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Bandai Namco previews 7 action and RPG titles for 2020

January 29, 2020
Japanese game publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment showed off seven action and role-playing titles that it expects will debut in 2020. At a preview event in San Francisco, I played most of the games that the company displayed. They ranged from Bless Unleashed, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game that debuted in 2019, to Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions, an anime-based…
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Google’s AI powers real-time orca tracking in Vancouver Bay

January 29, 2020
Google AI today shared that it’s created a model for detecting an endangered species of orca whales in the Salish Sea, a waterway between the United States and Canada. Underwater microphones situated at a dozen points in the Salish Sea that includes the state of Washington and Vancouver Bay are used to alert officials when a Southern Resident killer whale is detected. Less than 100 of these…
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Meena is Google’s attempt at making true conversational AI

January 29, 2020
Conversational AI is a catch-all term for natural language models for artificial intelligence that can interpret human words, speak to people, or carry out tasks or computation with natural language. But talk to any of the best-known AI assistants today — Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant — and they’re not exactly conversational. They can tell you jokes, answer factual questions, and even…
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Red Dead Redemption 2 approaches 35 million copies sold

January 29, 2020
Rockstar Games had an OK decade, I guess. At least, for a studio that only had a handful of major releases. But two of those games, Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2, are among the best-selling games over the last 10 years. And now, Rockstar is highlighting some…
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AI Weekly: Calls for facial recognition moratorium highlight need for protection from surveillance tech

January 29, 2020
The debate over whether to ban or place moratoriums on the use of facial recognition started last year in cities like San Francisco, but the debate reignited this week when Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai said he’s open to a moratorium on facial recognition. “It [facial recognition regulation] can be immediate, but maybe there’s a waiting period before we really think about how it’s…
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