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Tag: AI
How Emily Kennedy and Cara Jones, Co-Founders of Marinus Analytics, Are Using AI to Battle Sex Trafficking
The European trip she took at age 16 gave her not only perspective, but purpose. It put her on a career path she likely never would have gone down: combating human trafficking. She does this through her company Marinus Analytics, which provides law enforcement with tools that utilize artificial intelligence to help identify victims and their exploiters.
Jimdo Can Turn Anyone into a Website Developer
When Germany natives Fridtjof Detzner and Christian Springub were teenagers, they began building websites for individuals and businesses. From there, it dawned on them: Why not figure out a way for clients to update and create sites themselves, minus the next-to-impossible coding part? In 2007, Jimdo was born.
SageMaker Takes the Heavy Lifting Out of Machine Learning
To get a better understanding of the service and how it came to be, we sat down with one of the product managers of SageMaker, Kumar Venkateswar. He told us about what the team set out to build, the problems they were looking to fix, and what startups are currently using the service.
Unleash Live Employs AWS and Nvidia GPU Integration for Scalable, Live-streaming AI Object Recognition
What do emergency responders, critical infrastructure asset managers, and miners have in common? All are people who must make decisions quickly in complex situations—often from remote and dispersed locations.
Alex Smola Showcases the Breadth of AWS’s Machine Learning Capabilities at Collision 2018
“Ultimately, my creativity is very limited, but your creativity is large,” said Alex Smola, Amazon Web Services Director of Machine Learning, to the assembled audience at the Collision Conference in New Orleans. “You can do amazing things with the tools that we’ve built.”
GoGuardian’s Aza Steel on the Power of Listening and Iteration
Aza Steel might be a bit of a prodigy, but he never set out to be a technological savior for teachers and parents. In fact, when he first developed the Chrome browser extension that would become the seed of his company in the early aughts, he was just a UCLA sociology major trying to find a way to track his laptop’s location in case it was stolen.
What if you could A/B Test the Physical World?
Density has built a piece of enterprise hardware for corporate campuses that measures how space is used. Many believe the technology is key to optimizing how all physical space is used.
How Zocdoc is Using AI to Schedule Your Next Doctor’s Appointment
When Zocdoc’s patients told the startup that insurance was confusing, the company decided to build an insurance-checker product.
What Is Deep Learning? A Primer with Bonsai’s Mark Hammond
Today, there are a lot of people talking about AI without having a real grasp on how deep learning works or even what it means. So what is it, really?
Tell a Robot to Take a Hike, and It Might Listen: “Cassie” Takes on the Pacific Crest Trail
For most adventurers, hiking the Pacific Crest Trail would be a crowning achievement in its own right. But one Caltech professor is upping the ante: he wants to design a robot that can complete the famous trek, all with outside assistance. That’s why Dr. Aaron Ames and his team have created Cassie, the world’s first fully autonomous robot designed to navigate the harshest and most complex environments in the world.