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LinkedIn is working to train all of its engineers on the basics of implementing artificial intelligence as part of the company’s drive to make its professional social network smarter. “The demand for AI across the company has increased enormously,” Deepak Agarwal, head of artificial intelligence at LinkedIn, said during an onstage interview at VB Summit […]

Freight trains are a slow-moving business, in more ways than one. Their average speed is well under 30 mph on U.S. rails, according to the Department of Transportation. But that’s not all — and the speed of innovation is also quite slow, said Wesley Mukai, the CTO of GE Transportation. A locomotive is a 30-year […]

Datorama revealed today that its customers have deployed more than 100,000 bots to analyze information about their marketing outcomes, as part of the AI Innovation Showcase at VB Summit 2017. When people think about marketing, they think of Don Draper on TV,” said Nate Sandford, a solution architect and evangelist for Datorama. But today, marketing […]

Machine learning and deep learning AI have gone from the niche realm of PhDs to tools that will be used throughout all types of companies. That equates to a big skills gap, says Gil Arditi, product lead for Lyft’s Machine Learning Platform. “From very early on, Lyft was a data-driven company and a machine learning […]

The robots are coming for your jobs, experts say. But no matter if you’re a Luddite or an engineer at Microsoft, as the AI age threatens the livelihood of many, services like Indeed that help people find work may be the kind of AI everyone can agree on. Indeed VP Raj Mukherjee said one big improvement […]

When Cisco started working on a unified analytics platform, the company was more concerned with finding the right people to do the work than with the data they were using, Cisco’s vice president of strategy, Rajat Mishra, said at the VB Summit in Berkeley, California today. “I wish I could tell you we had a […]

Walmart.com is bigger than you might think. The site has 60 million items for sale, Walmart CTO Jeremy King said at the VB Summit in Berkeley, California today. That’s up from 700,000 items when he joined Walmart in 2011, and it doesn’t include Jet.com, the e-commerce site Walmart acquired last year. Online sales have also […]