Digital photographers coined the term “pixel peepers” years ago to denote — mostly with scorn — people who focused on flaws in the individual dots that create photos rather than the entirety of the images. Zooming in to 100%, it was said, is nothing but a recipe for perpetual disappointment; instead, judge each camera by the overall quality of the photo it takes, and don’t get too mired…
Osaro, a San Francisco startup developing AI-based solutions for industrial robots, today announced that it’s closed a $16 million series B funding round led by King River Capital (KRC), with participation from Alpha Intelligence Capital, Founders Fund, Fenox Venture…
Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements 2020 are now available, and both have some new AI-enabled features. The simplified versions of the company’s flagship creative applications help amateurs edit high-quality photos and videos, and with the new Sensei-powered tasks…
During the Surface Pro X unveiling yesterday, Microsoft showed off new eye gaze technology. The feature taps AI to adjust the appearance of your eyes so you appear to be looking straight at the camera when you’re on a conference call. We talked to Microsoft to get a little more detail on the AI-powered functionality, which is similar to “eye correction” in iOS 13.
Panos Panay, head of…
Intel wants to use AI to reconnect damaged spinal nerves
October 3, 2019
AI’s use in medicine could soon extend to one of the medical world’s toughest challenges: helping the paralyzed regain movement. Intel and Brown University have started work on a DARPA-backed Intelligent Spine Interface project that would use AI to restore…
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Big data and machine learning have emerged as fundamental tools for companies and cities looking to unlock insights into people and places, enabled by the myriad connected devices that now permeate society.
Companies such as PredictHQ leverage data from global events to help companies like Uber and airlines forecast demand, while fellow San Francisco startup Streetlight Data aggregates mobile app…
Intel and Brown University researchers embark on two-year project to bridge spinal cord breaks using AI
October 3, 2019
It’s estimated that over 17,500 new spinal cord injuries occur each year in the U.S., meaning 54 people out of every million Americans experience one. Recovering from those injuries predictably isn’t easy. Patients regain the majority of function within the first six…
In-home cameras that beam footage to cloud storage are inherently more prone to compromise than those that record locally. No matter the encryption scheme at play, there’s always a risk of captured clips taking an unintended detour on their way from a router to the…
Natural language processing (NLP) — the AI subfield dealing with machine reading comprehension — isn’t by any stretch solved, and that’s because syntactic nuances can enormously impact the meaning of a sentence or phrase. Consider the paraphrase pairs “Flights from New York to Florida” and “Flights to Florida from New York,” which convey the same thing. Even state-of-the-art…
