AWS SageMaker’s new machine learning IDE isn’t ready to win over data scientists

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Studio makes some useful improvements to Amazon's SageMaker machine-learning environment, but it has some fundamental competitive weaknesses.

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AI Weekly: Amazon plays the long game in health care AI

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Amazon is making moves in the AI health care space, most recently on the Alexa and Amazon Web Services side of its business.

ProBeat: We already know what to expect from Sundar Pichai’s Alphabet

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Sundar Pichai is now CEO of Google and CEO of Alphabet. This transition didn't happen overnight, so don't expect any drastic changes.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit underlined the risks of relying on partners

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At 2019's Snapdragon Tech Summit, Qualcomm demonstrated that its chips can power amazing experiences -- but real products depend substantially on partners.

Facebook’s Hanabi-playing AI achieves state-of-the-art results

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Facebook AI Research says it's created AI that achieves near-perfect results in the game Hanabi, something they hope leads to AI better understanding humans

PerceptiLabs’ drag-and-drop interface makes ML modeling easier and faster

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A clean and simple interface can accelerate machine learning modeling, saving data scientists time and saving businesses money.

Google Assistant can now share photos, search podcasts, and make notes with third-party apps

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Google Assistant can now share photos on Android devices, create notes and lists with third-party productivity apps, and search podcasts by topic.

MIT CSAIL’s AI can reconstruct hidden movement from video footage alone

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Researchers say they've developed a system that can reconstruct hidden videos from the shadows and reflections on an observed pile of clutter.

Zenia is using computer vision to build an AI-driven fitness trainer

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Zenia is a mobile fitness app that uses machine learning, computer vision, and motion tracking to help improve your yoga moves.

AI today and the world tomorrow

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A 12-part video series features some of the world's leading AI researchers from the likes of Google, Uber, and Giphy sharing mind-blowing advances in AI.

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Rensselaer focuses IBM’s AiMOS supercomputer on machine learning

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IBM's AiMOS, which was recently delivered to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is the 24th-fastest supercomputer in the world.

Why AWS is selling a MIDI keyboard to teach machine learning

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Earlier this week, AWS launched DeepComposer, a set of web-based tools for learning about AI to make music and a $99 MIDI keyboard for inputting melodies. That launch created a fair bit of confusion, though, so we sat down with Mike Miller, the director of AWS’s AI Devices group, to talk abou…

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NFL-AWS partnership hopes to reduce head injuries with machine learning

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Today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell joined AWS CEO Andy Jassy on stage to announce a new partnership to use machine learning to help reduce head injuries in professional football. “We’re excited to announce a new strategic partnership together, which is g…

New tweet generator mocks venture capitalists

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"The S-1 is going to be MOST disrupted FASTEST in the next 3 YEARS? Caps for effect."

Qualcomm reveals Snapdragon 7c and 8c for always-connected budget PCs

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Qualcomm is going after entry-level and midrange laptops with new chips that leverage mobile processor improvements and LTE to compete with Intel CPUs.

Restructuring the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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The Institute's largest academic department reorganizes with new leadership as part of the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.

Uber’s PPLM language model can change the topic and sentiment of AI-generated text

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Uber's PPLM is a novel technique that steers the sentiment, topic, and other attributes of text generated by AI language models.

Microsoft using ‘Game of Drones’ AI racing challenge to improve trustable autonomy systems

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Microsoft will continue and expand its Game of Drones competition powereed by AirSim with more real--world simulations like weather and

Waymo One launches on iOS, passes 1,500 monthly active riders

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Waymo One is now available on iOS, exactly one year after the commercial autonomous ride-hailing service's launch in Phoenix, Arizona.

Mozilla updates DeepSpeech with an English language model that runs ‘faster than real time’

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Mozilla's new DeepSpeech release -- DeepSpeech 0.6 -- introduces an English language model that runs 'faster in real time' on a single Raspberry Pi 4 core.

Gosu.ai’s AI-driven voice assistant coaches gamers as they play League of Legends

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unveiled its plans for a desktop voice assistant that proactively offers strategy, tactics, and feedback to gamers as they play League of Legends.

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Cyberhaven raises $13 million to thwart trade secret theft

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Cyberhaven, a startup developing a product that protects against trade secret theft, has raised a $13 million funding round.

Adyen CEO on AI for payments: ‘I was surprised how effective it was’

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Adyen's approach to AI reflects its unconventional philosophy that has made it one of Europe's biggest entrepreneurial success stories.

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Qualcomm details Snapdragon 865 and 765, promises devices in Q1 2020

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In 2020, Qualcomm-powered Android phones will pack new high-resolution cameras, high-color screens, and super-fast wireless capabilities.

Researchers develop AI that reads lips from video footage

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Researchers have developed a machine learning system that leverages audio and video information to improve the accuracy of lip reading.

Augtera raises $4 million for AI-driven network management

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Augtera raised a $4 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures for its AI trained on data from network activity for management and optimization.

Picovoice’s web console lets device makers create their own voice assistants

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Picovoice's web console and partnership with Arm are designed to let OEMs easily create voice assistants for their devices.

