by Keerthana | Mar 5, 2021 | Radical Reads
Aaron Brindle, Partner . AI pioneer, Vector Institute Chief Scientific Advisor and Turing Award winner Geoffrey Hinton published a paper last week on how recent advances in deep learning might be combined to build an AI system that better reflects how human...
by Keerthana | Mar 1, 2021 | Radical Reads
Sanjana Basu, Investor . In the midst of COVID-19, healthcare AI funding reached a record high of ~$6.6B in 2020. Investments fell into two primary categories: AI solutions that treat and diagnose diseases, and those that drive efficiencies in healthcare...
by Keerthana | Feb 22, 2021 | Radical Reads
Leah Morris, Associate . This week wintry weather battered the southern US and parts of Europe. Researchers suggest this could be a counterintuitive effect of the climate crisis where the warming of the Arctic causes the jet stream to shift. “The energy...
by Keerthana | Feb 16, 2021 | Radical Reads
Daniel Mulet, Investor . Federated Learning (FL) is a powerful machine learning technique that has been quietly gaining adoption in settings where preserving privacy is a top priority. The core concept behind FL is that an AI model can be trained using data...
by Keerthana | Feb 8, 2021 | Radical Reads
Adithya Sreekumar, Investor . The democratization of finance is more than a meme. The 2008 financial crisis destabilized the banking and financial services industry, creating a new wave of fintech vendors incentivized to democratize finance. Empowered consumers...