Software
California Officially Bans Police Use Of Facial Recognition In Body Cameras
Posted in Business, Software on 11th Oct, 2019
by Alex Muller
Continuing the growing pushback against facial recognition technology, California has now passed a new law banning the tech in connection with data gathered by police body cameras. The law comes into effect at the beginning of 2020 and will expire after three years.
AI Startups On Pace To Break Funding Records In 2019
Posted in Business, Software on 11th Oct, 2019
by Alex Muller
Artificial intelligence’s potential to transform a growing range of industries has venture capitalists writing checks to promising startups at a rate that will likely set a new record in 2019 for the industry.
Google Brain’s ROBEL Benchmark Lets Devs Track AI Quality On Affordable Robots
Posted in Business, Hardware, Software on 11th Oct, 2019
by Alex Muller
More affordable robots designed to work with platforms and performance benchmarks make adoption more likely by developers, students, or startups interested in iterating to advance the field.
Smartphone App Can Detect Eye Diseases In Children With 80 Percent Accuracy
Posted in Hardware, Medicine, Software on 4th Oct, 2019
by Alex Muller
An app designed to detect early signs of several eye diseases in children has surpassed an 80 percent accuracy threshold equaling the sensitivity of devices used by trained ophthalmologists.
Google’s Highly Scalable AI Can Generate Convincingly Humanlike Speech
Posted in Software on 2nd Oct, 2019
by Alex Muller
Their model not only generates high-fidelity speech with “naturalness” but that it’s highly parallelizable, meaning it’s more easily trained across multiple machines compared with conventional alternatives.