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Facebook’s Hanabi-playing AI achieves state-of-the-art results

December 6, 2019
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) says they’ve created the latest AI to achieve state-of-the-art performance when playing the card game Hanabi. The AI system achieves a score of 24.61 out of 25 while the previous best got 23.92 out of 25. In February, researchers from Google, DeepMind, Carnegie Mellon University, and Oxford University proposed a Hanabi benchmark and for the creation of more AI that…
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Zenia is using computer vision to build an AI-driven fitness trainer

December 6, 2019
As with just about every area of the health and fitness market, technology is increasingly infiltrating yoga, with startups and investors pushing to capitalize on the $80 billion market. Last year, Germany-based Asana Rebel raised more than $17 million from notable backers that include Greycroft to grow its virtual yoga platform, while New York’s Mirror has raised sizable funding rounds for a…
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AI today and the world tomorrow

December 6, 2019
Presented by Samsung NEXT The reality of human-level artificial intelligence is still a dream. Even with all of the recent advancements in state-of-the-art AI, its ability to understand the world around us is only at the level of a one-year-old child. We don’t yet know…
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Microsoft using ‘Game of Drones’ AI racing challenge to improve trustable autonomy systems

December 5, 2019
A series of new features appear to be on the way for Microsoft’s AirSim, a robotics and AI simulation platform. The Unreal Engine-based simulator will be adapted to better suit Game of Drones, which pits quadcopter drone racing AI systems against each other in an AirSim simulation. Game of Drones is in its first year and today Microsoft said it plans to keep the competition open after a winner…
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Adyen CEO on AI for payments: ‘I was surprised how effective it was’

December 5, 2019
Adyen has turned its payment processing business into one of Europe’s biggest entrepreneurial success stories. Now it’s quietly deploying artificial intelligence to keep its remarkable growth streak going. The Amsterdam-based company’s philosophy of building tools from within rather than through acquisitions has been crucial to its rise, from its founding in 2006 to its 2018 IPO. Its…
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