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Spin Master's new NinjaBots are cute little killers

February 22, 2020
Do you remember the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon from the ’80s? Shredder’s minions were all featureless humanoid robots, which our heroes could could slice and dice without guilt. At this year’s Toy Fair, Spin Master’s new product answers the question: What if the ninjas were the robots? Unlike the Foot Clan, NinjaBots aren’t human shaped; they’re…
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'Westworld' season 3 trailer sets the stage for an AI battle

February 20, 2020
HBO has released a new trailer for the upcoming third season of Westworld. It shows Dolores, Maeve and Westworld’s other characters leave the confines of the park that defined so much of show’s past two seasons. Additionally, we see more of the futuristic city we saw glimpses of in the first trailer HBO shared last July. There’s also the suggestion Maeve and Dolores will come…
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Facebook’s AI speeds up natural language processing without additional training

February 20, 2020
Natural language models typically have to solve two tough problems: mapping sentence prefixes to fixed-sized representations and using the representations to predict the next word in the text. In a recent paper, researchers at Facebook AI Research assert that the first problem — the mapping problem — might be easier than the prediction problem, a hypothesis they build upon to augment language…
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Google used AI and human moderation to take down over 75 million Google Maps reviews

February 19, 2020
Hundreds of millions of people contribute over 20 million reviews, ratings, and other pieces of content to Google Maps’ over 200 million points of interest daily — it’s how the platform continues to grow so rapidly. But user contributions are intrinsically fraught. That’s why increasingly, Google is using AI and machine learning to spot malicious contributions at submission time, ensuring…
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