Artificial Intelligence

Qualcomm is hoping to expand the reach of its AI program to more types of devices in more industries, and in order to do that, it has bought out Scyfer B.V. Scyfer has built out AI products for a number of companies on a contract basis, and thus has tools and experience pertaining to a […]

Google has poached an engineering talent who boasts accomplishments at both Apple and Tesla for its Google Brain project. The talent in question is Chris Lattner, who took to Twitter to announce his new position. Lattner only said that he would be working on AI within the Google Brain unit. An alleged inside source, however, specified […]

Google has added a new capability to DeepMind that enables its artificial intelligence (AI) platform to take a nap at a given point of time. DeepMind explained in a blog post that the new development in its AI effort incorporates ideas from neuroscience research, a move that significantly complements the typical logic-based and theoretical mathematical […]

StarCraft II and other deep, strategic video games can help you learn to think on your feet and sharpen your split-second decision skills and reflexes, but thanks to a collaboration between DeepMind and Blizzard, that principle can now also be applied to train AI in a variety of ways. The popular game calls for world-class […]

A professor of artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales has just released a new book featuring a vision of the future of AI that many might find absolutely terrifying. With the ambitiously titled, “It’s Alive!: Artificial Intelligence from the Logic Piano to Killer Robots.” Toby Walsh considers a wide range of uses […]

Music streaming provider Deezer has just added a Google Home support to its Android app in a bid to help users play and listen to music by using voice command. With the integration of the Google Assistant-powered smart speaker into the Internet-based music streaming service, listeners can now start using Deezer in a hands-free mode […]

Samsung’s artificial intelligence-based personal assistant Bixby has now added a native support that allows users to view content and calendar appointments on their LinkedIn accounts. The new capability is a part of a new partnership between Samsung and LinkedIn, with the broader goal of providing up-to-date information to users to help them stay ahead of […]

The Chicago Police Department recently started testing a number of technologies based on predictive algorithms that allow it to anticipate crimes in certain areas of the city with some degree of certainty, Reuters reported on Saturday. One of the solutions utilized by local officials is called Strategic Subject’s List, which is essentially a database of […]

Wearable technology is evolving in a number of strange and interesting directions thanks to the rise of other tech like the internet of things and artificial intelligence, and one of those directions is Kino, a “living jewelry” created by MIT researchers, able to dynamically change itself and alter the clothing that it’s magnetically pinned to. […]

Several medical professionals are working together to use artificial intelligence to provide immediate relief for people with depression and anxiety. Depression and anxiety are pressing mental health concerns, as these conditions may, unfortunately, lead to suicide. Suicide is currently the second leading cause of death in the United States, with the number of people committing […]

Microsoft has dropped its mobile ambitions in favor of pursuing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, the company’s latest filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reveals. The section of the filing pertaining to the corporate strategic vision of the company states that Microsoft is currently seeking to develop and maintain products and services […]

Qualcomm’s CEO, Steve Mollenkopf, recently sat down for an interview where he discussed the way that the company figures out how to invest its development resources and what avenues to pursue, which essentially boils down to enhancing and creating fundamental technologies that can take many forms in the future. Mollenkopf joined up with Qualcomm back in 1995 […]

Humans can do a few things that AI still can’t do, and probably won’t be able to do for quite some time. What most of those things boil down to, at this point, is judgment. This is the very human ability to make a highly subjective cost/benefit analysis on a decision, then decide if a […]

Google and scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed new algorithms using machine learning that are intended to help improve photos taken with a mobile phone. MIT researchers are set to present their research with Google at the Siggraph digital graphics conference this week, showcasing software that enhances an image in real-time by […]

Social networking giant Facebook has acquired artificial intelligence (AI) startup Ozlo as a part of the company’s effort to step up its development of conversational AI for Messenger. Ozlo announced on its website that the company will be joining the Messenger team to provide users of the instant messaging service with experiences fueled by AI […]

Facebook has shut down a number of its AI systems after they developed their own language in order to communicate more efficiently. It’s no secret that Facebook is investing heavily into AI, with one of its goals being to create AI that can successfully communicate with people using English. It appears that one of the […]

