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Jeeves Grows Up: How an AI Chatbot Became Part of Unravel Data

Jeeves is the stereotypical English butler – and an AI chatbot that answers pertinent and important questions about Spark jobs in production. Shivnath Babu, CTO and co-founder of Unravel Data, spoke yesterday at Data + AI Summit, formerly known as Spark Summit, about the evolution of Jeeves, and how the technology has become a key supporting pillar within Unravel Data’s software.

The Ethics of AI Comes Down to Conscious Decisions

This blog post was written by Pedro Pereira as a guest author for Cloudera. Right now, someone somewhere is writing the next fake news story or editing a deepfake video. An authoritarian regime is manipulating an artificial intelligence (AI) system to spy on technology users. No matter how good the intentions behind the development of a technology, someone is bound to corrupt and manipulate it. Big data and AI amplify the problem. “If you have good intentions, you can make it very good.

Real-time Change Data Capture for data replication into BigQuery

Businesses hoping to make timely, data-driven decisions know that the value of their data may degrade over time and can be perishable. This has created a growing demand to analyze and build insights from data the moment it becomes available, in real-time.

3x Dataflow Throughput with Auto Sharding for BigQuery

Many of you rely on Dataflow to build and operate mission critical streaming analytics pipelines. A key goal for us, the Dataflow team, is to make the technology work for users rather than the other way around. Autotuning, as a fundamental value proposition Dataflow offers, is a key part of making that goal a reality - it helps you focus on your use cases by eliminating the cost and burden of having to constantly tune and re-tune your applications as circumstances change.