Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

Common Sense Reasoning and AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider What is common sense? There was a story in the news the other day about a man that got his arm stuck in a toilet while trying to reach in and fish out his smartphone that he had dropped into the privy. Some immediately said he had no […]

SenseTime Raises US$600 Million in Series C Funding

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 […]

Southwest Airlines Chose an Analytics Project with Big Impact

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 […]

IBM Attracting Developers With AI and Open Source ML Projects

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 […]

This High School Student is Shaking Up AI With OpenAI Project

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 […]

OpenAI Charter

We’re releasing a charter that describes the principles we use to execute on OpenAI’s mission. This document reflects the strategy we’ve refined over the past two years, including feedback from many people internal and external to OpenAI. The timeline to AGI remains uncertain, but our charter will guide us in