays US...

Women in AI

Machine Learning: The Question of 'Why?'

Guest post from Anita Faul, Teaching Associate Fellow, University of Cambridge & The Alan Turing Institute....

Voice Recognition

Using Micro-Moments to Increase Conversions

Although voice search is on the rise, it is still by no means the primary way that people conduct searches on PCs and mobile devices. At the moment, it just seems to be a tool that can be pretty convenient when you are in a hurry or can’t use your hands to type out a question....

Event Highlights

Deep Learning in Montreal: Meet World Experts

Not sure what to expect from this year's summit? We spoke to several of our guests to see how they found the event across the two days to give you an idea of some of the sessions and experiences they had....

Event Highlights

How to Spend Your Time at Europe's Biggest Deep Learning Summit

Speakers from Google, ASOS, DeepMind, Facebook AI Research, NASA, Amazon and more will come together in London to share the most cutting edge work in their space, bridging the gap between the latest technological research advancements and real world applications in business and society....

Financial Compliance

Artificial Intelligence and How It’s Transforming Compliance

Financial compliance needs to be nimble and adaptive and can use technologies like AI to keep up with the scope of work expected of compliance teams. In a best-case scenario, technology can be leveraged to make compliance faster, easier, and more manageable....

Voice Recognition

The Age of AI Assistants: 25 Voice Search Statistics

Here, we’ll present you with several useful voice search statistics. Our aim is to paint a vivid picture of how voice search technology has already managed to shape our work, leisure, and everyday lives....

Women in AI

Top 30 Women in AI: UK Edition

In advance of the Deep Learning Summit in London, we’re taking a look at some of the leading ladies transforming their industries with AI in the UK....

Event Highlights

AI in Finance & Insurance in New York: How to Spend Your Time at the RE•WORK Summit

In advance of the AI in Finance and Insurance Summits, we’re taking a look at some of the most popular job titles attending and highlighting some of the key sessions where you might want to spend your time:...

AI Assistants

How Can AI Assistants Make Your Life Easier?

Virtual assistants (VA), are designed to make daily life streamlined. They're able to recognize and understand natural language voice commands to help the user complete the task. So how can they transform your life?...

Top AI Resources

Top 10 of 2019: AI and Deep Learning Content Recommended by Experts

As part of our Summer Series of blog posts, we've put together a list of some of our favourite pieces of content we’ve been recommended this year....