Amazon proposes a home robot that asks you questions when it’s confused

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Researchers at Amazon's Alexa AI division propose a novel method of improving AI agents' ability to navigate environments.

How Segment survived its brush with death to become a customer data management unicorn

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Segment saw two ideas flop and was almost out of money when it tried one last desperate strategy. Seven years later, the customer data company is a unicorn.

GitGuardian raises $12 million to find sensitive data hidden in online code

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GitGuardian, which detects sensitive data hidden in online code, has raised $12 million from Balderton Capital and the cofounders of GitHub and Docker.

Panorays raises $15 million to automate cybersecurity lifecycle management

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Panorays, a three-year-old security lifecycle management startup, announced that it has raised $15 million in venture capital.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit focuses on 5G AI chips and use cases

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At an annual chip reveal event in Hawaii, Qualcomm and its partners explained how 5G is beginning to spread into more devices, regions, and use cases.

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This 16-game arcade for AIs tests their playing prowess

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Figuring out just what an AI is good at is one of the hardest thing about understanding them. To help determine this, OpenAI has designed a set of games that can help researchers tell whether their machine learning agent is actually learning basic skills or, what is equally likely, has figured out …

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OpenAI’s Procgen Benchmark prevents AI model overfitting

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OpenAI's Procgen Benchmark aims to provide a direct measure of how well an AI model generalizes to previously unseen environments.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is now CEO of Alphabet, too

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai will now act as CEO of Alphabet as well, making him responsible for Alphabet investments and Google operations.

Google details AI that classifies chest X-rays with human-level accuracy

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In a blog post, Google researchers detailed a machine learning model capable of classifying X-ray images with 'radiologist-level' accuracy.

AWS announces new enterprise search tool powered by machine learning

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Today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced a new search tool called Kendra, which provides natural language search across a variety of content repositories using machine learning. Matt Wood, AWS VP of artificial intelligence said that the new search tool uses machine learning, but d…

AWS announces AutoPilot, more visible AutoML in SageMake Studio

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Today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced AutoPilot, a new tool that gives you greater visibility in automated machine learning model creation, known as AutoML. This new tool is part of the new SageMaker Studio also announced today. As AWS CEO Andy Jassy pointed out on stage today,…

Qualcomm reveals 5G-ready Snapdragon 865, 765, and 765G

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Qualcomm has made the Snapdragon 865 and 765/765G platforms official, bringing 5G to new devices, but it's holding back the technical details.

AWS launches Sagemaker Studio, a web-based IDE for machine learning

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At its re:Invent conference, AWS CEO Andy Jassy today announced the launch of SageMaker Studio, a web-based IDO for building and training machine learning workflows. It includes everything a data scientist would need to get started with, including ways to organize notebooks, data sets, code and mod…

Amazon introduces Fraud Detector and Code Guru

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Amazon today announced two new machine learning services -- Fraud Detector and Code Guru at AWS re:Invent 2019 in Last Vegas.

AWS launches major SageMaker upgrades for machine learning model training and testing

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Amazon's SageMaker for machine learning got a series of upgrades today including auto ML and services to help with experiments, debugging, and notebooks.

Amazon launches A3 Access Points to assign AWS access policies for apps

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Amazon this morning announced A3 Access Points, which makes it easier for Amazon Web Services customers to manage acess for apps using shared services.

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Amazon debuts AWS Inf1, an AI inference instance

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AWS today introduced Inf1, an EC2 instance for AI inference that CEO Andy Jassy calls faster and cheaper than other prediction serving offerings.

Podcorn uses algorithms to match podcasters with relevant advertisers

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Podcorn, which launches today, is a marketplace that uses machine learning to match podcasters with the most suitable advertising brands.

SoftBank leads $30 million investment in Accel Robotics for AI-enabled cashierless stores

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SoftBank has led a $30 million series investment in Accel Robotics, one of a number of AI startups that's creating automated cashierless stores.

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Canalys: Chinese cloud infrastructure spending reaches almost $3B a quarter

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Canalys released its latest cloud infrastructure spending numbers for China today, and it’s all trending upward. For starters, the market reached $2.9 billion for the quarter, an increase of 60.8%. China now accounts for 10.4% of worldwide cloud spending, meaning it’s second only to the…

New Amazon tool simplifies delivery of containerized machine learning models

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As part of the flurry of announcements coming this week out of AWS re:Invent, Amazon announced the release of Amazon SageMaker Operators for Kubernetes, a way for data scientists and developers to simplify training, tuning and deploying containerized machine learning models. Packaging machine learn…

AWS Braket lets customers experiment with a range of quantum computing hardware

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Amazon's newest cloud computing service, AWS Braket, lets customers experiment with a range of quantum computing hardware and capabilities.

AWS announces DeepComposer, a machine-learning keyboard for developers

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Today, as AWS re:Invent begins, Amazon announced DeepComposer, a machine-learning driven keyboard aimed at developers. “AWS DeepComposer is a 32-key, 2-octave keyboard designed for developers to get hands on with Generative AI, with either pretrained models or your own,” AWS’ Juli…