Source – washingtonpost.com Artificial intelligence is the future. Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple are all making big bets on AI. (Amazon owner Jeff Bezos also owns The Washington Post.) Congress has held hearings and even formed a bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Caucus. From health care to transportation to national security, AI has the potential to improve lives. But it comes with fears about economic disruption and Read More
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Source – entrepreneur.com The term “machine learning” might not mean much to you. You might imagine a computer playing chess, calculating the multitude of moves and the possible countermoves. But, when you hear the term “artificial intelligence” or “AI,” however, it’s more likely you have visions of Skynet and the rise of our inevitable robot overlords. Read More
Source – phys.org It’s Saturday night and you’ve just finished watching the last episode of a Swedish crime drama that you somehow stumbled upon, although you can’t quite remember how. It’s late and probably time for bed, but—without prompting—your Netflix screen fills with promotional shots for more shows. There’s one about a female detective in Denmark Read More
Source – forbes.com Google services such as its image search and translation tools use sophisticated machine learning which allow computers to see, listen and speak in much the same way as human do. Machine learning is the term for the current cutting-edge applications in artificial intelligence. Basically, the idea is that by teaching machines to “learn” Read More
Source – moneycontrol.com Google has made its machine learning education program available to everyone— from researchers to developers and companies, to students. The Learn with Google AI portal which was earlier exclusive to Google employees, called Googlers, is now available to everyone else with an interest in the field. Anyone, from novice to an expert, can learn the Read More
Source – forbes.com Over the last few years, artificial intelligence has helped push the envelope in terms of technological advancements in the financial industry. For example, consumers can use facial recognition to log in to financial apps and use voice commands to check their balances. This year, artificial intelligence is set to disrupt the industry even Read More
Source – electronicdesign.com Almost two years ago, Google disclosed that it had built a slab of custom silicon called the tensor processing unit to improve its StreetView software’s reading of street signs, the accuracy of its search engine algorithm, and the machine learning methods that it uses in dozens of other internet services. But the company never Read More
Source – livemint.com For companies that are trying to figure how to take advantage of newer technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), but do not have adequate technical know-how or enough financial muscle to do so, Google Inc. believes its newly-launched automated tool, Cloud AutoML, might just provide an answer. Machine Learning (ML) is a subset of Read More
Source – cio.com.au There’s a significant level of hype around machine learning – generated by tech vendors, the media, and even CIOs themselves. But putting the hoopla aside, machine learning technologies actually have real substance and as a CIO, it’s worthwhile getting on top of the trends in this area. So what’s all the fuss about? Read More
Source – androidauthority.com After helping to define the modern internet era with Search and Android, Google is already at the forefront of the next wave in computing research and development: AI. Many consider artificial intelligence and neural network computers to be the next step in computing, enabling new use cases and faster computation to solve currently Read More
Source – theguardian.com Once upon a time, a very long time ago – 2009 in fact – there was a brief but interesting controversy about the carbon footprint of a Google search. It was kicked off by a newspaper story reporting a “calculation” of mysterious origin that suggested a single Google search generated 7 grams of CO2, which is about Read More
Source – fortune.com When artificial intelligence works smoothly, computers are able to spot cats in photographs at lightning-fast speeds. When it goes wrong, they can confuse images of turtles with rifles. Researchers from MIT’s computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory have discovered how to trick Google’s (GOOG, +0.66%) software that automatically recognizes objects in images. They created an Read More
Source – livemint.com British science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote in 1962 that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” In 2017, Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be that form of “advanced technology” that is seemingly putting magic into shade. But what is this magical form of technology? Simply put, AI is based Read More
Source – sciencemag.org Can computers be creative? That’s a question bordering on the philosophical, but artificial intelligence (AI) can certainly make music and artwork that people find pleasing. Last year, Google launched Magenta, a research project aimed at pushing the limits of what AI can do in the arts. Science spoke with Douglas Eck, the team’s lead in San Francisco, Read More
Source – forbes.com Deep learning is the area of artificial intelligence where the real magic is happening right now. Traditionally computers, while being very fast, have not been very smart – they have no ability to learn from their mistakes and have to be given precise instructions in order to carry out any task. Deep learning involves building Read More
Source – livemint.com Google has made several changes in the Play Store recently so it can improve the overall experience of browsing through the store for an app or game while keeping users safe from bad apps at the same time. Like many other Google apps, artificial intelligence (AI) is at the heart of it. We Read More
Source:- techradar.com Google has become very interested in artificial intelligence in recent years, and particularly its applications for regular people. For example, here’s a load of experiments that it’s running involving machine learning. Now, however, researchers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center have shown how artificial intelligence techniques can also deliver better search engine results. Read More
Source – economictimes.indiatimes.com SAN FRANCISCO: Machine learning and AI-based startups can Google for help as the search giant launches its Google Developers Launchpad Studio Accelerator Programme for startups to build and scale their products across the globe. The accelerator programme is targeting startups in all global markets, including India, as well as homegrown players in the Read More
Source – techrepublic.com The engineer in charge of keeping Google available 24/7 says the enormous datacenters that underpin online services worldwide will soon be run with the help of AI. Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering, is basing this prediction on the profound savings identified by a machine-learning system charged with helping run a Google Read More
Source:- thedrum.com In recent months you’d be forgiven for thinking that media buying as a discipline is going to hell in a handcart, with Google itself being the latest to suffer the slings and arrows of programmatic media buying’s outrageous fortune. But instead of viewing recent events as some kind of advertising apocalypse, we should Read More
Source:- businessinsider.com A recent artificial intelligence (AI) experiment Google conducted in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) showed that it’s possible to get far better image recognition results simply by feeding algorithms a lot more data, according to a Wired report. Google released a new paper last week outlining the principles behind the experiment. Machine Read More
Source – infoq.com Google uses a clustering algorithm to automatically analyze Android apps and detect which ones can be considered intrusive, write Google security engineers Martin Pelikan, Giles Hogben, and Ulfar Erlingsson. Intrusive apps are those that require the user to grant a larger set of capabilities than what would be strictly required for their proper functioning. For Read More
Source – home.bt.com Google’s artificial intelligence company has created a program capable of teaching itself how to walk and jump without prior input. DeepMind’s website says it is on a “scientific mission” to push boundaries in AI. Their latest creation was capable of making an avatar overcome a series of obstacles simply by giving them an Read More
Source – xda-developers.com All too often, we search for an app and end up finding what looks to be the best fit for our needs. But that is until one sees the long list of permissions the application thinks it needs to function. Some developers tend to call for permissions for functionality that their app clearly Read More
Source – investopedia.com Microsoft Corp. is pushing further into the artificial intelligence market, announcing a new lab dubbed Microsoft Research AI, which is aimed at developing more general-purpose learning systems. The lab, which will be located at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters will house more than 100 scientists from all areas of AI: learning, natural language, perception and reasoning. The Read More
Source – androidcentral.com Google has released some details from the Security and Privacy team about how Google Play is being curated, and machine learning plays a big part. Google has two basic goals for applications in the Play Store: safety and exposure. The Security and Privacy team wants to weed out apps with malware, but they’re also concerned about Read More