Source: venturebeat.com Google researchers developed an AI system that learns from the motions of animals to give robots greater agility, reveals a preprint paper and blog post published this week. The coauthors believe their approach could bolster the development of robots that can complete tasks in the real world, for instance transporting materials between multilevel warehouses and fulfillment centers. The teams’ Read More
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Source: theburnin.com The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently posted a blog highlighting how Google is using an artificial intelligence (AI) program to optimize the design of its AI chips. The Big Tech firm is using an innovative type of algorithm to improve its chip floor planning, the process of laying out components on a module. So Read More
Source: insights.dice.com Over the past few years, many companies have embraced artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine learning as the way of the future. That’s been good news for those technologists who’ve mastered the tools and concepts related to A.I. and machine learning; those with the right combination of experience and skills can easily earn six-figure salaries (with accompanying perks and Read More
Source: somagnews.com Artificial intelligence is used in many areas from games to smart phones today. That’s why developers are more focused on new AI designs. In fact, Google is now used to make artificial intelligence algorithms for artificial intelligence algorithms. The artificial intelligence silicon design handled by Google is defined as a subset of the Read More
Source: devclass.com To give more people a chance to play with natural language understanding, Google AI Hub has introduced Semantic Reactor, an experimental Google Sheets Add-on, to use in service bots and the like. The Semantic Reactor is promoted as a tool that “allows the user to sort lines of text in a sheet using a Read More
Source: hindustantimes.com Google will not be taking part in its annual April Fool’s prank this year owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. This was an expected move especially at a time when the entire world is grappling with the virus outbreak. Google hasn’t officially announced it is cancelling this year’s April Fool’s joke. Business Insider (via Read More
Source: financialexpress.com As IBM Watson has been able to achieve some scale, the company believes that by putting the NLP technology in commercial use it will be able to expand its capabilities much further. Ever wondered how Alexa can understand you or Google can decipher what you are saying and provide search results. Or how Siri can Read More
Source: infoq.com Google recently presented MediaPipe graphs for browsers, enabled by WebAssembly and accelerated by the XNNPack ML Inference Library. As previously demonstrated on mobile (Android, iOS), MediaPipe graphs allow developers to build and run machine-learning (ML) pipelines, to achieve complex tasks. MediaPipe graphs are visualized in a browser environment with MediaPipe Visualizer, a dedicated web application that allows developers Read More
Source: What’s worse than bumping into your co-worker with coffee-in-hand? Maybe bumping into a roaming robot, but Google and the University of California, Berkely researchers are using artificial intelligence to help avoid this embarrassing scenario. Per a Venture Beat article, “autonomous robot navigation has the potential to enable many critical robot applications, from service robots that Read More
Source: venturebeat.com In a study published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Google and University of California, Berkely researchers propose a framework that combines learning-based perception with model-based controls to enable wheeled robots to autonomously navigate around obstacles. They say it generalizes well to avoiding unseen buildings and humans in both simulation and real-world environments and that it Read More
Source: devclass.com Google AI researchers have looked into ways of making reinforcement learning scale better and improve computational efficiency. The result is called SEED RL and can now be explored via GitHub. SEED stands for scalable, efficient, deep reinforcement learning and describes a “modern RL agent that scales well, is flexible and efficiently utilises available Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Members of the Google Brain team and Google AI this week open-sourced EfficientDet, an AI tool that achieves state-of-the-art object detection while using less compute. Creators of the system say it also achieves faster performance when used with CPUs or GPUs than other popular objection detection models like YOLO or AmoebaNet. When tasked with semantic segmentation, another Read More
Source: zdnet.com Google has launched its new near real-time transcription feature as part of Google Translate, which is available for eight languages. Google showed off the AI-powered feature this January and will now roll it out on Android with support transcribed translations between any of a set of eight languages, including English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Read More
Source: digitalinformationworld.com More recently, Snapchat’s “Ground Transformation” became an instant hit in the AR world. It wasn’t the first time that tech companies were able to do something oh-so-brilliant with the possibilities of AR and definitely not the last time too. As artificial reality is advancing with time, there is more and more stress on Read More
