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Exer launches AI-based fitness coach on your mobile phone

Just in time for the home fitness craze, Exer has launched its AI-based coach that shows you how to exercise correctly at home. The first product available now is the Perfect Plank by Exer iPhone on the App Store and on Product Hunt, said Exer CEO Zaw Thet in an interview with VentureBeat. “Unfortunately, people can’t go to a gym now,” Thet said. “We started this a few years ago, and I…
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Google’s Read Along taps AI to improve kids’ reading skills

Google today launched Read Along, an Android app that taps AI and machine learning to help children learn to read by providing verbal and visual feedback. After first debuting in India, it’s now available in over 180 countries (excepting the Philippines, Denmark, and Colombia) and in nine languages including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, and…
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Facebook cancels its 2020-2021 AI Residency program due to coronavirus

Facebook today announced that it plans to cancel its 2020-2021 in-person AI Residency program as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic. In a statement provided to VentureBeat via email, Facebook vice president of AI Jerome Pesenti said that the decision was motivated by health and safety concerns. “We continue to put the health and safety of our community first as we respond to changes…
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Facebook’s AI detects gender bias in text

In a technical paper published this week, Facebook researchers describe a framework that decomposes gender bias in text along several dimensions, which they used to annotate data sets and evaluate gender bias classifiers. If the experimental results are any indication, the team’s work might shed light on offensive language in terms of genderedness, and perhaps even control for gender bias in…
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