Google’s Teachable Machine is no longer just a handy lesson in AI — you can now put it to work. The tech giant has launched Teachable Machine 2.0 with the ability to use your machine learning model in apps, websites and other projects. You can upload your model if you need it to work online, or save it if you’d rather have it on-device. You could create your own Not Hotdog app…
In February, OpenAI announced that it had developed an algorithm that could write believable fake news and spam. Deciding that power was too dangerous to unleash, OpenAI planned a staged release so that it could offer pieces of the tech and analyze how it was used. Now…
The AI underlying assistants like Alexa gets better in part through manual data transcription and annotation, which takes outsized time and effort. In pursuit of a more scalable approach, scientists at Amazon — noting that people tend to reformulate misinterpreted commands…
Reonomy, a commercial real estate analytics company headquartered in New York, today announced that it’s raised $60 million in series D funding led by Georgian Partners. Existing investors including Sapphire Ventures contributed alongside Wells Fargo Strategic Capital and Citi Ventures, bringing the startup’s total capital raised to $128 million following a $30 million series C in June…
Applause targets AI bias by sourcing training data at scale
November 7, 2019
One of the biggest challenges — and there are many — facing the artificial intelligence (AI) realm today is inherent biases created by limited training data. Researchers have already demonstrated how Amazon’s facial analysis software, for example, distinguishes…
Snapdocs raises $25 million to streamline mortgages with AI
November 7, 2019
Real estate tech company Snapdocs today revealed that it has raised $25 million in series B funding to further develop its products and platform. Coinciding with the news, the San Francisco-based company announced the opening of a new office in Denver, Colorado. Snapdocs…
Nightfall (formerly Watchtower AI), a San Francisco-based provider of cloud data loss prevention solutions, today emerged from stealth with $20.3 million in funding led by Bain Capital Ventures and Venrock, with participation from Pear VC and Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath. CEO Isaac Madan said the proceeds from this latest round will bolster Nightfall’s R&D and market expansion.
“Our mission…
Miso Robotics seeks $30 million in equity crowdfunding campaign
November 7, 2019
Pasadena, California-based Miso Robotics is pursuing an unconventional approach to fundraising. The robotics company announced that instead of securing a tranche from institutional investors, as is typical for young startups, it will kick off an equity crowdfunding round…
Nvidia unveils Jetson Xavier NX for edge AI
November 6, 2019
Nvidia today unveiled the Jetson Xavier NX, a module for training and deploying AI systems on edge devices like drones, cars, and robots. The Xavier NX is about the size of a credit card that can achieve 21 TOPS for AI workloads, while consuming as little as 10 watts of…
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…
