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Google Assistant's ambient mode is coming to OnePlus phones

February 11, 2020
If you own a OnePlus phone, you may soon be able to control your smart lights or control music playback through an interface that appears when you plug it in. That’s because Android’s Google Assistant-powered ambient mode has started rolling out to the brand’s devices, particularly all OnePlus 3 and newer models. Ambient mode, which takes over the screen while the phone is…
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How enterprise is putting conversational AI to work

February 11, 2020
The market for conversational AI is expected to grow to more than $15 billion by 2024, from $4.2 billion in 2019. And for good reason — the technology is helping enterprises find new value and capabilities. In the enterprise, businesses are leveraging conversational AI for…
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ACLU rejects Clearview AI's facial recognition accuracy claims

February 10, 2020
Clearview AI’s facial recognition isn’t just raising privacy issues — there are also concerns over its accuracy claims. The ACLU has rejected Clearview’s assertion that its technology is “100% accurate” based on the civil liberty group’s methodology for testing Amazon’s Rekognition, telling BuzzFeed News that the findings are “absurd on many…
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Arm unveils 2 new AI edge computing chips

February 10, 2020
Semiconductor and software design company Arm is doubling down on edge AI hardware, a market that’s expected to be worth $1.15 billion by 2023. It today announced two new AI-capable processors — the Arm Cortex-M55 and Ethos-U55, a neural processing unit (NPU) —…
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An AI regulation strategy that could really work

February 8, 2020
When even the companies developing AI themselves agree with the need for regulation, it is time to stop discussing abstract principles and get down to the business of how to regulate a rapidly advancing technology landscape. It is clear that our regulatory system needs an update. If we try to regulate 21st century technology and beyond with 20th century tools, we’ll get none of the…
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AI Weekly: Announcing our AI and security special issue

February 7, 2020
Whether we’re aware of it or not, both AI and cybersecurity are nearly omnipresent in our daily lives at this point, and together they’re of increasing importance as our world becomes more connected, more “intelligent,” and more reliant on online or automated…
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AI, 5G, and IoT can help deliver the promise of precision medicine

February 6, 2020
This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. When my son was a toddler, he went to his pediatrician for a routine CAT scan. Easy stuff. Just a little shot to subdue him for a few minutes. He’d be awake and finished in a jiffy. Except my son didn’t wake up. He lay there on the clinic table, unresponsive, his vitals slowly falling. The clinic had…
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