Google’s AI has a higher IQ than Siri, Bing, and Baidu — but all were beaten by a six-year-old

A trio of researchers developed an IQ test designed to determine how smart today’s AIs from three global leaders really are. Feng Liu, Yong Shi, and Ying Liu put their test to AIs from Google, Apple, and Microsoft. The AIs scored as follows: Google: 47.28 Baidu: 32.92 Bing: 31.92 Siri: 23.9 Google leads the pack comfortably according to the results. Baidu and Bing are a comfortable distance behind. Siri’s result is the most notable as it trails its competitors...

4 October 2017 | Research

Nuance launches AI-powered virtual assistant for healthcare providers

US-based Nuance Communications has launched the new AI-powered “Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant” especially for healthcare providers. The solution takes root from the award-winning Nuance Virtual Assistant platform, and is a great help for medics as it streamlines a wide range of clinical workflows. Over 500,000 clinicians in the US are already depended on the Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant for their day-to-day documentation. The solution delivers sophisticated conversational...

28 September 2017 | Healthcare

Editorial: The invasion of mobile AI chips is nigh

Most flagship smartphones in 2018 will have a dedicated mobile AI chip and we’re already seeing the industry move in that direction. AI-based tasks on most smartphones today are often carried out in the cloud without the average user even being aware. Google Photos, for example, uses deep learning to artistically crop and edit landscape panorama photos like a human photographer. Photos are categorised automatically, and — as of an update earlier this year — the app will even prompt who...

26 September 2017 | IoT

The AI use cases that could one day be used in your business

As artificial intelligence solutions become more and more accessible to the everyday business owner, it’s important to understand which solutions can best fit within your business model and strategy set. As AI systems continue to develop and advance, the possibilities for AI solutions are endless. While AI technology is already integrated into our daily lives through products such as Siri, Netflix, Pandora and more, there are several uses of AI technology that are still being developed....

19 September 2017 | Security

Affectiva’s new cloud-based API measures emotions across multiple communication channels

Affectiva has made its new cloud-based API for measuring emotion in recorded speech available to beta users, with an aim to create a multi-modal Emotion AI platform that is able to distinguish emotions across multiple communication channels. It will help speech classifiers identify emotions in real-time and in conversations. The new API is developed by using an existing deep-learning framework with expert data collection and labelling methodologies. When all these are combined with its...

15 September 2017 | Speech Recognition

Cancer-diagnosing AI raises $30 million by London investor

SOPHiA GENETICS, a company which specialises in data-driven medicine, has raised $30 million with the help of London-based Balderton Capital to advance its cancer-diagnosing AI. The company was founded in 2011 by academics from Stanford University and Switzerland. SOPHiA provides software to analyse genomic profiles and diagnose patients to over 330 hospitals in more than 50 countries. “Since inception, our vision has been to develop innovative technological solutions to help patients,...

13 September 2017 | Healthcare

Research: Despite popular opinion, AI is creating jobs

Popular opinion suggests AI is here to steal our jobs, but research from Capgemini shows an increasing number of roles in firms which are implementing it. Capgemini announced the findings into nearly 1,000 organisations today in its “Turning AI into concrete value: the successful implementer’s toolkit” study. 83 percent of the firms say the implementation of AI has generated new roles in their organisations while three-quarters have also seen an uplift in sales. Further countering...

8 September 2017 | Research

New Uberflip AI content marketing engine leverages visitors’ intent

Toronto-based content marketing company Uberflip has introduced its AI platform, which is said to be the first artificial based recommendation engine for content marketers that leverage visitor intent. The platform allows marketers to have intelligent automation that matches each unique visitor’s topics of interest with corresponding content by combining machine learning algorithms, visitor intent data, and natural language processing. Uberflip AI’s recommendation engine integrates...

8 September 2017 | Marketing

AI identifies protesters – even when they’re disguised

A new AI developed by researchers from the UK and India can identify protesters at rallies, even when they’re in disguise. For those of us concerned by intrusive surveillance it rings some alarm bells. Earlier this year, the Department of Justice in the U.S. ordered the domain host for a site which organised an anti-Trump demonstration to hand over details of those who even visited the page. This incident alone goes to show how valuable profiling technology such as this would be...

7 September 2017 | Deep Learning

Opinion: Artificial intelligence – the perfect storm

Less than five years ago, the artificial intelligence (AI) market was valued at a few hundred million dollars. It was the calm before the storm. By current estimates, the AI market is projected to reach about $30 billion by 2020. The rate of adoption in both product development and end-product applications has been stunning, driven in large part by machine learning and natural language processing, which have created tangible business value. It’s a classic example of exponential...

6 September 2017 | Applications