SenseTime, a leading AI company based in China, has successfully raised US$600 million in its Series C round of funding. Alibaba Group is taking the lead role for this round of funding; other participants include Temasek and Suning. The company set a record by raising US$410 million in its series B round of funding last […]
Everyone wants their analytics investment to yield successful business results, but not everyone can show the kind of serious return on investment that captures the attention of C-suite executives. So when Southwest Airlines did a pilot program to look at the potential impact of investing in an analytics package, Doug Gray, director of analytical data services […]
Already a leader in the advancement of artificial intelligence, IBM has brought AI technology to developers with open arms. IBM recently launched a series of projects for developers to access open source code and services to build AI and machine learning applications. The vendor wants to democratize these technologies, so they can be easily accessed […]
Since its founding by Elon Musk and others nearly two years ago, nonprofit research lab OpenAI has published dozens of research papers. One posted online recently is different: Its lead author is still in high school. The wunderkind is Kevin Frans, a senior currently working on his college applications. He trained his first neural net—the kind of system that tech […]
With machine learning making disruptive innovation easier than ever before,
it’s up to new entrepreneurs to show established players how it’s done.
Brian Korzynski, senior application developer at United Shore, explains why
it’s essential that businesses understand the pros and cons of machine
learning.
A great video of Tesla’s updated “autopilot” software which gives Tesla
electric cars quite impressive self-driving capabilities.
At the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, researchers are training computers to recognize dynamic events.
Electrodes on the face and jaw pick up otherwise undetectable neuromuscular signals triggered by internal verbalizations.
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Apple has hired Google’s head of search and artificial intelligence
Ars Technica Yesterday, Google SVP of Engineering in charge of search and artificial intelligence John Giannandrea announced his departure from the company. Now the reason for that departure is clear: he’s been hired by Apple to lead the company’s “machine learning … Apple Stokes Artificial Intelligence Talent Battle With Google Hire Apple Hires Artificial–Intelligence Executive From Rival Google Apple Hires Google’s AI Chief |
