AI at the Edge is enabling the push toward defect-free factories

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On-floor factory edge computing is enabing manufacturers to identify 99.6% of errors before a product ever leaves the line.

AI researchers create testing tool to find bugs in NLP from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft

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A testing tool called CheckList found mistakes in commercially available AI from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft; CheckList won Best Paper award at ACL.

The Future Society, UNESCO, and others partner on pandemic decision-making platform

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The Collective and Augmented Intelligence Against COVID-19 (CAIAC) aims to provide decision makers with a platform to inform their choices.

As pandemic drags on, interest in automation surges

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Today, the U.S. exceeded three million COVID-19 cases and 132,000 deaths. In several states, new hotspots have rolled back plans to reopen businesses. The novel coronavirus has — and will continue — to profoundly impact the way we live and work. For the moment, that includes a shift in the employme…

Go deep at Transform 2020: Workshops on automation, explainable AI, chatbot building, and design thinking

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Four day-long workshops on different AI topics provide in-depth learning, meaningful insights and action items necessary to grow and scale your business.

Researchers propose AI for detecting fraudulent crowdfunding campaigns

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In a new preprint study, researchers propose AI to detect fraudulent crowdfunding campaigns at publication time -- even without donor activity.

Elon Musk sets update on brain-computer interface company Neuralink for August 28

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Elon Musk said on Twitter this week that Neuralink, the company he founded in 2016 to develop computer-brain interfaces for the explicit purpose of helping humans keep pace with advanced artificial intelligence, will provide an update on its progress on August 28. The last major update from Neurali…

LogDNA raises $25 million to automate app and service log management

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Log management automation startup LogDNA has raised $25 million in venture capital funding, bringing its total raised to over $60 million.

Kernel raises $53 million to make neuroscience insights accessible to businesses

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Kernel raised $53 million to develop a new generation of brain tech that allows companies to leverage insights from the latest neuroscience.

Elon Musk says Tesla is ‘very close’ to level 5 autonomous driving

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Tesla is “very close” to achieving level 5 autonomous driving CEO Elon Musk said, referring to the capability to navigate roads without any driver input.

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XM Cyber raises $17 million to simulate and remediate cyberattacks

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Cybersecurity startup XM Cyber has raised $17 million in series B financing, bringing its total raised to date to $49 million.

Get your AI projects done, with 1:1 meetings at Transform

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Transform VIP attendees will benefit from a best-of-breed experience to connect with peers in meaningful ways, including 1:1 meetings and B2B matchmaking.

Garry Kasparov on AI: ‘People always called me an optimist’

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Garry Kasparov is a political activist who’s written books and articles on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and online privacy, but he’s best known for being the former World Chess Champion who took on the IBM computer known as Big Blue in the mid-1990s. I spoke to Kasparov before…

The Pentagon’s AI director talks killer robots, facial recognition, and China

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The Pentagon's Joint AI Center is working on lethal "tactical edge AI," but is not working on facial recognition, said JAIC director Nand Mulchandani.

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Google’s Data QnA is an AI service that helps business users get answers to analytical queries

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Google today announced Data QnA, an AI service designed to help users get answers to analytical queries through natural language questions.

Google’s AI looks beneath the surface for information about people, places, and things in images

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Google says it will begin providing context around images in Google Images, based on the content of the webpages hosting those images.

Google launches Android 11 Beta 2 with final APIs and behaviors

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Google launches Android 11 Beta 2 .

Facebook’s speech recognition model supports 51 different languages

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Facebook researchers developed a language model they say can recognize words in 51 different languages, including 'low-resource' languages like Persian.

Text Analytics for Health helps Microsoft customers generate insights from medical data

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Microsoft today launched new Azure AI features in general availability, including Text Analytics for Health and Form Recognizer.

SetSail raises raises $7M to change how sales teams are compensated

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Most sales teams earn a commission after a sale closes, but nothing prior to that. Yet there are a variety of signals along the way that indicate the sales process is progressing, and SetSail, a startup from some former Google engineers, is using machine learning to figure out what those signals ar…

Transform 2020: Learn how to build edge AI to accelerate your business

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With the emergence of 5G and the ubiquity of ever more powerful smartphones and other devices, companies are increasingly looking to run AI applications at the “edge” -- that is, at the point of action rather than in the cloud.

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Facebook civil rights audit urges ‘mandatory’ algorithmic bias detection

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An independent civil rights review found the company's efforts to detect algorithmic bias are falling short and leave users vulnerable to manipulation.

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Researchers detail texture-swapping AI that could be used to create deepfakes

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Researchers at UC Berkeley and Adobe Research propose in a paper Swapping Autoencoder, an AI tool that could be used to create realistic deepfakes.

WattScale is an open source AI tool that identifies energy-wasting homes

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Researchers developed an AI tool -- WattScale -- that can identify energy-inefficient homes anywhere in a region with sufficient data.

As Palantir preps IPO, a look back at its growth history

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Yesterday evening Palantir, the quasi-secretive data mining and analysis firm, publicly announced that it has privately filed to go public. The disclosure came in the wake of Palantir raising new capital, taking on hundreds of millions of dollars before its planned public offering. According to Cru…

Researchers use AI and audio to predict where objects will land

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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University explored whether sound could be used to train AI models to predict the motion of objects.

