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The Human Impact of Machine Learning in Medical Diagnostics & More

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In January, UC San Diego announced that a group of scientists had succeeded in training a computer to tell the difference between a person with a “healthy” intestine from someone with inflammatory bowel disease by analyzing the genetic makeup of the microbes in their gut. Think what.

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Gretel.ai Snags $50M For Privacy Efforts

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San Diego-based Gretel.ai, a startup which is developing privacy technology, has raised $50M in a Series B funding, the company said today. Gretel.ai's privacy technology helps generate synthetic data, which preserves privacy, but can help provide data sets for training machine learning and AI models.

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Quantum Computing 101: Brilliant, Google, Microsoft Training Workers

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But tech companies are already writing the novel kinds of software these revolutionary computers will need in order to operate—and businesses are even helping to train the workforce for a future era of “quantum speed-up.’’ For that training task, Microsoft and X, the cutting-edge research arm of.

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A.I. in 2018: IBM Exec on Advances in Training, Trust, Transparency

Xconomy

Today’s artificial intelligence technologies have demonstrated they’re capable of handling specific tasks, such as identifying pictures of cats or spotting cancer in CT scans. [ Editor’s note: This is part of a series of posts sharing thoughts from technology leaders about 2018 trends and 2019 forecasts.

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Countering Cybersecurity Turnover: 57 Companies That Do It Best

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Challenging work, ongoing training, an opportunity to advance without having to become a manager, and a talented peer group all help companies recruit and retain these sought-after “ninjas”—the individuals who can do what artificial intelligence security tools can’t.

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Brain Corp.’s First Product is a Brain for Floor-Scrubbing Machines

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Headed by the computational neuroscientist Eugene Izhikevich, the company maintained a low profile at Qualcomm’s San Diego headquarters until 2013, when Brain Corp. stands to gain valuable experience toward the development of autonomous, machine-learning systems and self-driving cars. The module follows the same route.

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Walmart’s Store No 8 Acquires Aspectiva to Bring A.I. to Shopping

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Walmart’s Store No 8 innovation arm has acquired an Israeli machine learning startup , the retail giant announced Wednesday. Aspectiva joined the two-year-old Store No 8 Monday, and its employees will remain in Tel Aviv.