IBM’s Watson Upgrade Marks First NLP Commercialisation
IBM has upgraded its supercomputer Watson, known for defeating human champions in the show Jeopardy! over a decade ago, with new Natural Language Processing capabilities. New “advanced sentiment analysis” feature helps Watson to understand the most challenging aspects of the English language – idioms and…
AI Helps Solve Persepolis Mysteries
Scientists at the University of Chicago revealed that they deploy AI to translate the records on ancient clay tablets, found by archeologists in the ancient city of Persepolis in the 1930s, reported university on March 11. University Oriental Institute and Department of Computer Science are…
MIT: AI Could Help Battle Next Pandemic
Current AI systems deployed to combat coronavirus AI are still in development and “hype outstrips the reality”, but this pandemic can change the AI landscape, shared MIT Technology review: “So here’s a reality check: AI will not save us from the coronavirus—certainly not this time….
US Navy Develops Autonomous Submarine Weapon
US Navy has revealed a project of robotic AI-powered Boeing submarine CLAWS that can potentially activate weapons without human intervention, reported New Scientist. In the 2020 US Department of Defence budget documents, CLAWS is described as “autonomous undersea weapon system” to “increase mission areas into…
How AI Shapes The World of Journalism
Creative professions were once thought to be immune to being optimised by the AI technologies, but it is no longer the case. In the same manner as concept artists from film studios and video-game companies are using Nvidia’s GauGAN, or “AI paintbrush”, news outlets and…
Fast Company Lists 10 Cutting-Edge AI Startups
Fast Company has published the list of “The 10 most innovative artificial intelligence companies of 2020”, that are already “pushing the Art of AI forward” in hardware, marketing, sales, medicine, utilities and finance. The title of the most innovative AI company of 2020, per Fast…
AI-powered Exoskeleton To Predict And Eliminate Hand Tremors
Scientists from the New York University and University of Western Ontario have created an AI algorithm for enhancing robotic solutions like exoskeletons to stop pathological hand tremors, associated with neurodegenerative diseases, like Parkinson’s disease. In the article “PHTNet: Characterization and Deep Mining of Involuntary Pathological…
Intel Applies AI For Gender Equality
Israeli office has employed AI for International Women’s Day to advise women on their career paths, reported The Times of Israel on March 9. The project “AI for Women” was initiated by Bella Abrahams at Intel with a goal to promote gender equality at the…
Zoo In UEA Pilots AI For Wildlife Conservation
Al Ain Zoo in UAE is piloting the AI project with animal identification software with a goal to safe rare wildlife species, reported news outlet The National on March 9. For now the AI system has been trained to recognize “three flagship species as they…
Hailo Raises $60M For AI-Chip
Israeli startup Hailo has attracted $60 million of funding with its new deep learning chip technology, reported Tech Crunch on March 5. Innovative architecture of its deep learning chip allow it to run faster and more efficient – according to the company, it will run…
