The nonprofit group The Partnership on AI, is calling for changes to immigration laws and visa rules so it’s easier for AI experts to travel around the world. If you’re not aware of the Partnership on AI, they were one of the organizations who last week joined up with Facebook andContinue Reading
On Tuesday, Google announced the beginning of a 10-year partnership with Mayo Clinic leveraging AI tools to help in medical research. Google will open a new office in Rochester, Minnesota, near Mayo Clinic’s headquarters. Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Kurian, wrote in a blog post that the company will help rebuild Mayo Clinic’s digitalContinue Reading
IBM’s Institute for Business Value says over the next three years, as many as 120 million workers from the world’s 12 largest economies may need to be retrained due to advances in AI and other intelligent automation. According to IBM, less than half of CEOs surveyed said they had the resources needed to close theContinue Reading
Facebook just announced a partnership with Microsoft and seven universities to launch a Deep Fake Detection Challenge. The contest offers a $10 million prize to spur the development of methods to identify, AI altured videos known as deepfakes. Artificial intelligence being used to superimpose a person’s face and voice on anotherContinue Reading
Google launched Neural Structured Learning, an open source framework that uses Neural Graph Learning method to train neural networks with graphs and structured data. Most of the file AI models process are unstructured data like videos and images. But other kinds of files can be used for machine learning projects. Tables of structured informationContinue Reading
In a blog post, YouTube says it has removed over 100,000 videos and more than 17,000 channels from April to June for violating its new hate speech rules. This is five times more than YouTube removed in the previous three months. The company also took down over 500 million commentsContinue Reading
Researchers from Facebook and MIT are collaborating on an artificial intelligence assistant for the online video game “Minecraft”. The goal is to create an AI system that can perform a wide variety of tasks, rather than being “superhuman” at a narrow set of activities. Basically, what’s known as artificial generalContinue Reading
Today Apple said it will overhaul its practice of listening in to Siri conversations, so as to provide users with “greater privacy”. This change comes after a July 2019 report by The Guardian revealing that contractors regularly heard sensitive information while listening to Siri conversations. Until recently the computing giantContinue Reading
The U.S. DoJ confirmed a criminal indictment against Anthony Levandowski, a former Google engineer. At a press conference in San Jose the DoJ announced a total of 33 charges for theft and attempted theft of trade secrets. Alleging Levandowski took confidential information from Google’s self-driving car project to Uber. Levandowski worked at Google’s self-drivingContinue Reading
According to reporting by the Guardian the BBC is planning to introduce its own voice assistant to compete with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. They key competitive advantage of the BBC voice assistant; the voice will be trained to understand British accents. On British comedy TV it’s become common to depictContinue Reading