Source:cnbc.com Joe Lonsdale said on CNBC on Monday that his fellow Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel was “courageous” for speaking out against Alphabet’s Google. “Google is not a patriotic company,” said Lonsdale, also a founding partner of technology investment firm 8VC. Lonsdale was responding to the criticism levied since Thiel on Sunday said the FBI and Read More

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Source:- forbes.com Want to schedule an appointment? Just ask your phone. Need to turn on your bedroom lights? Google Home has you covered. Now a $49 billion market, voice-activated systems have gained popularity among consumers, thanks to their ability to automate and streamline mundane tasks. But for people with impaired speech,  technologies that rely on voice commands Read More

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Source:- forbes.com Most television stations still rely on human transcription to generate the closed captioning for their live broadcasts. Yet even with the benefit of human fluency, this captioning can vary wildly in quality, even within the same broadcast, from a nearly flawless rendition to near-gibberish. Even the best human captioning often skips over words Read More

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Source:- guidingtech.com Back in the day, Gallery apps came with only one function: to efficiently manage and organize the photos in descending order within device folders. Today, the Gallery apps aren’t just limited to photos management. They must package image editing, face reorganization, automation, AI, and more. In 2015, with the introduction of Google Photos, the Search giant started Read More

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Source:- venturebeat.com About a dozen members of the Google Brain team today open-sourced Google Research Football Environment, a 3D reinforcement learning simulator for training AI to master soccer. The environment can simulate soccer matches, including particular scenarios like corner and penalty kicks, goals, and offsides. The news comes today at the start of the Women’s World Read More

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Source:- utilitydive.com. Smart technology puts intelligence where it’s needed We often associate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) with exotic applications – self-driving cars, speech and facial recognition, robotic control and medical diagnosis – all powered by massive rows of servers filled with CPUs or GPUs, at some distant data center. But in fact, AI Read More

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Source- theguardian.com Having laid waste to the Atari classics and reached superhuman performance in chess and the Chinese board game, Go, Google’s DeepMind outfit has turned its artificial intelligence on one of the toughest problems in science. The result, perhaps, was predictable. At an international conference in Cancun on Sunday, organisers announced that DeepMind’s latest AI program, AlphaFold, had beaten all-comers Read More

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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

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Source- fortune.com Google and Facebook are teaming up to make each company’s artificial intelligence technologies work better together. The two companies said Tuesday that an unspecified number of engineers are collaborating to make Facebook’s open source machine learning PyTorch framework work with Google’s custom computer chips for machine learning, dubbed Tensor Processing Units, or TPU. The collaboration marks Read More

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Source – financialexpress.com US tech giant Google announced on Monday that it is employing a new artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to combat online spreading of contents involving child sexual abuse. Google said its cutting-edge AI technology uses deep neural networks for image processing to help discover and detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online. The new tool based Read More

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Source – forbes.com In 2017 Google outspent Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook on R&D spending with the majority being on AI and machine learning. Google needs new AI- and machine learning-driven businesses that have lower Total Acquisition Costs (TAC) to offset the rising acquisition costs of their ad and search businesses. One of the company’s initial forays Read More

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Source – thehindubusinessline.com Google has announced several ad tools built on Artificial Intelligence, aimed at helping marketers automate and develop effective advertising campaigns. The idea is to let AI finetune advertisements. The Google Ads tools unveiled at a Google Marketing Live event range from responsive search ads that use machine learning to mix, match and optimise Read More

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Source – zdnet.com Google on Tuesday detailed a new suite of marketing tools that taps into the company’s vast repertoire of machine learning technology. Overall, the tools are aimed at helping marketers create more effective and optimized ads — but there’s a noticeable element of anti-Amazon underlining some of the key products. Namely, Google’s new Local Campaigns service. Read More

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Source – qz.com Africa’s nascent artificial intelligence sector just got its biggest boost from Google which is opening its first Africa AI research center in Accra, Ghana’s capital. Though Accra has a vibrant tech industry, it would not have been the obvious location for many Africa tech watchers when compared with Nairobi or nearby Lagos where Google has already Read More

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Source – economist.com DISCOVERING and harnessing fire unlocked more nutrition from food, feeding the bigger brains and bodies that are the hallmarks of modern humans. Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, thinks his company’s development of artificial intelligence trumps that. “AI is one of the most important things that humanity is working on,” he told an event Read More

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Source – techcrunch.com Over the last few years, Google and Coursera have regularly teamed up to launch a number of online courses for developers and IT pros. Among those was the Machine Learning Crash course, which provides developers with an introduction to machine learning. Now, building on that, the two companies are launching a machine learning specialization on Coursera. This Read More

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Source – economictimes.indiatimes.com WASHINGTON: For its updated news application, Google is doubling down on the use of artificial intelligence as part of an effort to weed our disinformation and help users get viewpoints beyond their own “filter bubble.” Google chief Sundar Pichai, who unveiled the updated Google News earlier this month, said the app now “surfaces Read More

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Source – healthcareitnews.com For years, many healthcare organizations tended to be skeptical and resistant (if not outright hostile) to the idea of storing their data, particularly protected health information, in the cloud. IT and security decision-makers had deep reservations about stashing such sensitive data anywhere but their own on-premises servers, safe under their own watchful eyes. Read More

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Source – indiatimes.com Google has unveiled an artificial intelligence tool capable of handling routine tasks — such as making restaurant bookings — as a way to help people disconnect from their smartphone screens. Kicking off the tech giant’s annual developers conference, Google chief executive Sundar Pichai argued that its AI-powered digital assistant had the potential to Read More

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Source – datanami.com Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are transforming the global economy, and companies that are quick to adopt these technologies will take $1.2 trillion from those who don’t. Businesses that fail to take advantage of predictive analytics, or don’t have the time or resources – like highly-trained (and expensive) data scientists – will Read More

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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

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Source – livescience.com A prominent researcher of machine learning and artificial intelligence is arguing that his field has strayed out of the bounds of science and engineering and into “alchemy.” And he’s offering a route back. Ali Rahimi, who works on AI for Google, said he thinks his field has made amazing progress, but suggested there’s something rotten in the Read More

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