AI & Robotics

The world speaks thousands of languages — roughly 6,500, to be exact — and systems from the likes of Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon become better at recognizing them each day. The trouble is, not all of those languages have large corpora available, which can make training the data-hungry models underpinning those systems difficult. That’s the reason Google researchers are exploring…

Robotic process automation company DataRobot today announced the latest release of the DataRobot Enterprise AI Platform, which includes the changes for automated feature engineering and the debut of AI Catalog, a service that lets enterprise teams search customer data in order to build and deploy AI models or make predictions. AI Catalog utilizes tech from Cursor, a company acquired in February by…

Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we’ve done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories. Most of the time when we hear about AI, they’re taking our jobs or putting us in…

NSFW: This article may contain links to and descriptions or images of explicit sexual acts. The phrase “artificial intelligence” conjures all sorts of ideas about a synthetic consciousness that knows us better than we know ourselves. But it’s more often hollowly used as a buzzword, providing a little excitement to systems that just identify patterns. This pattern recognition has…