The Basque Sherpa.ai launches a new AI platform applied to data privacy

Sherpa.ai announced on Wednesday the addition of a new platform to its portfolio that will allow it to use the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms without the need to share private data . This platform, which is ' Open Source ', will be added to the company's suite of AI services for developers, which also includes its advances in conversational algorithms and recommendations. During the second edition of Sherpa.ai Keynote, which on this occasion was held online, Xabi Uribe-Etxebarria , founder and CEO of the Basque company, explained that "data privacy is being a workhorse for technology companies "and warns that this situation will be more evident in the post-covid era," when many think that they will have to choose between data security and privacy. " "At Sherpa we are very committed to privacy. For Sherpa, and for me personally, privacy is a fundamental ethical value. Security without sacrificing data privacy is something that can be achieved thanks to AI, and today we present the advance that will allow not having to choose, "he said.How to keep data privacy? AI needs a lot of data to learn and that data often contains private information. To prevent this data from being exposed, Sherpa trains the models locally and the enhancements are combined in the cloud without exchanging sensitive data. These are added to a global model that is refined with all these updates. This is known as Federated Learning . The company argues that another advantage of this platform is that "it is capable of working with 100% of the algorithms used in the industry , while the current ones are only capable of using 20% ​​of the algorithms." "This is a giant leap to democratize data privacy without renouncing the power of AI," Uribe-Etxebarria added. tech tech tech tech tech tech tech tech tech tech