Source: nature.com Players of the science-fiction video game StarCraft II faced an unusual opponent this summer. An artificial intelligence (AI) known as AlphaStar — which was built by Google’s AI firm DeepMind — achieved a grandmaster rating after it was unleashed on the game’s European servers, placing within the top 0.15% of the region’s 90,000 players. The Read More
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Source: infoworld.com Engineers at Google have unveiled Dex, a prototype functional language designed for array processing. Array processing is a cornerstone of the math used in machine learning applications and other computationally intensive work. The chief goal for the Dex language, according to a paper released by Google researchers, is to allow programmers to work Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt urged cooperation with Chinese scientists, warned against the threat of misinformation, and advised against overregulation by governments today in a broad-ranging speech about AI ethics and regulation of big tech companies. He also talked about conflict deterrence between nation-states in the age of AI and pondered how secretaries Read More
Source: NEW DELHI: Beating frontrunner Amazon, Microsoft on Friday won the lucrative $10 billion Cloud-computing contract from the US Department of Defense known as “JEDI”, the short-form for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud project. Exactly a year ago — on October 25, 2018 — the software giant’s CEO Satya Nadella addressed ethical concerns surrounding Read More
Source: infoq.com In a recent blog post, Google announced enhancements to a part of its Vision AI portfolio – AutoML Vision Edge, AutoML Video, and the Video Intelligence API each received updates to enhance their capabilities. Both AutoML Vision Edge and AutoML Video were both introduced earlier this year, in April, as a part of Read More
Source:indiatoday.in Google introduced its artificial intelligence (AI) based voice assistant at its annual developers conference – Google I/O – last year. At the time, the tech giant demonstrated how Duplex could make reservations and even have a chat with real people over a phone call. The tech giant piloted the program in select states in Read More
Source: venturebeat.com What’s the best way to measure the quality of media generated from whole cloth by AI models? It’s not easy. One of the most popular metrics for images is the Fréchet Inception Distance (FID), which takes photos from both the target distribution and the model being evaluated and uses an AI object recognition system to capture important Read More
Source: wgrz.com SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s latest phone and smart-home devices came packaged with a not-so-subtle message: Google cares about your privacy. Does it? The tech company has had a complicated relationship with user information in the past. Google’s latest steps offer consumers some additional protections, although it’s unclear how much more secure users will Read More
Source: bdtechtalks.com Earlier this month, Business Insider reported that retail giant Walmart has more than 1,500 data scientists and 50,000 software engineers—and it is seeking to hire even more to advance its artificial intelligence technology. Given that Walmart is primarily a brick-and-mortar retail outlet, this news tells us much about the role data science and AI Read More
Source: sify.com Bangkok: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging as a helpful tool for governments in the Asia Pacific region to deliver public services, revealed a new UN-Google report on Wednesday. The study by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and Google cited case studies highlighting the importance of Read More
Source:techrepublic.com Programmers and developers can tap into a variety of languages to build applications, websites, and other programs. Ultimately, your preferred language is going to be the one with which you’re most comfortable and that gets the job done most effectively. But one particular language emerged as the top choice in a study released in September by Read More
Source: financialexpress.com Google’s platform — Google Developers Launchpad to help startups grow will now support social impact startups in India. The platform has partnered with startup accelerator Social Alpha to help such startups with mentorship, tools, and methodologies for growing businesses. The tie-up will help the incubator develop learning programmes for startups based on information from a select Read More
Source: techspot.com. The big picture: As trade tensions between China and the US continue to make headlines, Apple has found itself in the general conversation once again. Apparently, the company shares some data with a Chinese tech giant, which has led some to believe that it isn’t able to hold up to its high standards for Read More
Source: ventsmagazine.com There has been quite a speculation about artificial intelligence and machine learning, but Artificial Intelligence has an overkill of data, opening new doors to technology. Though the two terms Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning are always together, several people are unaware of the difference between the two. Therefore, let us kick off with the example Read More
