Software
Nvidia CEO: AI Is The Single Most Powerful Force Of Our Time
Posted in Business, Software on 18th Aug, 2019
by Alex Muller
This would take a while to translate into huge results for such applications as self-driving cars, an area that is riding the final, long-term wave of AI growth.
Google’s AI Learns How Actions In Videos Are Connected
Posted in Software on 9th Aug, 2019
by Alex Muller
This will be useful for researchers working on video understanding.
Microsoft Pumps $1 Billion Into Generalized Artificial Intelligence
Posted in Business, Software on 23rd Jul, 2019
by Alex Muller
Could these artificial smarts become generalized enough to outperform humans at all kinds of tasks, rather than very specific and pre-defined ones?
IOS And IPadOS 13 Beta 4 Signals Death Of 3D Touch, Rise Of Context Menu
Posted in Business, Hardware, Software on 20th Jul, 2019
by Alex Muller
The concept was simple: slight, medium, and heavy pressure on an iPhone’s screen could be recognized differently, such that a light press would open an app while a firm press in the same spot would instead conjure up a contextual menu.
Google’s New ‘data Echoing’ Technique Speeds Up AI Training
Posted in Software on 15th Jul, 2019
by Alex Muller
Google Brain, Google’s AI research division, propose in a paper a technique called “data echoing,” which they say reduces the computation used by earlier pipeline stages by reusing intermediate outputs from these stages.