The Defense Innovation Board, a panel of 16 prominent technologists advising the Pentagon, today voted to approve AI ethics principles for the Department of Defense. The report includes 12 recommendations for how the U.S. military can apply ethics in the future for both combat and non-combat AI systems. The principles are broken into five main principles: responsible, equitable, traceable…
DeepMind AI now keeps up with 'StarCraft II' Grandmasters
October 31, 2019
DeepMind’s StarCraft II AI can already hang with human players, but now it’s ready to handle the best of the best. The team has revealed that its AlphaStar AI can play one-on-one matches in the real-time strategy game at a Grandmaster level for all three…
RhythmNet uses AI to estimate your heart rate using your face
October 30, 2019
A wearable heart rate monitor is one thing, but what about a system that’s able to estimate a person’s heartbeat from footage of their face alone? That’s what researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences set out to design in a preprint paper published on Arxiv.org.
SiriusXM radio finally plays nice with the Google Assistant
October 30, 2019
Starting next week, SiriusXM will be available through Google Assistant-powered hardware in the US and Canada. That means you can ask “Hey Google, play Howard 100 on SiriusXM or request an artist channel with something like “Hey Google, play The Beatles Channel on SiriusXM.” Google says the same commands will work in Canadian French “soon.” SiriusXM subscribers will…
Strong writing makes all the difference about whether a Hollywood show turns out like Game of Thrones or Pee-Wee Herman’s Big Adventure. That’s why Ron Howard and Brian Glazer’s Imagine Entertainment opened an incubator for writers called Imagine Impact.
The film and…
MIT CSAIL’s swarm of robotic cubes can shapeshift at will
October 30, 2019
Collaborative robots have captured the public’s imagination for decades, and it’s no wonder — machines can achieve incredible feats by working together as a team. One need look no further for evidence than a new study from the MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial…
AI will change every job and increase demand for creative skills
October 30, 2019
Artificial intelligence is likely to change how every job is performed, eliminating work related to repetitive tasks but increasing the need for creative thinkers, according to a new study.
Those findings are contained in a report released this week by the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab called, “The Future of Work: How New Technologies Are Transforming Tasks.” The study found signs of how AI is…
Fireflies raises $5 million for its AI assistant for meetings
October 30, 2019
Fireflies.ai announced the close of a $5 million seed round today to grow its business and continue its effort to create an AI assistant dedicated to surfacing action items and next steps from what people say in meetings.
The seed round was led by Canaan Partners along with…
Reid Hoffman on AI, defense, and ethics when scaling a startup
October 30, 2019
LinkedIn cofounder and Greylock Partners investor Reid Hoffman tells executives who are running startups that scale fast — the kind who want to double in size every few months — to build ethics into their businesses.
As companies plan for the future and grow their…
Isolating objects in Photoshop can be a painstaking process. If you want to select simple objects, the marquee or lasso tools will get the job done quickly. But if you’re working on a complex subject, like a dog with frizzy fur or a shirt with lots of wrinkles, you’ll have to buckle down and spend some time refining the selection. Adobe’s AI engine is making the process much…
