Twenty years ago, the average person likely owned a single camera, and security cameras inside homes were nearly as rare as they were in cars. But as we enter the 2020s, cameras have become ubiquitous. Most people today have two or more cameras on each smartphone, one or two in each computer and tablet, and at least one — a backup camera — in their car. They may also have doorbell cameras to…
Microsoft’s AI automatically comments on video clips
February 11, 2020
Generating live video captions with AI could bolster engagement on social media, or serve as a benchmark for the task of translating video to text. Preliminary work to this end has employed encoder-decoder models to generate comments, but they haven’t modeled the…
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…
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 both customer-facing and internal use. According to IBM, companies spend $1.3 trillion to answer 265 billion customer…
New music label says it can use AI to find the next big artist
February 10, 2020
At this point, artificial intelligence isn’t a new concept to musicians. We’ve seen artists like Björk and Arca use the technology to create new musical arrangements. But a new label called Snafu Records thinks it can also use AI to discover the next big artist…
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…
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) — designed for internet of things (IoT) endpoint devices, alongside supporting software libraries, toolchains, and models. The company…
Facebook buys startup using AI vision to find your location
February 8, 2020
Facebook might have just acquired a key ingredient for its augmented reality glasses. TechCrunch has discovered a filing indicating that Facebook has bought Scape Technologies, a London-based startup using computer vision to determine your location beyond the capabilities…
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…
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 systems. Yet both can seem intractably technical, even for tech-savvy people. Because their significance is pitched against their…
