Sony announced earlier today that it would be establishing a new organisation within the company, focusing on the development of Artificial Intelligence. Unlike many other AI projects however, Sony is tackling the technology in order to “[f]ill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology”, and “unleash[ing] …
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Read More »Intel announce Nervana Neural Network processors
Intel has announced a new wave of artificial intelligence. Its Nervana Neural Network processors are designed to accelerate AI system development and deployment from cloud to edge, with a new class of AI hardware. At a gathering of industry influencers, Intel demonstrated its new Nervana Neural Network Processor for Training (NNP-T1000) …
Read More »John Carmack steps back from VR to work on AI just one day after lifetime achievement award
Just one day after earning the Accenture Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the virtual reality industry, Oculus CTO, John Carmack, has announced that he will be taking a step back from Oculus and will be spending more time working on artificial intelligence instead. Carmack has been the Chief Technology …
Read More »FACEIT and Google create new chat AI to tackle toxic gamers
In any game with a chat function, you’ll inevitably come across offensive messages. Google and FACEIT are attempting to tackle this issue with its new Minerva AI, which uses machine learning to issue warnings to, as well as ban, toxic players. If early tests are any indication, it seems to …
Read More »Sony patents PlayStation Assist, an AI powered digital assistant doubling as a game guide
At this point, the smart home craze is in full swing and most major tech companies are looking at ways to break into the market. On Microsoft’s side, the Xbox One is getting voice command support for Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa in addition to Microsoft’s own digital assistant, Cortana. …
Read More »Facebook bolsters election integrity with AI, banning 1 million accounts per day
Facebook is fighting battles on many fronts, from criticism of its data handling to the regulation of content that appears on its platform. In an attempt to bolster political integrity ahead of India’s elections, the social network is utilising advancements in artificial intelligence to weed out accounts that violate its …
Read More »Mozilla will use Ubisoft’s machine learning platform to quell Firefox bugs
In partnership with Ubisoft, Mozilla will be using Clever-Commit machine learning to detect errors within the Firefox updates before they go live.
Read More »Comcast’s New AI-Powered Security Service Debuts, But Will Users Want It?
If there are two things that the average American internet user would agree shouldn’t go together, it’s Comcast and network traffic monitoring. After all, it was Comcast’s own shady data practices that helped spur the calls for net neutrality regulations in the US (which have since lapsed) and drove millions …
Read More »Google’s Deepmind AI will take on StarCraft 2 tomorrow
A few years ago, the folks behind Google’s Deepmind project became interested in training the AI to tackle StarCraft 2. Blizzard helped out by releasing bot creation tools and giving Google access to tens of thousands of recorded StarCraft 2 matches to help train the AI. Significant progress has been …
Read More »AI pushback in 2018 could slow developments for years to come
2018 held more marked developments and revelations concerning the field of AI than ever before, yet the public at large seems more concerned with its potential shortcomings than its inevitable benefits. These concerns are hardly unfounded yet could prove troublesome for the future development of machine learning processes. After all, …
Read More »Nvidia’s AI-generated graphics hint at an automatically generated gaming future
This month, Nvidia showcased one of the first proof-of-concept demos for the real-time creation of video game graphics. The new tech showcase focuses on a real-time driving simulation that covers a few city blocks, with AI generating in-game graphics based off of real-world footage. The demo is purely focused on …
Read More »DataSciCon.Tech aims for a hands-on data science boot camp
Working in the field of data science is a concept that has only recently reached the professional lexicon, having previously worn the mantle of a dozen various jobs with related specialisations in aggregating and sorting data in order to put it to better use. It’s the sort of field that …
Read More »QNAP launches AI-ready TS-2888X with early bird discount
QNAP is upping the ante once again this month with its new TS-2888X. This is being billed as an ‘AI-Ready’ NAS, offering a robust storage solution paired with ready-made software that aims to simplify AI workflow. The TS-2888X is built using Intel Xeon W processors with up to 18 cores …
Read More »Google Duplex gets its first public trial
At Google I/O earlier this year, we got our first look at Google Duplex, the companies new AI calling service. It was met with both awe and criticism in terms of validity and ethics. Since then, Google has reworked a few things to address concerns, and is now pushing Duplex …
Read More »Nvidia give away twenty TITAN V ‘CEO Edition’ GPUs to AI researchers
