Sports analytics, which refers to the use of data and statistics to measure the performance of players (or teams) and make informed coaching decisions, is an enormous market. Grand View Research pegs its worth at $4.6 billion by 2025, expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 31.2% from 2019.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, startups are pursuing it with gusto, and one of the pack leaders is PlaySight.
Microsoft’s AI improves text summarization performance by paying closer attention to the beginning
February 14, 2020
A newsy feature from the New York Times is bound to have a different tone than the average Reddit post. Indeed, the diversity of writing styles and grammatical structures makes the task of automatic text summarization highly challenging. That’s why researchers from…
How AI is stopping the next great flu before it starts
February 14, 2020
Immune systems across the globe have been working overtime this winter as a devastating flu season has taken hold. More than 180,000 Americans have been hospitalized and 10,000 more have died in recent months, according to the CDC, while the coronavirus (now officially…
Google’s AutoFlip uses AI to crop videos for you
February 13, 2020
Video filmed and edited for TV is typically created and viewed in landscape, but problematically, aspect ratios like 16:9 and 4:3 don’t always fit the display being used for viewing. Fortunately, Google is on the case. It today detailed AutoFlip, an open source tool for intelligent video reframing. Given a video and a target dimension, it analyzes the video content and develops optimal tracking…
The World Health Organization reports that 1.5 million people were killed in road accidents in 2018, of which more than half were pedestrians and cyclists. One of the biggest culprits is the so-called “hidden pedestrian” problem, in which people obscured by obstacles…
Andrew Yang ended his campaign Tuesday after a tepid showing in New Hampshire, bringing to an end what can be characterized as the only AI-first presidential campaign in U.S. history. Some will argue Yang’s campaign simply rose to prominence because of his support of a…
MIT CSAIL’s AI corrects outdated Wikipedia articles
February 13, 2020
The English-language Wikipedia contains over 6 million articles, and the combined versions for all other languages contain over 28 billion words over 52 million articles in 309 languages. It’s an incomparably valuable resource for knowledge seekers, needless to say, but one that requires pruning by the over 132,000 registered active monthly editors.
In search of an autonomous solution…
Israeli robotics startup Intuition Robotics has raised $36 million in a series B round of funding co-led by Sparx Group and OurCrowd, with participation from Samsung Next, Toyota AI Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, iRobot, Sompo Holdings, Union Tech Ventures, Happiness Capital…
In 2005, Ali Dixon, then a student at the University of Bristol, founded fabless semiconductor company XMOS alongside former Oxford Semiconductor CEO James Foster, former Inmos chief architect David May, Hitesh Mehta of Acacia Capital Partners, and Noel Hurley. With seed…
AI can automatically rewrite outdated text in Wikipedia articles
February 13, 2020
It’s good to be skeptical of Wikipedia articles for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the possibility of outdated info — human editors can only do so much. And while there are bots that can edit Wikipedia, they’re usually limited to updated canned templates or fighting vandalism. MIT might have a more useful (not to mention more elegant) solution. Its researchers…
