The new Anyscale platform offers the ease of development on a laptop combined with the power of the cloud. During a series of short keynotes at the Ray Summit this morning, Anyscale1, the company formed by the creators of Ray, publicly shared their initial product offering. Dubbed the “infinite laptop”, Anyscale’s platform allows developers toContinue reading “Towards an infinite laptop”
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Gradient Flow #18: Forecasting & Groupthink, Interpreting NLP, Ray Ecosystem
Subscribe • Previous Issues This edition has 640 words which will take you about 4 minutes to read. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb. Data Exchange podcast Using machine learning to modernize medical triage and monitoring systems Kira Radinsky is Chairwoman & Chief TechnologyContinue reading “Gradient Flow #18: Forecasting & Groupthink, Interpreting NLP, Ray Ecosystem”
One Simple Chart: primary applications of AI in Financial Services
Download the 2020 NLP Survey Report and learn how companies are using and implementing natural language technologies. In a recent post, I highlighted technologies are most important to large banks using results from a BankDirector survey. That survey hinted that Data and AI are high priorities within large banks, and Automation and Data Analytics emergedContinue reading “One Simple Chart: primary applications of AI in Financial Services”
NLP Survey Results: An Overview
The term “NLP”—or natural language processing—encompasses a wide range of business use cases that are mostly text based. Consider that people use text to record and transmit their communications in general, and, as such, it’s one of the most widely available and “interoperable” data formats. While some industry sectors such as finance and healthcare haveContinue reading “NLP Survey Results: An Overview”
2020 NLP Survey Report
By Ben Lorica and Paco Nathan. Learn how Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies are being used today—the 2020 NLP Survey Report includes a detailed analysis of NLP technologies being implemented by businesses, budgets, trends, widely used tools and cloud platforms, and common use cases. The online survey ran for 41 days (July 5 to AugustContinue reading “2020 NLP Survey Report”
One Simple Graphic: companies that offer deep neural network accelerators
In 2018, I sat down and listed companies (mainly based in the US and China) that were offering specialized hardware for deep learning. There were plenty of startups in the hardware space at that time but things have changed and that particular list is a bit outdated. Many companies have pivoted, or gone bust, orContinue reading “One Simple Graphic: companies that offer deep neural network accelerators”
Gradient Flow #17: RL for Recommenders, AI Assurance, Traffic Prediction
Subscribe • Previous Issues This edition has 880 words which will take you about 5 minutes to read. “Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.” – Ron Graham Data Exchange podcast What is AI Assurance? Ofer Razon and Superwise are part of a community in the early stages ofContinue reading “Gradient Flow #17: RL for Recommenders, AI Assurance, Traffic Prediction”
One Simple Chart: what technologies are most important to large banks
As someone who speaks with many technology startups in the software space, I know how important the financial services sector can be to software companies. Companies in this sector have significant technology budgets and increasing competition from fintech startups has accelerated their adoption of new technologies. More financial companies are using cloud platforms and machineContinue reading “One Simple Chart: what technologies are most important to large banks”
An intuitive overview of recent advances in automated reading comprehension, Part II
Recent progress in automated conversational question answering, with natural sounding answers in the context of the flow of conversation. By David Talby. [Part I: Recent progress in automated question answering about facts in Wikipedia articles.] Part one of this series showed recent progress in automated question answering about facts in Wikipedia articles. You may haveContinue reading “An intuitive overview of recent advances in automated reading comprehension, Part II”
An intuitive overview of recent advances in automated reading comprehension, Part I
Recent progress in automated question answering about facts in Wikipedia articles. By David Talby. NLP Summit: Join David Talby, Kira Radinsky, Amy Heineike, Clément Delangue, Joel Grus, Piero Molino, and many other speakers at the first NLP Summit, a FREE virtual conference which takes place in early October. One day – not next year,Continue reading “An intuitive overview of recent advances in automated reading comprehension, Part I”