In a preprint research paper published this week, Nvidia researchers propose an approach for human-to-robot handovers in which the robot meets the human halfway, classifies the human’s grasp, and plans a trajectory to take the object from the human’s hand. They claim it results in more fluent handovers compared with baselines, and they say it could inform the design of collaborative warehouse…
The world’s tech industry will be shaped by China, artificial intelligence, cancel culture, and a number of other trends, according to the Future Today Institute’s 2020 Tech Trends Report.
Now in its 13th year, the document is put together by the Future Today Institute…
The emergence of the professional AI risk manager
March 14, 2020
When the 1970s and 1980s were colored by banking crises, regulators from around the world banded together to set international standards on how to manage financial risk. Those standards, now known as the Basel standards, define a common framework and taxonomy on how risk…
AI Weekly: Coronavirus spurs adoption of AI-powered candidate recruitment and screening tools
March 13, 2020
As COVID-19 continues to spread — as of the time of writing (March 12), there were over 139,600 confirmed cases and over 5,100 deaths — companies are increasingly adopting alternatives to in-person job interviews and talent recruitment. Recruiters PageGroup and Robert Walters have announced plans to move some job interviews and interactions online, following on the heels of tech giants Amazon…
Google’s Neural Tangents library gives ‘unprecedented’ insights into AI models’ behavior
March 13, 2020
Google today made available Neural Tangents, an open source software library written in JAX, a system for high-performance machine learning research. It’s intended to help build AI models of variable width simultaneously, which Google says could allow “unprecedented”…
Eigen Technologies, a U.K. startup that offers natural language processing (NLP) technology to help companies extract meaningful data from documents, has closed a $42 million series B round of funding. This includes a fresh $5 million tranche from Dutch finance giant ING…
Vida Diagnostics, a provider of AI-powered lung imaging analysis tools, today announced that it’s raised $11 million. CEO Susan A. Woods said the funds will be used to accelerate the commercialization and expansion of the company’s product portfolio, which she says could address market deficits in the early assessment, monitoring, and treatment of lung disease.
“We are driven to continuously…
Amazon’s AI predicts context from search queries
March 12, 2020
Amazon is using AI and machine learning to predict context from customers’ queries. In a preprint paper accepted to the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval scheduled to take place this month, Amazon researchers describe a system that…
Google today penned an explainer on the Soli radar-based technology that ships inside its Pixel 4 smartphones. While many of the hardware details were previously known, the company for the first time peeled back the curtains on Soli’s AI models, which are trained to detect…
Transform 2020, the AI event for enterprise, adds digital option (in response to COVID-19)
March 12, 2020
Dear VentureBeat Community,
In light of the COVID-19 outbreak, we are closely monitoring developments and public health advisories that may impact our upcoming Transform 2020 conference, the leading event for business and technology leaders about how to implement AI in the enterprise.
At this time, Transform will proceed this July 15-16 in San Francisco, California. But we’ve decided to host…
