AI
Google open-sources SyntaxNet, natural-language understanding for TensorFlow
Posted in Software on 13th May, 2016
by Alex Muller
Google uses deep learning for image recognition and speech recognition, and now its showing gains in language understanding.
These Five Exponential Trends Are Accelerating Robotics
Posted in Hardware on 12th May, 2016
by Alex Muller
Five exponential trends are shaping and accelerating the future of the robotics industry.
Artificial intelligence course creates AI teaching assistant
Posted in Online on 10th May, 2016
by Alex Muller
Jill Watson is a virtual teaching assistant. She was one of nine teaching assistants in an AI online course. And none of the students guessed she wasn't a human.
Viv: The a next generation AI assistant
Posted in Business on 10th May, 2016
by Alex Muller
The real secret sauce of Viv is 'dynamic program generation' which allows the AI assistant to understand intent and generate a program itself to best answer the query.
More on the OpenAI "Robot Gym" for Artificial Intelligence Training
Posted in Science on 9th May, 2016
by Alex Muller
Elon Musk has developed a $1 billion-program "Robot Gym" to train AI. He says he wanted the robots to be as versatile as humans when it comes to thinking.