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How the coronavirus may reshape AI research conferences

March 12, 2020
COVID-19 officially became a global pandemic on Wednesday. As public health officials and governments respond; businesses brace for losses; and events like trade shows, SXSW, and Google’s I/O shutter around the world, the disease is also impacting scientific conferences. Ironically, a coronavirus conference got canceled this week, and on Tuesday the International Conference on Learning…
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Google’s Objectron uses AI to track 3D objects in 2D video

March 12, 2020
Coinciding with the kickoff of the 2020 TensorFlow Developer Summit, Google today published a pipeline — Objectron — that spots objects in 2D images and estimates their poses and sizes through an AI model. The company says it has implications for robotics, self-driving vehicles, image retrieval, and augmented reality — for instance, it could help a factory floor robot avoid obstacles in real…
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BackboneAI raises $4.7 million to unify disparate enterprise data sets with AI

March 11, 2020
BackboneAI, a startup providing a data automation platform for enterprises, today emerged from stealth with $4.7 million in seed funding. CEO Rob Bailey says the round will be used to scale the company’s product for data collection within and among organizations, which he believes could improve data science team productivity by leveraging AI to integrate data from a range of…
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Twilio rival MessageBird launches Inbox, an AI-powered contact center

March 11, 2020
European Twilio rival MessageBird has launched a new all-in-one, AI-powered contact center as it enters the billion-dollar customer service software market. Inbox, as the product is called, is a cross-channel customer service platform that’s pitched as the “Slack for external communications,” according to a statement, enabling companies to accept customer service requests from messaging…
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