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Facebook and Venmo demand Clearview AI stops scraping their data

February 6, 2020
Following Google and Twitter, Facebook has become the latest company to take legal action against controversial facial recognition startup Clearview AI. According to the company sent a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview sometime this week, demanding that it stop taking data from Facebook and Instagram. “Scraping people’s information violates our policies, which is why we’ve…
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Google’s ML-fairness-gym lets researchers study the long-term effects of AI’s decisions

February 6, 2020
Determining whether an AI system is maintaining fairness in its predictions requires an understanding of models’ short- and long-term effects, which might be informed by disparities in error metrics on a number of static data sets. In some cases, it’s necessary to consider the context in which the AI system operates in addition to the aforementioned error metrics, which is why Google…
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Google Assistant can now say where your Tile is

February 5, 2020
Tracking gadget Tile has been a boon to the forgetful, and now it’s set to get even more helpful. Previously, you could use Google Assistant to ring your Tile, so finding your keys or wallet was a matter of listening out for the beep. Now, though, it’s able to…
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Cherre raises $16 million to analyze real estate data with AI

February 5, 2020
Real estate data collection and analytics costs can total in the millions of dollars. That’s why in 2016, L.D. Salmanson founded Cherre, a startup that leverages AI to cost-effectively resolve property data from disparate public and private sources. After raising $9 million in October 2018, the New York-based company today announced that it’s snagged $16 million in venture and debt funding led…
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How AI helped upscale an antique 1896 film to 4K

February 4, 2020
When the 50-second silent short film L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat premiered in 1896, some theatergoers reportedly ran for safety at the sight of a projected approaching train, thinking that a real one would burst through the screen at any moment…
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Amazon Polly’s Brand Voices taps AI to generate custom spokespeople

February 4, 2020
If Amazon has its way, companies will soon tap Amazon Web Services (AWS) en masse to create voices tailored to their brands. The Seattle tech giant today launched Brand Voices, a fully managed service within Amazon Polly, Amazon’s cloud service that converts text into lifelike speech, that pairs customers with Amazon engineers to build AI-generated voices representing certain personas. As Amazon…
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