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Nov 14, 2018

Facebook, Twitter and Google team up to form an AI-powered anti-drug coalition

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, robotics/AI

The tech firms plan to use AI to combat the spread of drug use.

Health.

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Nov 11, 2018

How Singles’ Day has helped Alibaba ascend on an AI-powered cloud in China

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

The technology and innovation that Alibaba has developed to serve the needs that arise from Singles’ Day have allowed Alibaba to expand into a variety of services, including Alibaba Cloud, logistics, and artificial intelligence.


Within minutes of the clock striking midnight on November 11 this year, consumers across China will be racking up billions in purchases on Alibaba’s e-commerce marketplaces. Alibaba engineers and employees watching the transaction numbers on big screens will whoop as the figure instantly crosses the hundred million yuan mark, then zooms into the billions.

As the orders start to roll in, the company’s proprietary cloud computing platform Alibaba Cloud will, at its peak, process hundreds of thousands in transactions and payments per second. Robots in the automated warehouses of Alibaba’s logistics arm Cainiao will begin sorting and packing the orders that come in, readying them for the battalion of trucks, scooters and millions of deliverymen that will send an estimated 1 billion packages to their rightful owners within days of November 11.

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Nov 10, 2018

Ray Kurzweil — Human Level AI is Just 12 Years Away

Posted by in categories: Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI

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Nov 10, 2018

Broadcasting Network Uses Artificial Intelligence News Anchor

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

This lifelike ‘news anchor’ is actually just AI.

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Nov 9, 2018

Press is one industry that cannot be replaced by AI — its sole purpose is to report what government won’t tell us… Humans may or may not do that

Posted by in categories: government, robotics/AI

Preprogrammed AI definitely won’t.

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Nov 9, 2018

‘Siri, I’m getting pulled over’: A new shortcut for iPhones can automatically record the police

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI

Anarchy AI ✌️😆


There’s a big new feature for iPhone experts this year: It’s an app called Shortcuts, and with a little bit of logic and know-how, you can stitch together several apps and create a script that can be activated by pressing a button or using Siri.

Some early uses are predictable, like saving Instagram photos, sharing the song you’re listening to, or creating a morning routine that activates your lights and plays a song.

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Nov 9, 2018

China created what it claims is the first AI news anchor — watch it in action here

Posted by in categories: internet, robotics/AI

  • China’s state press agency has developed “AI news anchors,” avatars of real-life news presenters which read out news as it is typed.
  • It developed the anchors with Chinese search engine giant Sogou.
  • There was no detail given as to how exactly the anchors were made, and one expert said they fell into the “uncanny valley,” when avatars have an unsettling resemblance to humans.

China’s state-run press agency Xinhua has unveiled what it claims are the world’s first AI-generated news anchors.

Xinhua revealed the anchors at the World Internet Conference on Thursday. Modeled on two real presenters, the agency showcased two AI-generated anchors, one who speaks Chinese and another who speaks English.

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Nov 8, 2018

Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

Machine learning algorithms don’t yet understand things the way humans do — with sometimes disastrous consequences.

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Nov 8, 2018

China’s state-run press agency has created an ‘AI anchor’ to read the news

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

But the agency’s new host isn’t any more sophisticated than a CGI puppet.

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Nov 7, 2018

Object detection in 4K and 8K video using GPUs

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have recently developed a new model that enables fast and accurate object detection in high-resolution 4K and 8K video footage using GPUs. Their attention pipeline method carries out a two-stage evaluation of every image or video frame under rough and refined resolution, limiting the total number of evaluations necessary.

In recent years, machine learning has attained remarkable results in computer vision tasks, including . However, most recognition models typically perform best on images with a relatively low resolution. As the resolution of recording devices is rapidly improving, there is a rising need for tools that can process data.

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