AI: The Ghost-writer From the Future
What if AI could write your essay for you? Research a topic? What if AI could write my next article? Introducing GPT-2…
CVPR challenge pushes researchers to improve car accident detection AI
The AI City Challenge attracted AI researchers from 30+ countries in a competition for tasks like spotting car accidents or stalled cars on highways.
AI Weekly: Restricting surveillance technologies is a strong first step, but it’s not enough
New laws and regulations are curbing law enforcement's use of surveillance technologies, but that might not be enough.
Contact-tracing app: How did the UK go so badly wrong?
The UK government has just U-turned on its own plans for a contact-tracing app after months of development. This is what went wrong.
Baidu ends participation in AI alliance as US-China relations deteriorate
Baidu will no longer participate in the Partnership on AI (PAI) alliance amid deteriorating relations between the US and China.
OpenAI releases powerful text generator
Artificial intelligence laboratory OpenAI announced it is making a powerful new neural network for natural language processing available for limited release to the public.
New App Predicts Severity of COVID-19
An app trained by computer algorithms uses biomarkers to determine the severity level of a patient afflicted with COVID-19..
Algorithms are designing better buildings
When giant blobs began appearing on city skylines around the world in the late 1980s and 1990s, it marked not an alien invasion but the impact of computers on the practice of building design.
Bringing the predictive power of artificial intelligence to health care
An important aspect of treating patients with conditions like diabetes and heart disease is helping them stay healthy outside of the hospital—before they to return to the doctor's office with further complications.
Model helps robots think more like humans when searching for objects
Robots can learn how to find things faster by learning how different objects around the house are related, according to work from the University of Michigan. A new model provides robots with a visual search strategy that can teach them to look for a coffee pot nearby if they're already in sight of a refrigerator, in one of the paper's examples.
AI-powered interviewer provides guided reflection exercises during COVID-19 pandemic
A virtual interviewer powered by natural language processing offers socially distanced support for people facing trying times. The dialog system, designed by a collaborative team from the University of Michigan and the University of Texas at Austin, takes inspiration from counseling strategies like motivational interviewing and expressive writing to guide users through written self-reflection.
Google quietly launches an AI-powered Pinterest rival named Keen
Google’s has launched Keen: a would-be rival to Pinterest that uses the search giant’s expertise in machine learning to curate topics of interest. With its pinboard-style design and focus on hobbies, Keen very much looks like a Pinterest wannabe.
Victoria police distances itself from controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI
The force says it has discontinued using the service and the technology was deemed unsuitable
The advantages of self-explainable AI over interpretable AI
Would you trust an artificial intelligence algorithm that works eerily well, making accurate decisions 99.9% of the time, but is a mysterious black box? Every system fails every now and then, and when it does, we want explanations, especially when human lives are at stake.
Ford's Mustang Mach-E uses the cloud to predict range more precisely
Ford will try to reduce range anxiety for buyers of its electric Mustang Mach-E by predicting the range more precisely. It unveiled a new feature called Intelligent Range, which will calculate how far you can go based on factors like driving behavior, weather forecasts and crowdsourced data from other Mach-E vehicles.
Google launches its own version of Pintrest called Keen
Keen is the latest experiment from Google's Area 120.
Google launches its own version of Pinterest called Keen
Keen is the latest experiment from Google's Area 120.
Cynthia Breazeal named Media Lab associate director
Expert in personal social robots will work with lab faculty and researchers to develop strategic research initiatives, and to explore new funding mechanisms.