January 5, 2017
CrowdAI sells artificial-intelligence-as-a-service
Computers aren’t blind, but they can’t see. They can detect objects, but must be trained to understand what those objects are. That takes two things: a ton of…
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January 5, 2017
DeepMind’s updated AlphaGo has been secretly savaging pro players online
Pokémon GO might have been the most talked about “Go” game of 2016, but the world of AI remains fixated on another Go — AlphaGo. Last spring, Go-playing…
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Huawei to pre-load Amazon’s Alexa AI on US version of its Mate 9 flagship
Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant is having a good CES. Not only landing inside additional speaker hardware but finding entirely new incarnations in other connected household items — such…
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RASA NLU gives developers an open source solution for natural language processing
For better or worse, 2016 was another year of bots. I probably got more pitches for bot startups than anything else. And yet, bots are far from hitting their stride. If…
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Omnity search engine finds documents relevant to yours – regardless of language
With the amount of published research, patents, white papers, and other written knowledge out there, it’s hard to be even reasonably sure you’re aware of the goings-on around…
Read articleDecember 14, 2016
What kind of bird is that? Snap a picture and the Merlin Bird Photo ID app tells you
Is that a bufflehead? A coot? Maybe a loon? Get close enough to take a picture and the Merlin bird identification app will tell you in seconds —…
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Conversica lands $34 million Series B to build intelligent sales assistants
After a potential customer has first contact with a business, sales gets in gear, often responding with an introductory email. Conversica has developed an artificial intelligence system designed to automate these…
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Arago’s AI can now beat some human players at complex civ strategy games
Arago’s flagship HIRO AI product plays Freeciv, a free civilization building simulation that’s based on the popular and long-lived Sid Meier’s Civilization series of games – and it’s…
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OpenAI’s Universe is the fun parent every artificial intelligence deserves
Every parent’s worst nightmare is a student spending more time playing video games and surfing the web than studying for school. But the team over at OpenAI believes that…
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AWS shoots for total cloud domination
AWS held its annual re:Invent customer conference this week — and as it revealed one new service after another, one thing became clear: the company with a marketshare…
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