AI Trends – Advance Trustworthy AI and ML, and Identify Best Practices for Scaling AI 

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor   Advancing trustworthy AI and machine learning to mitigate agency risk is a priority for the US Department of Energy (DOE), and identifying best practices for implementing AI at scale is a priority for the US General Services Administration (GSA).   That’s what attendees learned in two sessions at the AI…

AI Trends – Promise and Perils of Using AI for Hiring: Guard Against Data Bias 

By AI Trends Staff   While AI in hiring is now widely used for writing job descriptions, screening candidates, and automating interviews, it poses a risk of wide discrimination if not implemented carefully.  Keith Sonderling, Commissioner, US Equal Opportunity Commission That was the message from Keith Sonderling, Commissioner with the US Equal Opportunity Commision, speaking at the AI…

AI Trends – Predictive Maintenance Proving Out as Successful AI Use Case 

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor   More companies are successfully exploiting predictive maintenance systems that combine AI and IoT sensors to collect data that anticipates breakdowns and recommends preventive action before break or machines fail, in a demonstration of an AI use case with proven value.   This growth is reflected in optimistic market forecasts….

AI Trends – Novelty In The Game Of Go Provides Bright Insights For AI And Autonomous Vehicles 

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider   We already expect that humans to exhibit flashes of brilliance. It might not happen all the time, but the act itself is welcomed and not altogether disturbing when it occurs.    What about when Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to display an act of novelty? Any such instance is bound to get our attention;…

AI Trends – Getting Government AI Engineers to Tune into AI Ethics Seen as Challenge 

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor   Engineers tend to see things in unambiguous terms, which some may call Black and White terms, such as a choice between right or wrong and good and bad. The consideration of ethics in AI is highly nuanced, with vast gray areas, making it  challenging for AI software engineers to…

AI Trends – Digital Natives Seen Having Advantages as Part of Government AI Engineering Teams 

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor   AI is more accessible to young people in the workforce who grew up as ‘digital natives’ with Alexa and self-driving cars as part of the landscape, giving them expectations grounded in their experience of what is possible.   That idea set the foundation for a panel discussion at AI World…

Latest from IBM Developer : Create a web app to interact with machine learning generated image captions

Summary The introduction of the IBM Model Asset eXchange (MAX) that is hosted on the Machine Learning eXchange has given application developers without data science experience easy access to prebuilt machine learning models. This code pattern shows how simple it can be to create a web app that utilizes a MAX model. The web app…

Latest from IBM Developer : Create a web app to visually interact with objects detected using machine learning

Summary The IBM Model Asset eXchange (MAX) models that are hosted on the Machine Learning eXchange (https://ml-exchange.org/models/) have given application developers without data science experience easy access to prebuilt machine learning models. This code pattern shows how to create a simple web application to visualize the text output of a MAX model. The web app…

Latest from IBM Developer : Create a machine learning powered web app to answer questions

Summary In this code pattern, learn how to build a chatbot that answers a user’s questions by finding the answer in a college biology textbook. Description Ever found yourself wondering what mitochondria are? Perhaps you are curious about how neurons communicate with each other? A Google search works well to answer your questions, but what…