IBM has announced its 2021 Call for Code challenge, with the theme of tackling climate change.
IBM, ServiceNow In New AI Partnership
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IBM Watson Brings AI to H&R Block Tax Preparation
IBM announced a partnership with H&R block to use their artificial intelligent platform IBM Watson to radically improve tax preparation. “Introducing the biggest advancement in tax preparation technology,” exclaimed IBM in an announcement video. “Say hello to the partnership between…
Historic Breakthrough: Microsoft Reaches Virtual Parity With Human Speech
In an historic breakthrough, Microsoft’s AI team has developed technology that recognizes speech as well as humans. Their research team published a paper (PDF) showing that their speech recognition system makes errors at the same rate as a professional transcriptionists,…
Blekko Shuts Down, Becomes Part Of IBM Watson
Back in 2010, an alternative search engine called Blekko emerged. It came from Rich Skrenta, co-founder & former CEO of Topix and NewHoo (which went on to become The Open Directory Project or DMOZ). It aimed to crowd source search…