When one of the world’s largest AI companies rolls out nearly 80 new products, services, and features in the span of roughly an hour as Amazon did on Wednesday, what it all means can be tough to discern.
Of course Amazon, the inventor of smart speaker and smart display consumer electronic categories, had more speakers and screens to share, and the rollout of invite-only wearables like Echo…
Google’s robotic hand AI can learn to rotate Baoding balls with minimal training data
September 27, 2019
Using several fingers at once to grasp and manipulate objects is a straightforward ask of humans, despite the primitiveness of our hand anatomy. But robots have a much tougher go of it. That’s because tasks like writing on paper with a pencil require physics models…
Autoblow AI is a sex toy that promises ‘surprise’
September 27, 2019
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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…
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Esports is a billion-dollar competitive video gaming phenomenon, and a booming market. Professional players are drawing larger and larger team salaries, while monetizing their fans on personal channels. Meanwhile, big brand sponsors are turning into team owners and traditional sports team franchises are launching their own esports teams. It’s no surprise…
Hugging Face launches popular Transformers NLP library for TensorFlow
September 27, 2019
Maker of the popular PyTorch-Transformers model library, Hugging Face today said it’s bringing its NLP library to the TensorFlow machine learning framework. The PyTorch version of the library has seen more than 500,000 Pip installs since the beginning of the year, Hugging…
Add the Xbox One to the long list of things Google Assistant can control. This morning, Microsoft and Google jointly announced the Xbox Action, which enables console owners of any Assistant-enabled smart speaker, smart display, or mobile device (iOS or Android) to launch…
OnePlus SMS app taps AI to categorize messages and display content as visual cards
September 27, 2019
OnePlus is introducing a new AI-powered feature to its SMS app today, one that automatically groups messages together by category — much like Gmail does for email. Additionally, traditionally plain-text SMS messages will now be displayed as visualizations to make them more readable.
The news was timed to coincide with the new OnePlus 7T smartphone, which was unveiled at an event in India earlier…
AI completes users’ rough sketches
September 27, 2019
Artistic composition tools imbued with AI are fast becoming old hat. Scientists at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, a collaboration between MIT and IBM to jointly pursue AI techniques over the next decade, recently detailed a tool that lets users upload any photograph and edit the…
Researchers from Google AI (formerly Google Research) and Toyota Technological Institute of Chicago have created ALBERT, an AI model that achieves state-of-the-art results that exceed human performance. ALBERT now claims first place on major NLP performance leaderboards for…
Google Assistant voice controls come to Xbox One
September 26, 2019
When it launched alongside, one of the Xbox One’s main selling points was voice control, delivered via an upgraded Kinect unit. Kinect was quickly phased out, though, and Alexa and Cortana voice controls eventually served as a replacement. Now, Google Assistant users will be able to yell at their Xbox One, too, thanks to a software update rolling out today.
Using Google Assistant to control…
