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Google AI is now piloting Loon's internet-beaming balloons

December 3, 2020
Alphabet’s Loon has shifted to a different type of navigation system for its internet-beaming balloons. Rather than relying on algorithms designed by humans, the balloons are using an artificial intelligence system Loon developed with Google AI over the last few years.  A reinforcement learning (RL) system is now in charge of navigation for a fleet of balloons over Kenya, where Loon switched on…
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AI still struggles to recognize hateful memes, but it’s slowly improving

December 2, 2020
Facebook in May launched the Hateful Memes Challenge, a $100,000 competition aimed at spurring researchers to develop systems that can identify memes intended to hurt people. The first phase of the one-year contest recently crossed the halfway mark with over 3,000 entries from hundreds of teams around the world. But while progress has been encouraging, the leaderboard shows even the top-performing…
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Supernormal brings AI-powered asynchronous video messaging to remote teams

December 1, 2020
Zoom became one of this year’s big success stories for real-time video communications, as the rapid shift to remote work forced businesses to rethink their operations. Now a new startup is setting out to become the go-to platform for asynchronous video communications. There is no shortage of non-real-time communication tools that allow globally distributed teams to check in with each other —…
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DeepMind’s improved protein-folding prediction AI could accelerate drug discovery

December 1, 2020
The recipe for proteins — large molecules consisting of amino acids that are the fundamental building blocks of tissues, muscles, hair, enzymes, antibodies, and other essential parts of living organisms — are encoded in DNA. It’s these genetic definitions that circumscribe their three-dimensional structures, which in turn determines their capabilities. But protein “folding,” as it’s…
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