Source: cryptonewsz.com “Your eyes are captivating!!!” A majority of people have been lucky enough to get this compliment from their loved ones, family members, friends, secret crushes, or anyone. Eyes are considered to be one of the most beautiful creations showered upon us by the Almighty. The eyes allow us to enjoy the scenic beauty Read More
Source: technowize.com Google announced the launch of TensorFlow Quantum, which is based on Machine learning and quantum computing coming together to build hybrid AI models. The TFQ was built in collaboration with the University of Waterloo, X, and Volkswagen. TensorFlow Quantum is an opensource library for rapid prototyping of quantum ML models. “TensorFlow Quantum will Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Google today announced the beta launch of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines, a service designed to deploy robust, repeatable AI pipelines along with monitoring, auditing, version tracking, and reproducibility in the cloud. Google’s pitching it as a way to deliver an “easy to install” secure execution environment for machine learning workflows, which could reduce the Read More
Source: republicworld.com Google Assistant has introduced a new Read It feature which makes long reads much easier. The feature will especially come handy for those who may have difficulty seeing or reading texts on a small screen and lean towards listening to podcasts. Google is beginning to roll out the Read It feature starting this month and the company Read More
Source: interestingengineering.com To provide sorely-needed, actionable information on COVID-19, Google’s AI unit — called Deepmind — has released predictions found with a deep learning system that sheds light on how the deadly coronavirus’ protein structure develops. Predicting the future of COVID-19 The growing threat of the novel coronavirus has pushed the tone of reports surrounding COVID-19 to a fever pitch, with misguided Read More
Source: cloudwars.co In a showdown between two of the world’s top technology companies, Google Cloud has snatched AWS client Major League Baseball (MLB) on the strength of multiple Google technologies plus its YouTube and Ad Manager businesses. Looking to take its “personalized and immersive fan experiences” to higher levels, MLB selected Google and Google Cloud Read More
Source: theregister.co.uk Gartner analysts have exhaled a “Magic Quadrant” report on Cloud AI developer services, concluding that while AWS is fractionally ahead, rivals Microsoft and Google are close behind, and that IBM is the only other company deserving a place in the “Leaders” section of the chart. Gartner’s team of five mystics reckon that this Read More
Source: biometricupdate.com Google’s move to eliminate gender labels from its artificial intelligence-powered computer vision services has put pressure on Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM to remove the feature, which automatically assigns the label of “man” or “woman” to people, according to Business Insider India. Google took the step weeks ago, saying it wanted to bring the service into Read More
Source: thehill.com One of the few areas of agreement between Democrats and Republicans in Congress is the need to regulate the tech sector, and in particular large platforms like Facebook and Google that dominate the online ecosystem. Yet there are several obstacles to successful regulation, including resistance from tech companies themselves. This resistance takes many Read More
Source: venturebeat.com In self-supervised learning — an AI technique where the training data is automatically labeled by a feature extractor — the extractor can exploit low-level features (known as “shortcuts”) that cause it to ignore useful representations. In search of a technique that might help remove these shortcuts autonomously, researchers at Google Brain developed a framework — Read More
Source: news18.com On Thursday, Business Insider reported that Google’s Cloud Vision API service, an AI-powered tool that developers use to identify components in an image like faces, objects, or landmarks, will no longer attach gender-related labels to pictured people. Yesterday, Google sent out an email to its Cloud Vision API customers that the tool, which Read More
Source: financialexpress.com Artificial Intelligence (AI) is opening up the next phase of technological advances. Riding the AI wave, Google has started six AI-based research projects in India. These projects would focus on addressing social, humanitarian and environmental challenges in sectors such as healthcare, education, disaster prevention and conversation. Google Research India, based in Bengaluru, will Read More
Source: aiuniverse.xyz An artificial intelligence tool Google provides to developers won’t add gender labels to images anymore, saying a person’s gender can’t be determined just by how they look in a photo, Business Insider reports. The company emailed developers today about the change to its widely used Cloud Vision API tool, which uses AI to analyze images Read More
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
Source: zdnet.com Alphabet’s Google unit is trying out artificial intelligence programs to advance its internal development of dedicated chips to accelerate its software, according to Google’s head of AI research, Jeff Dean. “We are using it internally for a few chip design projects,” said Dean in an interview with ZDNet Monday, following a keynote talk he gave at the Read More
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