[ad_1] There are multiple reasons for relying on the human touch. In one case, Duplex didn’t appear to pick up the cues that reservations were available. It may also need training on more real-world calls before it can handle every situation. More importantly, the company argued that it was taking a cautious approach. It wants […]
Category: Artificial Intelligence
The fight against childhood blindness could lead to eagle-eyed robots
[ad_1] Each year, around four in 10,000 children worldwide are born with congenital cataract (CC), a rare occurrence by WHO standards, yet the condition accounts for as much as 20 percent of childhood blindness cases. CC is treatable with simple corrective surgery but in parts of the world where medical facilities are few and far […]
Facebook used its AI smarts to build detailed disease prevention maps
[ad_1] These maps, Facebook suggests, could help health organizations better determine how to handle outbreaks or distribute supplies because they’ll provide insights on where people live and move and whether they are connected. Groups such as the American Red Cross are already using them to determine areas in which people are concentrated and coordinate health […]
Facebook Research is developing touchy-feely curious robots
[ad_1] “Much of our work in robotics is focused on self-supervised learning, in which systems learn directly from raw data so they can adapt to new tasks and new circumstances,” a team of researchers from FAIR (Facebook AI Research) wrote in a blog post. “In robotics, we’re advancing techniques such as model-based reinforcement learning (RL) […]
I listened to a Massive Attack record remixed by a neural network
[ad_1] Mezzanine, by trip-hop group Massive Attack, is a huge record that many, including Rolling Stone, consider one of the best mankind has ever produced. You’ve probably heard at least a few of its tracks, like Teardrop, Angel and Inertia Creeps. I can say with absolute certainty, though, that you’ve never listed to a version […]
eBay’s improved AI translation boosts Spanish-language sales
[ad_1] Before 2014, eBay had some automatic translation options, but it seems the use of AI has been a boon for sellers as it’s said to have improved translation by around 10 percent. The AI only affected search queries and listing titles (and not product descriptions), but it seems that more accurate translation helped people […]
Senators reintroduce bill to improve AI adoption in government
[ad_1] The General Services Administration would be tasked with both providing AI expertise to agencies and researching policy. The Office of Management and Budget would need to devise strategies for investing in and using AI for federal data. The Office of Personnel Management, meanwhile, would identify the skills necessary for AI workers and create relevant […]
MIT AI model is ‘significantly’ better at predicting breast cancer
[ad_1] The scientists first looked at the mammograms of over 60,000 patients who were treated at Massachusetts General. They then identified the women that developed breast cancer within five years of their screening. With this data, scientists created a model that recognizes the subtle patterns in breast tissue that are the early signs of cancer. […]
MIT finds smaller neural networks that are easier to train
[ad_1] To train most neural networks, engineers feed them massive datasets, but that can take days and expensive GPUs. The researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) found that within those trained networks are smaller, subnetworks that can make equally accurate predictions. CSAIL’s so-called ‘lottery-ticket hypothesis’ is based on the idea that […]
Particle learning system could help robots make sushi
[ad_1] The team demonstrated its system by tasking a two-fingered robot, RiceGrip, with reshaping deformable foam into a desired shape, much like you might shape sushi. It used a depth camera and object recognition to identify the foam, and then used the model to envision the foam as a dynamic graph for deformable materials. While […]