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
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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: forbes.com Have you ever noticed how accurate Netflix’s recommendations are to your taste? And how is Google Maps so confident I’m going home, that it will suggest directions to my house? Even my iPhone suggests what time I should set my alarm clock right before I go to bed. This means it knows when 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: bloombergquint.com Google announced a massive shift last week in how it handles cookies, those pesky digital trackers that chase us around the internet and serve up targeted ads that are both creepy yet eerily precise reflections of our wants. The search giant, which just helped Alphabet Inc. surpass a $1 trillion valuation, said it Read More
Source: healthcareitnews.com Electronic health record giant Epic Systems has been notifying customers that it no longer plans to pursue integrations with Google Cloud, and will instead focus on integrating into platforms offered by Amazon Web Services and Microsoft’s Azure service, according to a report from CNBC. That report notes that “insufficient interest” from Epic customers in 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: information-age.com Microservices are a way to build applications based on small components that are used for specific requirements. IDC has predicted that 90 percent of applications will use microservices architectures by 2020. Many of the world’s largest brands, including Google, Netflix, and Uber have either moved or are migrating to a microservices architecture approach. Rather than 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: 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: towardsdatascience.com It’s been a hell of a decade for data science — Watson dominated Jeopardy (2011), the White House announced the first Chief Data Scientist (2015), and Deepfakes provided all the Nicolas Cage films we ever wanted (2017). Even our discipline’s name, data science, came out of the last 10 years. With 2019 coming to 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: Alphabet‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google owns the world’s largest search engine, web browser, and mobile operating system. Yet it controlled just 4% of the public cloud services market last year, according to Gartner. That put it in fourth place behind Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), and Alibaba — which controlled 48%, 16%, and 8% of that market, respectively. Google still believes that it can challenge Amazon and Read More
Source: analyticsindiamag.com There are two fundamentally different and complementary ways of accelerating machine learning workloads: By vertical scaling or scaling-up, where one adds more resources to a single machine 2. By horizontal scaling or scaling-out, where one adds more nodes to the system In a recent work published by the researchers at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, Read More
Source: analyticsindiamag.com Cloud technology and cloud computing has been helping enterprises streamline their businesses for a while now. Whether it be data management, data storage or data processing, everything can be swiftly handled nowadays, thanks to the cloud. Hybrid cloud engagements are also becoming more popular over the last few years for faster and better Read More