(Reuters) — Stores and workplaces eager to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus are equipping existing security cameras with artificial intelligence software that can track compliance with health guidelines including social distancing and mask-wearing.
Several companies told Reuters the software will be crucial to staying open as concerns about COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the…
Google’s second-generation Pixel Buds go on sale today in the U.S. for $179. Second-generation Pixel Buds were announced by the Made by Google team last fall and come with improvements in sound quality, hands-free access to Google Assistant, and touchpad gestures for…
In a technical paper scheduled to be presented next month at the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), a group of Amazon researchers propose an AI-driven approach to multiple-source localization, or the problem of estimating a…
Codota, a startup developing a platform that suggests and autocompletes Python, C, HTML, Java, Scala, Kotlin, and JavaScript code, today announced that it raised $12 million. The bulk of the capital will be spent on product R&D and sales growth, according to CEO and cofounder Dror Weiss.
Companies like Codota seem to be getting a lot of investor attention lately, and there’s a reason.
The surge of sensationalist COVID-19 AI research
April 25, 2020
There seems to be a tendency to hastily use imperfect and questionable data to train an AI solution for COVID-19, a dangerous trend that not only does not help any patient or physician but also damages the reputation of the AI community. Dealing with a pandemic — as…
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on unabated in countries around the world, there’s a shared desire among those forced to shelter in place to see the extent to which social distancing is slowing the disease’s spread. It’s understandable — collateral damage from…
The COVID-19 crisis has thrust the issue of remote working to the top of corporate agendas globally, with online communication and collaboration tools gaining traction. But many companies already operated remote “distributed” workforces — WordPress parent Automattic has long embraced remote working, as have GitLab, GitHub, and Basecamp. Last year, payments giant Stripe launched a new remote…
In a newly published paper, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) researchers propose a system for training and running AI models in a way that’s more environmentally friendly than previous approaches. They claim it can cut down on the pounds…
In a preprint paper coauthored by Google AI lead Jeff Dean, scientists at Google Research and the Google chip implementation and infrastructure team describe a learning-based approach to chip design that can learn from past experience and improve over time, becoming better…
In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, scientists at Alphabet’s DeepMind propose a new framework that learns an approximate best response to players within games of many kinds. They claim that it achieves consistently high performance against “worst-case opponents” — that is, players who aren’t good, yet at least play by the rules and actually complete the game — in…
