LinkedIn recently open-sourced GDMix, a framework that makes training AI personalization models ostensibly more efficient and less time-consuming. The Microsoft-owned company says it’s an improvement over LinkedIn’s previous release in the space — Photon ML — because it supports deep learning models.
GDMix trains fixed effect and random effect models, two kinds of models used in search…
Google’s Smart Cleanup taps AI to streamline data entry
September 29, 2020
In June, Google unveiled Smart Cleanup, a Google Sheets feature that taps AI to learn patterns and autocomplete data while surfacing formatting suggestions. Now, following a months-long beta, Smart Cleanup is today launching into general availability for all G Suite…
Boston Dynamics' robot dog takes an 'evening stroll' in Canada
September 29, 2020
Last week a lot of people got their first taste of an in-the-wild encounter between organic human life and one of Boston Dynamics’ advanced robots. In Northern Ontario, Canada @bloodtear noticed the Spot robot walking down the street and had an encounter that wouldn’t…
Amsterdam and Helsinki launch algorithm registries to bring transparency to public deployments of AI
September 29, 2020
Amsterdam and Helsinki today launched AI registries to detail how each city government uses algorithms to deliver services, some of the first major cities in the world to do so. An AI Register for each city was introduced in beta today as part of the Next Generation Internet Policy Summit, organized in part by the European Commission and the city of Amsterdam. The Amsterdam registry currently…
Facebook open-sources RAG, an AI model that retrieves documents to answer questions
September 28, 2020
Facebook and AI startup Hugging Face today open-sourced Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), a natural language processing model that finds and interprets contextual information to complete a range of tasks. Facebook says that RAG can be tuned to attain state-of-the-art…
Cogniac raises $10 million for AI that spots visual changes for industrial and government uses
September 28, 2020
Cogniac, a startup developing technology for visual task automation, today raised $10 million. CEO Chuck Myers says the funds will be put toward hiring staff, expanding sales and marketing, and supporting the company’s growth.
Tasks in manufacturing, one of Cogniac’s key…
Google launches AI Platform Prediction in general availability
September 26, 2020
Google today launched AI Platform Prediction in general availability, a service that lets developers prep, build, run, and share machine learning models in the cloud. It’s based on a Google Kubernetes Engine backend and features an architecture designed for high reliability, flexibility, and low overhead latency.
IDC predicts that worldwide spending on cognitive and AI systems will reach $77.6…
Google is asking users to help teach its AI how to speak. A new “Experiments with Google” called LipSync asks users to lip sync a small part of “Dance Monkey” by Tones and I, Android Police reports.
LipSync, which is built by YouTube for Chrome on desktop, will score…
Facebook’s Dynabench aims to make AI models more robust through distributed human workers
September 24, 2020
Facebook today introduced Dynabench, a platform for AI data collection and benchmarking that uses humans and models “in the loop” to create challenging test data sets. Leveraging a technique called dynamic adversarial data collection, Dynabench measures how easily humans…
Earlier in the year, Microsoft detailed the ways Bing has benefited from AI at Scale, an initiative to apply large-scale AI and supercomputing to language processing across Microsoft’s apps, services, and managed products. AI at Scale chiefly bolstered the search engine’s ability to directly answer questions and generate image captions, but in a blog post today, Microsoft says it has led to…
