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GAISA focuses on the power of AI in major industries

The third edition of the Global Artificial Intelligence summit and awards to raise the curtains on the 97th and 08th of October 2022 with a comprehensive focus on the strategic and tactical benefits of artificial intelligence in various sectors such as healthcare, education, agriculture, smart cities, and transportation. Organized by the All-India Council for robotics and automation (AICRA), the GAISA summit is an annual event dedicated to addressing the innovations that happened in the field of artificial intelligence. This season, the summit will bring together international and regional decision-makers, experts,…

Top 5 innovative AI startups

In the international AI race, India has been one of the most dominant countries. The Indian government is providing millions of dollars in funding to AI start-ups. These AI start-ups in India are focused on developing new products and services to boost productivity and income in the domestic market. Let’s look at the top five innovative Indian AI start-ups. Avaamo Avaamo, a conversational AI platform, is one of the most innovative Indian AI start-ups in 2022. With Voice demo—patient scheduling, it provides immediate and personalised assistance to patients in the healthcare,…

Zoom receives backlash for emotion-detecting AI

Zoom has caused a stir following reports that it is working on an AI system for detecting emotions. Protocol first reported on the system, which claims to scan users’ faces and speech to determine their emotions. Zoom went into greater detail about the system in a blog post last month. According to the company, ‘Zoom IQ’ will be especially useful for assisting salespeople in improving their pitches based on the emotions of call participants. Naturally, the system is viewed as dystopian and has received considerable criticism. over 25 rights groups…

Meta’s new AI model to improve translation quality

Meta has unveiled NLLB-200, a new AI model that can translate 200 languages and improves quality by 44 percent on average. For a long time, translation apps have been fairly adept at the most common languages. Even if they do not provide an exact translation, it is usually close enough for the native speaker to understand. However, hundreds of millions of people in multilingual regions such as Africa and Asia continue to be underserved by translation services. In a press release, Meta wrote: “To help people connect better today and…

Google Bans Several Malicious India-linked Domains

More than a dozen malicious India-linked domains and websites that were being used in hack-for-hire attacks targeting users worldwide have now been banned by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG). To alert users to the threat, the company recently published a blog post in which they listed the banned domain links that were used to inject spying tools into users’ PCs/laptops by masquerading as fake login pages for websites or apps. The blog post read, “As part of TAG’s mission to counter serious threats to Google and our users, we’ve published…

UST announces ‘strategic investment’ in Israeli health-tech start-up

UST, a leading provider of digital transformation solutions, has announced a strategic investment in Well-Beat, an Israeli start-up focused on patient-centered behavioral artificial intelligence (AI). This will hasten UST’s adoption of emerging tech solutions in healthcare and the transformation of lives through the power of technology, according to a company spokesperson. UST and Well-Beat collaborated to develop a digital patient engagement Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that dynamically adapts to each patient over time, provides personalized conversational guidelines to clinicians, provides customized prompts shaped by the patient profile, and…

Vodafone and Google launch AI Booster platform

Vodafone and Google launched a new AI Booster platform that aims to handle thousands of ML models per day across 18+ countries. AI Booster is the result of 18 months of development and is based on Google’s Vertex AI platform, as well as Vodafone’s Neuron platform. When Vodafone began working on AI Booster, Vertex AI, among other Google technologies, had not yet been officially announced. Cornelia Schaurecker, Vodafone’s Global Group Director for Big Data & AI, stated: “To maximise business value at pace and scale, our vision was to enable fast…

Google launches Startup School India for early-stage products

Google has launched Startup School India, a Google for Startups initiative designed to organize startup knowledge into a structured curriculum and deliver it across a broad footprint. The nine-week virtual program will include fireside chats with Google leaders and collaborators from the startup ecosystem, including fintech, direct-to-consumer (D2C), B2B and B2C e-commerce, language, social media & networking, and job search. The curriculum will include instructional modules on topics such as developing an effective product strategy, diving deep into product user value, road mapping and PRD development, developing apps for the…

Designing next generation analog chipsets for AI applications

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has developed a design framework for next-generation analog computing chipsets that could be quicker and use less power than the digital chips found in most electronic gadgets. The team developed a prototype of an analog chipset dubbed ARYABHAT-1 using their new design methodology (Analog Reconfigurable Technology And Bias-scalable Hardware for AI Tasks). This type of chipset is very useful for AI-based applications such as object or speech recognition (think Alexa or Siri) or those that demand enormous parallel computing operations at fast speeds. Since…

How AI is being used in businesses?

The term “artificial intelligence” conjures up images of sci-fi thrillers for an average user. While the stigma associated with dystopian cinema has yet to fade, AI is most commonly used in the business world. Brands we see on a regular basis are investing in AI projects to help them become more efficient and productive. Companies such as Google, IBM, Salesforce, Facebook, and many others are incorporating AI into their daily operations, and many more are seeing the enormous potential of machine learning and AI technology. Artificial Intelligence and Business Today…