AI is about to play more of a role in the movie-making process. Warner Bros. Pictures has unveiled plans to use Cinelytic’s AI project management system to assist in making decisions on movies during the “greenlight process.” No, it won’t have the final say on whether or not a movie goes forward. Rather, this will help the studio predict a movie’s revenue, gauge…
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…
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 founders of Evolv Technology, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based security startup specializing in tech-based screening technology…
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…
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 Flyte has been serving AI model training and data processing internally for over three years, becoming the tool of choice for…
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…
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 internally developed Manifold, a model-agnostic visual tool that surfaces the differences in distributions of features (i.e., the…
