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Google Meet hardware promises AI features starting at $2,700

Google today unveiled Google Meet Series One, meeting room hardware that brings its AI-powered video calling features to businesses. The Series One compute system and sound bar both include the company’s Coral Accelerator Module with Google Edge tensor processing units (TPUs) to drive the audio and video. Series One room kits come in three room size configurations: up to 6 people ($2,700), 6-10…
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How AI can reduce customer service costs by up to 30% (VB Live)

Presented by DefinedCrowd Customer experience is key to a customer retention rate that leads to more deals and revenue. Learn how companies like MasterCard are implementing AI strategies that are transforming how customer experience is done when you join this VB Live event. Register here for free. Every year, businesses spend over $1 trillion on customer service calls. But AI and natural…
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Boston Dynamics CEO talks profitability and the company’s next robots

Founded in 1992, Boston Dynamics is arguably the best-known robot company around, in part because its demonstration videos tend to go viral. Now it is attempting to transform from an R&D company to a robotics business, with an eye on profitability for the first time. When we interviewed Boston Dynamics founder and former CEO Marc Raibert in November 2019, we discussed the company’s…
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The promise of voice AI in game development

AI voices are sounding more realistic today than ever before in the history of synthetic voice technology. What started as simple text-to-speech (TTS), combined with hundreds of hours of recorded dialog, has evolved into more natural-sounding AI voices, synthesized from just…
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AI Weekly: What ML practitioners are doing about climate change

A lot happened this week deserving of attention in the AI space. wrote an article with GPT-3 and again demonstrated that no matter what OpenAI paid to train and create the language model, the free marketing might be worth more. After losing the JEDI cloud contract appeal with the Pentagon, Amazon appointed Keith Alexander to its board — the man who oversaw the National Security Agency mass…
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