AI & Robotics

Amazon says it’s applying AI and machine learning to calculate inflation rates — and to examine the design of randomized trials and experiments. In a pair of academic papers being presented at the 2020 meeting of the American Economic Association in San Diego, scientists at the company detail their work on models that learn correlations between product features and prices and on a blueprint…

AI advances are going to underpin many of this year’s major camera developments, as increasingly powerful local processing combines with machine learning to enable on-device recognition of people and objects. Today, D-Link is introducing two new home security cameras that are leveraging edge-based AI to detect both people and breaking glass, enabling users to get quick notifications if either is…

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 with PyTorch creator Soumith Chintala, University of California professor Celeste Kidd, Google AI chief Jeff Dean, Nvidia…

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 grammar and style suggestions got notable improvements, but they didn’t first show up in 2019. That’s because Microsoft…