With Senate hearings and leaked documents galore, teen mental health on social media is a hot topic right now. But Gen Z founders Georgia Messinger and Ari Sokolov have been trying to create healthier online spaces since they were in high school, when they started the anonymous virtual support app Trill. “People ask us sometimes, […]
Rendered.ai raises $6M on the promise of ending data scarcity
The availability of data can paralyze a company and its effort to bring software-centric products and services to market. To solve this issue, two-year-old data startup Rendered.ai is generating synthetic data for the satellite, medical, robotics and automotive industries. At its most broad, synthetic data is manufactured rather than gathered from the real world. “When […]
Inkitt books $59M investment, wants to turn its data-driven, self-publishing platform into a multi-media powerhouse
Book sales during the pandemic went up, and it seems the amount we are reading did, too. Now Inkitt, the startup that operates a free, popular platform of the same name for anyone to write and publish stories — stories that Inkitt then analyses using data science to determine which of them to take to […]
プログラミングの自動化を支援するAIツールには、「人間のバグも学ぶ」という欠点が潜んでいる
プログラミングをサポートしてくれる人工知能（A)）ツールが増えている。こうしたツールはコーディング作業の効率を高めてくれる一方で、AIならではのミスによってセキュリティの問題を引き起こす可能性もはらんでいる。
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Design’s dirty secrets and how to address experience bias
If the solution to experience bias is variation in front-end design based on the needs of the individual, one way we can radically accelerate that is to understand where automation can be applied.
グーグルが「画像とテキスト」での検索を実装へ、アルゴリズムに潜むバイアスは回避できるのか
グーグルが文章と画像を含む検索を処理できる技術をウェブ検索に実装する方針を明らかにした。検索結果に適用される言語理解AIを、次のレヴェルに引き上げるというこの技術。アルゴリズムのバイアスを回避しながら、グーグルの主張通りにウェブ検索を大きく進化させることができるのか。
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Last day for early-bird savings on TC Sessions: SaaS 2021
All good things must come to an end, and this proverb totally applies to our early-bird price on passes to TC Sessions: SaaS 2021. Today’s the final day you can save $100 on the price of admission, folks. Join the global SaaS community to connect, inspire, network and learn how to build a stronger startup […]
The death of identity: Knowing your customer in the age of data privacy
Prioritizing individual profiles is far from the most effective way to understand and address customers’ intentions, needs and struggles. Brands don’t need to know who; they need to know what and why.
Google is redesigning Search using AI technologies and new features
Google announced today it will be applying AI advancements, including a new technology called Multitask Unified Model (MUM) to improve Google Search. At the company’s Search On event, the company demonstrated new features, including those that leverage MUM, to better connect web searchers to the content they’re looking for, while also making web search feel […]
Google introduces a new way to search that combines images and text into one query
Earlier this year, at Google’s I/O annual developer conference, the company introduced a new AI milestone called Multitask Unified Model, or MUM. This technology can simultaneously understand information across a wide range of formats, including text, images and videos, and draw insights and connections between topics, concepts and ideas. Today, Google announced one of the […]