Summarizing text is a task at which machine learning algorithms are improving, as evidenced by a recent paper published by Microsoft. That’s that’s good news — automatic summarization systems promise to cut down on the amount message-reading done by enterprise workers, which one survey estimates amounts to 2.6 hours each day.
Not to be outdone, a Google Brain and Imperial College London team…
AI year in review: Opportunities grow, but ethics loom large
December 23, 2019
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Artificial intelligence garnered a lot of attention from the usual players — governments, tech giants, and academics —…
Amplifying New Voices diversity training program finds permanent home with AIAS Foundation
December 23, 2019
Amplifying New Voices, a program that trains diverse game industry people to be good speakers, has found a permanent home with the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Foundation, the nonprofit that stages the DICE Summit game event each February.
The group has staged…
It’s nine in the morning on a rainy December 23, and my iPhone has just photographed a supermoon from my front door — no easy feat since the real moon is a distant and barely visible waning crescent today, and I’m shooting in pure daylight. Even by the latest and greatest smartphone camera technology standards, my device has captured an impossible image, yet when I look at my device’s…
In August, Tencent announced it had developed an AI system capable of defeating teams of pros in a five-on-five match in Honor of Kings (or Arena of Valor, depending on the region). This was a noteworthy achievement — Honor of Kings occupies the video game subgenre known…
How the ‘big 5’ bolstered their AI through acquisitions in 2019
December 23, 2019
The AI talent grab is real. This year alone, Pinterest CTO Vanja Josifovski jumped ship to Airbnb, while Pinterest hired Walmart CTO Jeremy King to head up its engineering team. Moreover, all the big tech companies, including Google and Apple, have for some time been…
As consumers find value in AI, now is the time to invest further
December 23, 2019
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Artificial intelligence has reached a point in its advancement where the masses have an understanding of its capabilities. In fact, consumers already see the near future where AI simplifies specific tasks of their everyday lives such as booking travel, educating them, preparing their taxes, and driving their cars. It’s no surprise that the AI market projection is…
AI has a privacy problem, but these techniques could fix it
December 22, 2019
Artificial intelligence promises to transform — and indeed, has already transformed — entire industries, from civic planning and health care to cybersecurity. But privacy remains an unsolved challenge in the industry, particularly where compliance and regulation are…
MIT and IBM develop AI that recommends documents based on topic
December 20, 2019
Even the best text-parsing recommendation algorithms can be stymied by data sets of a certain size. In an effort to to deliver faster, better classification performance than the bulk of existing methods, a team at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and MIT’s Geometric Data…
AI Weekly: Machine learning’s role in climate change
December 20, 2019
Climate change is the most existential threat humanity faces today, and AI can solve problems in unprecedented ways. It only makes sense that we use the latter to work on the former. That was a significant sub-theme of NeurIPS 2019, highlighted in particular by the Tackling Climate Change workshop, and talk from some prominent leaders in machine learning suggests that the ML field can and should…
