Software
Smartphone App Can Detect Eye Diseases In Children With 80 Percent Accuracy
Posted in Hardware, Medicine, Software on 4th Oct, 2019
by Alex Muller
An app designed to detect early signs of several eye diseases in children has surpassed an 80 percent accuracy threshold equaling the sensitivity of devices used by trained ophthalmologists.
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.
Nvidia CEO: AI Is The Single Most Powerful Force Of Our Time
Posted in Business, Software on 18th Aug, 2019
by Alex Muller
This would take a while to translate into huge results for such applications as self-driving cars, an area that is riding the final, long-term wave of AI growth.
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.
Microsoft Pumps $1 Billion Into Generalized Artificial Intelligence
Posted in Business, Software on 23rd Jul, 2019
by Alex Muller
Could these artificial smarts become generalized enough to outperform humans at all kinds of tasks, rather than very specific and pre-defined ones?