Alibaba unveils its first A.I. chip as China pushes for its own semiconductor technology
Alibaba unveiled its first chip to power artificial intelligence (AI) processes on Tuesday. The move could boost its already fast-growing cloud computing business and signals China’s growing ambitions in developing its own homegrown semiconductor industry.
Facebook Horizon Poised To Rival Roblox And Minecraft With 2020 Launch
In a stunning reveal at Oculus Connect 6 (OC6) this week, Mark Zuckerberg presented a first look at Facebook Horizon, a social VR experience coming to the Oculus Quest and Rift platform in 2020.
FoodTracker: An AI-powered food detection mobile application
A research team at McGill University in Canada has developed a mobile application that can recognize food items inside an overall meal in real-time, providing useful nutrition-related information. The team outlined the new mobile application, called FoodTracker, in a recent paper pre-published on arXiv and presented at the 16th International Conference on Machine Vision Applications in Tokyo.
Why Most Companies Are Failing at Artificial Intelligence: Eye on A.I.
Most companies that say they’re using artificial intelligence have yet to gain any value from their A.I. investments.
AI Bias Adds Complexity To AI Systems
One of the biggest issues with Artificial Intelligence and Data Science is the integrity of our data. Even if we did all the right things in our models, and our testing, data might conform to some technical standard of “cleanliness,” there might still be biases in our data as well as “common sense” issues. With Big Data, it is difficult to get to a certain granularity of data validity without proper real-world testing.
Who Is The Leader In AI Hardware?
A few months ago, I published a blog that highlighted Qualcomm’s plans to enter the data center market with the Cloud AI100 chip sometime next year.
5 Tech Investors Discuss Why AI Companies Built By Diverse Teams Are A Better Bet
In the past few years, the lack of diversity in the technology startup ecosystem has become a well-known point of rightful criticism. The collective voices of women, people of color and LGBTQ founders and VCs has given this issue national attention, as well as exciting solutions.
A.I. Remains a Disruptive Force in Finance—Even for Fintechs
Negative interest rates and a slowing global economy are weighing heavily on the bottom line—not to mention the overall mood—of banks. And so it’s hard to find many bankers speaking bullishly about much of anything these days, even at a technology conference dedicated to the future.
Pinterest Says It’s Using A.I. to Dramatically Reduce the Amount of Self-Harm Posts Users Are Seeing
When people think of Pinterest, crafts and fashion posts are often what comes to mind. But like many parts of the internet, underneath the surface of the social media site, there’s a darker side. And the company is working on removing it.
The United States strikes a blow to China's AI ambitions
Washington this week targeted Chinese facial recognition startups SenseTime, Megvii and Yitu over national security concerns and foreign policy interests, aggravating the clash between the two economic superpowers over who will dominate the technologies of the future.
The Essential Components Of AI
Today, artificial intelligence (AI) is optimizing the way business is conducted, enabling predictions with supreme accuracy and automating business processes and decision making.
There’s An Art To Artificial Intelligence
As hard as it is to believe, artificial intelligence (AI) was rarely mentioned in the discussions related to digital transformation that began almost a decade ago. Now, no mention of transformation would make sense without how AI is making it all possible.
Researchers find way to harness AI creativity
Researchers have found a way to marry human creativity and artificial intelligence (AI) creativity to dramatically boost the performance of deep learning.
Smiles beam and walls blush: Architecture meets AI at Microsoft
Jenny Sabin is perched high on a scissor lift, her head poking through an opening of the porous fabric structure that she’s struggling to stretch onto the exoskeleton of her installation piece, which is suspended in the airy atrium of building 99 on Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington, campus.
Artificial Intelligence Could Be a $14 Trillion Boon to the Global Economy—If It Can Overcome These Obstacles
Global growth is stalling. Trade wars are hammering manufacturers, from Shanghai to Stuttgart to Seattle. But, awful as today’s economic outlook appears, Industry 4.0 is alive and well, its most ardent backers say.