AI & Robotics

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…

(Reuters) — White House officials met Wednesday with U.S. technology industry officials to discuss tech-related response efforts to combat the coronavirus outbreak and ways for government to collaborate with the private sector. COVID19, the disease caused by the virus, has killed about 30 people in the United States, and infected more than 1,000 Americans and over 115,000 people…

Promethean AI enables people with no programming or digital art experience to create amazing game environments with voice commands. If you doubt this, check out the video embedded in this post. The Ugandan animation students in it were neophytes at creating elaborate scenes for games. But Andrew Maximov, CEO of Promethean AI in Los Angeles, flew to Uganda’s capital city, Kampala, and gave a…

In a recent study, researchers at Google proposed Efficiently Learning an Encoder that Classifies Token Replacements Accurately (ELECTRA), an AI language training technique that outperforms existing methods given the same amount of computing resources. This week, months after its publication, the coauthors released the codebase (and pretrained models) for TensorFlow, laying the groundwork for…