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These are two very different scenarios, but the same issue permeates both: How do we humans decide whether or not to trust a machine's recommendations? This is the question that a new draft publication from the National Institute of Standards and Technology poses, with the goal of stimulating a discussion about how humans trust AI systems.
The big telecommunications companies paid millions of dollars to specialist "AstroTurf" companies to generate public comments. These companies then stole people's names and email addresses from old files and from hacked data dumps and attached them to 8.5 million public comments and half a million letters to members of Congress.
Spire Global announced significant breakthrough processing wins for the Company, having recently launched multiple novel computing platforms for artificial intelligence processing, including "Brain in Space", an on-the-ground simulated testbed replicating Spire's LEMUR 3U platform. "We collect a vast amount of data each day from our global satellite constellation and other systems, so processing and leveraging that data efficiently is key. At our core, we are an Earth data analytics company that happens to gather our data from the ultimate vantage point-space," said Spire CEO Peter Platzer.
Empowering the world's essential data infrastructure, Western Digital announced the expansion of the WD Purple family with the WD Purple Pro product line for a new generation of advanced AI-enabled recorders and back-end servers. The new WD Purple Pro line is designed to handle these workloads with optimized storage performance, capacity, workload capability and reliability for a myriad of devices, including AI-enabled network video recorders, video analytics servers, storage arrays and storage/server solutions, including those that perform deep-learning analytics.
The company will use the funding to scale its go-to-market and engineering teams to meet significant demand for its platform. The platform provides security teams with a simple and cost-effective approach to significantly elevate security investigation and response through real-time access and centralized insights to data across on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS applications, without duplicating it from its native locations.
AI officially launched on Thursday with a security investigations platform and $4.6 million in seed funding. AI says it will be used to accelerate adoption of its product.
DataRobot announced new enhancements to its enterprise AI platform. Users can also integrate their own custom training code to create entirely new models that instantly work with DataRobot's explainability tools and have a clear path to production via DataRobot MLOps.
Let's explore a few scenarios and how AI and biometrics can help uncover and fight fraud. Without an AI-powered fraud prevention platform and biometric authentication, this type of fraud could easily go unnoticed.
With the launch of AutoSQL, IBM Cloud Pak for Data now includes the highest-performing cloud data warehouse on the market that can run seamlessly across any hybrid multi-cloud environment - including private clouds, on-premises and any public cloud. IBM Mono2Micro uses AI developed by IBM Research to analyze large enterprise applications and provide recommendations on how to best adapt them for the move to cloud.
Microsoft researchers just released an open-source automation tool for security testing AI systems: “Counterfit.” Details on their blog.