Source: siliconangle.com Google LLC today debuted some important updates to its Dialogflow, the main technology that powers its Contact Center AI service for automating interactions with customers in call centers. Dialogflow is a conversational artificial intelligence engine used to create virtual agents that can understand and respond to all manner of queries from callers, using both voice and Read More
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Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com Chennai-based technology institute IIT-Madras will collaborate in a project backed by search giant Google to develop AI-driven systems to predict engagement and churn in a phone-based information system meant for expectant mothers. IIT Madras has tied up with Google for its “AI for Social Good” initiative and will handle two projects with accredited Read More
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
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: 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: theverge.com AI allows machines to carry out all sorts of tasks that used to be the domain of humans alone. Need to run quality control on a factory production line? Set up an AI-powered camera to spot defects. How about interpreting medical data? Machine learning can identify potential tumors from scans and flag them 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: 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: 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
Source: skystatement.com Summarizing text is a task at which machine learning algorithms are improving, as evidenced by a recent paper published by Microsoft. That’s good news — automatic summarization systems promise to cut down on the amount of message-reading enterprise workers do, which one survey estimates amounts to 2.6 hours each day. Not to be Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Google says it’s implementing AI and machine learning techniques to improve story suggestions in Google Search. In a blog post this morning, the tech giant announced that users in the U.S. in English (with more languages and locations to come in the next few months) who search for a news topic will now see an Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Medical imaging is among the most popular application of AI and machine learning, and with good reason. Computer vision algorithms are naturally adept at spotting anomalies experts sometimes miss, in the process reducing wait times and lightening clinical workloads. Perhaps that’s why although the percentage of health care organizations that have adopted AI Read More
Source: techstartups.com Rad AI, an artificial intelligence startup that uses machine learning to transform the practice of radiology, today announced its formal launch and a $4 million seed round led by Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused venture fund. Other backers included UP2398, Precursor Ventures, GMO Venture Partners, Array Ventures, Hike Ventures, Fifty Years VC and various angels. Rad Read More
Source: beebom.com Google’s AI research team has developed a new machine learning system that they call “Form2Fit” in collaboration with researchers from Stanford University and Columbia University. The project makes use of deep neural networks to teach a robot arm to recognize and assemble objects. “If robots could learn “how things fit together,” then perhaps they Read More
Source: forbes.com Google announced updates to its Cloud AI Platform that enhance training and prediction capabilities of machine learning and deep learning models. Google Cloud AI Platform is an end-to-end machine learning platform as a service (ML PaaS) targeting data scientists, ML developers, and AI engineers. The Cloud AI Platform has services to tackle the lifecycle of Read More
Source: venturebeat.com It’s often assumed that as the complexity of an AI system increases, it becomes invariably less interpretable. But researchers have begun to challenge that notion with libraries like Facebook’s Captum, which explains decisions made by neural networks with the deep learning framework PyTorch, as well as IBM’s AI Explainability 360 toolkit and Microsoft’s InterpretML. In a bid Read More
Source: 9to5google.com From writing and collaborating in Docs to using Search for research and Calendar to track due dates, Google products are extensively used by today’s students. With Socratic by Google, the company is trying to play a more active role in helping older students study. Google wants to tackle how “students often get ‘stuck’ while studying” outside the Read More
Source: techcrunch.com As part of new efforts toward accessibility, Google announced Project Euphoniaat I/O in May: An attempt to make speech recognition capable of understanding people with non-standard speaking voices or impediments. The company has just published a post and its paper explaining some of the AI work enabling the new capability. The problem is simple to observe: The Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Google’s latest research dives deep into the brains of fruit flies — quite literally. In collaboration with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus and Cambridge University, the tech giant today published the results of a study (“Automated Reconstruction of a Serial-Section EM Drosophila Brain with Flood-Filling Networks and Local Realignment“) Read More
Source: techcrunch.com A German privacy watchdog has ordered Google to cease manual reviews of audio snippets generated by its voice AI. This follows a leak last month of scores of audio snippets from the Google Assistant service. A contractor working as a Dutch language reviewer handed more than 1,000 recordings to the Belgian news site VRT which was then able to Read More
Source: thestreet.com his might seem a particularly bad time to be investing in big tech. President Trump said Tuesday morning that his administration would look into accusations that Google has been secretly working with the Chinese military. The charge came from Peter Thiel, a PayPal (PYPL – Get Report) co-founder and strong supporter of the president. On the other hand, Bloomberg reported Tuesday Read More
Source:- techau.com.au Whales are some of the most amazing creatures on the planet and some species are endangered. Google are helping fight the good fight and lending some of their AI smarts to help scientists track and study the remaining whales. Back in the 1960s, scientists first discovered that humpback whales actually sing songs, which evolve over Read More
Source- sdtimes.com AI is changing the world, whether we’re ready for it or not. We are already seeing examples of AI algorithms being applied to reduce doctors’ workloads by intelligently triaging patients, connect journalists with global audiences because of accurate language translations, and reduce customer service wait time, according to Google. But even as we begin to Read More
Source – techcrunch.com With Google’s I/O developer conference kicking off later today, Google is setting the scene for what it expects to be one of the big themes of the event: artificial intelligence. Today, the company rebranded the whole of its Google Research division as Google AI, with the old Google Research site now directing to a newly expanded Google AI site. Read More