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The key to operational AI: Modern data architecture

CIO

From customer service chatbots to marketing teams analyzing call center data, the majority of enterprises—about 90% according to recent data —have begun exploring AI. This team serves as the primary point of contact when issues arise with models—the go-to experts when something isn’t working.

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Venture capital undermines human rights

TechCrunch

The venture capitalists who run these firms decide which startups today will develop the new platforms and technologies that will shape our lives tomorrow. Venture capital firms need to institute human rights due diligence processes that meet the standards set forth in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

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Four investors explain why AI ethics can’t be an afterthought

TechCrunch

Some investors said they tackle this by doing due diligence on a founder’s ethics to help determine whether they’ll continue to make decisions the firm can support. Government policies are also taking aim at AI: The EU has passed machine learning laws , and the U.S. How would the U.S.

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‘Knowledge-as-a-service’ platform Lynk announces collaboration with UBS

TechCrunch

Lynk’s technology uses machine learning algorithms to match clients with experts in its database. The platform also has collaboration tools, so teams can automatically transcribe question-and-answer sessions, search transcripts and share notes. As COVID-19 era drags on, VCs look beyond Zoom calls for due diligence and sourcing.

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Weights & Biases raises $135M Series C to keep building MLOps software

TechCrunch

ML, or machine learning, is a big market today. In product terms, Weights & Biases plays in the “MLOps” space, or the machine learning operations market. According to Weights & Biases co-founder Lukas Biewald , the software world has a set of tools built for developers to write and deploy code well.

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Machine Learning Project Checklist

DataRobot

Download the Machine Learning Project Checklist. Planning Machine Learning Projects. Machine learning and AI empower organizations to analyze data, discover insights, and drive decision making from troves of data. More organizations are investing in machine learning than ever before.

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Hebbia raises $30M to launch an AI-powered document search tool

TechCrunch

Hebbia , a startup developing AI-infused search tools, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Index Ventures with participation from Radical Ventures. Of note, among the investors was Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang (full disclosure: Yahoo! It’s early days.