Source: cmswire.com Organizations deploying artificial intelligence (AI) in the enterprise should start with a small use case that solves a specific business problem and ties back to the organization’s core values, according to a Google AI executive. Tracy Frey, director of strategy for Google Cloud AI, shared these thoughts with the crowd at the MIT Technology Review’s Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net The tech giant Google has launched Google Research India, an AI lab in Bengaluru. The AI lab will partner with researchers across India and employ the developments to improve the apps and services. The lab will also use researches in the field of healthcare and education for the betterment. According to the company, Read More
Source: livemint.com Google on Thursday announced Google Research India, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based research lab out of Bengaluru. “We look forward to engaging with everything from academic institutions, to government to the industry and startup ecosystem in the country in the field of AI,” said Jay Yagnik, vice president and engineering fellow. The Indian AI lab Read More
Source: industryreport24.com Parents can now feel more assured about their baby’s safety with the launch of Google’s latest baby monitor. Google has come up with an even more advance baby monitoring device which uses artificial intelligence to alert parents, minutes prior to their baby awakes from sleep. Here, the new technology is using AI to Read More
Source: startribune.com It seems like artificial intelligence is taking over the world, leaving many of us non-techies feeling terrified. Yet when you stop to think about it, we all use artificial intelligence (AI) every day. When we Google something, use Siri on our smartphones or ask Alexa a question, we are using AI. Hollywood has Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Skin conditions are among the most common kind of ailment globally, just behind colds, fatigue, and headaches. In fact, it’s estimated that 25% of all treatments provided to patients around the world are for skin conditions and that up to 37% of patients seen in the clinic have at least one skin complaint. Read More
Source: zdnet.com It’s hardly news that technology companies are working with machine learning. It’s also hardly news that technology companies targeting enterprises are working AI into their solutions. But when Oracle invited a small group of analysts to peek into the company’s internal machine learning summit, it was the first step toward letting the world in on Read More
Source: theinquirer.net GOOGLE HAS DESIGNED a series of algorithms that allow smartphone users to interpret sign language using their phone camera. Unusually for Google, it has opted not to create an app this time but has released the code into the open-source for developers to make their own. This approach is most recognisable to Londoners, where there is no Read More
Source: datacenterdynamics.com We have an almost mystical faith in the ability of artificial intelligence (AI) to understand and solve problems. It’s being applied across many areas of our daily lives and, as a result, the hardware to enable this is starting to populate our data centers. Data centers in themselves present an array of complex Read More
Source: microfinancereporter.com The research report titled, ‘Global Microservices in Healthcare Market’, is an in-depth study of the overall environment of the market. The study found that the market will grow at a rate of XX% CAGR over the coming years, down from the nearly XX% growth level seen in the previous year. The total global Read More
Source: itpro.co.uk Despite pledging to cut ties with weapons-based artificial intelligence (AI)projects, Google is using its investment arm to cultivate startup firms that actively engage in military and law enforcement contracts. The industry giant’s involvement in a highly contentious AI-powered Pentagon drones project last year, dubbed Project Maven, garnered anger and protestations from its own employees. Read More
Source: huffingtonpost.in NEW YORK—Google’s DeepDream has generated artwork; the What-If Machine created the characters and story for a West End Musical; music composed by programs was performed in the London Symphony in 2012. We talk about jobs that may be lost to automation, but there is scant attention paid to who owns the intellectual property created by machines. Artificial Read More
Source: techcrunch.com As the ways we consume content multiply and change, media creators are hard-pressed to adapt their methods to take advantage. Short-form audio and video news is one growing but labor-intensive niche — and Agolo aims to help automate the process, pulling in the AP as a client and Microsoft, Google and Tensility as investors. Agolo Read More
Source: fedscoop.com Two former high-ranking national security officials are criticizing Google for developing artificial intelligence in China while backing out of working with the Department of Defense, a move they said could benefit Chinese military and intelligence services. Ash Carter, secretary of Defense under President Barack Obama, said Thursday that Google could be helping the Chinese military without knowing it. And Read More
Source:digit.in Earlier this year, Microsoft had invited us to its Bengaluru campus for a two-day briefing on how it’s incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) in many of its business solutions, including Azure, Power BI, Teams, and Office 365. In addition to letting a few of its business partners explain how these AI-enabled services help them, the Read More
Source:indiatoday.in India is the largest producer and the second largest exporter of cotton in the world. Yet, for the farmers raising cotton crop the year 2017 was horrendous. Reason? Nearly 50 per cent of their yield was destroyed following an attack by the pink bollworm. This happened despite cotton farmers using nearly 55 per cent Read More