AI & RoboticsNews

Vimeo launches AI-powered social video editing platform out of beta

February 25, 2020
Vimeo has officially launched its new short-form social video editing platform, a month after first introducing the tool in beta. Vimeo Create, as the new service is called, represents the first fruits of Vimeo’s reported $200 million Magisto acquisition last year. Magisto, for the uninitiated, is a Qualcomm-backed AI-powered video editing app that analyzes images, speech, and audio to create a…
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Xbox boss Phil Spencer wants games to embrace diverse business models

February 25, 2020
When it comes to selling games, Microsoft is all-in on subscriptions. But it’s not emphasizing the Game Pass subscription service to the exclusion of other business models, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said in an interview with Insomniac Games founder Ted Price for the Game Maker’s Notebook podcast. Instead, Spencer thinks the industry should explore every potential business model both to make…
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AI & RoboticsNews

U.K.’s top cop calls for government to legislate police use of AI

February 25, 2020
(Reuters) — Britain’s most senior police officer on Monday called on the government to create a legal framework for police use of new technologies such as artificial intelligence. Speaking about live facial recognition, which police in London started using in January, London police chief Cressida Dick said that she welcomed the government’s 2019 manifesto pledge to create a legal framework…
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NeurIPS requires AI researchers to account for societal impact and financial conflicts of interest

February 24, 2020
For the first time ever, researchers who submit papers to NeurIPS, one of the biggest AI research conferences in the world, must now state the “potential broader impact of their work” on society as well as any financial conflict of interest, conference organizers told VentureBeat. NeurIPS is one of the first and largest AI research conferences to enact the requirements. The social impact…
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