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How to productionalize your AI initiatives — for success

December 1, 2020
Presented by Dataiku For developing an AI pipeline, the most pressing consideration is which of the three primary operating models will work best for you. Join this VB Live event for a deep dive into the details of each model and leave with a firm grasp on best practices and your next steps. Register here for free. The issue organizations face when launching an AI initiative isn’t the…
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Recommended Reading: Using AI to create alarmingly realistic fake people

November 29, 2020
Designed to deceive: Do these people look real to you? Kashmir Hill and Jeremy White, The New York Times Fake personas on the internet are nothing new, but completely fake people that appear to be alarmingly real in photographs or animations are becoming increasingly common. To better understand how easy this process can be, The New York Times created an AI system that generates portraits of…
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AI Weekly: The state of machine learning in 2020

November 28, 2020
It’s hard to believe, but a year in which the unprecedented seemed to happen every day is just weeks from being over. In AI circles, the end of the calendar year means the rollout of annual reports aimed at defining progress, impact, and areas for improvement. The AI Index…
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Robotics researchers propose AI that locates and safely moves items on shelves

November 27, 2020
A pair of new robotics studies from Google and the University of California, Berkeley propose ways of finding occluded objects on shelves and solving “contact-rich” manipulation tasks like moving objects across a table. The UC Berkeley research introduces Lateral Access maXimal Reduction of occupancY support Area (LAX-RAY), a system that predicts a target object’s location, even when only a…
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Google Assistant can finally schedule your smart lights

November 26, 2020
Google Assistant already works with Hue and other smart lights, but functionality has been limited to turning them on and off, using them with alarms and a few other features. Now, you can schedule lights and other electric devices to turn on and off at specific and even general times, as Android Police and Reddit users have noted. The feature works via Google’s “Scheduled Actions” feature.
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