In machine learning, mel-filterbanks — fixed, hand-engineered representations of sound — are often used to train algorithms that classify sound. Decades after the design of mel-filterbanks, research shows that they exhibit desirable mathematical properties for representation learning; in other words, they represent strong audio features. But the design of mel-filterbanks is also flawed by…
JetPlay’s Ludo AI platform accelerates game concept creation
January 25, 2021
JetPlay has launched Ludo, a game creation platform that uses artificial intelligence to accelerate the creative process.
The Seattle-based JetPlay has launched the open beta of Ludo, following a successful closed beta with participation from independent studios around the…
In the past, reviewing large stacks of documents was a mind-numbing chore for junior attorneys — a process that could literally consume months of multiple employees’ lives. But innovations in artificial intelligence have enabled Cortical.io to automate the document…
AI Weekly: The Biden administration, algorithmic bias, and restoring the soul of America
January 23, 2021
This week, Joe Biden made his case to the American people about how to restore the soul of America and talked about “what we owe our forebears, one another, and generations to follow.”
Biden chose to run for president in reaction to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, South Carolina, and on Wednesday he became the first president to mention white supremacy in a presidential…
A recent paper from the Center for Applied Data Ethics (CADE) at the University of San Francisco urges AI practitioners to adopt terms from anthropology when reviewing the performance of large machine learning models. The research suggests using this terminology to…
VAST Data and Nvidia today unveiled a reference architecture that promises to accelerate storage performance when servers based on graphical processor units (GPUs) access petabytes of data.
The reference architecture is intended to make it simpler to integrate all Flash…
Google is investigating an artificial intelligence researcher after it detected that “an account had exfiltrated thousands of files” and shared them externally. Margaret Mitchell, a co-lead of the Ethical AI unit, has been locked out of Google’s corporate systems over the matter.
She’s not fired **yet**. But apparently they’ve told her she will be locked out for at…
Facebook has long been using AI to describe photos for the visually impaired, but it’s stepping up its efforts in 2021. The social media giant has detailed a new version of automatic alternative text (AAT) that promises much more information.
Instead of relying on heavily…
Google has revoked Ethical AI team leader Margaret “Meg” Mitchell’s employee privileges and is currently investigating her activity, according to a statement provided by a company spokesperson. Should Google fire Mitchell, it will mean the company has effectively…
AlphaICs raises $8 million for AI-at-the-edge processors
January 20, 2021
AlphaICs has raised $8 million in funding for artificial intelligence processors for edge computing.
The round was led by Emerald Technology Ventures and Endiya Partners.
The Milpitas, California-based company was started in 2016 by Vinod Dham, a former Intel executive known as the “father of the Pentium.” He teamed up with younger chip designers to develop Real AI processors for edge…
