Issue #7 of the
Infinite Waves
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AI grocery startup from London, Bother raises £4.4M in pre-Series A funding
Hugging Face, a chatbot app, closes $40 million series B funding round
AI cybersecurity startup ActZero announces its public launch with $40 million investment led by Point72 Hyperscale
AI adoption accelerated during Pandemic according to KPMG survey
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing $9.1 million to Cortical.io AG, an Austrian software company developing innovative artificial intelligence technology based on a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) approach that can interpret and process human language text
HIGHLIGHT
8 key female researchers and engineers in AI, Machine Learning and Data Science
For International Women’s day on 8th March KD nuggets provided this list of resources:
Women in data science and AI - Resources, Turing Institute
Women in AI, a nonprofit do-tank working towards gender-inclusive AI that benefits global society.
Women in Machine Learning Workshop, supporting women in machine learning, and organizing an annual workshop.
WiMLDS non-profit organization, supporting and promoting women and gender minorities who are practicing, studying or are interested in the fields of machine learning and data science.
19 Inspiring Women in AI, Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning
20 women doing fascinating work in AI, machine learning and data science, Silicon RepublicFor the 2019 international women's day, we profile a new set of 19 inspiring women who lead the field in AI, Big Data, Data Science, and Machine Learning fields.
Using AI to Find Essential Battery Materials
“Artificial intelligence could help improve the way battery metals are mined, or replace them altogether. KoBold Metals is developing an AI agent to find the most desirable ore deposits in the least problematic locations. IBM Research, meanwhile, is harnessing AI techniques to identify alternative materials that already exist and also develop new chemistries.”
NVIDIA announce all-star lineup for their 2021 GTC event
Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun have all received the Turing Award, generally acknowledged as the highest honours in computer science, ‘The Nobel Prize of Computing’.
NVIDIA’s annual event will commence on April 12th and close on the 16th.
"GTC brings together a massive ecosystem of developers, researchers and corporate leaders who are using AI and accelerated computing to change the world
"We have our strongest program ever this year, highlighted by Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun, among 1,300 sessions focused on every aspect of computing and networking. There is no better place to see the future and how you can help shape it."
Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO
Resources
Free event
https://event.technologyreview.com/autonomous-cybersecurity/home?i=jQCeucW4lmRW7p7kOzwHQK4e4I0bx8GQ
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https://www.kdnuggets.com/2021/03/8-women-ai-striving-humanize-world.html
https://www.kdnuggets.com/2021/03/women-ai-data-science-machine-learning.html
https://www.kdnuggets.com/2021/03/9-skills-become-data-engineer.html
https://www.zdnet.com/article/nvidias-gtc-will-feature-deep-learning-cabal-of-lecun-hinton-bengio/
https://theinsightfulcoder.com/5-python-projects-that-can-be-built-under-5-minutes
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https://event.technologyreview.com/autonomous-cybersecurity/home?i=jQCeucW4lmRW7p7kOzwHQK4e4I0bx8GQ