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LG vows to make its failing mobile unit profitable by the end of 2021

LG hasn’t made a profit from its smartphone division for years, but it reckons the tide is about to turn. Speaking at a press conference at CES, the company’s chief executive Kwon Bong-seok said, “LG Electronics mobile business is going to be profitable by 2021. I can say we can make that happen as LG Electronics will expand our mobile lineup and steadily release new ones…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI Weekly: Autonomous cars need better safety metrics to move the industry forward

On Monday, Waymo — the subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet that’s developing a full-stack driverless vehicle platform — announced that its cars have driven a combined 20 million autonomous miles to date, up from 10 million miles in October 2018. The metric signifies Waymo’s logistical and technological superiority, implied CEO John Krafcik, who equated the miles driven to 1,400…
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Obama-era tech advisors list potential challenges for the White House’s AI principles

Former Obama administration advisors say the White House regulatory AI principles announced this week are a good start in many ways, but they’re incorrect in their oversimplified mandate to avoid overregulation of private business use, and that the Trump administration could face an uphill battle in its appeal to the rest of the world. Though the Trump administration has developed a reputation…
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