Primates’ retinal ganglion cells receive visual info from photoreceptors that they then transmit from the eye to the brain. But not all cells are created equal — an estimated 80% operate at low frequency and recognize fine details, while about 20% respond to swift changes. This biological dichotomy inspired scientists at Facebook AI Research to pursue what they call SlowFast. It’s a machine…
Adobe has just released major updates to Creative Cloud apps like Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Lightroom. On top of the usual speed and productivity enhancements, many of those have gained time-saving features powered by Adobe’s AI Sensei algorithms, some…
Modzy is a marketplace for enterprise AI software and models
November 4, 2019
Companies are trying to find the most efficient ways to use machine learning models in their businesses. Modzy, a product of Booz Allen, is designed to make that process easier and safer for enterprises. Seth Clark, senior associate at Booz Allen, described Modzy in an…
Tesla Autopilot now recognizes traffic cones
November 3, 2019
Tesla’s Autopilot has been adept at recognizing other cars on the road, but those aren’t the only things you have to worry about on the road — what about the traffic cones that wall you off from roadwork? You can relax after today… well, for the most part. Tesla is quietly rolling out an Autopilot update that lets its electric cars detect and display pylons on the road.
Tech companies might have trouble establishing groundwork for the ethical use of AI, but the Defense Department appears to be moving forward. The Defense Innovation Board just published draft guidelines for AI ethics at the Defense Department that aim to keep the emerging…
Samsung’s Bixby assistant won’t be the reason you buy (or don’t buy) your next Samsung-manufactured smartphone, smart refrigerator, smart router, or smart speaker. And Samsung is finally coming to terms with that.
This was the implicit thread underlying the 2019…
Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence program AlphaStar will battle attendees at BlizzCon 2019 in matches of the classic Blizzard real-time strategy game StarCraft 2.
In the Blizzard Arcade section of the fan event in Anaheim, California, Blizzard has set up machines for fans to play the AI system.
This battle is likely to be fruitless for BlizzCon fans. The AI is reportedly better than…
Watch Google’s AI teach a picker robot to assemble objects
October 31, 2019
Manipulating objects in a range of shapes isn’t machines’ forte, but it’s a useful skill of any robot tasked with navigating the physical world. To advance the state-of-the-art in this domain, researchers at Google, Stanford, and Columbia recently investigated a…
The Defense Innovation Board, a panel of 16 prominent technologists advising the Pentagon, today voted to approve AI ethics principles for the Department of Defense. The report includes 12 recommendations for how the U.S. military can apply ethics in the future for both…
DeepMind AI now keeps up with 'StarCraft II' Grandmasters
October 31, 2019
DeepMind’s StarCraft II AI can already hang with human players, but now it’s ready to handle the best of the best. The team has revealed that its AlphaStar AI can play one-on-one matches in the real-time strategy game at a Grandmaster level for all three factions (Terran, Protoss, Zerg). The AI is better than 99.8 percent of human players on Battle.net, according to DeepMind.
