Source: miragenews.com Monash University and Eastern Health’s Turning Point are using a $1.2 million (AUD) grant from Google to address major mental health challenges in society. A joint project between Monash University and Eastern Health’s Turning Point, are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to streamline the coding of national suicide-related ambulance data to help paramedics respond Read More
Category: Google AI
Source: thenextweb.com How many times have you seen a video being badly cropped when you watch it on a mobile device? It’s quite frustrating and annoying, and most of the time, there’s not much you can do about it. To address this problem, Google’s AI team has developed an open-source solution, Autoflip, that reframes the Read More
Source: searchcustomerexperience.techtarget.com Meena, Google’s latest AI chatbot built on neural networks, is a technological leap forward toward human conversation, analysts said. While Meena has potential to improve web and call center customer service by taking on more complicated tasks than current chatbots, the rip-and-replace may be painful because the bot potentially will require more — Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Optical sensors such as cameras and lidar are a fundamental part of modern robotics platforms, but they suffer from a common flaw: transparent objects like glass containers tend to confuse them. That’s because most of the algorithms analyzing data from those sensors assume all surfaces are Lambertian, or that they reflect light evenly Read More
Source: helpnetsecurity.com ZeroFOX, the leading provider of public attack surface protection, announced it has extended its artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform to now include advanced protection capabilities to solve intractable challenges in the cloud email security market and complement existing email security. The ZeroFOX Advanced Email Protection suite includes capabilities that address Business Email Compromise Read More
Source: news18.com With technology prevailing in nearly every single area of life, we often end up making conversations with artificially intelligent algorithms through our day. Think of when you asked Siri to identify a song for you, or Alexa to translate a particularly difficult Hindi word, or even the Google Assistant to read out a Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Determining whether an AI system is maintaining fairness in its predictions requires an understanding of models’ short- and long-term effects, which might be informed by disparities in error metrics on a number of static data sets. In some cases, it’s necessary to consider the context in which the AI system operates in addition Read More
Source: freemalaysiatoday.com MOUNTAIN VIEW: Google is reportedly trialing a new subscription plan for Photos that would require Google’s AI to select 10 images from your collection to print and send to you via postal mail. Late last week, 9to5Google indicated that Google has begun trialing a new monthly service to which Photos users can subscribe Read More
Source: analyticsindiamag.com It may be that time of the year when new year resolutions start to fizzle, but Google seems to be just getting started. The tech giant has been building tools and services to bring in the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) to its users. The company has begun upping its arsenal of AI-powered Read More
Source: cnbc.com Artificial intelligence and machine learning are crucial to Google and its parent company Alphabet. Recently promoted Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has been talking about an “AI-first world” since 2016, and the company uses the technology across many of its businesses, from search advertising to self-driving cars. But regulators are expressing concern about the growing Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Roughly a year ago, Google open-sourced MediaPipe, a framework for building cross-platform AI pipelines consisting of fast inference and media processing (like video decoding). Basically, it’s a quick and dirty way to perform object detection, face detection, hand tracking, multi-hand tracking, hair segmentation, and other such tasks in a modular fashion, with popular machine Read More
Source: nextplatform.com Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, generated a lot of buzz recently with an op-ed he wrote for the The Financial Times calling for greater regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, adding a high-profile voice into a debate that has been simmering as innovation around AI, machine learning and deep learning have advanced rapidly. In the column and in Read More
Source: cbronline.com Late last year Google open-sourced technology that allows researchers to view petabyte-scale 3D models of brains in a web browser, with the Neuroglancer project used to build 3D models of a brain’s neural pathways in interactive visualisations. Now Google AI and a research team from Janelia Research Campus in Virginia have released a highly detailed mapping Read More
Source: finance-commerce.com Google’s chief executive officer has left no doubt about how important he thinks artificial intelligence will be to humanity. “AI is one of the most profound things we’re working on as humanity. It’s more profound than fire or electricity,” Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai said in an interview at the World Economic Forum Read More
Source: biometricupdate.com The EU’s proposed temporary moratorium on biometric facial recognition technology use is being supported by Alphabet and Google CEO Sunder Pichai, who spoke at an event organized by the think tank Bruegel in Brussels, Reuters reports. Nefarious uses of facial recognition and the spread of deepfakes are among the concerns motivating a call for regulation Read More
