Dell is expanding its Latitude brand of business laptops by adding a 9000-series, starting with the new Latitude 9510. As with some other recent notebook launches, the company is highlighting a few superlatives here. Dell is calling the Latitude 9510 “world’s most intelligent 15-inch PC with built-in AI,” the “world’s smallest, lightest ultra-premium business 15-inch…
AI is no longer poised to change the world someday; it’s changing the world now. As we begin a new year and decade, VentureBeat turned to some of the keenest minds in AI to revisit progress made in 2019 and look ahead to how machine learning will mature in 2020. We spoke…
DeepMind, a UK-based artificial intelligence company purchased by Google in 2014, has turned its sights to the problem of breast cancer detection. Although breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women, detection is difficult due to high rates of false…
Google Health’s AI identifies breast cancer in mammogram imagery with fewer false positives
January 1, 2020
Google Health today shared an AI model trained with more than 90,000 mammogram x-rays that achieve better results than human radiology experts while recognizing more of false negatives, the kind of images that look normal but contain breast cancer. Initial findings were published in Nature.
The model achieves lower rates of false-positives (5.7% in U.S. and 1.2% in the U.K.). It also achieves…
6 AI features Microsoft added to Office in 2019
December 31, 2019
Microsoft has added so many AI-driven features to its Office productivity suite this year that we wanted to pull together a comprehensive list — but it’s not as straightforward as it might seem. Features like PowerPoint Designer, OneNote’s ink to text, and Word’s…
Live Freely uses a combination of predictive artificial intelligence and remote monitoring to help take better care of seniors, particularly with emergency incidents such as falls.
The San Jose, California-based company recently launched Buddy, health management and remote…
Researchers detail AI that de-hazes and colorizes underwater photos
December 30, 2019
Ever notice that underwater images tend to be be blurry and somewhat distorted? That’s because phenomena like light attenuation and back-scattering adversely affect visibility. To remedy this, researchers at Harbin Engineering University in China devised a machine learning algorithm that generates realistic water images, along with a second algorithm that trains on those images to both restore…
Smartphones and social media have often been called our era’s cigarettes — an addictive, destructive cancer to society. Children are particularly susceptible to the corruption permeating the digital world, whether they’re soaking in misinformation or battling a barrage…
AI Weekly: Facial recognition, deepfakes, privacy, and jobs automation defined 2019
December 27, 2019
As the year draws to a close, it’s instructive to look back at the months preceding to see what the future has in store. History is cyclical in nature, and this is true of the field of AI. Consider that backpropagation, an algorithm widely used in the training of machine…
Microsoft proposes AI that improves when you smile
December 27, 2019
Positive affectivity, or the characteristic that describes how people experience affects (e.g., sensations, emotions, and sentiments) and interact with others as a consequence, has been linked to increased interest and curiosity as well as satisfaction in learning. Inspired by this, a team of Microsoft researchers propose imbuing reinforcement learning, an AI training technique that employs…