The Copyright Reform that’s currently being discussed by the top regulators in the European Union may significantly endanger and even end various artificial intelligence (AI) and big data startups on the Old Continent, some industry watchers believe. A number of entrepreneurs clearly stated their intentions to migrate outside of the bloc if the law is […]

Google’s Launchpad Studio on Wednesday launched a new Studio initiative meant to support machine learning and general artificial intelligence (AI) startups. While the platform fueling the initiative often opts to finance promising tech companies directly, the idea behind the new venture is a much more complex one, with the Mountain View, California-based Internet giant looking […]

Alphabet reported its second quarter earnings earlier this week, and as usual, the numbers were great. And beat Wall Street’s expectations. But diving into Alphabet’s numbers for the quarter, it’s easy to see how AI is important to Alphabet and how it is also getting a bigger role in Alphabet’s revenue. If you take a […]

eBay has announced that it is working on options for users to search for products by image, or by sharing a link containing a product or product picture to the eBay app, both driven by machine learning. The two new features take advantage of computer vision and deep learning in order to train an AI […]

Apart from the Mi 5X and MIUI 9, Xiaomi’s Beijing-based product event on Wednesday also saw the launch of the Mi AI speaker, an Internet-enabled device that can connect to a smartphone and is powered by a number of the company’s proprietary artificial intelligence technologies. The Chinese original equipment manufacturer (OEM) revealed that the Mi […]

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s knowledge of AI is “limited,” in response to Zuckerberg’s criticism of Musk’s recent dire warning concerning the future of AI. In the comment thread of the Tweet, Musk was asked to elaborate, and said that an upcoming movie would have more details on […]

DeepMind, a Google-owned company focused on developing artificial intelligence-based technologies, has outlined how the British firm developed two kinds of AI that can plan the future using the capacity for imagination. Called imagination-augmented agents, the new types of AI use what DeepMind calls an “imagination encoder”, which is essentially a neural network that helps inform […]

Amazon acquired artificial intelligence (AI) startup Graphiq earlier this year, industry sources with knowledge of the transaction said on Thursday, interpreting the move as the tech giant’s latest attempt to improve its Alexa digital companion and a number of other products and services which utilize machine learning and general AI solutions. The Santa Barbara, California-based […]

Samsung Electronics currently doesn’t see Internet-enabled speakers with artificial intelligence (AI) assistants as “marketable,” one source familiar with the company’s thinking said on Wednesday, adding that the South Korean consumer electronics manufacturer may not release an AI speaker for the foreseeable future due to that belief. Apart from promotional issues, Samsung reportedly doesn’t think it […]

Google has put together a deep learning based AI program that’s made to hunt down beautiful scenery panoramas from Google Maps, stitch them together just right, then apply post-processing effects to get them as close to professional quality as possible. The AI looks for a number of qualifications in a given landscape before heading there […]

Motorola is developing AI tech for cameras and public safety in a new partnership with artificial intelligence company Neurala. Motorola, which will handle the software side of the project, will be working with Neurala’s AI technology to integrate it into hardware such as Motorola’s body cameras that are worn by law enforcement. While the project […]

Business magnate Elon Musk recently called for urgent action from the federal government, asking it to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies. While speaking at the summer meeting of the National Governors Association last weekend, Musk claimed that the possibility of AI turning on its human creators is much larger than people believe, urging the […]

Artificial Intelligence is a topic that almost always includes discussions of human jobs disappearing, but Parc CEO Tolga Kurtoglu sees humans and AI working together to tackle things that neither could do on their own. Parc has been a part of the computing landscape from a long time back as Xerox Parc, and Kurtoglu has […]

Yelp and three other companies debuted new artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and detailed some old ones at the latest iteration of the Mobile Beat (MB) conference which started earlier this week. The business discovery service revealed how it previously started using machine learning to not only help customers find new product and service providers, but […]

Microsoft has announced the formation of Microsoft Research AI, a research and development division within the company that is specifically devoted to finding out what the biggest obstacles in AI are, overcoming those, and applying the lessons learned and principles developed to more traditional AI work. Things that AI can’t typically do well by nature, […]

