Akio Toyoda, CEO of Toyota, said that the automotive company plans to build the town of the future on the site of a former car factory in Japan.
Toyota Woven City will combine a wide array of technologies, including robotics, smart homes, autonomous vehicles, the internet of things, digital health, and sustainable energy. It will be built on 175 acres of land.
The company unveiled the vision…
Audi’s ‘empathetic’ AI:Me is about relaxing while commuting
January 6, 2020
Commuting is the worst part of driving. It’s a stress-inducing piece of hell that many of us endure on a daily basis. Audi aims to eliminate that stress with a tiny self-driving car that takes you on a virtual journey while you’re sitting in gridlock.
The…
State-of-the-art AI and machine learning algorithms can generate lifelike images of places and objects, but they’re also adept at swapping faces from one person to another — and of spotting sophisticated deepfakes. In a pair of academic papers published by teams at…
Thanks to Amazon’s Ring, Google’s Nest Cams, and numerous competitors, residential monitoring cameras have become commonplace over the past few years, enabling people to see who’s ringing the doorbell and walking around their homes. Today, Abode Systems is taking the next step forward with the $199 Outdoor/Indoor Smart Camera, which has the AI-assisted ability to remember and recognize…
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Every major company and government deploying AI at scale has publicly declared some form of statement on ethics in AI and articulated a set of guiding principles. In fact, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society has launched a project…
Asus hopes to tap into an edge computing market anticipated to be worth $9 billion by 2024. To this end, the Taiwan-based company unveiled a new Mini PC — the PN61T — as well as the Tinker Edge R and Edge T, which were first announced last November. Asus says they’re…
Why explainable AI is a critical business strategy (VB Live)
January 6, 2020
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Not only do customers care whether AI results are explainable, but internally, white-box AI is less risky. But what does it mean in practice? And how can businesses move away from black-box systems to more explainable AI? Learn how white box AI brings value and more when you join this VB Live event.
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In 2018, the Lioness Generation 1 vibrator promised to improve users’ orgasms through detailed data collection. Two years later, Lioness has unveiled the Generation 2, a new vibrator that implements more than 30,000 climactic data points to deliver AI-driven guidance…
Chip designer Ambarella has announced two new chips for automotive cameras and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) based on its CVflow architecture for artificial intelligence processing. The Santa Clara, California-based company unveiled the CV22FS and CV2FS…
Samsung unveils its AI-powered 8K TVs for 2020
January 6, 2020
Samsung revealed its new QLED 8K TV last night in Korea, and now the US unveiling is under way.
We already heard about interesting features like its “digital butler” that will control other devices, including older stuff that can’t connect to networks using an IR blaster, multitasking with picture-in-picture and the AI ScaleNet tech that streams “8K quality” video by…
