Generation Text: How beta testers reacted to GPT-3
Finance

Generation Text: How beta testers reacted to GPT-3

People granted early access to OpenAI’s latest language model are raving about its way with words — and more. Beta testers of GPT-3 are showing off the model’s ability to write business memos, craft blogs, pen tweets, and even generate computer code.

July 29, 20202 min read
Generation Text: How beta testers reacted to GPT-3
Finance

Generation Text: How beta testers reacted to GPT-3

People granted early access to OpenAI’s latest language model are raving about its way with words — and more. Beta testers of GPT-3 are showing off the model’s ability to write business memos, craft blogs, pen tweets, and even generate computer code.

July 29, 20202 min read
AI in Regions Rich and Poor: How companies in Africa and the Middle East use AI
Finance

AI in Regions Rich and Poor: How companies in Africa and the Middle East use AI

Companies in Africa and the Middle East are building AI capacity in very different ways, a new study found. AI is growing fast in both regions despite shortages of talent and data.

July 22, 20201 min read
AI in Regions Rich and Poor: How companies in Africa and the Middle East use AI
Finance

AI in Regions Rich and Poor: How companies in Africa and the Middle East use AI

Companies in Africa and the Middle East are building AI capacity in very different ways, a new study found. AI is growing fast in both regions despite shortages of talent and data.

July 22, 20201 min read
New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping
Finance

New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping

The pandemic has radically altered online shopping behavior, throwing a wrench into many AI systems. AI inventory trackers, recommendation algorithms, and fraud detection systems trained on pre-pandemic consumer behavior have been flummoxed by the different ways people now browse, binge, and buy.

May 20, 20201 min read
New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping
Finance

New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping

The pandemic has radically altered online shopping behavior, throwing a wrench into many AI systems. AI inventory trackers, recommendation algorithms, and fraud detection systems trained on pre-pandemic consumer behavior have been flummoxed by the different ways people now browse, binge, and buy.

May 20, 20201 min read
Taxation With Vector Representation: A reinforcement learning approach to better tax policy
Finance

Taxation With Vector Representation: A reinforcement learning approach to better tax policy

Governments have struggled to find a tax formula that promotes prosperity without creating extremes of wealth and poverty. Can machine learning show the way?

May 13, 20201 min read
Taxation With Vector Representation: A reinforcement learning approach to better tax policy
Finance

Taxation With Vector Representation: A reinforcement learning approach to better tax policy

Governments have struggled to find a tax formula that promotes prosperity without creating extremes of wealth and poverty. Can machine learning show the way?

May 13, 20201 min read
Asia’s AI Advantage: Asian companies show success in AI updake.
Finance

Asia’s AI Advantage: Asian companies show success in AI updake.

Asian companies lead the world in AI deployment, new research argues. Market research by MIT Technology Review Insights found that companies in the Asia-Pacific region are using machine learning faster and with better results than any other part of the world.

May 6, 20202 min read
Asia’s AI Advantage: Asian companies show success in AI updake.
Finance

Asia’s AI Advantage: Asian companies show success in AI updake.

Asian companies lead the world in AI deployment, new research argues. Market research by MIT Technology Review Insights found that companies in the Asia-Pacific region are using machine learning faster and with better results than any other part of the world.

May 6, 20202 min read
Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI
Finance

Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI

Artificial intelligence has moved from the age of discovery to the age of implementation. Among our invested portfolios, primarily in China, we see flourishing applications using AI and automation in banking, finance, transportation, logistics, supermarkets, restaurants, warehouses, factories...

January 1, 20201 min read
Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI
Finance

Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI

Artificial intelligence has moved from the age of discovery to the age of implementation. Among our invested portfolios, primarily in China, we see flourishing applications using AI and automation in banking, finance, transportation, logistics, supermarkets, restaurants, warehouses, factories...

January 1, 20201 min read
Bias Goes Undercover: Adversarial attacks can fool explainable AI techniques.
Finance

Bias Goes Undercover: Adversarial attacks can fool explainable AI techniques.

As black-box algorithms like neural networks find their way into high-stakes fields such as transportation, healthcare, and finance, researchers have developed techniques to help explain models’ decisions. New findings show that some of these methods can be fooled.

November 27, 20192 min read
Bias Goes Undercover: Adversarial attacks can fool explainable AI techniques.
Finance

Bias Goes Undercover: Adversarial attacks can fool explainable AI techniques.

As black-box algorithms like neural networks find their way into high-stakes fields such as transportation, healthcare, and finance, researchers have developed techniques to help explain models’ decisions. New findings show that some of these methods can be fooled.

November 27, 20192 min read
Spotlight on Stock Scammers
Finance

Spotlight on Stock Scammers

The world’s largest stock market is using AI to flag suspicious trading in real time. Nasdaq is testing a deep learning system to monitor trading of ts U.S. equities. Named Chiron, the system watches for behaviors that indicate potential market manipulation.

November 13, 20191 min read

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