AI
Facebook says its object detection tech has improved by 60% in one year
Posted in Software on 19th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
Facebook placed second in the 2015 Microsoft Common Objects in Context image recognition competition, after Microsoft Research.
Facewatch 'thief recognition' CCTV on trial in UK stores
Posted in Business on 16th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
A scheme widely used by UK stores to identify criminals is testing facial recognition technology, the BBC has learned.
Google and Johnson & Johnson are working on robots for surgery
Posted in Software on 14th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
The Verb Surgical team hopes to leverage Googles expertise in machine learning and image processing and Johnson & Johnsons knowledge of medical devices.
Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and others commit $1B to nonprofit artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI
Posted in Software on 12th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
'The research will focus on positive human impact.'
Computers are getting closer to copying the way humans learn
Posted in Software on 11th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
A lot of work in machine learning, which is how we tackle AI, is centered around how to best represent objects and ideas so computers can understand them.