VentureBeatMachine Learning Google’s AI explains how image classifiers made their decisionsVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersIt’s often assumed that as the complexity of an AI system increases, it becomes invariably less interpretable. But researchers have begun to challenge that notion with libraries like Facebook’s Captum,
VentureBeatSleep World Summit AI: 5 early-stage startups show AI’s potential across industriesVentureBeat - Paul SawersArtificial intelligence (AI) is rarely out of the headlines these days, due in large part to a steady stream of controversies from many of the major tech players. Facial recognition software is increasingly
VentureBeatArtificial Intelligence The cognitive AI breakthrough: Real human-like reasoning in business AI solutionsVentureBeat - VB StaffConventional, data-crunching artificial intelligence, which is the foundation of deep learning, isn’t enough on its own; the human-like reasoning of symbolic artificial intelligence is fascinating, but
VentureBeatFacebook Facebook’s AI streamlines sentences while preserving meaningVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersSimplifying text’s grammar and structure is a useful skill most of us acquire in school, but AI typically has a tougher go of it, owing to a lack of linguistic knowledge. That said, scientists at Facebook
VentureBeatFacebook Facebook: Automation is a ‘blunt instrument’ for interpreting context around banned contentVentureBeat - Paul SawersFacebook has long touted the efficacy of its AI-powered tools for helping weed out prohibited content, but the company today conceded that its technology is simply not up to meeting a recent European of
VentureBeatFacial Recognition Brexit is already shaping facial recognition surveillance in the U.K.VentureBeat - Khari JohnsonOver the past few months, high-profile incidents in the United Kingdom — home to one of the most-surveilled societies in the world — have forced people to consider how facial recognition will be used the
VentureBeatTechnology Nvidia uses federated learning to create medical imaging AIVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonAI researchers from Nvidia and King’s College London have used federated learning to train a neural network for brain tumor segmentation, a milestone Nvidia claims is a first for medical image analysis.
VentureBeatSoftware Why Arm believes a consortium is necessary to get autonomous cars to the finish lineVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiTo get autonomous vehicles from prototypes to production, Arm believes we need a consortium of companies to come together on computing safety standards. That’s why Dipti Vachani, senior vice president
VentureBeatFacial Recognition AI Weekly: In China, you can no longer buy a smartphone without a face scanVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersPicture a world in which the baseline requirement for a new smartphone is a facial recognition test. You needn’t imagine it — in China, beginning December 1, that’s the scrutiny to which the country’s
VentureBeatMaps ProBeat: Google’s ‘accessibility first’ tech helps everyoneVentureBeat - Emil ProtalinskiGoogle’s I/O developers conference often sets the company’s tone for the rest of the year. This manifests in multiple ways. The obvious one is previews of product and feature launches that roll out later.
