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08 Jul

How DoorDash Uses ML To Solve Last Mile Connectivity

Tony Xu used to deliver Dominos pizzas from door to door. Today, he is the CEO and co-creator of one of the top AI-driven food delivery apps in the US, DoorDash. Not to mention the poster boy of the American dream. The platform leverages machine learning to solve the last mile connectivity challenges of local…

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08 Jul

China Overtakes The US To Bag Most Awards In AI City Challenge

Chinese tech giants Alibaba & Baidu have bagged most awards in the 2021 AI City Challenge. The challenge was created four years ago to incentivise research and development in intelligent video analysis for use cases in smart cities and assess tasks where the level of performance is enough to drive real-world adoption. The US companies…

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05 Jul

When Bot Managers ‘Flex’ Their Firing Muscles

Recently, 63-year-old US Army veteran Stephen Normandin was fired unceremoniously from his job as an Amazon contact driver. The algorithm tracking him had decided the Phoenix man was not fit for the job and sent the pink slip over the mail. No sit downs, no memos, no second chances: fired by a bot. Stephen swears…

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05 Jul

When Bot Managers ‘Flex’ Their Firing Muscles

Recently, 63-year-old US Army veteran Stephen Normandin was fired unceremoniously from his job as an Amazon contact driver. The algorithm tracking him had decided the Phoenix man was not fit for the job and sent the pink slip over the mail. No sit downs, no memos, no second chances: fired by a bot. Stephen swears…

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04 Jul

Inside TikTok’s Compelling Recommendation Engine

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As of 2020 December, TikTok has overtaken Facebook to become the most downloaded app. Its founder Zhang Yiming’s estimated net worth stands at $35.6 billion. With TikTok, he is looking ‘to combine the power of AI with the growth of mobile internet to revolutionise the way people consume and receive information’.  Tiktok has progressed from…

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03 Jul

How AI Is Changing The Real Estate Landscape

Artificial intelligence is disrupting the global real estate industry. Most of the high-end realtors are now incorporating data pipelines and algorithms into their decision-making process, and the results are telling. Information management is the key application of AI in the real estate industry.  Let’s find out how exactly AI and ML are changing real estate.…

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01 Jul

How AI Powers The EV Ecosystem

Pandemic notwithstanding, electric car registrations have seen  a 43% increase year on year in 2020. Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) accounted for two-thirds of new registrations. The arrival of AI has disrupted the electric vehicles ecosystem. Here, we look at the various applications of artificial intelligence in the EV pipelines. Popular EV models like Tesla Model…

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29 Jun

How Machine Learning Predicts The Host Range Of Known Viruses

The University of Liverpool researchers have conducted a study to predict over 20,000 unknown associations between known viruses and susceptible mammalian species. The research, published in a paper titled. “Divide and conquer – machine-learning integrates mammalian, viral, and network traits to predict unknown virus-mammal associations”, used machine learning to improve our understanding of viral host…

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