Surveys have long been used by marketing teams and other business decision makers to learn how customers tick. But they can be costly to put together, hard to run at scale, and, at the end of the day, are only as credible as the data that gets put into them. Today, a London startup called […]
AIが高度化すれば開発コストが増大し、イノヴェイションを阻害する？ 表面化した問題と、見えてきた解決策
言語解析などに利用するAIのアルゴリズムは飛躍的な進化を遂げているが、膨大な量のデータに基づく訓練や実行のコストも膨れ上がっている。結果的にイノヴェイションを阻害する可能性も指摘されるなか、より効率的で低コストな機械学習の技術を開発する動きも出始めた。
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How to root out shadow IT and maximize SaaS investments
By leveraging SaaS management and taking some steps, businesses can more effectively manage shadow IT, gain a competitive edge, reduce unnecessary costs and empower a distributed workforce.
Salesforce’s Kathy Baxter and Amazon’s Nashlie Sephus talk keeping AI ethical at enterprise scale
AI and big data are an important part of most enterprise-scale companies now, but that very scale can make it difficult to employ them safely and ethically. Kathy Baxter at Salesforce and Nashlie Sephus at AWS have made ethical AI and data collection their business over the last few years, both sounding the alarm on […]
Speechmatics pushes forward recognition of accented English
Speech recognition has gone from convenient to crucial over the last few years as smart speakers and driving assist modes have taken off — but not everyone’s voice is recognized equally well. Speechmatics claims to have the most inclusive and accurate model out there, beating Amazon, Google and others when it comes to speech outside […]
Partner sessions are going all out at TC Sessions: SaaS 2021
TechCrunch events always offer a compelling mix of main stage presentations and smaller breakout sessions that allow more time for lots of questions and deeper discussions. Expect nothing less at TC Sessions: SaaS 2021 on October 27. We want to highlight these sessions we have on tap for you. Remember, TechCrunch partners don’t just cut […]
歩行するロボットの進化を、仮想環境でのシミュレーションが加速する
仮想環境で大量のロボットを動作させてアルゴリズムを訓練し、それを現実世界のロボットに適用して研究開発を加速させる試みが進められている。エヌヴィディアとスイス連邦工科大学チューリッヒ校によるこの取り組みは、ロボットが新たな技能を習得するスピードを飛躍的に向上させる可能性を秘めている。
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Even more reasons you need to be at TC Sessions: SaaS 2021
We’re less than two weeks out from TC Sessions: SaaS 2021, a day-long exploration of software as a service. If you want to thrive in this tough, competitive market, join your colleagues and tap into current thinking and future trends. Come to hear, meet and engage with the industry’s brightest minds, makers and investors. Expand […]
How startups are turning data into software gold
Storing great pools of data is an increasingly figured-out challenge. Between public clouds, and data lakes more specifically, you can stick oceans of corporate data in any number of places. But leveraging that data into something useful is another challenge altogether. The analogy that data is this era’s oil is at best half-baked. Oil takes […]
Personio, an HR platform for SMEs, raises $270M on a $6.3B valuation, expands into workflow automation
HR technology has been thrown into the spotlight in the last 20 months: COVID-19 has changed the way we work, and so how we manage people in the world of work has had to change, too. Today, a Munich-based startup called Personio, which has built a big business out of how to address that issue […]