The definition of success for startups and Big Tech companies alike has long been summed up by three words: hockey stick growth. Speedy gains in terms of both users and revenue is the dream for any company looking to scale. But according to a paper recently published by Google senior research scientist Alex Hanna and independent researcher Tina Park, a growing number of AI researchers say…
AI Weekly: Constructive ways to take power back from Big Tech
November 26, 2020
Facebook launched an independent oversight board and recommitted to privacy reforms this week, but after years of promises made and broken, nobody seems convinced that real change is afoot. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is expected to decide shortly whether to sue…
Researchers suggest AI can learn common sense from animals
November 26, 2020
AI researchers developing reinforcement learning agents could learn a lot from animals. That’s according to recent analysis by Google’s DeepMind, Imperial College London, and University of Cambridge researchers assessing AI and non-human animals.
In a decades-long…
DIY Camera Uses Machine Learning to Audibly Tell You What it Sees
November 20, 2020
Adafruit Industries has created a machine learning camera built with the Raspberry Pi that can identify objects extremely quickly and audibly tell you what it sees. The group has listed all the necessary parts you need to build the device at home.
The camera is based on Adafruit’s BrainCraft HAT add-on for the Raspberry Pi 4, and uses TensorFlow Lite object recognition software to be able to…
Adobe tries using AI to fix blurry video footage
October 22, 2020
Between things like camera shake and poor lighting, the videos you take with your phone, DSLR or mirrorless camera can end up blurry for any numbers of reasons. Worse yet, it’s difficult to sharpen a photo or video after the fact, and more often than not, the results…
The 2020 data and AI landscape
October 22, 2020
When COVID hit the world a few months ago, an extended period of gloom seemed all but inevitable. Yet many companies in the data ecosystem have not just survived but in fact thrived.
Perhaps most emblematic of this is the blockbuster IPO of data warehouse provider Snowflake…
Artificial intelligence and the antitrust case against Google
October 22, 2020
Following the launch of investigations last year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) together with attorney generals from 11 U.S. states filed a lawsuit against Google on Tuesday alleging that the company maintains monopolies in online search and advertising, and violates laws prohibiting anticompetitive business practices.
It’s the first antitrust lawsuit federal prosecutors filed against a…
Kite, which suggests code snippets for developers in real time, today added support for 11 more programming languages, bringing its total to 13. In addition to Python and JavaScript, Kite’s AI-powered code completions now support TypeScript, Java, HTML, CSS, Go, C, C#…
Landing AI is today launching LandingLens, a computer vision platform that enables manufacturers to train AI models. The goal is to help businesses more quickly deploy AI for visual inspection of products ranging from automotive components to semiconductors and parts for…
Users around the world can now use Google’s Assistant to play and control Spotify podcasts in English, Spotify has confirmed to Engadget. Until now, the voice assistant has only supported its own Google Podcasts, with third-party services limited to music streaming only. However, recent rumors suggested that the third-party podcast support was coming, starting with Spotify.
You can enable the…
