New Google Analytics add-on from Fastbase, a blockchain technology to disrupt shipping and logistics, and a new method ‘lexical acquisition through implicit confirmation’ for dialogue systems among today’s top stories in artificial intelligence and data science.
Now turn your web traffic into real business contacts!
Fastbase offers Google Analytics users comprehensive details about 200 million businesses and employees, with an option to download the results with rich insights
If you have an account in Google Analytics, you will now have full access to the contact and company database of Fastbase, which includes approximately 200 million businesses and the employees’ details.
So sign up for free and start searching the database, downloading all company information directly to Excel or CSV format or export it into a CRM database, such as Salesforce, Hubspot, and Zoho. Users automatically receive a “500 free leads” credit each month. The leads tool contains over 700 million email addresses and the key contact information of business owners, management, marketing, sales, finance, and IT personnel to help businesses search, discover, and engage with the right prospects at the right time.
Apart from the business database, Google analytics users will also have access to Fastbase’s Web Leads tool, which combines a website’s analytics data with real-time visitor information, allowing businesses to eliminate the guesswork around who is visiting their website.
Disrupting transport and logistics on the Blockchain
ShipChain using Blockchain to change the Shipping & Logistics market, public sale commences from 2018
ShipChain, a platform that intends to solve some of the biggest problems related to the logistics and transportation industry using blockchain technology, announced the start of its public sale of tokens effective Jan. 1, 2018. Under the sale, 29.17 million SHIP tokens will be sold, in a bid to raise about $10 million in ETH. The ICO price is $0.342 per token.
To introduce their project to a larger community, the ShipChain team is also organizing the bounty campaign where participants will be awarded with ShipChain Tokens. One ShipChain token will have a value of $0.34 during the ICO. There will be a total of 1,500,000 ShipChain Tokens allocated for the whole bounty campaign, which has a projected value of $510,000. If you want to be a part of the facebook campaign, you should have at least 300 friends to get qualified.
Shipchain is a fully integrated system that tracks delivery across the entire supply chain–from the moment it leaves the factory, field, or farm–to delivering the finished product to the customer’s doorstep. It uses an Ethereum smart contract that can be used by anyone to organize a shipping escrow on the distributed ledger.
With a shortage of more than 100,000 truck drivers in the US alone (and that number is expected to grow to over 250,000 by 2025), there are significantly more shipments than there are drivers to handle it. In the ShipChain ecosystem, drivers are rewarded with SHIP tokens for not breaking the speed limit, on-time delivery, log compliance, eco-friendly driving, and a high customer rating. This attracts new drivers to join the industry, while also helping carriers maintain margins and benefit the operators overall.
Using Deep Learning for ‘intelligent’ household products
LG distributes AI development tool to all divisions to speed up growth
In a bid to speed up the release of new products equipped with the latest technology, South Korean tech giant LG Electronics has distributed its Artificial Intelligence development platform “DeepThinQ 1.0” to all its business divisions. The DeepThinQ 1.0 platform could help researchers easily apply deep-learning technologies to electronics products. LG said the DeepThinQ platform supports voice and video recognition, as well as other top-notch AI technologies, which can potentially be applied to all products from home appliances to mobile devices in the future.
“Products based on the DeepThinQ platform will transmit various kinds of information to cloud servers, and will become smarter as time passes, as they can educate themselves,” the company said in a statement. “The DeepThinQ AI platform has been evolving based on the data gathered from AI-powered home appliances and other commercial robots.”
New technique allows AI to learn words in the flow of dialogue
Lexical acquisition through implicit confirmation: Researchers develop method by which the computer acquires the category of an unknown word during conversation with humans
A group of researchers at Japan’s Osaka University has developed a new method, lexical acquisition through implicit confirmation, for a computer to acquire the category of an unknown word over multiple dialogues by confirming whether or not its predictions are correct in the flow of conversation. The method aims for the system to predict the category of an unknown word from user input during conversation, to make implicit confirmation requests to the user, and to have the user respond to these requests. In this way, the system acquires knowledge about words during dialogues.
This new research could actually be a new approach towards the realization of dialogue systems in which a computer can become ‘smarter’ through conversation with humans. In future, it may lead to the development of dialogue systems with the ability to customize responses according to the user’s situation. The system uses machine learning to decide whether the prediction is correct or not taking into consideration the user response and its context.
Gone in 60 seconds: This AI blockchain recorded one of the fastest selling ICO ever
SingularityNET ICO sold out within 60 seconds of going public, secures $36 million
SingularityNET, a decentralized marketplace for artificial intelligence, took the cryptocurrency market by storm raising $36 million in 60 seconds in their initial coin offering for an AI marketplace blockchain. The team at SingularityNET reported that the crowdfunding was capped after receiving $361 million in investor interest on its whitelist from more than 20,000 previous investors. The significance of this ICO is that the AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) tokens will let anyone buy and sell AI/machine learning services from around the world via SingularityNET marketplace.
SingularityNET says it wants to open the AI market to the entire world be it the individuals, developers, small companies, or big organizations. Its overall vision is to combine AI and blockchain to create a decentralized marketplace for different types of AI, becoming the key open-source protocol for networking AI on the internet.