Neural networks learn differently from people. If a human comes back to a sport after years away, they might be rusty but they will still remember much of what they learned decades ago. A typical neural network, on the other hand, will forget the last thing it was trained to do. Virtually all neural networks today suffer from this “catastrophic forgetting.”
It’s the Achilles’ heel of…
Revl raises $5.2 million to stitch together videos with AI
February 25, 2020
Creating even a basic video can be time-consuming and costly, with costs ranging from $75 to $150 per hour. This situation spurred Bruce Pla, Eric Sanchez, and Nelson Vazquez to found Revl, which creates videos and photos optimized for popular social networks and…
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.
Staff at a California school district reportedly spent 20% of their time searching for lost documents until they retained the services of a records management company. It’s not a unique problem — the average manager spends four weeks out of the year looking for records, by some estimates.
In search of a solution five years ago, three entrepreneurs — NASA veteran Kim Lembo, former Apple…
FogHorn raises $25 million to support edge AI app development
February 25, 2020
The edge AI market — that is, the market for devices that run AI applications locally, without cloud processing — is anticipated to grow substantially in the coming months. According to Deloitte, more than 750 million edge AI chips will be sold by year-end (up from a…
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…
L1ght, a fledgling AI startup that wants to help technology companies combat online toxicity, bullying, and abuse, has raised $15 million in a seed round of funding from Mangrove Capital Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners, and Western Technology Investment.
The company’s substantial seed funding comes as tech companies are struggling to contain offensive and harmful behavior on their platforms.
Lenovo has updated its ThinkPad line with conventional and flexible laptops powered by Intel’s 10th Gen vPro processors. However, select models can be configured with AMD’s Ryzen 4000 PRO Mobile processors instead — based on some benchmarks, the Ryzen…
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…
Apple dives deep into specs for the Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR
February 25, 2020
You probably know the basics of what the Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR have to offer, but Apple is more than a little eager to help if you have any lingering questions. The company has posted white papers for both the Mac Pro (PDF) and Pro Display XDR (PDF) that dive deep into the specs for each. The Mac Pro paper doesn’t offer startling revelations, but it does outline the…
