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AI Expo: TomTom will tell users what road trip they’ll enjoy most

Automotive solutions giant TomTom will be enhancing its Road Trips service using machine learning to tell users what their next road trip should be. Like everything in life, we all have our preference as to what kind of roads we like to drive. Some like big open highways, others like windy country roads. Some like rolling hills, others prefer to keep things flat. TomTom’s Road Trips is a community-based service which features some routes from TomTom itself but mostly relies on users to...

27 June 2018 | Machine Learning

Nvidia adds nine AI supercomputing containers to its cloud

Processor manufacturing giant Nvidia has added nine GPU-powered AI supercomputing containers to its rapidly-growing cloud service. Nvidia GPU Cloud (NGC) now features a total of 32 containers, triple the number it launched with last year. This rapid growth shows the growing demand for AI computing power and Nvidia’s desire to supply it. The announcement was made at the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt this week. During last year’s conference, Nvidia added eight...

26 June 2018 | Developers

Facebook can open closed eyes in photos using AI correction

An AI-powered solution by a pair of Facebook engineers may be able to fix those photos that have been ruined by someone blinking at the wrong moment. The company published a 10-page research paper (PDF) this week detailing how their system works and likened it to existing photo retouching tools such as red-eye correction. Facebook’s idea is not entirely original, a similar feature exists in Adobe Photoshop Elements. The engineers acknowledge this in their paper but believe their ExGAN...

20 June 2018 | Facebook

Google has an AI which predicts death better than doctors

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Google has unveiled a new AI which it believes can predict if and when a patient is going to die more reliably than doctors. The algorithm can quickly access a patient’s medical records for important data which could indicate the likelihood of their survival. Death comes for us all, the best we can hope for is that it’s later rather than sooner and we get the chance to say goodbye. Google’s AI would reduce the chances of a death occurring suddenly while in the care of a hospital. A...

19 June 2018 | Healthcare

IBM’s AI will debate until you learn your mistakes, feeble human

IBM has unveiled Project Debater, a conversational artificial intelligence which can hold a debate using information from journals and newspaper articles. Project Debater began its training six years ago but it could only hold a debate with people two years ago. A demo was held for journalists at IBM’s offices in San Francisco where the AI debated issues relating to healthcare and the subsidisation of space exploration. The company didn’t give its AI an easy time either – it was...

19 June 2018 | IBM

India: Report suggests AI collaboration with UK, Japan, and Germany

A PwC-ASSOCHAM joint report suggests India should pursue cross-border collaboration with AI leaders including the UK, Japan, and Germany. The study believes government departments including the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and Department of Science and Technology (DST) should take responsibility for building these relationships. “Exchanging best practices and learnings from prior initiatives is one way of strengthening cooperation,” noted the study. Collaboration between the...

18 June 2018 | Government

Stanford University students employ AI to make the dankest memes

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AI will be groundbreaking in areas like healthcare, but I don’t think many expected it to be creating the dankest new memes. Some pioneering students from Stanford University exposed a neural network to over 400,000 memes in a bid to teach it the nuances of modern humour. Armed with this information, the AI attempted the artistic endeavour of creating its very own. In the ‘Dank Learning’ paper, the students detail how they applied deep learning methods to create memes. Ideas are passed...

15 June 2018 | Deep Learning

MIT’s AI uses wireless signals to detect movement through walls

Researchers from MIT CSAIL have developed an AI capable of detecting movement through walls using just RF wireless signals. CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) is based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the goal of ‘pioneering new approaches to computing that will bring about positive changes in the way people around the globe live, play, and work.’ The researchers’ latest development, RF-Pose, uses a neural network in combination with simple...

13 June 2018 | Machine Learning

Uber wants to develop an intoxication-detecting algorithm

Uber has filed a patent for a machine learning algorithm which can predict whether a rider is sober or not to improve the safety of its service. The sobriety of a passenger is a big factor in the safety of both driver and rider. Drivers have been assaulted by inebriated passengers, and most of the sexual assaults conducted against Uber riders by drivers have been while they were intoxicated. According to a CNN investigation, at least 103 Uber drivers have been accused of sexually assaulting...

12 June 2018 | Machine Learning

E3 2018: Xbox FastStart uses machine learning to get into content faster

During its E3 2018 presentation, Xbox announced it's taking advantage of Microsoft’s machine learning expertise for its FastStart feature. FastStart learns how gamers play and what files are needed to be downloaded first. Microsoft claims this can half the time it takes for a user to get into their new content — if it previously took 30 minutes to download and play, it will now take just 15 minutes. Xbox has long had a similar ‘Ready to Start’ system where games can be played...

11 June 2018 | Gaming