Tag: AI
Google puts Duplex AI on public trial – with some changes
When Duplex was demonstrated at Google's developer conference earlier this year, the initial consensus was 'wow': here was a giant leap forward in the interaction...
California could force USA to adopt GDPR-style laws today
Editor's note: The legislation referred to in this story has now been passed. To read our latest report on California's new data privacy rules,...
War of words escalates between tech firms’ employees and government
The employees of Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce.com are increasingly at odds with their own bosses and with government policy, reports Chris Middleton.
The war...
IBM Watson AI to sense crowd emotion at Wimbledon 2018
NEWSBYTE It’s data set and match at Wimbledon 2018 for IBM’s Watson AI system.
Watson has been taught to recognise players’ and fans' emotions at...
Facebook using machine learning to fight fake news
Facebook has announced a raft of measures to prevent the spread of false information on its platform.
Writing in a company blog post on Friday, product manager...
City of Robots: How robotics & automation could solve cities’ most...
The future of the world will be urban, with the majority of people living in cities. In Asia and Africa, a burgeoning youth population...
Microsoft, EY launch blockchain solution for royalties management
As a dense system of bespoke transactions, the world of royalties is ripe for disruption by blockchain technology. Smart contracts – the automated triggering...
Survey reveals damaged public perception of autonomous cars
A survey of 2,000 people from the UK, by enterprise information management company OpenText, reveals falling public support for autonomous driving technology.
The survey focused...
What automated machine learning brings to the IoT | Q&A Pedro...
The trouble with big data is that there’s just so much of it. Because of that, mining big data for nuggets of gold is...
IBM partners with Box to enhance cloud storage with Watson AI
Enterprise services giant IBM and cloud collaboration and storage provider Box have announced a new partnership, in which IBM will build custom Box Skills using its...
Microsoft grows AI with purchase of machine learning startup Bonsai
Microsoft has announced the acquisition of machine learning specialist, Bonsai.
The Berkeley, California-based startup is developing a deep reinforcement learning platform that abstracts the low-level...
MIT introduces brain-controlled robots
Scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are leading research into controlling robots using brainwaves and simple hand movements.
Their work is...