AI & RoboticsNews

AI has become a design problem

July 11, 2021
Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Register today. AI is facing new calls for regulation now that it has emerged from the laboratory and is becoming more widely deployed across our daily lives. The public does not trust the technology. Nor should they. The problems are numerous, from understanding how the models actually work…
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Quick Charge Podcast: July 10, 2021

July 11, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
AI & RoboticsNews

Training AI: Reward is not enough

July 11, 2021
Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Register today. This post was written for TechTalks by Herbert Roitblat, the author of Algorithms Are Not Enough: How to Create Artificial General Intelligence. In a recent paper, the DeepMind team, (Silver et al., 2021) argue that rewards are enough for all kinds of intelligence. Specifically…
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MobileNews

Setting timers on Wear OS with Google Assistant is currently broken

July 11, 2021
A big overhaul of Wear OS is underway but the upgrade path for existing devices is unclear for now. Until then, current owners are impacted by a recent issue that sees them unable to set a timer with Google Assistant on Wear OS. Bringing up Assistant on Wear OS either via hotword — which was fixed at the start of this year — or with a long button press and saying “Set a timer for [x]…
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How cybersecurity is getting AI wrong

July 10, 2021
Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Register today. The cybersecurity industry is rapidly embracing the notion of “zero trust”, where architectures, policies, and processes are guided by the principle…
MobileNews

Google will stop updating Play Services for devices running Android Jelly Bean

July 10, 2021
Google will soon stop updating Play Services for phones running Android Jelly Bean – this covers all three versions, 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 (API version 16 through 18, respectively). The lifeline hasn’t been cut yet, JB phones will receive one last update with version 21.30.99, which is scheduled fore release at the end of August. Jelly Bean was first announced in 2012, nine years ago. It brought…
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