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Salesforce signs up machine learning company PredictionIO to its empire

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Salesforce’s billion-dollar tower in San Francisco is set for completion in 2017

Salesforce has signed a “definitive agreement” to buy startup company PredictionIO, which owns an open source machine learning server for developers and data scientists to build and deploy predictive applications.

“We couldn’t be more excited to join Salesforce,” writes Simon Chan, co-founder and CEO of PredictionIO, on his blog.

Just over six months ago, UK-based PredictionIO raised $2.5 million in seed funding from a number of investors, including Stanford University’s StartX Fund. [Read more…] about Salesforce signs up machine learning company PredictionIO to its empire

Nvidia profits from growing market for artificial intelligence systems

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Chipmaker Nvidia claims it has earned record-breaking revenues in the last quarter thanks to its achievements in a range of newfangled technologies, such as driverless cars and deep learning.

Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia, says: “Nvidia is at the center of four exciting growth opportunities – PC gaming, VR, deep learning, and self-driving cars.

“We are especially excited about deep learning, a breakthrough in artificial intelligence algorithms that takes advantage of our GPU’s ability to process data simultaneously. [Read more…] about Nvidia profits from growing market for artificial intelligence systems

UN technology boss proclaims the end of human innovation

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United Nations CITO Atefeh Riazi. Image: New York City Housing Authority
United Nations CITO Atefeh Riazi. Image: New York City Housing Authority

United Nations Chief Technology Officer Atefeh Riazi says the end is nigh for human innovation. 

In an interview with TechRepublic, Riazi says all future innovations will be made by computers.

“The next innovations will come through artificial intelligence,” says Riazi. “It will be the AI innovating.

“We need to think about our role as technologists and we need to think about the ramifications – positive and negative – and we need to transform ourselves as innovators.”

Full story at TechRepublic