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.
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.
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.
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.
Alphabet’s Wing will kick off Helsinki drone deliveries in summer 2019
Posted in Business on 20th May, 2019
by Alex Muller
Wing says in the coming weeks it will deploy a small fleet of drones in the city’s Vuosaari district, where they’ll ferry provisions from convenience stores to homes and “multi-family housing communities.”