Building artificial intelligence into your products, services, and processes can make you smarter, faster, and better able to compete. But building smart systems using machine learning is not like buying an accounting package or an enterprise resource planning system. That’s why executives need as much training as engineers when adopting AI, said Larry Pizette, the head of Amazon’s Machine…
Israel risks falling behind in AI despite growth
February 17, 2020
Habana Labs. Mobileye. Hailo. Wix. There are more than 1,150 AI-focused startups in Israel, and that number is growing. Even so, some people within the government are concerned that the nation risks falling behind because it lacks a unified AI policy.
AI policy refers to…
EU’s new AI rules will focus on ethics and transparency
February 17, 2020
The European Union is set to release new regulations for artificial intelligence that are expected to focus on transparency and oversight as the region seeks to differentiate its approach from those of the United States and China.
On Wednesday, EU tech chief Margrethe…
Once a quarter, VentureBeat publishes a special issue to take an in-depth look at trends of great importance. This week, we launched issue two, examining AI and security. Across a spectrum of stories, the VentureBeat editorial team took a close look at some of the most important ways AI and security are colliding today. It’s a shift with high costs for individuals, businesses, cities, and…
The cellular industry’s shift from long-distance radio signals to short-distance millimeter waves is one of the 5G era’s biggest changes, expected to continue with submillimeter waves over the next decade. To more precisely direct millimeter wave and future…
Sports analytics, which refers to the use of data and statistics to measure the performance of players (or teams) and make informed coaching decisions, is an enormous market. Grand View Research pegs its worth at $4.6 billion by 2025, expanding at a compound annual growth…
Microsoft’s AI improves text summarization performance by paying closer attention to the beginning
February 14, 2020
A newsy feature from the New York Times is bound to have a different tone than the average Reddit post. Indeed, the diversity of writing styles and grammatical structures makes the task of automatic text summarization highly challenging. That’s why researchers from Pittsburgh and Microsoft Researcher’s Future Social Experiences (FUSE) lab, which focuses on real-time and media-rich experiences…
How AI is stopping the next great flu before it starts
February 14, 2020
Immune systems across the globe have been working overtime this winter as a devastating flu season has taken hold. More than 180,000 Americans have been hospitalized and 10,000 more have died in recent months, according to the CDC, while the coronavirus (now officially…
Google’s AutoFlip uses AI to crop videos for you
February 13, 2020
Video filmed and edited for TV is typically created and viewed in landscape, but problematically, aspect ratios like 16:9 and 4:3 don’t always fit the display being used for viewing. Fortunately, Google is on the case. It today detailed AutoFlip, an open source tool for…
The World Health Organization reports that 1.5 million people were killed in road accidents in 2018, of which more than half were pedestrians and cyclists. One of the biggest culprits is the so-called “hidden pedestrian” problem, in which people obscured by obstacles suddenly appear in front of high-speed vehicles. Sensors like lidar, radar, and cameras promise to improve the detection of…
