AI & Robotics

AI researchers developing reinforcement learning agents could learn a lot from animals. That’s according to recent analysis by Google’s DeepMind, Imperial College London, and University of Cambridge researchers assessing AI and non-human animals. In a decades-long venture to advance machine intelligence, the AI research community has often looked to neuroscience and behavioral science for…

When COVID hit the world a few months ago, an extended period of gloom seemed all but inevitable. Yet many companies in the data ecosystem have not just survived but in fact thrived. Perhaps most emblematic of this is the blockbuster IPO of data warehouse provider Snowflake that took place a couple of weeks ago and catapulted Snowflake to a $69 billion market cap at the time of writing – the…

Landing AI is today launching LandingLens, a computer vision platform that enables manufacturers to train AI models. The goal is to help businesses more quickly deploy AI for visual inspection of products ranging from automotive components to semiconductors and parts for steel manufacturing and appliance and electronics assembly. Landing AI founder Andrew Ng told VentureBeat LandingLens is…

Salesforce recently open-sourced Foundation (formerly AI Economist), an AI research simulation for exploring tax policies. To accompany its release, the company this week published what it’s calling a Simulation Card, a file to document the use, risks, and sources of bias in published versions of the simulation. Simulation Cards join ongoing efforts to bring transparency to historically…