Mountain View-based tech giant Google has purchased Bangalore, India-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Halli Labs in a move that the AI company says is intended to bring more technology and information to a wider scope of individuals globally. Caesar Sengupta, vice president of product management at Google, confirmed the acquisition via his Twitter account, though […]

Google is looking to address the issue of artificial intelligence (AI) inaccessibility with its new initiative called PAIR, short for “People + AI Research.” The Alphabet-owned company announced its latest endeavor on Monday, stating the venture will be headed by data visualization specialists Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas. The two will be overseeing development of a […]

Research in the artificial intelligence (AI) segment has been slowing down in recent decades, with major tech giants primarily focusing on developing existing solutions and technologies, data compiled by the Golden Goose Project suggests. While research and development (R&D) budgets are generally approved together, the latter is reportedly getting much more attention from tech executives […]

Chinese tech giant Baidu and Irvine, California-based audio software company Conexant on Wednesday announced a new partnership meant to facilitate advancements in the artificial intelligence (AI) segment, specifically the one aimed at voice-enabled product and services, as well as their commercial implementations. The two companies are soon planning to release reference designs and software development […]

Artificial Intelligence is one of the most powerful forces shaping modern industries, and in acknowledgment of that, Volkswagen has announced a partnership with NVIDIA to increase its machine learning prowess and help to enhance the development of comprehensive AI solutions to be integrated into various functions across Volkswagen’s full range of vehicles. The press release […]

Sony on Tuesday open-sourced its Neural Network Libraries, a framework meant for developing artificial intelligence (AI) solutions with deep learning capabilities, the Japanse tech giant said in a statement. The company is hoping that its latest move will help grow a development community centered around its software tools and consequently improve the “core libraries” of the […]

A new study published by Accenture shows that the artificial intelligence boom happening across industries shows strong potential to bring corporate profits up around 38% by 2035. Specifically, the powerful revolutionary force stands to add about $14 trillion across 16 industries. Annual growth figures for some industries, as seen in the charts below, are set […]

Google has published an academic paper wherein six of the company’s best AI researchers and one from the University of Toronto team up to create a template of sorts for a machine learning model that could potentially be used to create an all-in-one, universal AI. The powerful all-around model described works by incorporating multiple convolutional […]

The ZOPO Speed X smartphone with artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Niki has been officially unveiled in India earlier today. Niki can be issued with voice commands related to various services such as booking hotel reservations or paying bills and offers a convenient way of purchasing from more than 20 e-commerce services, the phone maker claims. The […]

Facebook’s AI research into getting chat bots to successfully negotiate has resulted in the bots accidentally creating their own language. During their training in conversational communication and negotiation, the bots were allowed to talk freely to one another. They started off sticking to scripts and conventions that they had been fed by the research team, […]

Earlier this week, South Korea’s Naver Corporation announced its newfound collaboration with US-based chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. The company teamed up with Qualcomm in order to facilitate the development and distribution of its AI (artificial intelligence) platform Clova. The collaboration between the two tech giants will allow Naver and its Japanese arm Line Corporation to push […]

Amazon has launched a new device powered by its artificial intelligence (AI) platform Alexa, called the Amazon Dash Wand. As the moniker suggests, the device is shaped like a wand, or a remote control small enough to be operated with one hand. It features a magnet on the back which can stick to refrigerator doors […]

Artificial intelligence is normally purpose-built and has a hard time expanding its horizons on its own, but one example of artificial general intelligence, dubbed Nigel by its creators at Kimera Systems, is now available for open beta testing on Android. Nigel is an artificial general intelligence that differentiates itself from its contemporaries by expanding on […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) self-driving technologies are on the rise in South Korea, as evidenced by a rapidly increasing number of patent applications filed in the Far Eastern country. According to the Korean Intellectual Property Office, local companies filed for 24 patents related to autonomous driving solutions in 2016, a significant increase compared to the previous year […]