Source: businesslive.co.za Brussels — Alphabet’s CEO has urged the US and EU to co-ordinate regulatory approaches on artificial intelligence (AI), calling their alignment “critical”. In a rare public speech in Brussels on Monday at an event hosted by European economic think-tank Bruegel, Sundar Pichai, who is also CEO of Google, said “there is no question Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net Regardless of whether it’s language, music, speech, or video, sequential data isn’t simple for AI and machine learning models to understand, especially when it relies upon the extensive surrounding context. For example, if an individual or an item vanishes from view in a video just to return a lot later, numerous algorithms will overlook what Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Whether it’s language, music, speech, or video, sequential data isn’t easy for AI and machine learning models to comprehend — particularly when it depends on extensive surrounding context. For instance, if a person or an object disappears from view in a video only to reappear much later, many algorithms will forget how it Read More
Source:theburnin.com Most people have complained at least once about the quality of their local weather forecast. Unfortunately, predicting future weather is extremely difficult. The fact that meteorologists can do it as accurately as they do is incredible. However, Google is working on a way to make predicting weather forecasts even better. It shared new research this week Read More
Source: newatlas.com One of the most difficult challenges for artificial intelligence systems is predicting the weather – with an almost infinite number of variables to assess and model. But Google says its AI is making progress in the accuracy of its “nowcasts.” Nowcasting is forecasting the weather in the very short term, over the next one Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Google hopes to tap AI and machine learning to make speedy local weather predictions. In a paper and accompanying blog post, the tech giant detailed an AI system that uses satellite images to produce “nearly instantaneous” and high-resolution forecasts — on average, with a roughly one kilometer resolution and a latency of only Read More
Source: cnbc.com For a long time, American space exploration was a closed circle: There was just one customer, the U.S. government (NASA) and a handful of giant defense contractors. Then in 2008 Elon Musk’s SpaceX put the first privately-financed rocket into orbit, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin promised private flights, and space was suddenly a lively Read More
Source: qz.com Google is working on an AI tool for mammograms that researchers hope will one day be more accurate than human radiologists. The tech giant paid for a study, the results of which were published last week (Jan.1) in Nature. Its findings, at first glance, look promising. But experts caution that AI has a Read More
Source: financialexpress.com While the study is not a pioneering work—NYU research had already established similar results—what makes Google’s work unique is the fact that it was conducted across two countries with a larger sample. More important, as against artificial lab comparison, this one compares performance with real-world diagnoses. When Google, in 2016, announced that its DeepMind Read More
Source: infoq.com Google AI has open-sourced A Lite Bert (ALBERT), a deep-learning natural language processing (NLP) model, which uses 89% fewer parameters than the state-of-the-art BERT model, with little loss of accuracy. The model can also be scaled-up to achieve new state-of-the-art performance on NLP benchmarks. The research team described the model in a paper Read More
Source: fool.com Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) and Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google both develop artificial intelligence technologies like machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks. Both companies use those AI technologies to crunch data from their similar ecosystems, which include market-leading search engines, cloud services, streaming media platforms, voice assistants, and smart speakers. Yet Baidu’s ecosystem is mostly Read More
Source: thehindu.com In a ray of hope for those who have to go for breast cancer screening and even for healthy women who get false alarms during digital mammography, an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Google model has left radiologists behind in spotting breast cancer by just scanning the X-ray results. Reading mammograms is a difficult task, even for Read More
Source: ntd.com CHICAGO—A Google artificial intelligence system proved as good as expert radiologists at detecting which women had breast cancer based on screening mammograms and showed promise at reducing errors, researchers in the United States and Britain reported. The study, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, is the latest to show that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential Read More
Source: karmaimpact.com Chinese internet giant Baidu is now the world’s leader in a critical AI segment for understanding human language, dethroning Microsoft and Google. Baidu, China’s biggest search engine, got the “highest ever score” in a test aimed at measuring AI language processing, MIT Technology Review reported, underscoring accelerating competition for the most efficient and Read More
Source: unite.ai Finland has released a crash course in artificial intelligence (AI) to all European Union citizens. The release came as a sort of Christmas gift, and the course will be free-of-charge. The six-week program will be available for anyone to take, and the course was translated into every EU language. The course is not restricted Read More