AI & RoboticsNews

This AI attorney says companies need a chief AI officer — pronto

When Bradford Newman began advocating for more artificial intelligence expertise in the C-suite in 2015, “people were laughing at me,” he said.  Newman, who leads global law firm Baker McKenzie’s machine learning and AI practice in its Palo Alto office, added that when he mentioned the need for companies to appoint a chief AI officer, people typically responded, “What’s that?” But…
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AI Weekly: Google Brain’s fuzzy pandas vs AI’s ‘Last Mile’

Want AI Weekly for free each Thursday in your inbox? Sign up here. My artificial intelligence-related news feeds this week were filled with oil painting-style images of fuzzy pandas wearing leather jackets and riding skateboards, courtesy of Google Brain’s new Imagen diffusion model. I admit it: I yearn to pet Imagen’s uber-realistic corgi wearing sunglasses riding a bicycle in New York…
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VFunction deploys AI to improve code and fix technical debt

We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 – 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Can technology fix technical debt? That is, can more code identify the problems within the code base? VFunction has a plan to do just that. Today, they’re announcing the VFunction Assessment Hub, a…
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MobileNews

Google releasing one last Pixel 3a and 3a XL update, arriving ‘by July’ [U]

Today marks the last guaranteed update for Google’s midrange phones from 2019 following its launch three years ago at I/O. However, similar to past generations, Google will be releasing one last update for the Pixel 3a and 3a XL. Update 6/7: Alongside the other June security patch updates yesterday, the Pixel 3a and 3a XL received a small update (.002 -> .006) that remains on the May…
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