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How AI is stopping the next great flu before it starts

February 14, 2020
Immune systems across the globe have been working overtime this winter as a devastating flu season has taken hold. More than 180,000 Americans have been hospitalized and 10,000 more have died in recent months, according to the CDC, while the coronavirus (now officially designated COVID-19) has spread across the globe at an alarming rate. Fears of a growing worldwide flu outbreak have even prompted…
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Google’s AutoFlip uses AI to crop videos for you

February 13, 2020
Video filmed and edited for TV is typically created and viewed in landscape, but problematically, aspect ratios like 16:9 and 4:3 don’t always fit the display being used for viewing. Fortunately, Google is on the case. It today detailed AutoFlip, an open source tool for…
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Andrew Yang brought AI into American politics, and it isn’t going away

February 13, 2020
Andrew Yang ended his campaign Tuesday after a tepid showing in New Hampshire, bringing to an end what can be characterized as the only AI-first presidential campaign in U.S. history. Some will argue Yang’s campaign simply rose to prominence because of his support of a $1,000 universal basic income, but he outlasted and outperformed most of the field because he seems to understand the impact of…
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MIT CSAIL’s AI corrects outdated Wikipedia articles

February 13, 2020
The English-language Wikipedia contains over 6 million articles, and the combined versions for all other languages contain over 28 billion words over 52 million articles in 309 languages. It’s an incomparably valuable resource for knowledge seekers, needless to say, but…
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XMOS unveils Xcore.ai, a powerful chip designed for AI processing at the edge

February 13, 2020
In 2005, Ali Dixon, then a student at the University of Bristol, founded fabless semiconductor company XMOS alongside former Oxford Semiconductor CEO James Foster, former Inmos chief architect David May, Hitesh Mehta of Acacia Capital Partners, and Noel Hurley. With seed funding from the University of Bristol enterprise fund and the Wyvern seed fund, as well as Amadeus Capital Partners, DJF…
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Why Clearview AI is a threat to us all

February 12, 2020
When London’s Metropolitan Police Department announced its decision to adopt the controversial and intrusive ClearView AI surveillance system at the end of January, a global cacophony of protest erupted. Concerns, fear and trepidation surrounding facial recognition technologies, especially those like Clearview which can ID people in real-time, have been simmering for decades, but the…
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