Musk Once Compared AI Development to Summoning a Demon
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Artificial Intelligence technology outpaces humans in proposing therapies for cancer patients.
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High-fidelity speech synthesis with WaveNet
In October we announced that our state-of-the-art speech synthesis model WaveNet was being used to generate realistic-sounding voices for the Google Assistant globally in Japanese and the US English. This production model – known as parallel WaveNet – …
Buoy uses AI and machine learning to keep your water bills low – Engadget
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Buoy uses AI and machine learning to keep your water bills low
Engadget Buoy is a device that puts machine learning to work to save on your water bill. The IoT device connects to your home’s WiFi network and water supply to monitor. This $800 device uses machine learning to help you avoid a catastrophic flood |
AI Avoidance of Car Insurance Scams for Self-Driving Cars
By Dr. Lance B. Eliot, the AI Insider for AI Trends I drive a somewhat exotic luxury car. Driving around, I am at times especially aware of the fact that it is a pricey car and either get accolades from other drivers and pedestrians, or at times receive ire from those that think it is […]
MIT Growing business masters program with an AI focus; math and computer science are foundations
Michelle Li is director of the Masters of Business Analytics Program at MIT, from the MIT Sloan School of Management, with support from the MIT Operations Research Center, now in its second year. In this position, she is responsible for building the program, designing curriculum, hiring faculty, assessing admissions criteria for students and helping students […]
Qualcomm Invests in Chinese AI Unicorn SenseTime for On-Device AI
SenseTime, China’s leading AI unicorn, on Nov. 15 announced a strategic investment agreement with global communications giant Qualcomm Inc., which is pending closing. (Photo above shows SenseTime co-founder and CEO Li Xu (right), and Keith Kressin, SVP of product management at Qualcomm (left).) The two companies will working on development of on-device AI for applications including […]
Google Cloud Platform cuts the price of GPUs by up to 36 percent
Google has announced lower prices for the use of Nvidia’s Tesla GPUs through its Compute Engine by up to 36 percent. In U.S. regions, using the somewhat older K80 GPUs will now cost $0.45 per hour while using the newer and more powerful P100 machines will cost $1.46 per hour (all with per-second billing). The company is also dropping the […]
This artificial intelligence is designed to be mentally unstable
DABUS is a new type of AI that paves the way for smarter machines. Nothing new there – but this machine-learning system is different. DABUS, short for “device for the autonomous bootstrapping of unified Sentience”, is deliberately created to be mentally unstable. Since the 90s, computer scientist Stephen Thaler has been injecting noise into a […]