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5 Steps To Strategy Tuning Through Machine Learning

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Conventional thinking in business has long been that strategy decisions are made by humans, while the focus of automation and machine learning should be on execution. They think they are saving costs by not using the latest technology to capture data, and minimizing storage. Get data flowing, and machines talking to each other.

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XPRIZE Launches New $10M Prize, The Rainforest XPRIZE

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Los Angeles-based XPRIZE announced a brand new competition, the $10M Rainforest XPRIZE. The organization suggested that using such technologies as robotics, remote sensing, data analysis, artificial intelligence, and machine learning might be useful in this area. READ MORE>>.

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IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Competition Opens Registration

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The IBM Watson AI XPRIZE , the $5M competition being run by Los Angeles-based XPRIZE , has opened up registrations to teams, and has published guidelines for the artificial intelligence competition.

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XPRIZE Awards Winner In $5M IBM Watson AI Prize

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Los Angeles-based XPRIZE, which operates a number of competitions aimed at encouraging advancement in key technology areas, says a Grand Prize Winner has been named in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Competition. Zzapp gets $3M, Aifred gets $1M, and $500k goes to Marinus.

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Data Scientist Team Share Lessons Learned From Competition

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When you’re in a competition and on the spot, answering questions to industry experts can be a nerve-wrecking process. The best part is that afterward you walk away with valuable insight, experience and lessons learned. They left the competition with their lessons learned and came back to win first place in 2017. “To

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XPRIZE Foundation Names Anousheh Ansari As New CEO

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Ansari and her family were behind the Ansari XPRIZE, a $10M competition aimed at spurring the development of commercial spaceflight. Ansari, who is a tech entrepreneur, is best known as for her private ride to space on a Russian Soyuz, which made her the first private female to visit space as a tourist. READ MORE>>.

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XPRIZE Whittles IBM Watson AI Teams To 59

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XPRIZE , the Los Angeles nonprofit which promotes development of new technology to help solve world problems, has whittled down the number of teams competing in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE , focused on using AI to world's greatest challenges.

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