[ad_1] Voice assistants usually only give you brief summaries of the news — helpful if you’re in a hurry, but that’s about it. Amazon is betting that you’ll want something deeper. It’s rolling out an Alexa feature in the US that provides long-form news from Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, Newsy and NPR. Ask Alexa […]
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The EU releases guidelines to encourage ethical AI development
[ad_1] According to the EU, AI should adhere to the basic ethical principles of respect for human autonomy, prevention of harm, fairness and accountability. The guidelines include seven requirements — listed below — and call particular attention to protecting vulnerable groups, like children and people with disabilities. They also state that citizens should have full […]
Apple lures another of Google’s top experts to its AI team
[ad_1] Goodfellow worked with Google from 2013 to 2016 and then again from 2017 and 2019. During the last five months of his employment with the tech giant, he was a Senior Staff Research Scientist. He also worked for the Elon Musk-funded AI research non-profit OpenAI from 2016 to 2017. More importantly, Goodfellow is known […]
Google dissolves newly formed AI ethics board
[ad_1] The group also has a long history of climate change denial and anti-immigrant sentiments. James, as the head of the foundation, espouses those views and is very vocally anti-trans and anti-equality. Shortly after the council was announced with her as part of the panel, a group of Google employees called for her removal. In […]
Google Assistant gets its long-promised John Legend voice
[ad_1] Legend will only be available for a “limited time,” and you’ll have to be ready to hear the regular Google Assistant voice for those many queries where the crooner isn’t available. It still beats hearing the same old dialogue for everything, though, and hints at a future where there’s considerably more variety in voice […]
Google report details the ongoing fight against bad Android apps
[ad_1] More specifically, the percentage of PHAs downloaded from Google Play increase from 0.02 percent in 2017 to 0.04 percent in 2018. “If we remove the numbers for click fraud from these stats, the data shows that PHAs on Google Play declined by 31 percent year-over-year,” the report says. Google doesn’t have an easy task […]
eBay uses AI to help you shop for similar-looking items
[ad_1] This AI-guided shopping is available in eBay’s Android and iOS apps right now, though it’s currently only available in the US, UK, Australia and Germany. Don’t be surprised if other online merchants implement similar computer vision tech, though — it’s a fairly obvious solution to common problems for internet shopping, such as tracking down […]
Turing Award winners include AI giants from Facebook and Google
[ad_1] Hinton, for instance, proved that a then-rare backpropagation algorithm could help neural networks solve problems that were previously unfeasible. LeCun was instrumental to developing technologies behind modern computer vision, while Bengio helped foster generative adversarial networks (that is, pitting a creative network against another that serves as a kind of quality control) that can […]
Google forms an external council to foster ‘responsible’ AI
[ad_1] The current advisors include academics focused both on technical aspects of AI (such as computational mathematics and drones) as well as experts in ethics, privacy, and political policy. There’s also an international focus, with people ranging from as far afield as Hong Kong and South Africa. ATEAC will hold its first meeting in April, […]
MIT’s AI can train neural networks faster than ever before
[ad_1] Today, AI can design machine learning systems known as neural networks in a process called neural architecture search (NAS). But this technique requires a considerable amount of resources like time, processing power and money. Even for Google, producing a single convolution neural network — often used for image classification — takes 48,000 GPU hours. […]