The TITAN V was a GPU aimed towards machine learning, with the introduction of Tensor Cores and 12GB of HBM2. Now, at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference, Nvidia’s CEO has given away twenty TITAN V ‘CEO Edition’ GPUs to twenty random guests. The special thing about these GPUs …
Read More »MIT researchers showcase the dangers of algorithmic bias with the world’s first psychopathic AI
Despite the strides made in AI technology, artificial intelligence still carries a heavy stigma with it, prompting fears of the machines rising above humans. This might seem the stuff of fiction, but those in the field know the implications of misplaced values in a system designed to think and act …
Read More »Microsoft’s Kinect sensor has found a new home in Azure AI
The Kinect has had a bad run in the video game world, with the original Xbox 360 sensor failing to catch on, and history repeating itself after the launch of the Xbox One. In October last year, Microsoft stopped manufacturing the Kinect 2.0, but it is making a surprise return …
Read More »Google’s head of artificial intelligence defects to Apple
Google’s former head of search and artificial intelligence, John Giannandrea announced that he was stepping down from the role earlier this week, prompting veteran Jeff Dean to take his place. Now, Giannandrea will be lending his talents, and potentially Google’s secrets, to Apple as the firm poached him to run …
Read More »Ubisoft is using machine learning to spot bugs before they make it into the final game code
Ubisoft has had its issues with buggy game launches in the past and while things have improved over time, this has come at the cost of development time, as play tests get underway. In the future, this may not be an issue though, as the publisher has developed an ‘AI …
Read More »Microsoft introduces AI to Office 365, including Word, Excel and Outlook
Microsoft is upgrading its Office 365 applications using artificial intelligence in order to bring new capabilities to the platforms. The purpose of such is to use machine learning to help users improve productivity and efficiency in the workplace. Several new capabilities have already been added to Office 365 throughout the …
Read More »Predictive text AI writes its own Harry Potter story filled with dancing, Ron magic & cannibalism
Artificial Intelligence has some pretty useful functions, from powering your smartphone to an adaptive enemy in a video game. Botnik Studios has been testing its own AI in the form of a predictive keyboard, enabling it to write its very own Harry Potter chapter for hilarious results. Botnik’s AI was …
Read More »Honor unveils your first AI smartphone, the View 10
Taking selfies with a gesture, automatically augmenting male and female faces in photos and the ability to match over 30 faces a second are just some of the claims made by George Zhao, President of Honor – a brand of Huawei that specialises in low to mid-range smartphones. KitGuru was at …
Read More »Nvidia brings machine learning software to TITAN GPUs
This week, Nvidia has expanded the pool of GPUs that can take advantage of the Nvidia GPU Cloud, allowing developers and data scientists to build and test machine learning systems on their own PCs before moving on to something more powerful. The software tool released this week means that TITAN …
Read More »Google’s AI successfully creates a record-breaking AI of its own
Along with many other companies, Google has been developing its own artificial intelligence for quite some time. This is, of course, a slow process due to the early stages of the technology, but what if AI could create better AI, faster? Google asked the very same question, prompting its own …
Read More »Re:scam the scammers with this new email bot
Chatbots have been a way to test steadily improving artificial intelligence for a while, probing it with questions to receive an incredibly human response. It turns out that this can be incredibly useful, as non-profit organisation Netsafe has launched its own Re:scam email bot to combat scammers. While some people …
Read More »Samsung unveil Bixby 2.0, meant for all kinds of devices
Samsung’s Bixby is about to become a little outdated, as just six months after its initial release the company has announced Bixby 2.0. It seems that this is, in fact, a key step in Samsung’s long-term plans for a smart fridge powered by its digital assistant. The original Bixby initially …
Read More »Facebook shuts down ad targeting due to hate speech filter
Facebook has had a lot of difficulties developing its AI, particularly in its inability to discern hate speech. This has now resulted in the social media giant having to temporarily suspend advertisers from targeting people via employer or education, as the AI continued to let keywords like “Jew hater” slip …
Read More »Roccat is launching the world’s first AI-powered mouse
Later today, Roccat will be launching a brand new AI-powered mouse called the ‘Kone AIMO’. The latest addition to Roccat’s award winning Kone-series of mice was built following a massive survey that asked around 30,000 gamers about their ideal mouse weight, size, lighting options and more. The Kone AIMO is …
Read More »Harman-Kardon taps Microsoft Cortana for Invoke home assistant
The Home Assistant connected device market seems to be massive in the United States, with an estimated 60.5 million users this year taking up the devices, according to a recent report from eMarketer (that’s a little under 1-in-5 human beings in the country) . So it stands as no surprise …
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