There’s strong evidence that humans rely on coordinate frames, or reference lines and curves, to suss out the position of points in space. That’s unlike widely-used computer vision algorithms, which differentiate among objects by numerical representations of their characteristics.
In pursuit of a more human-like approach, researchers at Google, Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind, and the University…
Microsoft's Seeing AI app helps the blind in five more languages
December 3, 2019
Microsoft’s Seeing AI has been helpful for describing objects and text to the blind, but there’s been a key problem: it has only been available in English, making it a non-starter if you don’t speak the language. That won’t be a problem for some…
Amazon debuts AWS Inf1, an AI inference instance
December 3, 2019
Amazon Web Services today debuted Inf1, an instance that powers AI inference in the cloud that CEO Andy Jassy calls the lowest cost inference offering available in the cloud.
“…it will have lower latency, it will have 3 times higher throughput, and up to 40% lower cost…
SoftBank leads $30 million investment in Accel Robotics for AI-enabled cashierless stores
December 3, 2019
Accel Robotics, one of a growing number of AI startups that’s setting out to enable automated cashierless stores, has raised $30 million in a series A round of funding led by SoftBank, with participation from New Ground Ventures, Toyo Kanetsu Corporate Venture Investment Partnership, and RevTech Ventures.
Founded out of San Diego in 2015, Accel Robotics is creating the AI and computer vision…
Amazon has just announced AWS DeepComposer, what the company claims is the world’s first machine-learning enabled musical keyboard. In practice, the actual device is a lot simpler than Amazon’s grand statement might make it seem.
The company envisions…
Amazon believes its latest Web Services tool will help doctors spend more time with their patients. The tool, called Amazon Transcribe Medical, allows doctors to easily transcribe patient conversations and add those interactions to someone’s medical records with the…
Amazon unveils DeepComposer, an AI-enabled piano keyboard
December 2, 2019
Amazon’s re:Invent 2019 conference kicked off with a bang — or rather, with product announcements made during a midnight keynote at The Venetian. The Seattle company’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) division unveiled Amazon Transcribe Medical, a new edition of its automatic speech recognition service that lets developers add medical speech-to-text capabilities to their apps, and it debuted…
Phone use while driving remains a problem in many parts of the world, in no small part due to the difficulty of enforcing laws. How do you catch someone in the act? Australian police might not have that problem. The New South Wales government has started using the first…
Starting in 2020, China will require videos created using AI or VR to be clearly marked
November 30, 2019
(Reuters) — Chinese regulators have announced new rules governing video and audio content online, including a ban on the publishing and distribution of “fake news” created with technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
Any use of AI or virtual…
Engadget readers can save on iRobot Roomba i7 vacuums
November 30, 2019
If the price of vacuum robots has kept you away from the tech, we may be able to help. We’ve partnered with Wellbots to provide Engadget readers with an exclusive discount on iRobot’s high-end Roomba i7+ and i7 series vacuums.
You can get the i7+ for $699, instead of $999, by using the code “ENGADGETBOT” at checkout, and the i7 for $499, down from $699, with…
