In August, Tencent announced it had developed an AI system capable of defeating teams of pros in a five-on-five match in Honor of Kings (or Arena of Valor, depending on the region). This was a noteworthy achievement — Honor of Kings occupies the video game subgenre known as multiplayer online battle arena games (MOBAs), which are incomplete information games in the sense that players are unaware…
How the ‘big 5’ bolstered their AI through acquisitions in 2019
December 23, 2019
The AI talent grab is real. This year alone, Pinterest CTO Vanja Josifovski jumped ship to Airbnb, while Pinterest hired Walmart CTO Jeremy King to head up its engineering team. Moreover, all the big tech companies, including Google and Apple, have for some time been…
As consumers find value in AI, now is the time to invest further
December 23, 2019
Presented by Trustpilot
Artificial intelligence has reached a point in its advancement where the masses have an understanding of its capabilities. In fact, consumers already see the near future where AI simplifies specific tasks of their everyday lives such as booking…
AI has a privacy problem, but these techniques could fix it
December 22, 2019
Artificial intelligence promises to transform — and indeed, has already transformed — entire industries, from civic planning and health care to cybersecurity. But privacy remains an unsolved challenge in the industry, particularly where compliance and regulation are concerned.
Recent controversies put the problem into sharp relief. The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, a division of the…
MIT and IBM develop AI that recommends documents based on topic
December 20, 2019
Even the best text-parsing recommendation algorithms can be stymied by data sets of a certain size. In an effort to to deliver faster, better classification performance than the bulk of existing methods, a team at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and MIT’s Geometric Data…
AI Weekly: Machine learning’s role in climate change
December 20, 2019
Climate change is the most existential threat humanity faces today, and AI can solve problems in unprecedented ways. It only makes sense that we use the latter to work on the former. That was a significant sub-theme of NeurIPS 2019, highlighted in particular by the Tackling…
Amazon’s AI creates synthesized singers
December 20, 2019
AI and machine learning algorithms are quite skilled at generating works of art — and highly realistic images of apartments, people, and pets to boot. But relatively few have been tuned to singing synthesis, or the task of cloning the voices of musicians.
Researchers from Amazon and Cambridge put their collective minds to the challenge in a recent paper, in which they propose an AI system that…
Honda will show off its in-car AI assistant at CES
December 19, 2019
At CES 2020, Honda says it will finally show off its long-promised in-car personal assistant. The automaker has been working on its own digital helper since 2018 when it announced a partnership with SoundHound. Aside from the usual claims of “unprecedented” speed…
Ada Health‘s combination of artificial intelligence and human doctors has made it a rising star in the emerging medical chatbot space. But the road to AI-augmented health care has been long and winding.
“Eight years ago, when we started this company, nobody was talking…
Solving for good: How new AI use cases can help change the world
December 19, 2019
Presented by Deloitte Consulting LLP
So, you know about the benefits of AI for business — how it can reduce time spent on manual tasks, improve data-driven decision-making, and allow humans to focus on strategic business initiatives. But have you considered AI for social impact?
Initiatives like IBM’s Science for Social Good, in which the company partnered with 19 NGO and government agencies…