Teleoperated scooters: Go X and Tortoise test micromobility’s future in Georgia pilot

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Tortoise and Go X have launched an experiment in Peachtree Corners, Georgia -- deploying 100 scooters that can be remotely operated.

MonkeyLearn raises $2.2M to build out its no-code AI text analysis service

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A few years back, startups focusing on artificial intelligence had a whiff of bullshit about them; venture capitalists became inured to young tech companies claiming that their new AI-powered product was going to change the world as hype exceeded product reality. But in the time since, AI-powered s…

Clearview AI stops facial recognition sales in Canada amid privacy investigation

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Officials said Clearview AI will no longer operate in Canada, but investigation into Royal Canadian Mounted Police's use of Clearview's AI will continue.

AI Weekly: Workplace surveillance tech promises safety, but not worker rights

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As bigger tech companies roll out "getting back to work" solutions, we can't forget about the rights and privacy of the workers being surveilled.

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Researchers identify dozens of words that accidentally trigger Amazon Echo speakers

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Researchers developed a device called LeakyPick that monitors network traffic to determine when smart devices might be recording audio.

Researchers use AI to highlight Zoom’s privacy risks

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In a study, researchers demonstrated that AI could be used to cross-reference the names and images of Zoom meeting participants.

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How May Mobility’s autonomous shuttle ambitions backfired

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May Mobility, an apparent success story in the self-driving industry, suffered from overambition and technological limitations that cratered its business.

How Stitch Fix used AI to personalize its online shopping experience

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Case study: To futher personalize its shopping recommendations, Stitch Fix built out a service using a combination of AI and human curation.

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Social media must add a do-not-track option for images of our faces

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Here's how we can begin to combat the rampant misuse of facial data.

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An AI founder’s struggle to be seen in the age of Black Lives Matter 

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With Google opening accelerators for Black and female founders, and with tech execs speaking about equalizing opportunities, I thought I'd at least be able to get a meeting.

How AI can empower communities and strengthen democracy

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A look at AI projects and prototypes built with justice in mind to strengthen communities, improve democracies, and defend free societies and people.

R&D Roundup: Tech giants unveil breakthroughs at computer vision summit

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Computer vision summit CVPR has just (virtually) taken place, and like other CV-focused conferences, there are quite a few interesting papers. More than I could possibly write up individually, in fact, so I’ve collected the most promising ones from major companies here. Facebook, Google, Amaz…

We need a new field of AI to combat racial bias

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Responsibly managing machine learning processes is no longer just a desirable component of progress but a necessary one.

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We need a new field of AI to combat racial bias

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Responsibly managing machine learning processes is no longer just a desirable component of progress but a necessary one.

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Goldman explains Apple Card algorithmic rejections, including bankruptcies

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The system Apple uses to approve or deny Apple Card applicants is a black box, so we reached out to learn how Goldman's algorithm works -- and it's not AI.

AI system learns to model how fabrics interact by watching videos

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Researchers propose an AI system that learns to model the physical interactions between types of fabrics by watching videos.

Are virtual concerts here to stay?

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The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the music industry to experiment seriously with virtual concerts. Historically, musicians and their managers have been careful about challenging the traditional concert model that became their main source of income as revenue from album sales disappeared. Is the current…

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The great stink in software pipelines

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While contemporary software failures won't cause cholera outbreaks or emit the rancid smells of the past, they reek of devastation, rendering billions of dollars lost and millions of developer hours wasted each year. 

COVID-KG uses AI to scan thousands of studies to answer doctors’ coronavirus questions

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In a new paper, researchers from Columbia, Brandeis, Darpa, UCLA, UIUC, and elsewhere describe an AI framework that answers questions about COVID-19.

MIT takes down 80 Million Tiny Images data set due to racist and offensive content

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The 80 Million Tiny Images data set was taken offline following an audit that found images labelled with racist, sexist, or otherwise offensive words.

Mozilla Common Voice updates will help train the ‘Hey Firefox’ wakeword for voice-based web browsing

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Mozilla updated Common Voice, its open source collection of transcribed voice data. It now contains over 7,000 hours of speech across 54 languages.

Researchers find some third-party Facebook apps are misusing email addresses

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A preprint study from the University of Iowa found some third-party Facebook apps share data like email addresses with other parties without disclosure.

Learn how to accelerate your business using automation and AI technology: Transform 2020

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No one expected the jolt the Covid-19 pandemic would bring to business. If companies were already investing in automation and AI technologies before March 2020, they have only accelerated those investments since. With leaders looking for ways to avoid human contact, machines, software and new processes that avoid those humans are even more imperative.

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Google brings its AI-powered SmartReply feature to YouTube

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Google’s SmartReply, the four-year-old, A.I.-based technology that helps suggest responses to messages in Gmail, Android’s Messages, Play Developer Console and elsewhere, is now being made available to YouTube Creators. Google announced today the launch of an updated version of SmartRep…