Gary Shapiro is the longtime CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, and he has played a lot of roles over the years in that job.
Shapiro presides over CES 2020, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. He plays the seer, as the author of a couple of best-selling books about the future of technology. He’s a policy wonk who promotes the consumer electronics industry’s views in…
Amazon researchers trained an AI model in multiple languages to improve product searches
January 8, 2020
Amazon operates in 14 countries around the world, nine of which are eligible for its Prime yearly subscription service. It goes without saying that the company has a real desire to make available its shopping experience in any number of languages, particularly where…
Perhaps the worst thing about air travel is having to wade through congested airport security. Wait times at airports like Salt Lake City International and Washington Dulles regularly exceed half an hour on average, and that’s assuming folks follow TSA instructions.
The…
Google Assistant’s interpreter mode is helping travelers feel more at home in select American Airlines lounges. The airline has started testing the feature, which we first saw at CES 2019, running on Google Nest Hubs at Los Angeles International Airport’s Admirals Club lounges in Terminals 4 and 5. Assistant’s interpreter mode can translate 29 languages, including Arabic, French…
iRobot’s IFTTT support is about to become much more useful if you’re a fan of smart home tech. The company has formed a partnership with IFTTT that will let you integrate smart home gadgets directly inside iRobot’s Home App, effectively giving those…
Lyft releases Flyte, a platform for maintaining AI workflows
January 7, 2020
Hot on the heels of Uber’s open-sourcing of an AI debugging tool this morning, Lyft announced the release of Flyte, which it describes as a structured and distributed platform for concurrent, scalable, and maintainable machine learning workflows. The company says that…
Today, the White House proposed 10 principles for federal agencies to consider when regulating artificial intelligence, Reuters reports. The guidelines stress limiting regulatory “overreach” and encourage Europe and other allies to “avoid heavy handed innovation-killing models.”
The guidelines instruct federal agencies to “conduct risk assessment and cost-benefit…
Google Assistant passes 500 million users, will get longform reading and deeper smart home integration in 2020
January 7, 2020
Google Assistant is now used by 500 million monthly active users, and today Google is previewing features on the way in 2020 like a new voice that reads articles and web pages aloud to users with a more natural and humanlike voice. Later this year, saying “Hey Google, read…
Debugging machine learning (ML) models isn’t a walk in the woods. Just ask the data scientists and engineers at Uber, some of whom have the unenviable task of digging into algorithms to diagnose the causes of their performance issues.
To lighten the workload, Uber…
The warehouse robotics market is on the upswing. In point of fact, analysts at Allied Market Research anticipate it’ll reach $5.186 billion by 2023 as tasks like pick-place, packaging, transportation, packaging, and palletizing become increasingly automated. A recent survey published by EyeForTransport reflects this — it revealed an 18% year-over-year increase in the testing of warehouse…
