サムスンが半導体の設計に人工知能（AI）を用いる動きを加速させている。その中核をなすのが強化学習を用いた設計ツールで、なかでもチップ設計支援ソフトウェア大手のシノプシスが存在感を強めている。
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How the law got it wrong with Apple Card
The Apple Card case is a strong example of how current anti-discrimination laws fall short of the fast pace of scientific research in the emerging field of quantifiable fairness.
Employee talent predictor retrain.ai raised another $7M, adds Splunk as strategic investor
Automation will displace 85 million jobs while simultaneously creating 97 million new jobs by 2025, according to the World Economic Forum. Although that sounds like good news, the hard reality is that millions of people will have to retrain in the jobs of the future. A number of startups are addressing these problems of employee […]
Employee talent predictor retrain.ai raised another $7M, adds Splunk as strategic investor
Automation will displace 85 million jobs while simultaneously creating 97 million new jobs by 2025, according to the World Economic Forum. Although that sounds like good news, the hard reality is that millions of people will have to retrain in the jobs of the future. A number of startups are addressing these problems of employee […]
Motivo raises $12M Series A to speed up chip design with AI
Chip design is a long slog of trial and error, taking years to bring a design to market. Motivo, a five year old startup from a chip industry veteran is creating software to speed up chip design from years to months using AI. Today the company announced a $12 million Series A. Intel Capital led […]
Youreka Labs spins out with $8M to provide smart mobile assistant apps to field workers
The company is developing robotic smart mobile assistants that enable frontline workers to perform their jobs more safely and efficiently.
Talkdesk’s valuation jumps to $10B with Series D for smart contact centers
Talkdesk uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve customer service for mid-market and enterprise businesses.
Extra Crunch roundup: Influencer marketing, China’s tech clampdown, drafting growth teams
Before you hire a marketing consultant who doesn’t understand your products or commit to a CMO who has several years of experience — but none in your sector — consider influencer marketing.
OpenAI upgrades its natural language AI coder Codex and kicks off private beta
OpenAI has already made some big changes to Codex, the AI-powered coding assistant the company announced last month. The system now accepts commands in plain English and outputs live, working code, letting someone build a game or web app without so much as naming a variable. A few lucky coders (and, one assumes, non-coders) will […]
説得力のあるフィッシング詐欺のメールを、AIが人間よりうまく“書く”時代がやってきた
人工知能（AI）にフィッシング詐欺のメールを自動生成させたところ、人間が書いたものよりもクリック率が高い文章をつくれる段階に到達したことを、このほどシンガポールの研究チームが発表した。使われたのは、高性能な言語生成アルゴリズム「GPT-3」と、AIaaS（サーヴィスとしてのAI）のプラットフォームだ。
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