Favorite Financial institutions that extend credit face the dual tasks of evaluating the credit risk associated with each loan application and determining a threshold that defines the level of risk they are willing to take on. The evaluation of credit risk is a common application of machine learning (ML) classification
Favorite With less than 40 days to re:Invent 2019, the excitement is building up and we are looking forward to seeing you all soon! Continuing our journey on artificial intelligence and machine learning, we are bringing a lot of technical content this year, with over 200 breakout sessions, deep-dive chalk
Favorite Amazon Polly turns text into lifelike speech. In July 2019, AWS launched eight US English and three UK English voices in Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) technology, which delivers ground-breaking improvements in speech quality through a new machine learning approach. Polly is now adding the first non-English NTTS voices, in US
Favorite It has been fifteen years since I wrote my first solo KM book, “Knowledge Management for Teams and Projects“. I reproduce below the final chapter, that attempts to summarize the main conclusions for three groups of key Knowledge Management actors; the project managers and knowledge managers, the Community coordinators
Favorite Today AWS is pleased to announce that it is working with Facebook, Microsoft, and the Partnership on AI on the first Deepfakes Detection Challenge. The competition, to which we are contributing up to $1 million in AWS credits to researchers and academics over the next two years, is designed
Favorite From our global survey, the reasons why 18 organisations gave up on KM, and how to stop this happening to you. One of the questions in our 2014 and 2017 Global Survey of Knowledge Management asked about the current status of KM in the respondents’ organisations, and for those
Favorite A large proportion of your organisational knowledge is never written down, and is often too complex or too contextual to transfer in written form anyway. If you need to find this knowledge, you need find the person. But how? This picture by unknown artist is licensed under CC BY_SA
Favorite Once KM is in place, to keep it in place you need a Knowledge Management Policy. This picture by unknown author is licensed under CC BY-SA Once you get past the early years of implementing Knowledge Management, when you are doing the testing, training and piloting, you need to be
Favorite The AWS DeepRacer League is the world’s first autonomous racing league, open to anyone. Announced at re:Invent 2018, it puts machine learning in the hands of every developer in a fun and exciting way. Throughout 2019, developers of all skill levels have competed in the League at 21 Amazon
Favorite There are many people who really don’t like the term Knowledge Management, and would much rather use some other terminology. But logically, these two words go together. There is a common view that the term “Knowledge Management” is an oxymoron; that “knowledge cannot be managed” and therefore the term