[ad_1] The officer will have the help of advisory and steering committees that will respectively draw on appointed public members and city officials to “drive the conversation” around algorithms. To put it another way, the algorithms officer should have a better understanding of how algorithms apply in the real world. It’s not yet clear who […]
Category: Ai
Google Assistant uses ‘Duplex on the Web’ to buy your movie tickets
[ad_1] If you own an Android phone, simply tell the digital helper that you want seats to a specific movie or search for showtimes using the Google app. Assistant will then take care of working through any website, which makes it handy for ones that aren’t optimized for mobile. It’s also able to automatically input […]
Sonos buys an AI startup to improve voice control for its speakers
[ad_1] Snips is a small, 50-person outfit, and that was reflected in the size and speed of the deal. Sonos bought the firm for $37.5 million, and it quietly closed on November 14th. The buyout is a recognition of an intensifying smart speaker market. Competitors have usually leaned more on voice assistants than audio quality […]
Solar energy ‘breakthrough’ could replace fossil fuels in some industries
[ad_1] The trick is the use of computer vision (aka a form of AI) to align a large array of mirrors as they reflect sunlight on a solitary target. That allows for the kind of accuracy that hasn’t been possible until now. There’s still a lot of work to go before the technology enters real-world […]
Sony AI unit launches to push R&D in gaming, cameras and food
[ad_1] The first three areas it’s focusing on are gaming, imaging & sensing, and gastronomy. As for that last one, a concept video Sony released last year proposed the idea of “robot gastronomomy” that relied on autonomous tech to cook food at home or even on a night out. Sony AI global head Hiroaki Kitano […]
Cortana app will stop working on phones in some countries
[ad_1] It’s not certain if the shutdown will affect the US or other countries. We’ve asked Microsoft for more details. The company isn’t shy about its reasoning. It’s moving Cortana into Outlook and other Microsoft 365 productivity apps, and shying away from its original attempt to position the AI helper as a direct rival to […]
Researchers develop an AI system with near-perfect seizure prediction
[ad_1] While it’s not a complete fix, the new AI system, developed by Hisham Daoud and Magdy Bayoumi of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, is a major leap forward from existing prediction methods. Currently, other methods analyze brain activity with an EEG (electroencephalogram) test and apply a predictive model afterwards. The new method does […]
John Carmack takes a step back at Oculus to work on human-like AI
[ad_1] Six years ago John Carmack left the company he founded, iD Software, to join Oculus VR as its Chief Technology Officer and push forward the future of virtual reality tech. Today the engineer behind many developments in 3D gaming has announced that a new “consulting CTO” role at Oculus “will only be consuming a […]
Intel unveils its first chips built for AI in the cloud
[ad_1] The chipmaker also unveiled a next-gen Movidius Vision Processing Unit whose updated computer vision architecture promises over 10 times the inference performance while reportedly managing efficiency six times better than rivals. Those claims have yet to pan out in the real world, but it’s safe to presume that anyone relying on Intel tech for […]
Weather Channel app uses Watson to tell you when flu season is coming
[ad_1] Whatever the conditions are like, you’ll get prevention advice as well as CDC flu reports. It’s easy to see Flu Insights fueling some paranoia. Do you really want to be afraid of going outside simply because Watson predicted trouble? Used carefully, though, this could help you dodge the flu entirely, or at least put […]