Kevin McCarthy

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Ian Guider: Supermarkets must know every little bit of transparency helps
businesspost.ie - Ian Guider
Neale Richmond did a very good job of talking tough to the supermarket bosses last week. The junior minister in the Department of Enterprise demanded …
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/4/259398-explainable-ai/fulltext
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Mar 20, 2022
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E-Commerce Needs Real Store Locations Now More Than Ever
The Wall Street Journal. - Suzanne Kapner
Store openings will exceed closings for the first time since 2017, reflecting changing views about their power to drive sales
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Zillow's home-buying debacle shows how hard it is to use AI to value real estate
CNN - Rachel Metz
In February, Zillow appeared so confident in its ability to use artificial intelligence to estimate the value of homes that it announced a new option: for certain homes, its so-called “Zestimate” would also represent an initial cash offer from the company to purchase the property.
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Nvidia makes massive language model available to enterprises
VentureBeat - Kyle Wiggers
At its fall 2021 GPU Technology Conference (GTC) today, Nvidia announced that it’s making Megatron 530B, one of the world’s largest language models, available to enterprises for training to serve new domains and languages. First detailed in early October, Megatron 530B — also known as …
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Los Angeles synchronizes all traffic lights
ZDNET - Tyler Falk
A new traffic system aims to reduce congestion by having 4,400 traffic lights work together. There are many frustrating aspects of driving. Getting a …