Play buttonRobotics Boston Dynamics robots are preparing to leave the lab — is the world ready?The Verge - James VincentNot many robotics companies can boast legions of fans online, but not many robotics companies make robots quite like Boston Dynamics. Each time the firm shares new footage of its machines, they cause sensation.
Technology Policy Beyond San Francisco, more cities are saying no to facial recognitionCNN - By Rachel Metz, CNN BusinessSan Francisco (CNN Business) — San Francisco did it in May. Somerville, Massachusetts, in June. And on Tuesday evening, Oakland, California, became the latest to ban city departments — including police
MOOCs AWS and Udacity launch DeepRacer machine learning course and scholarshipVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersAmazon Web Services (AWS) often describes DeepRacer League, which launched in November 2018 at the tech giant’s AWS re:Invent 2018 conference, as the world’s first autonomous racing league open to everyone.
Greek Philosophy Uber open-sources Plato for developing and testing conversational AIVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersDesigning conversational AI isn’t as Sysiphean as it sounds. Tools like Google’s Dialogflow, Microsoft’s Bot Framework, and Amazon’s Lex make it easier than it used to be, and the folks at Uber hope to
Singularity Intel’s new AI chips can crunch data 1,000 times faster than normal onesMIT Technology Review - Martin Giles The hardware is already being used to improve the performance of things like prosthetic limbs. The news: Intel has just unveiled Pohoiki Beach, a …
Neuralink Elon Musk unveils Neuralink’s plans for brain-reading ‘threads’ and a robot to insert themThe Verge - Elizabeth LopattoElon Musk’s Neuralink, the secretive company developing brain-machine interfaces, showed off some of the technology it has been developing to the public for the first time. The goal is to eventually begin
Spacecraft NASA Bets on a Spacecraft that Can 3-D Print and Self-Assemble in Orbitdiscovermagazine.com - Daniel Bastardo Blanco Putting a satellite in space is news of the past, but launching a spacecraft that can 3-D print and self-assemble is a story of the future. NASA is …
Peter Jackson Can Virtual Assistants Gain Real Intelligence?medium.com - Aaron Gell Can a New Zealand-based lab take virtual assistants from the realm of marketing gimmicks and endow them with real intelligence? One day in the spring …
Google Cloud Platform How AI Accelerators Are Changing The Face Of Edge ComputingForbes - Janakiram MSVAI has become the key driver for the adoption of edge computing. Originally, the edge computing layer was meant to deliver local compute, storage, and processing capabilities to IoT deployments. Sensitive
Roomba Another Roomba ran over dog poop and then proceeded to 'clean' the houseMashable - Chloe BryanHere's something that might keep you from buying a Roomba on Prime Day. On Sunday, a man named Ryan Landy made a Facebook post about a truly harrowing situation: His new Roomba ran over a pile of dog in
Recode Recode Daily: How Amazon is preparing its workforce for robotsVox - Kat BorgerdingAmazon admits that automation will replace many workers’ jobs. To prepare for this impending reality, Amazon announced this week that it will spend $700 million to retain and retrain about 100,000 workers
Singularity Artificial intelligence and national security - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientiststhebulletin.org Editor’s note: This report was originally published by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School …
Digital Economy Data Science in the New Economy: A new race for talent in the Fourth Industrial Revolution | World Economic Forumweforum.org As the Fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds, led by advances in technologies such as data science and artificial intelligence, the labour market is …
Cognitive Computing The AI technique that could imbue machines with the ability to reasonMIT Technology Review - Karen Hao Yann LeCun, Facebook’s chief AI scientist, believes unsupervised learning will bring about the next AI revolution. At six months old, a baby won’t bat …
Technology Policy Facial Recognition Tech Is Growing Stronger, Thanks to Your FaceThe New York Times - By CADE METZSAN FRANCISCO — Dozens of databases of people’s faces are being compiled without their knowledge by companies and researchers, with many of the images then being shared around the world, in what has become
Play buttonScience Scientists Create Airplane That Can Land Itself on Any RunwayExtremeTech - Ryan Whitwam Cars are getting reasonably good at driving themselves, but what about airplanes? Autopilot has existed for years, but a team of researchers from the …
Lettuce Researchers have developed a robot that can identify, assess and pick lettuce without damaging itCNBC - Anmar Frangoul In another sign that smart technology is transforming the farming industry, engineers at the University of Cambridge have developed a robot that uses …
Play buttonScience Scientists Create an AI From a Sheet of Glassfuturism.com - Kristin Houser It turns out that you don’t need a computer to create an artificial intelligence. In fact, you don’t even need electricity. In an extraordinary bit of …
Tech Industry What People Get Wrong About China and Artificial IntelligenceFortune - Jonathan Vanian China is close to becoming the world's leader in artificial intelligence, according to conventional wisdom. But Jeffrey Ding, leader of all things …
Science Simple 'smart' glass reveals the future of artificial visionphys.org - Sam Million-Weaver The sophisticated technology that powers face recognition in many modern smartphones someday could receive a high-tech upgrade that sounds—and …
Technology Wyze’s $20 security cams can now identify peopleTNW - Matthew HughesI’m a huge fan of Wyze’s security cameras. I’ve used them for a few months. They’re dead simple, and delightfully cheap. And now they’re getting a little bit cleverer, thanks to a software update that
Self-Driving Cars Tesla Autopilot engineers said to have quitSeeking Alpha - Clark Schultz The Information reports that several "key" Tesla (TSLA -0.8%) engineering managers working on the Autopilot program left the company after Elon Musk …
Algorithms AI Trained on Old Scientific Papers Makes Discoveries Humans Missed - VICEVICE - Madeleine GregoryScientists used machine learning to reveal new scientific knowledge hidden in old research papers. Using just the language in millions of old scientific papers, a machine learning algorithm was able to
Technology “Close to 10%” of Autopilot software team reportedly departs after shakeupArs Technica - Timothy B. Lee In 2015, Musk declared self-driving "a much easier problem than people think." Tesla has always been a turbulent place to work, and that has been …
Alibaba Group Alibaba has claimed a new record in AI language understandingMIT Technology Review - Will Knight An AI program developed by Alibaba has notched up a record-high score on a reading comprehension test. The result shows how machines are steadily …
Unsupervised Learning A beginner's guide to AI: Supervised and unsupervised learningTNW - Tristan GreeneWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. This is also a part of our “Beginner’s guide to AI,” featuring
Artificial Intelligence Meeting the Challenge of Artificial Intelligencecpajournal.com - Paul Lin, PhD The rapid advance of technology has resulted in CPA firms hiring more nonaccounting graduates in order to integrate new tools into their practice. …
Singularity Creating An Artificial Intelligence Methodology: AI's Hierarchy of Needscapitalogix.com - Howard Getson We often talk about Artificial Intelligence's applications – meaning, what we use it for – but we often forget to talk about a more crucial …
Data Science How to Develop a Conditional Generative Adversarial Network From Scratchmachinelearningmastery.com - Jason Brownlee Generative Adversarial Networks, or GANs, are an architecture for training generative models, such as deep convolutional neural networks for …