Google has launched an offshoot aimed at investing in and fostering AI startups, and the firm is staffed by Google’s AI engineers rather than venture capitalists or business professionals. The effort is to be led by the company’s VP of engineering, Anna Patterson, and will feature a rotating staff of Google engineers. The program will reportedly […]

Sensory Inc has announced an expansion of its efforts to bring embedded machine learning, neural networking, and AI to ARM devices. Sensory’s technologies allow on-device AI operations in devices that wouldn’t normally support them, including many ARM products. The company’s offerings on ARM platforms now include deep neural networking, always-listening wake word support, speech recognition, […]

AlphaGo, an AI developed by Google’s DeepMind division, has defeated the Chinese Go master Ke Jie in the first match of a three-match series currently going on in China. The latest significant victory for the AI has come after it beat South Korean Go champion Lee Se-dol last year and has come as a proof […]

Earlier this week it was confirmed that Spotify has acquired Niland, a music artificial intelligence start-up. It’s thought that this acquisition is the latest in the company’s efforts to improve the backend of its service which recommends music to their listeners. Spotify released a statement on their website, following the acquisition in which it said […]

Wayfair has launched a new visual search tool for their product line that is powered by a machine learning AI built upon trends, attributes, and design tropes from their own massive catalog of furniture and home decor. That catalog allowed Wayfair to train up a very specially-made AI for its specific niche, being to search […]

Facebook has built a new AI framework tool that’s designed to help build and enhance conversational AIs, called ParlAI. The tool essentially allows developing conversational AIs to train on a large number of different models and protocols simultaneously, significantly accelerating growth and helping the AIs expand to be able to learn more things faster. It […]

Facebook users are likely quite familiar with those spammy pages that have one paragraph or photo for every two or three ad-filled pages, but Facebook has announced that they will be updating the service in the near future to fight that sort of content, among other types of potentially objectionable content. Pages with content that […]

Uber is opening a new office of its Advanced Technologies Group in Toronto, its first ever self-driving center outside of the United States, and that office will be led by local machine learning expert Raquel Urtasun. Urtasun is a prominent AI researcher in Canada, a professor at the University of Toronto, and holds the position of an official […]

Amazon is planning to build a massive Development Center in Cambridge, United Kingdom, the British division of the American tech giant revealed in a release published on Thursday. The science hub will span 60,000 square feet and be focused on researching artificial intelligence (AI), drones, and related technologies, the company said. The center is scheduled […]

Samsung’s Bixby artificial intelligence (AI) assistant is capable of rapping, beatboxing, and even making fun of its competitors while doing it, owners of the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8 Plus in South Korea have discovered. The Seoul-based consumer electronics manufacturer started rolling out the Bixby Voice feature of its digital companion in its home […]

Artificial intelligence programs that are made to transcribe text into speech instead of using more rigid hand-coded programs are not an entirely new thing, but Google’s newest, called Tacotron, is one of the most advanced and forgiving of the bunch. Tacotron boasts the ability to dynamically control shifts in pitch and tone based on context, […]

Google’s work with machine learning and neural networking is dipping into the creative again, this time with respect to the simple art of doodling, using a new model called “sketch-rnn.” Drawing ambiguous, almost featureless stick figures and circular animal faces from memory is a natural talent for most humans, but AIs need a little help […]

The CEO of Amazon.com Inc., Jeff Bezos has said in his annual letter to shareholders that the key to the company’s future success lies in Artificial Intelligence (AI.) The 1,700-word letter made it clear that although much of Amazon’s current work on machine learning is not well known, the company would be heavily invested in […]

Chinese technology giant LeEco unveiled a new smartphone, the Le Pro3 AI Edition, a revised version of the Le Pro3 that launched in the U.S. last year. The new LeEco Le Pro3 AI Edition marks two firsts for the company – the arrival of LeEco’s own virtual assistant called LeLe and its first dual camera. While […]

Google has announced a new machine learning solution that doesn’t require all related data to leave a device, which it dubbed as “federated learning.” In a somewhat radical change in its machine learning strategy, Google has moved away from its norm of gathering information, storing it in the cloud, and processing the data on its […]