VentureBeatRecruitment Xor raises $8.4 million for AI-powered job candidate recruitment and screeningVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersXor, a San Francisco-based startup developing an AI chatbot platform for recruiters and job seekers, today announced that it has raised $8.4 million in a seed funding round led by SignalFire, with participation
VentureBeatSecurity How criminals are playing the gaming industry and what you can do about it (VB Live)VentureBeat - VB StaffThere’s real money to be stolen from games and gamers, and the variety and number of threats just keep growing. To learn how to protect your game and users, how threats are changing, and how to be safe
VentureBeatGoogle Duplex What to expect at 2019’s Made by Google event: Pixel 4, Pixelbook Go, Nest Mini, and moreVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersOn October 15 at 10 a.m. Eastern (7 a.m. Pacific), Google will kick off its third annual “Made by Google” hardware event. For the second year in a row, the Mountain View company is hosting a press conference
VentureBeatAlexa Amazon explains how Alexa learns new languagesVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersAmazon’s Alexa assistant recently learned to speak new languages globally: Hindi, U.S. Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese. Synthetic data aided substantially in this, explained Amazon senior manager for
VentureBeatAutomation How business process automation is delivering 400% ROIVentureBeat - VB StaffThe fastest growing enterprise software category right now is business process automation platforms — last year the market grew over 63%. RPA helps companies automate tedious manual processes, taking out
VentureBeatTechnology AI startups stand out at Comcast Lift Labs Accelerator 2019VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersThis evening in Philadelphia, Comcast NBCUniversal’s Lift Labs Accelerator showcased the 11 companies in its second-ever class during a demo day in front of investors and the local tech community. The
VentureBeatLinkedIn LinkedIn’s AI automatically generates photo text descriptionsVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersAre today’s computer vision technologies robust enough to generate text descriptions for photos across a range of domains? That’s the question scientists at LinkedIn have been investigating over the past
VentureBeatArtificial Intelligence Facebook’s Captum brings explainability to machine learningVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonFacebook today introduced Captum, a library for explaining decisions made by neural networks with deep learning framework PyTorch. Captum is designed to implement state of the art versions of AI models
VentureBeatMobile Facebook launches PyTorch Mobile for edge ML on Android and iOS devicesVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonFacebook is planing to release PyTorch Mobile for deploying machine learning models on Android and iOS devices. PyTorch Mobile was released today alongside PyTorch 1.3, the latest version of Facebook’s
VentureBeatPyTorch PyTorch 1.3 comes with speed gains from quantization and TPU supportVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonFacebook today released the latest version of its deep learning library PyTorch with quantization and Google Cloud TPU support for speedier training of machine learning models. Tensor processing unit begins
VentureBeatTechnology Pinterest says AI reduced reported self-harm content by 88%VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersToday is World Mental Health Day, an opportunity for global mental health education, awareness, and advocacy against social stigma that was first marked in 1992 by the World Federation for Mental Health.
VentureBeatGrammarly Grammarly raises $90 million for AI that spots grammar errors and plagiarismVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersGrammarly, the Kyiv, San Francisco, Vancouver, and New York startup behind the eponymous cross-platform grammar- and spell-checking platform, today revealed that it’s secured $90 million in its second-ever
VentureBeatMarketing Clari raises $35 million for AI sales pipeline optimization toolsVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersClari, a startup developing an end-to-end sales analytics and forecasting platform for enterprises, today announced that it’s raised $60 million in series D funding led by Sapphire Ventures, following
VentureBeatThe Matrix New Vector raises $8.5 million to develop an open source Slack and WhatsAppVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersTech giants like Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft needn’t be gatekeepers to communication. That’s the idea upon which Matrix, an open standard and decentralized protocol for real-time communication,
VentureBeatTechnology Nvidia’s AI prevents car high beams from producing glareVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersHigh-beam headlights cut through thick precipitation like a knife cuts through butter, but they’re a literal eyesore to oncoming drivers. That’s because most commercially available systems don’t automatically
VentureBeatRobotics Google Brain’s ROBEL benchmark lets devs track AI quality on affordable robotsVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonBenchmarks made to measure the performance of AI systems that control robots are often limited to expensive hardware designed for industrial environments that can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Researchers
VentureBeatAlexa Amazon rolls out developer tools to improve Alexa voice appsVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersAmazon is adding a trio of new tools to the Alexa Skills Kit, a suite of self-service APIs and resources for conversational app development, designed to improve the quality of experiences developed for
VentureBeatTransformers Rasa’s conversational AI can selectively ignore bits of dialogue to improve its responsesVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersWhat might be the key to chatbots or voice-enabled assistants that respond in more natural, humanlike ways? Researchers at Rasa, a Berlin-based startup developing a standard infrastructure layer for conversational
VentureBeatSalesforce Salesforce sharpens its computer vision teeth on shark-scanning AIVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersWhite sharks are being spotted off the Pacific coast more than ever before. A 2014 study found that, at minimum, California’s shark population now exceeds 2,000. And the California Department of Fish Wildlife
