Landing AI is today launching LandingLens, a computer vision platform that enables manufacturers to train AI models. The goal is to help businesses more quickly deploy AI for visual inspection of products ranging from automotive components to semiconductors and parts for steel manufacturing and appliance and electronics assembly.
Landing AI founder Andrew Ng told VentureBeat LandingLens is…
Users around the world can now use Google’s Assistant to play and control Spotify podcasts in English, Spotify has confirmed to Engadget. Until now, the voice assistant has only supported its own Google Podcasts, with third-party services limited to music streaming only.
MIT CSAIL’s AI revives dead languages it hasn’t seen before
October 21, 2020
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) claim to have developed a system that can decipher a lost language without needing knowledge of its relation to other languages. They say it’s a step toward a system that’s able to…
Salesforce’s Simulation Cards spell out uses, risks, and bias to make AI models more transparent
October 21, 2020
Salesforce recently open-sourced Foundation (formerly AI Economist), an AI research simulation for exploring tax policies. To accompany its release, the company this week published what it’s calling a Simulation Card, a file to document the use, risks, and sources of bias in published versions of the simulation.
Simulation Cards join ongoing efforts to bring transparency to historically…
Google revives its AI-fueled photo printing service
October 20, 2020
Google just made good on its promise to bring back its AI-based Photos printing service, and this time it’s more affordable. The upcoming premium print series will once again have machine learning select your 10 best photos each month, but you’ll now pay a slightly more…
Facebook uses AI to forecast COVID-19 spread across the US
October 20, 2020
It’s crucial to predict the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic when a poor estimate could lead to overcrowded hospitals or extra-strict lockdowns. Facebook is betting that AI could help. It just published a paper outlining an AI technique it will use to forecast the…
Cyberpunk 2077's dialogue was lip-synced by AI
October 20, 2020
Cyberpunk 2077 is just a few weeks away and the action-packed RPG will launch with support for dialogue in 10 languages and subtitle options for several others. CD Projekt Red is aiming to add a deeper layer of immersion for players by using artificial intelligence to lip sync the dialogue in multiple languages.
The game’s lead character technical director, Mateusz Popławski, said in a…
Gaze tracking has the potential to help people living with motor neuron diseases and disorders extert control over their environment and communicate with others. But estimating a person’s gaze isn’t a trivial task owing to variables including head pose, head position…
Adobe has released new versions of Photoshop for desktop and iPad with a bunch more AI-powered features. The Sky Replacement tool that Adobe added to the latest version of Photoshop Elements is now available in the full version of the software. The feature uses AI to…
PhiSat-1 satellite uses AI to remove clouds from Earth images
October 20, 2020
Intel, the European Space Agency (ESA), and startup Ubotica today announced details of what they claim is the first AI-powered satellite to orbit the Earth. The product of a three-year development cycle, the organizations say the CubeSat — PhiSat-1 — could solve a challenge the space industry has faced for years: Photos from satellites are often obscured by clouds.
Clouds comprise about 70% of…
