AI startup InsideSales asks if a machine can be taught to sell
Armed with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from Microsoft and Salesforce, InsideSales believes it can make computers an intelligent assistant of sorts for salespeople.
Armed with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from Microsoft and Salesforce, InsideSales believes it can make computers an intelligent assistant of sorts for salespeople.
Researchers from IBM argue AI is a bit too unruly for enterprise use, as it's based on "probabilistic" programming methods and "messy" data. Can the Big Blue approach to software lifecycles and "business processes" tame the beast?
Naveen Rao, co-founder of AI chip maker Nervana, which Intel bought in 2016, explains how the company will storm the market in 2019 with chips and software.
Sammy Cheung, chief executive at Efinix, talks about how the six-year-old startup company has created an intriguing twist on the FPGA technology dominated by Intel and Xiliinx.
Six-year-old startup Efinix has created an intriguing twist on the FPGA technology dominated by Intel and Xiliinx; the company hopes its energy-efficient chips will bootstrap the market for embedded AI in the Internet of Things.
Apple has responded to a request from ZDNet confirming that the new Apple Pencil stylus will not charge via the widely deployed "Qi" wireless power technology.
Four-year-old startup Flex Logix has taken the wraps off its novel chip design for machine learning. CEO Geoff Tate describes how the chip may take advantage of an "explosion" of inferencing activity in "edge computing," and how Nvidia can't compete on performance.
Twenty-eight years ago, Geoff Tate helped create a chip company called Rambus. Its technology is in every DRAM memory part that ships today. But Tate thinks he's now found a bigger market in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Google software engineer Cliff Young explains how the explosion in deep learning algorithms is coinciding with a breakdown in Moore's Law, the decades-old rule of thumb of progress in computer chips, forcing radical new computer designs.
Paul Masters, co-founder and chief technologist of startup Cornami, explains how the company is using a technology first described in the 1970s to advance the state of the art in neural network processing.
