Google’s Data QnA is an AI service that helps business users get answers to analytical queries
Google today announced Data QnA, an AI service designed to help users get answers to analytical queries through natural language questions.
Google’s AI looks beneath the surface for information about people, places, and things in images
Google says it will begin providing context around images in Google Images, based on the content of the webpages hosting those images.
Researchers determine how to accurately pinpoint malicious drone operators
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have determined how to pinpoint the location of a drone operator who may be operating maliciously or harmfully near airports or protected airspace by analyzing the flight path of the drone.
Facebook’s speech recognition model supports 51 different languages
Facebook researchers developed a language model they say can recognize words in 51 different languages, including 'low-resource' languages like Persian.
Text Analytics for Health helps Microsoft customers generate insights from medical data
Microsoft today launched new Azure AI features in general availability, including Text Analytics for Health and Form Recognizer.
Robotic lab assistant is 1,000 times faster at conducting research
A mobile autonomous robotic lab assistant developed by researchers from the University of Liverpool is 1,000 times faster than human researchers at performing experiments. It uses LIDAR to navigate the lab and can handle equipment like a human.
Do humans dream of androids dreaming?
The first question many people ask about artificial intelligence (AI) is, "Will it be good or bad?"
AI finds 250 foreign stars that migrated to our galaxy
Astronomers have used deep learning to discover 250 new stars in the Milky Way, which they believe were born outside the galaxy.
Transform 2020: Learn how to build edge AI to accelerate your business
With 5G and increasingly powerful smartphones and other devices, more companies are running AI applications at the "edge." Keep abreast at Transform 2020.
Facebook civil rights audit urges ‘mandatory’ algorithmic bias detection
An independent civil rights review found the company's efforts to detect algorithmic bias are falling short and leave users vulnerable to manipulation.
Breakthrough machine learning approach quickly produces higher-resolution climate data
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed a novel machine learning approach to quickly enhance the resolution of wind velocity data by 50 times and solar irradiance data by 25 times—an enhancement that has never been achieved before with climate data.
Everything is virtual these days, even hackathons
The venerable hackathon will surely survive COVID-19, but only if transparency and fairness are preserved.
NVIDIA’s AI-focused Ampere GPUs are now available in Google Cloud
Google Cloud users can now harness the power of NVIDIA’s Ampere GPUs for their AI workloads.
Facebook is recycling heat from its data centers to warm up these homes
As it publishes its first sustainability report, Facebook showcased a new heat-recovery system in one of its data centers in Denmark.
These 2 books will strengthen your command of Python machine learning
Mastering machine learning is not easy, even if you’re a crack programmer. I’ve seen many people come from a solid background of writing software in different domains (gaming, web, multimedia, etc.) thinking that adding machine learning to their roster of skills is another walk in the park.
Robots, drones and surveillance apps: The unexpected future of medicine
Healthcare has traditionally been cautious about new technologies. But a new wave of innovation is likely to change all of that.
Kai-Fu Lee Gives AI a B-Minus Grade in the Covid-19 Fight
Robots and computer programs can help with social distancing and food delivery, but have been less helpful in developing a vaccine.