AI & RoboticsNews

Janelle Shane explains AI with weirdness and humor, in book form

If, like many people these days, you’re trying to get a firmer understanding of what AI is and how it works but are secretly panicking a little because you’re struggling with terminology so opaque that you’re lost before you get to Markov chains, you may want to crack open Janelle Shane’s new book. She recently sat down with VentureBeat to talk about the book, whose title, You Look Like a…
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LG V40 ThinQ gets VoWiFi, Digital Wellbeing, and Screen Recorder with new update

The LG V40 ThinQ is getting a new software update, that sports build number PKQ1.190202.011 and requires a download of around 710MB. The new build, still based on Android 9 Pie, bumps up the Android security patch level on the V40 ThinQ to March 2020 and brings in Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) support and a native screen recorder. It also comes with Digital Wellbeing, which includes Wind Down and…
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Oppo Ace 2 5G to have 90Hz display

Oppo is expected to launch the Ace 2 5G on April 13, and yes, you read that correctly, the Reno moniker is gone from the name. The company has been heavily teasing the phone and now is has posted some more specs online. The Oppo Ace 2 will have a display with 90Hz refresh…
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Sega Europe promotes two key executives at Total War maker Creative Assembly

Sega Europe announced that it has promoted two key executives at Creative Assembly, the United Kingdom studio behind the Total War series of real-time strategy games. Tim Heaton will assume a new role as Sega Europe’s chief studio officer. He was formerly in a bridge role between Sega Europe and Creative Assembly as executive vice president of studios and studio director respectively. He is also…
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Amazon’s AI uses meta learning to accomplish related tasks

In a paper scheduled to be presented at the upcoming International Conference on Learning Representations, Amazon researchers propose an AI approach that greatly improves performance on certain meta-learning tasks (i.e., tasks that involve both accomplishing related goals and learning how to learn to perform them). They say it can be adapted to new tasks with only a handful of labeled training…
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