AI & Robotics

Google today unveiled Data QnA, a service in private alpha that’s designed to help users get answers to analytical queries through natural language questions. Based on the Analyza system developed at Google Research, Data QnA automatically performs semantic parsing and mapping to data sets up to petabytes in size, and it can be embedded in chatbots, spreadsheets, and business intelligence…

In a technical paper quietly released earlier this year, IBM detailed what it calls the IBM Neural Computer, a custom-designed, reconfigurable parallel processing system designed to research and develop emerging AI algorithms and computational neuroscience. This week, the company published a preprint describing the first application demonstrated on the Neural Computer: a deep “neuroevolution”…

Nvidia released the GTC Digital conference keynote address today, which CEO Jensen Huang filmed in his kitchen. In his speech, Huang rolls out the new Ampere GPU architecture, AI-driven health care solutions for smart hospitals, and the A100 GPU, which promises 20 times faster training and inference than Volta. Huang also introduced Merlin, an application framework for recommendation systems that…

Traitify (previously Woofound), which taps AI and machine learning to perform job candidate assessments, today announced it has raised $12 million. The bulk of the funds will go toward product R&D, the company said. Personality assessments often inform hiring decisions. According to a Human Resource Management survey, 22% of corporate respondents require would-be employees to complete such…