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Alex Woodie
Alex Woodie has written about IT as a technology journalist for more than a decade. He brings extensive experience from the IBM midrange marketplace, including topics such as servers, ERP applications, programming, databases, security, high availability, storage, business intelligence, cloud, and mobile enablement. He resides in the San Diego area.
DataRobot’s Busy Day: Nabs $300M in Series G Funding and Acquires Algorithmia
July 27th, 2021
In a move to solidify its position in the emerging market for enterprise AI platforms, DataRobot today announced the completion of a $300 million Series G round of funding. The Boston company also announced the acquisition of MLOps provider ...
Nvidia’s Speedy New Inference Engine Keeps BERT Latency Within a Millisecond
July 21st, 2021
Disappointment abounds when your data scientists dial in the accuracy on deep learning models to a high degree but are then eventually forced to gut the model for inference because of resource constraints. Fortunately, that will not happen often ...
Enterprise AI Adoption Up Significantly Since 2020 Amid COVID-19 Challenges, Says New Appen Study
June 17th, 2021
AI budgets are up significantly over the past year as companies compete to survive and grow market share during the global pandemic, according to Appen, which published its "State of AI and Machine Learning" report this week. The study ...
AI Technology Leaders Often Lack Needed AI Ethics Understanding, Study Finds
May 26th, 2021
If you are an AI technology leader and you often don't have answers on how AI makes decisions within your company's operations, you are not alone. Nearly two-thirds of C-level AI leaders can’t explain how specific AI model decisions ...
DataRobot Updates Its AI Platform, Acquires Data Science Startup Zepl
May 12th, 2021
DataRobot unveiled several enhancements in its automated machine learning platform today, including the introduction of features like composable ML and continuous AI. The company, which is holding a virtual conference today and tomorrow, also bought Zepl, the data science ...
More Academic Rigor – and Less Hype – Are Needed to Solve AI Bias Problems
May 5th, 2021
Let’s face it: We’re infatuated with AI. From smart chatbots to image recognition to self-driving cars, we’re absolutely enamored with the superpower-like abilities it gives us. But unless we incorporate stronger processes to identify and remediate biased data and ...
To Solve AI Ethics Gaps, We Must First Acknowledge The Problem Exists
April 14th, 2021
Companies are adopting AI solutions at unprecedented rates, but ethical worries continue to dog the roll outs. While there are no established standards for AI ethics, a common set of guidelines is beginning to emerge to help bridge the ...
Global Chip Shortage Is Negatively Impacting AI Workloads in the Cloud
March 15th, 2021
If you’re finding it harder to get access to GPUs in the cloud to train your AI models lately, you’re not alone. The combination of a global chip shortage and increased demand for AI model training is apparently leading ...
Digital Twins and AI Helping Industries Stay Flexible During COVID-19 Uncertainties
March 2nd, 2021
When COVID-19 clobbered all of humanity in early 2020, the resulting government lockdowns in countries and communities across the world negatively impacted entire industries and turned people's lives and whole economies upside down. For many, a full recovery may ...
U.S. Leads World in AI, But Here Comes China
January 27th, 2021
The United States is maintaining its early lead over China and the European Union in development and application of artificial intelligence technology, according to a new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). But while the Americans’ ...
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