Google tests voice matching to secure Google Assistant purchases
Google is piloting using Google Assistant’s Voice Match feature as a security method when making purchases. A spokesperson confirmed it’s designed for making purchases on smart speakers and smart displays.
Indian-American IBM scientist bags inventor of the year award for improving AI capabilities
Dr Joshi, who is a master inventor with more than 250 patented inventions in the US, works at the IBM Thomson Watson Research Center in New York. He was presented with the prestigious annual award by the New York Intellectual Property Law Association early this month during a virtual awards ceremony.
Dorian Selz, CEO, Squirro: Why the AI revolution will take time
Imagine you are riding in a fully driverless car – with no human controls – down a narrow countryside road, with no lights or road markings. Upon emerging from a twisting bend a flock of sheep confront you. What happens next?
This Citizen Science Gig Pays People to Match Space Photos
Astronomers at the Hubble Image Similarity Project are employing their out-of-work neighbors to help them train a neural net to recognize celestial objects.
Scandit raises $80 million to power mobile barcode scanning with AR and computer vision
Scandit, a company that develops mobile barcode scanning and computer vision technology, has raised $80 million in a series C round of funding.
Bennett University webinar: Need to tap Artificial Intelligence to fight Covid, says IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
“This world will not remain the same as it was till now. Your life habits, your approach to life, maybe your over-aggrandizement of the world as a nation will change. In this light, do we need to reflect on the application of AI in a completely different way?” Prasad said.
A deep learning approach for designed diffraction-based acoustic patterning in microchannels
Here, the authors sample air and surfaces in hospital rooms of COVID-19 patients, detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA in air samples of two of three tested airborne infection isolation rooms, and find surface contamination in 66.7% of tested rooms during the first week of illness and 20% beyond the first week of illness.
Undergraduates develop next-generation intelligence tools
UROP students explore applications in robotics, health care, language understanding, and nuclear engineering.
Controlling artificial cilia with magnetic fields and light
Researchers have made artificial cilia, or hair-like structures, that can bend into new shapes in response to a magnetic field, then return to their original shape when exposed to the proper light source.
A £50m Injection Into AI Discovered Drugs
Exscientia is a startup that specialises in artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery which has received a £50 million investment to accelerate its revolution of the healthcare industry.
Meet China's Newest AI News Anchor
Chinese state news agency Xinhua has recently revealed its most recent venture into artificial intelligence: Xin Xiaowei - an AI-powered 3D news anchor…
Use AI with fairness and responsibilty: National Tech officer, Microsoft India
Rohini Srivathsa, National Technology Officer, Microsoft India said organisations and developers have to nurture practices to make sure AI is used responsibly as it has “broad ramifications”.
Tracking the Tinderbox: Mapping Dry Wildfire Fuels With AI and New Satellite Data
Researchers have developed a deep-learning model that maps fuel moisture levels in fine detail across 12 western states, opening a door for better fire predictions. As California and the American West head into fire season amid the coronavirus pandem
AI can help doctors, governments fight Covid-19 pandemic
The theme of the global webinar, organised by the Department of Computer Science Engineering of BU on Monday, was ‘AI Solutions for Covid. The Indian Council of Medical Research tied up with IBM earlier in the month to use its AI-based tool Watson Assistant to respond to specific Covid-19 queries of frontline workers and data entry operators.
AI researchers say they created a better way to generate 3D photos
AI researers say they've created a novel way to generate realistic, impressive 3D photography that's better than Facebook 3D Photo.
Rebooting Pacman with AI
This classic game has been redesigned by - you guessed it AI. In this article, I will talk about how NVIDIA has helped recreate it without the use of a game engine and what this could possibly mean for the future.
Artificial intelligence for optimized mobile communication
While many European states are currently setting up the 5th generation of mobile communication, scientists are already working on its optimization. Although 5G is far superior to its predecessors, even the latest mobile communication standard still has room for improvement: Especially in urban areas, where a direct line of sight between emitter and transceiver is difficult, the radio link does not yet function reliably.
A model that estimates tactile properties of surfaces by analyzing images
The ability to estimate the physical properties of objects is of key importance for robots, as it allows them to interact more effectively with their surrounding environment. In recent years, many robotics researchers have been specifically trying to develop techniques that allow robots to estimate tactile properties of objects or surfaces, which could ultimately provide them with skills that resemble the human sense of touch.