AI & RoboticsNews

Facebook’s AI uses schemas to teach robots to manipulate objects in less than 10 hours of training

October 7, 2019
How might a two-armed robot go about accomplishing a task like opening a bottle? Invariably, it’ll need to hold the bottle’s base with one hand while grasping the cap with the other and twisting it off. That high-level sequence of steps is what’s known as a schema, and it’s thankfully uninfluenced by objects’ geometric and spatial states. As an added bonus, unlike reinforcement learning…
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AI & RoboticsNews

How to operationalize AI ethics

October 7, 2019
Last week, I moderated a panel at TWIMLcon about how teams and organizations can operationalize responsible AI that combined perspectives from three people from different corners of the tech and AI community. Rachel Thomas is best known as cofounder of fast.ai, a popular…
MobileNews

Google Maps UI tweaked on Android Auto w/ new logo, rounded corners

October 7, 2019
Android Auto just went through a huge redesign and, following that, an update to Google Maps on the platform rolled out as well. Now, we’re seeing a slight tweak to the Google Maps interface on Android Auto hit some users with a logo in place and more. Over the weekend, we spotted this slight tweak to the Google Maps interface on Android Auto which modifies the search bar…
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GamingNews

Spotify and Twitch finally debut Apple TV apps

October 7, 2019
Three years ago, Spotify told GitHub followers that an app for the Apple TV wasn’t coming “anytime soon,” as development had been “down prioritized” — most likely a result of ongoing strife between the music streaming giant and Apple, which was actively promoting…
GamingNews

StreamLabs/Newzoo: Fortnite still rules Twitch, but hours watched declined in Q3

October 7, 2019
Fortnite was still the most-watch game on livestreaming platform Twitch in the third quarter, but the hours watched on the platform declined. During the quarter, the most notable change here is the sharp increase in the number of hours watched for World of Warcraft. With the release of WoW Classic at the end of August, users watched 189.9 million hours of WoW content in Q3, nearly 100 million more…
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