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120 AI Predictions For 2020
As for the universe, it is an open book for the 120 senior executives featured here, all involved with AI, delivering 2020 predictions for a wide range of topics: Autonomous vehicles, deepfakes, small data, voice and natural language processing, human and augmented intelligence, bias and...
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How to Solve CCPA and GDPR with a Consent Management Platform
Businesses are increasingly using API-based transactions to exchange privacy-regulated data as part of their digital transformation. But a key challenge remains on how to protect those transactions at a granular level.
Research
DeepSpeech 0.6: Mozilla’s Speech-to-Text Engine Gets Fast, Lean, and Ubiquitous
The Machine Learning team at Mozilla continues work on DeepSpeech, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine which aims to make speech recognition technology and trained models openly available to developers.
Deep Double Descent
Surprisingly, we show these phenomena can lead to a regime where more data hurts, and training a deep network on a larger train set actually performs worse.
Controlling Text Generation with Plug and Play Language Models
This article discusses an alternative approach to controlled text generation, titled the Plug and Play Language Model (PPLM), introduced in a recent paper from Uber AI.
Microsoft Research’s Lin Xiao earns Test of Time award at NeurIPS
Microsoft Research’s Lin Xiao was named winner of the Test of Time award this week, a title granted to AI research that’s made important and lasting contributions to the AI field over the last 10 years.
Applied use cases
The Cyber speaks: What will actually happen in 2020
3d rendering ai artificial intelligent robot hand point hand in to the rising graph with virtual mixed augmented reality for predict growing growth in future 2020 for business development to success.
Deep Learning: Our Miraculous Year 1990-1991
First Very Deep NNs, Based on Unsupervised Pre-Training (1991) My first idea to overcome the Deep Learning Problem mentioned above was to facilitate supervised learning in deep RNNs by unsupervised pre-training of a hierarchical stack of RNNs (1991), to obtain a first "Very Deep Learner" called the...
Market News
‘Short window’ to stop AI taking control of society, warns ex-Google employee
Meredith Whittaker warns we are becoming lab animals in a giant tech experiment The big news in tech this week is the announcement that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping down as executives of parent company Alphabet, founded in 2015 with the goal of making it “cleaner and...
Robotics investments recap: November 2019
(M$) Type Technology Assisted Surgical Technologies investment Russian Direct Investment Fund Nov. 9 surgical robots Diagnostic Robotics 24 Series A Accelmed Growth Partners, Mivtach Shamir Holdings Nov. 13 emergency room robotics Dive Technologies Inc. 3 equity sale Nov. 20 undersea robotics Galen...
Ethics
Human-centered artificial intelligence solutions are being promoted in Tampere, Finland
In November, a project was launched in Tampere to develop artificial intelligence applications and their design methods together with companies, utilizing the knowledge and methods of applied human-centric technology.
How has the law been pushed aside in the age of AI?
Artificial intelligence and automation are responsible for a growing number of decisions by pubic authorities in areas like criminal justice, security and policing and public administration, despite having proven flaws and biases.
Dubai’s unique approach to AI: A city-government launched AI Ethics Self-Assessment Toolkit
What truly makes Dubai’s approach to AI unique is our city-government launched AI Ethics Self-Assessment Toolkit – which allows anyone implementing AI to self-assess their performance against a set of criteria which when taken together assure an ethical approach.
Robotics
Why the ‘Queen of Shitty Robots’ Renounced Her Crown
Ten days ago, she posted a 31-minute YouTube video about building the “Truckla.” Eight million people have already watched it, but barely anyone has seen the mutant EV up close.
2020 AI Predictions
Five ways to go from reality check to real-world payoff Think that artificial intelligence (AI) is hard? PwC’s third annual AI Predictions report shows that only 4% of executives surveyed plan to deploy AI enterprise-wide in 2020.