The AI reviews a photo of a patient’s face and proposes a list of ten possible rare genetic disorders. The tech has even outperformed clinicians Read more…More about Tech, Science, Mashable Video, Artificial Intelligence, and Ai
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Comcast debuts a subscription service to protect against threats to smart home devices
Comcast is putting AI to work to protect its customers’ home networks. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company announced Xfinity xFi Advanced Security, an AI-powered service designed to monitor, block and inform customers about online threats while providing protection for all connected devices in the home — including smart home and […]
View More Comcast debuts a subscription service to protect against threats to smart home devicesAI chip startup Graphcore closes $200M Series D, adds BMW and Microsoft as strategic investors
UK AI chip startup Graphcore has announced a $200 million Series D round today that’s jointly led by an existing investor, European VC Atomico, along with new investor Sofina, an investment holding firm. Graphcore says the Series D values the company at $1.7M. We’ve confirmed the valuation is $1.5M before including the new capital raised. We’re also […]
View More AI chip startup Graphcore closes $200M Series D, adds BMW and Microsoft as strategic investorsAI chip startup Graphcore closes $200M Series D, adds BMW and Microsoft as strategic investors
UK AI chip startup Graphcore has announced a $200 million Series D round today that’s jointly led by an existing investor, European VC Atomico, along with new investor Sofina, an investment holding firm. Graphcore says the Series D values the company at $1.7M. We’ve confirmed the valuation is $1.5M before including the new capital raised. We’re also […]
View More AI chip startup Graphcore closes $200M Series D, adds BMW and Microsoft as strategic investorsThese people aren’t real. Can you tell?
The image above looks like a collage of photographs, but in fact, it’s been generated by an artificial intelligence. And as real as they may look, the people in the image aren’t actual humans.
In a new paper (via The Verge), a group of Nvidia’s…
K Health raises $25m for its AI-powered primary care platform
K Health, the startup providing consumers with an AI-powered primary care platform, has raised $25 million in series B funding. The round was led by 14W, Comcast Ventures and Mangrove Capital Partners, with participation from Lerer Hippeau, Primary Ventures, BoxGroup, Bessemer Venture Partners and Max Ventures – all previous investors from the company’s seed or Series […]
View More K Health raises $25m for its AI-powered primary care platformAnki Vector will win you over with its shining personality — Power Up
There’s just something about Anki’s tiny AI robot Vector that draws you to it. Vector is the perfect size for a personal desk assistant. The AI isn’t as advanced as Amazon’s Alexa or Google Home, but Vector’s expressive features nearly make up the di…
View More Anki Vector will win you over with its shining personality — Power UpThis neural-net powered AI is way better at chess than anyone
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Checkmate.
Competitive and casual chess players alike now have a new foe. In addition to computers, there’s a new AI platform called AlphaZero that can totally beat us all.
AlphaZero is from DeepMind Technologies, a subsidiary under Alphabet, which is Google’s parent company. It can tackle not only chess, but also shogi and Go — two equally difficult, if not even more challenging, games.
AlphaZero comes after many years of research, succeeding AlphaGo Zero from last year, the world’s best Go player. But this time around there wasn’t any human help. AlphaZero taught itself how to play from scratch. Read more…
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View More This neural-net powered AI is way better at chess than anyoneQualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 chip will power virtually every major 2019 Android phone
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A new generation of smartphones is nearly upon us.
Starting in 2019, Android phone makers will start shipping new devices with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 system-on-a-chip (SoC), which’ll be the first chip to support 5G. That’s right, mobile 5G — which has been mostly company promises and marketing hype up to this point — is now a step closer to being something you can hold in your hand.
In a meeting in advance of the announcement, Qualcomm Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Alex Katouzian was light on specific details about how much faster the Snapdragon 855 is compared to the current Snapdragon 845. Read more…
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View More Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 chip will power virtually every major 2019 Android phoneAn AI made a $16,000 work of art, and it’s actually pretty cool — Future Blink
AICAN is a program designed by Rutgers’ Art & AI Lab that’s basically an AI artist. After looking at nearly 500 years of art history, it learned the ins and outs of artistic aesthetic, and created some pieces of its own. Who knows, maybe AI art wi…
View More An AI made a $16,000 work of art, and it’s actually pretty cool — Future BlinkSkype launches real-time captions and subtitles
Alongside news that PowerPoint is getting real-time captions and subtitles in 2019, Microsoft announced similar technology is now available in Skype. Launching today to coincide with the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the new feature allows those who are deaf or hard of hearing to read the words that are spoken during audio […]
View More Skype launches real-time captions and subtitlesSolving AI’s ‘black box’ problem: Learning how algorithms make decisions
In 2017, a Palestinian construction worker in the West Bank settlement of Beiter Illit, Jerusalem, posted a picture of himself on Facebook in which he was leaning against a bulldozer. Shortly after, Israeli police arrested him on suspicions that he w…
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