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Labelbox raises $25 million to grow its data-labeling platform for AI model training

February 4, 2020
Labelbox today announced the close of a $25 million series B funding round to grow its platform that labels data needed to train AI systems. The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Google’s AI-focused Gradient Ventures fund, Kleiner Perkins, and First Round Capital. The funding will be used to develop and accelerate the Labelbox roadmap for machine learning…
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AI-formulated medicine to be tested on humans for the first time

February 3, 2020
A drug designed entirely by artificial intelligence is about to enter clinical human trials for the first time. The drug, which is intended to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder, was discovered using AI systems from Oxford-based biotech company Exscientia. While it would usually take around four and a half years to get a drug to this stage of development, Exscientia says that by using the AI…
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With Google’s Meena, are AI assistants about to get a lot smarter?

January 31, 2020
Last year, we got to see coherent, multi-paragraph text generated by OpenAI’s GPT-2 model. This week, a new paper from Google AI showed that a chatbot based on a gigantic neural network and huge amounts of data can hold coherent conversations, maintaining context over multiple turns and conversing on just about any topic. The chatbot is called Meena, and it’s even able to invent jokes (see…
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DeepMind’s MEMO AI solves novel reasoning tasks with less compute

January 30, 2020
Can AI capture the essence of reasoning — that is, the appreciation of distant relationships among elements distributed across multiple facts or memories? Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind sought to find out in a study published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, which proposes an architecture — MEMO — with the capacity to reason over long distances. They say that its two novel components — the…
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