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Using Machine Learning To Improve Road Maintenance
There’s a new way to look out for potholes in the road and it doesn’t involve better eyeglasses or dispatching costly repair crews. Bus-mounted cameras and machine learning can do it for you, as the City of Memphis discovered. Staying on top of deteriorating roads when you can’t add more personnel is a never ending …
Using Document AI To Automate Procurement Workflows
Earlier this month we announced the Document AI platform, a unified console for document processing. Document AI is a platform and a family of solutions that help businesses to transform documents into structured data with machine learning. With custom parsers and Natural Language Processing, DocAI can automatically classify, extract, and enrich data within your documents …
Can AI Make Me Trendier?
As a software engineer and generally analytic type, I like to craft theories for everything. Theories on how to build software, how to stay productive, how to be creative…and even how to dress well. For help with that last one, I decided to hire a personal stylist. As it turned out, I was not my …
What’s New In BigQuery ML: Non-linear Model Types And Model Export
We launched BigQuery ML, an integrated part of Google Cloud’s BigQuery data warehouse, in 2018 as a SQL interface for training and using linear models. Many customers with a large amount of data in BigQuery started using BigQuery ML to remove the need for data ETL, since it brought ML directly to their stored data. Due …
Beyond COVID-19, Retail Looks To Transform With AI/ML
The global retail industry, which has grappled with waves of change over the past decade, is facing one of its most dynamic and unpredictable periods to date. When I speak with retail executives, some are thriving, some are surviving, and some are struggling. What I have taken from these conversations is that COVID-19 has seriously …
How AI, And Specifically BERT, Helps The Patent Industry
In recent years the patent industry has begun to use machine-learning (ML) algorithms to add efficiency and insights to business practices. Any company, patent office, or academic institution that works with patents—generating them through innovation, processing applications about them, or developing sophisticated ways to analyze them—will benefit from doing patent analytics and machine learning in …
How ZSL Uses ML To Classify Gunshots To Protect Wildlife
International conservation charity, ZSL (Zoological Society of London) has made another leap forward in its battle to protect animals using AI and machine learning (ML) from Google Cloud. We’ve been privileged to partner with ZSL for three years, co-developing custom ML models to identify and better track endangered species around the world. The next dataset in ZSL’s arsenal to …
Introducing Document AI platform, A Unified Console For Document Processing
We believe that any company that has to manually extract data from complex documents at scale can greatly benefit from Google Cloud AI. Transforming documents into structured data increases the speed of decision making for companies, unlocking measurable business value and helping develop better experiences for customers. Historically, doing this at scale hasn’t been efficient. …
USC Accelerates Patient Enrollment In Clinical Trials With ML
As research and life science organizations around the world continue to devote tremendous energy and funds to drug development, more efficient processes and cost-effective technology can expedite clinical trials and deliver therapies to patients faster. The University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine, along with the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute (SC CTSI), embarked …
Halodoc Uses AI To Improve How Doctors Receive Feedback
Due to Indonesia’s vast size and population, timely and reliable access to healthcare can sometimes be a challenge. Halodoc aims to change that with a mobile first-telemedicine platform that connects Indonesians to doctors and helps them arrange appointments, medicine deliveries and tests. What’s distinctive about the Halodoc platform is that it draws on human-centered artificial intelligence: a …