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MIT has just announced a $1 billion plan to create a new college for AI

One of the birthplaces of artificial intelligence, MIT, has announced a bold plan to reshape its academic program around the technology. With $1 billion in funding, MIT will create a new college that combines AI, machine learning, and data science with other academic disciplines. It is the largest financial investment in AI by any US academic institution to date.… Read more

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How Audioburst is using AI to index audio broadcasts and make them easy to find

While Google indexes web pages to make it easier for people to find content from across the more than one billion websites that exist online, a fledgling startup is making moves to do something similar in the audio realm. Founded in 2015, Audioburst touts itself as a “curation and search site for radio,” delivering the smarts to render talk radio in real time, index it, and make it easily accessible through search engines.… Read more

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Massachusetts General Hospital piloting blockchain projects with Korean startup

In working with MediBloc, MGH is said to be interested in the ledger technology’s suitability for storage and exchange of patient data, supplementing its EHR. Harvard Medical School’s Lab of Medical Imaging and Computation, part of Massachusetts General Hospital, has embarked on an exploratory blockchain pilot with MediBloc, a Korean startup, cryptocurrency website Coindesk reports.… Read more

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Two college students started a transcription service. After journalists heard about it, it crashed

July 31, 2017 Ren LaFormeDigital ToolsInterviewingTry This! — Tools For JournalismCategory:Tech & Tools Two college students were sitting on the couch in the living room of their shared Dublin apartment in May when their servers crashed. About a week earlier, the duo had launched a free tool that automatically transcribes audio files.… Read more

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3 Reasons Why You Need To Transcribe Your Podcasts

As a podcaster, you don’t only want to reach more and more people, you want to build an audience that will truly engage with your content. Search Engine Optimization is key to attract more traffic, nonetheless audio and video files are not retrievable by search engines. The solution is to transcribe podcasts from voice to text, which will be retrievable by Search Engines.… Read more