Aidoc, which bills itself as an AI solutions provider for radiologists, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has allowed the use of its algorithms for “adjunctive” detection of findings associated with COVID-19. The models aren’t meant to replace traditional COVID-19 diagnostic tests, like serological tests and nasopharyngeal swabs, but the agency’s allowance…
In a preprint paper, researchers at Alphabet’s DeepMind and the University of California, Berkeley propose a framework for comparing the ways children learn about the world to the way AI learns. The work, which was motivated by research suggesting children’s learning…
Just in time for the home fitness craze, Exer has launched its AI-based coach that shows you how to exercise correctly at home.
The first product available now is the Perfect Plank by Exer iPhone on the App Store and on Product Hunt, said Exer CEO Zaw Thet in an interview…
A paper coauthored by researchers at the University of Toronto’s Vector Institute and Google describes an AI technique tailored to health, science, and finance predictions called neural stochastic differential equations (SDEs).
It enables the modeling of random events that might affect a person, price, or the state of a complex system — a system comprised of many parts that might interact…
In a technical paper published on Arxiv.org this week, researchers at Facebook and Arizona State University lifted the hood on AutoScale, which shares a name with Facebook’s energy-sensitive load balancer. AutoScale, which could theoretically be used by any company were…
Google today launched Read Along, an Android app that taps AI and machine learning to help children learn to read by providing verbal and visual feedback. After first debuting in India, it’s now available in over 180 countries (excepting the Philippines, Denmark, and…
Cybersecurity threat remediation provider Dtex today announced it has raised $17.5 million. The funds will be used to expand into new and existing verticals, including banking and financial services, critical infrastructure, government, defense, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, and manufacturing.
Dtex differentiates itself in the multi-billion-dollar threat intelligence market with a GDPR-compliant…
In a recent paper, Facebook and University of California, Berkely researchers propose an approach to payload-carrying drone flight planning that “learns how to learn” models of environmental dynamics. Results from experiments suggest the work could inform the development…
Facebook today announced that it plans to cancel its 2020-2021 in-person AI Residency program as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic. In a statement provided to VentureBeat via email, Facebook vice president of AI Jerome Pesenti said that the decision was motivated by…
Microsoft’s AI ethics committee helped craft internal Department of Defense contract policy, and G20 member nations wouldn’t have passed AI ethics principles if it weren’t for Japanese leadership. That’s according to a case study examining projects at Microsoft, OpenAI, and OECD out this week.
Published Tuesday, the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) case study examines…
