The never-ending effort to bake common business sense into artificial intelligence
'There needs to be a feedback loop to ensure customers are enjoying the experience as much as you're enjoying creating the experience.'
Harnessing noise in optical computing for AI
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are currently affecting our lives in many small but impactful ways. For example, AI and machine learning applications recommend entertainment we might enjoy through streaming services such as Netflix and Spotify.
DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman departs Google
DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman has departed Google after an eight-year stint at the company.
IBM sells Watson Health assets to investment firm Francisco Partners
After struggling to grow the business unit and turning its focus to higher-margin businesses, IBM is finally selling off parts of Watson Health
IBM is selling off Watson Health to a private equity firm.
The sale is part of IBM’s effort to tighten the focus of its business and shed operations.
AI light-field camera reads 3D facial expressions
A joint research team led by Professors Ki-Hun Jeong and Doheon Lee from the KAIST Department of Bio and Brain Engineering reported the development of a technique for facial expression detection by merging near-infrared light-field camera techniques with artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
How robots learn to hike
ETH Zurich researchers led by Marco Hutter developed a new control approach that enables a legged robot, called ANYmal, to move quickly and robustly over difficult terrain. Thanks to machine learning, the robot can combine its visual perception of the environment with its sense of touch for the first time.
Moorfields Eye Hospital gives woman, 88, UK's first 'bionic eye implant'
A microchip has been implanted into her eye to tackle dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
How robots learn to hike
Researchers have developed a new control approach that enables a legged robot, called ANYmal, to move quickly and robustly over difficult terrain. Thanks to machine learning, the robot can combine its visual perception of the environment with its sense of touch for the first time.
Harnessing noise in optical computing for AI
A research team has developed an optical computing system for AI and machine learning that not only mitigates the noise inherent to optical computing but actually uses some of it as input to help enhance the creative output of the artificial neural network within the system.
Rise of the machines: Robot umpires moving up to Triple-A baseball for 2022
Major League Baseball is expanding its automated strike zone experiment to Triple-A, the highest level of the minor leagues
DeepMind co-founder leaves Google after a rocky tenure.
Mustafa Suleyman, who played a key role in the company’s work on health care technology, is joining Greylock Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.
Meta's 'data2vec' is the next step toward One Neural Network to Rule Them All
By eschewing data-specific outputs for internal representations, Meta aims for a more-general sort of AI.
Elon Musk’s brain chip firm Neuralink lines up clinical trials in humans
Silicon Valley company has already implanted AI microchips in brains of a macaque and a pig
Toshiba expands Elera commerce platform with AI vision, IT microservices, more
Toshiba has developed 45 IT microservices and hundreds of APIs to help retailers integrate apps and try out new ideas.
Artificial Intelligence Used To Search for the Next SARS-COV-2
Daniel Becker, an assistant professor of biology in the University of Oklahoma’s Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences, has been leading a proactive modeling study over the last year and a half to identify bat species that are likely to carry bet
AI bias harms over a third of businesses, 81% want more regulation
AI bias is already harming businesses and there’s significant appetite for more regulation to help counter the problem.
Automation could make 12 million jobs redundant. Here's who's most at risk
Up to 34% of jobs risk being lost to automation by 2040. But technology will also create new workforce opportunities.