[ad_1] “The coronavirus pandemic has shown the science and technology gap between the United States and the rest of the world is closing fast and that threatens our long-term health, economic competitiveness, and national security,” Senator Schumer said in a statement. “America cannot afford to continue our decades-long underinvestment and expect to lead the world […]
Category: Ai
Hitting the Books: Do we really want our robots to have consciousness?
[ad_1] MIT Press Excerpted from How to Grow a Robot: Developing Human-Friendly, Social AI by Mark H. Lee © 2020 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Although I argue for self-awareness, I do not believe that we need to worry about consciousness. There seems to be an obsession with robot consciousness in the media, but why start […]
Microsoft flexed its cloud and AI muscles at Build 2020
[ad_1] If you’re on the Targeted Release cycle, you’ll be one of the first people to try this out in Office.com and Outlook for the web. In the new format, you’ll be able to start whichever Office app you want — say Excel or Word, for example — and pull in Fluid components like charts, […]
NVIDIA’s AI built Pac-Man from scratch in four days
[ad_1] In GameGAN’s case, the generative network was trained using 50,000 play sessions of the game and then told to recreate it as a whole, from the static walls and pellets to the ghosts, Pac-Man himself and the rules governing their interactions. The entire process ran on a quartet of GP100s. GameGAN was not, however, […]
Sphero spins off a new company to make robots for police, military use
[ad_1] Sphero has brought four million robots to market, including programmable tank robots, and it’s experience in mobility could come in handy. We’ve also seen it make wearables. Though so far, those have been used to create music, not keep users safe. It’s not entirely surprising that Sphero would see an opportunity in the military […]
Facebook’s new shopping AI knows what exactly you’re looking for
[ad_1] This enables the system to automatically suggest a product’s attributes to Marketplace sellers when they upload a picture of what they’re trying to list, simplifying the process of posting items for sale. What’s more, it will allow retailers to display their wares in a more natural setting. So rather than listing a dozen catalog […]
Uber plans to lay off another 3,000 employees
[ad_1] The company is reeling from the blow dealt by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to WSJ, Uber’s ridesharing business was down 80 percent in April, compared to the previous year. Prior to the pandemic, ridesharing made up about three-quarters of Uber’s revenue. While UberEats has provided some relief, it’s not enough to make up for […]
Sony’s new image sensors will make cameras smarter with onboard AI
[ad_1] Onboard AI also means you can get information processed in real-time. A camera at the front of a store could count the number of people entering, and even alert security if someone isn’t wearing a face mask (a major health risk as we’re still dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic). Another camera could keep track […]
The first ‘AI Eurovision’ song contest winner was trained on koalas
[ad_1] Other tunes are, shall we say, less than comforting. The song from runner-up Germany, Dadabots x Portrait XO’s “I’ll Marry You, Punk Come,” is about as disturbing as you’d expect from an AI trained on acapellas, death metal and a fake news generator — “extinction is the only way” isn’t exactly the feel-good lyric […]
Microsoft and Intel turn malware into images to help spot more threats
[ad_1] STAMINA has proven mostly effective so far, with just over 99 percent accuracy in classifying malware and a false positive rate slightly under 2.6 percent. However, it has its limits. It works well with small files, but it struggles with larger ones. With enough refinement, though, this could be very useful. Most malware detection […]