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Samsung’s VASTA system uses AI to let users program smartphone tasks visually, without coding

November 6, 2019

Assistants like Samsung’s Bixby are fairly versatile where task automation is concerned — they’ll perform multi-step commands like “Open Facebook and share the three most recent photos” without complaint — but they’re not perfect. It’s incumbent on developers to program said tasks, which means that for users, it becomes more or less a waiting game. Perhaps that’s why researchers…

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Adobe Max Sneaks feature AI photography, animation, and audio tools

November 6, 2019

Whenever an Adobe event offers Sneaks — quick previews of what its researchers are working on — there’s a caveat that the “projects” might not wind up in shipping products. But they often do, and if that happens with the company’s just-revealed collection of…

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Neural Magic raises $15 million to boost AI training speed on off-the-shelf processors

November 6, 2019

Despite the proliferation of accelerator chips like Google’s tensor processing unit (TPU) and Intel’s forthcoming Nervana NNP-T, most machine learning practitioners are limited by budget or design to commodity processors. Unfortunately, these processors tend to train…

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Extend raises $16 million for AI that optimizes extended warranty offers

November 6, 2019

Extended warranties are big business. How big? A report from Research and Markets estimates the segment will reach a whopping $50.2 billion by 2026. There’s unsurprisingly merchant interest in the opportunity, but most sellers lack the know-how and bandwidth required to pursue it. That’s where Extend comes in. The San Francisco-based company, which offers what it describes as a full stack…

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Researchers propose descriptors to prevent AI system component mismatches

November 5, 2019

AI holds enormous promise for the public sector — at least theoretically. But in practice, integrating AI components into public sector apps is limited by the fragility of those components and by mismatches among them. For example, if a machine learning model is trained on…

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NVIDIA's AI will help USPS handle packages 10 times faster

November 5, 2019

The US Postal Service (USPS) delivers an estimated 146 billion pieces of mail annually, including 6 billion packages. In an attempt to process package data more efficiently, USPS is experimenting with AI. Today, NVIDIA announced that it will provide USPS with its AI tech.

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Researchers develop AI that distinguishes between satire and fake news

November 5, 2019

How can you distinguish between satire and fake news? It usually comes down to semantic and linguistic differences, but the nuances can be tough to spot. That’s why researchers at George Washington University, Amazon AWS AI, and startup AdVerifai investigated a machine learning approach to classifying misleading speech. They say the AI model they developed, which outperformed the baseline, lays…

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Facebook details wav2vec, an AI algorithm that uses raw audio to improve speech recognition

November 5, 2019

Automatic speech recognition, or ASR, is a foundational part of not only assistants like Apple’s Siri, but dictation software such as Nuance’s Dragon and customer support platforms like Google’s Contact Center AI. It’s the thing that enables machines to parse…

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HomeLight raises $109 million for AI that matches home buyers with real estate agents

November 5, 2019

San Francisco-based HomeLight, which develops AI-driven software and services for home buyers, sellers, and real estate agents, today announced that it has raised $109 million in funding from a raft of investors, bringing its total raised to over $160 million. Zeev Ventures…

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Untether AI raises $20 million to develop machine learning inferencing hardware

November 5, 2019

Untether AI, a Toronto-based startup that’s developing high-efficiency, high-performance chips for AI inferencing workloads, this morning announced that it has raised a $20 million series A round, following a small seed investment. Radical Ventures joined Intel Capital and other investors in the round, with Radical Ventures partner Tomi Poutanen joining as a board member. Newly appointed CEO…