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.
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MIT CSAIL’s AI revives dead languages it hasn’t seen before
October 21, 2020
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) claim to have developed a system that can decipher a lost language without needing knowledge of its relation to other languages. They say it’s a step toward a system that’s able to…
Salesforce’s Simulation Cards spell out uses, risks, and bias to make AI models more transparent
October 21, 2020
Salesforce recently open-sourced Foundation (formerly AI Economist), an AI research simulation for exploring tax policies. To accompany its release, the company this week published what it’s calling a Simulation Card, a file to document the use, risks, and sources of bias…
Google revives its AI-fueled photo printing service
October 20, 2020
Google just made good on its promise to bring back its AI-based Photos printing service, and this time it’s more affordable. The upcoming premium print series will once again have machine learning select your 10 best photos each month, but you’ll now pay a slightly more affordable $7 per month (shipping already included) to get hard copies instead of the previous $8. Like before, you can skip…
Facebook uses AI to forecast COVID-19 spread across the US
October 20, 2020
It’s crucial to predict the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic when a poor estimate could lead to overcrowded hospitals or extra-strict lockdowns. Facebook is betting that AI could help. It just published a paper outlining an AI technique it will use to forecast the…
Cyberpunk 2077's dialogue was lip-synced by AI
October 20, 2020
Cyberpunk 2077 is just a few weeks away and the action-packed RPG will launch with support for dialogue in 10 languages and subtitle options for several others. CD Projekt Red is aiming to add a deeper layer of immersion for players by using artificial intelligence to lip…
Gaze tracking has the potential to help people living with motor neuron diseases and disorders extert control over their environment and communicate with others. But estimating a person’s gaze isn’t a trivial task owing to variables including head pose, head position, eye rotation, distance, illumination, background noise, and the presence of glasses, face coverings, and assistive medical…
Adobe has released new versions of Photoshop for desktop and iPad with a bunch more AI-powered features. The Sky Replacement tool that Adobe added to the latest version of Photoshop Elements is now available in the full version of the software. The feature uses AI to…
PhiSat-1 satellite uses AI to remove clouds from Earth images
October 20, 2020
Intel, the European Space Agency (ESA), and startup Ubotica today announced details of what they claim is the first AI-powered satellite to orbit the Earth. The product of a three-year development cycle, the organizations say the CubeSat — PhiSat-1 — could solve a…
Since Adobe uses its annual MAX conference to reveal new user-facing improvements to its professional creative applications, it’s no surprise that this year’s online-only event is a virtual firehose of announcements — too many to count or even list, thanks to the large collection of Creative Cloud apps that are all receiving updates. But one new feature really stands out from the rest: an…
