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AI for Customer Service | Top 10 Use Cases

Analytics Vidhya

Customer queries are endless for any company. With the rise of different problems or to gain familiarity with the offerings, every company strives to lower the response time and pace up the resolution process. The more efficient system in such a scenario is generative AI-based compared to traditional ones of humans. Generative AI is capable […] The post AI for Customer Service | Top 10 Use Cases appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Understanding Supervised Learning: Theory and Overview

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This article covers a high-level overview of popular supervised learning algorithms and is curated specially for beginners.

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Generative AI in accounting for 2023: Empowering financial professionals

Data Science Dojo

The winds of change are sweeping through the accounting profession, driven by the rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence into our daily business operations. As we embrace the undeniable benefits that AI brings to the table, we must also acknowledge the potential challenges it poses to our traditional roles. As a finance professional, I’ve penned this blog to delve into the various ways AI is transforming day-to-day operational activities in accounting while discussing the pros and co

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Large Language Models for Compiler Optimization

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We explore the novel application of Large Language Models to code optimization. We present a 7B-parameter transformer model trained from scratch to optimize LLVM assembly for code size. The model takes as input unoptimized assembly and outputs a list of compiler options to best optimize the program. Crucially, during training, we ask the model to predict the instruction counts before and after optimization, and the optimized code itself.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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AI Can Already Design Better Cities Than Humans, Study Shows

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Imagine living in a cool, green city flush with parks and threaded with footpaths, bike lanes, and buses, which ferry people to shops, schools, and service centers in a matter of minutes.

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Making Architecture Easy

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Unlike nearly all other arts, architecture is inherently public and shared. That means that buildings should be designed to be agreeable – easy to like – not to be unpopular works of genius.

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More writers sue OpenAI for copyright infringement over AI training

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A group of U.S. authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, has sued OpenAI in federal court in San Francisco, accusing the Microsoft-backed program of misusing their writing to train its popular artificial intelligence-powered chatbot ChatGPT.

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Riding the AI tsunami: The next wave of generative intelligence

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We love wave analogies, especially to describe technological shifts. For example, The Third Wave is a 1980 book by Alvin Toffler that described a post-industrial society. Toffler coined the term “Information Age” to describe this wave.

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A trip to the dried-up Kakhovka Reservoir

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The Kakhovka Reservoir was once a vast body of water in the heart of Ukraine. In June, after the Russians apparently blew up the dam holding it back, the lake ran dry. We traveled along the Dnieper River to see how people's lives have changed.

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AI Can Solve an Algebra Equation in Seconds. Here's How Math Teachers Can Adapt

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ChatGPT, Photomath, Symbolab, and other artificial intelligence-powered platforms can solve a complicated math equation in just seconds—and provide a …

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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The daguerreotype is famous – why not the calotype?

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William Henry Fox Talbot’s obsession with protecting his pioneering photographic process doomed his reputation and reduced his legacy to historical footnote.

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The 10 Most Important AI Trends For 2024 Everyone Must Be Ready For Now

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The speed at which artificial intelligence (AI) evolves and integrates into our lives is only going to increase in 2024.

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How FoundationDB works and why it works (2021)

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FoundationDB is a very impressive database. Its paper won the best industry paper award in SIGMOD'21. In this post, I will explain, in detail, how FDB works and discuss a few very interesting design choices they made. It's a dense paper packed with neat ideas.

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I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job

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A former IBM tech evangelist found himself replaced by the very technology he hyped for decades. I had to have known this moment would come.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return to Earth: Live updates

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample-return mission will return pieces of asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. Follow the historic landing live here.

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Nature, Not Humans, Should Be the Model for AI, Says Artist Collective

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Challenging conventional AI ethics, Theta Noir believes AI should mimic nature's sustainability rather than human excess.

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Lead Toxicity from Ayurvedic Medicines

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KEY POINTS A 39-year-old woman presented to the emergency department 3 times over 6 weeks with abdominal pain, constipation, nausea and vomiting. She had a medical history of hypothyroidism and infertility, and was taking levothyroxine, follitropin alfa injections and folic acid.

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We often hear that AI will take our jobs. But what jobs will it create?

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The World Economic Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution brings together global stakeholders to accelerate the adoption of transparent …

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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How the Mac didn’t bring programming to the people

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HyperTalk, AppleScript, Prograph, Automator, Swift Playgrounds and Shortcuts – all wonderful tools in their day, but none has brought coding to the crowd.

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AI Image Creators Will Replace Some Photographers Sooner Than You Think

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Many photographers view AI image creators as harmless tools, believing there's nothing to be concerned about. However, some argue that these AI systems have the potential to replace most photographers sooner than we think, and I have to agree. Unless you've been living under a rock this past year, you've probably witnessed the impressive capabilities of image creators powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

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Infrastructure Manager: Provision Google Cloud Resources with Terraform

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Infrastructure Manager uses Terraform to provision and manage Google Cloud resources using an integrated Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach.

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China's AI applications are coming — where it matters for monetization

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Chinese companies are making announcements about artificial intelligence again – this time about applications.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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What do we do with the Twitter-shaped hole in the internet?

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I joined Twitter in college, over a decade ago. The microblogging site promised a lightweight alternative to Facebook with the added benefit of asymmetric connections: you could follow people who did not follow you back.

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Artificial intelligence has a high IQ but no emotional intelligence, and that comes with a cost

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Several years ago, I packed up my life in Cairo, Egypt, and moved to the UK to pursue my PhD – thousands of miles away from everyone I knew and …

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Geographic ‘hot spots’ for cigarette and firearm deaths in the U.S.

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A new FAU study shows geographically distinct areas of the highest death rates in the U.S. related to cigarettes as well as firearms, including both assault and suicide over two decades from 1999 to 2019.

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Students Need Better/More Data-Science Skills. Here Are 5 Ways Schools Can Help

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It’s almost impossible to go anywhere or do anything in today’s world without experiencing the impact of data science: from streaming apps’ …

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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A.I. and the Next Generation of Drone Warfare

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The Pentagon’s Replicator initiative envisions swarms of low-cost autonomous machines that could remake the American arsenal.

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AI Can Grade a Student Essay as Well as a Human. But It Cannot Replace a Teacher

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Baffour: Technology can flag errors & give feedback, freeing up time for educators to motivate young writers and help those who are struggling.

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The Eunuch Admiral (2011)

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A Ming cup leads to a Berkeley scholar and the marvelous tale of China’s greatest seafarer. I first heard the Admiral’s name spoken by a corrupt police inspector in 1982.

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Susan Fang SS24 Asks, What if AI Had Dreams Too?

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Hypebae sits down with the creative to discuss childhood, moms and blending human creativity with machine learning for SS24.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.