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Google's Machine Learning Tools Used To Identify LA Potholes

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Machine learning and artificial intelligence are two of the biggest buzzwords in technology today--but how are they being used to help you in everyday life? According to Google, the student team at Loyola Marymount created software, based on TensorFlow, for detecting road cracks and potholes based on footage of L.A.

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How to Use Generative AI and LLMs to Improve Search

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Artificial Intelligence (AI), and particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have significantly transformed the search engine as we’ve known it. With Generative AI and LLMs, new avenues for improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction are emerging every day.

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AT&T Ramps Artificial Intelligence Efforts

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AT&T --which has been ramping its operations and presence in the tech world in Los Angeles--said today that it is unveiling a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform called Acumos. The new, open-source platform is aimed at enabling programmers and researchers to more easily develop machine learning and AI software.

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Qulab Applies Artificial Intelligence To Drug Design

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Qulab is the brainchild of founder and Cel Alireza Shabani, who most recently was part of the Google Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab in Los Angeles, and prior to that was a post-doctoral resaercher at Princeton and UC Berkeley. He also attended USC's Viterbi School of Engineering as a Ph.D.

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Google Maps gets improved Live View AR directions

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Google today announced a few updates to Live View, the augmented reality walking directions in its Google Maps app that officially launched last year. Image Credits: Google. Google Maps can now also identify landmarks around you to give you better guidance and a clearer idea of where you are in a city.

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Artificial Intelligence Can Help Or Hurt Any Business

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Image via Pixabay Everyone has heard about the big potential for using artificial intelligence (AI) to expand your business, but many of the small businesses I mentor are still wary of embracing it, because they don’t understand how it works, and fear losing control and unintended consequences. Individual biases must be excluded.

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How ZestFinance Is Using Machine Learning to Reshape Lending, with Jay Budzik

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One of the hottest sectors of the technology startup market today is the use of artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning across many different sectors including finance. We worked with them to create a machine learning model for that line of business, which significantly outperforms traditional methods.