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Autodesk acquires Spacemaker for $240 million to boost AI development for designers

Autodesk announced today that it has purchased Spacemaker, based in Oslo, for $240 million. While Andrew Anagnost, Autodesk CEO, said he was excited about Spacemaker’s potential to support urban planning, he also believes that the underlying technology of the startup would help catalyze AI growth across his business.  For nearly four decades, Autodesk, using computer-assisted […]
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Amazon Textract adds handwriting recognition and support for new languages

Amazon today announced minor updates, using machine learning, to Textract, its service that extracts written text and other data from documents, as well as tables and forms. As of today, besides files typed in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Italian, Textract now supports handwriting in English documents.  Amazon correctly states that many documents contain a […]
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Two motivational artificial beings are better than one for enhancing learning

Social rewards such as praise are known to enhance various stages of the learning process. Now, researchers from Japan have found that praise delivered by artificial beings such as robots and virtual graphics-based agents can have effects similar to praise delivered by humans, with important practical applications as social services such as education increasingly move […]
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Researchers suggest AI can learn common sense from animals

AI scientists who build reinforcement learning agents may learn a great deal from animals. That’s according to new studies by Google’s DeepMind, Imperial College London, and researchers from the University of Cambridge testing AI and non-human animals.  The AI research group has always looked at neuroscience and behavioral science for inspiration and to better understand […]
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The true dangers of AI are closer than we think

As long as humans have built machines, we’ve feared the day they could destroy us. Stephen Hawking famously warned that AI could spell an end to civilization. But to many AI researchers, these conversations feel unmoored. It’s not that they don’t fear AI running amok—it’s that they see it already happening, just not in the ways most people would expect. AI is now screening job candidates, diagnosing disease, and identifying criminal suspects. But instead of making these decisions more efficient or fair, it’s often perpetuating the biases of the humans on whose decisions it was trained.
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IBM and Pfizer claim AI can predict Alzheimer’s onset with 71% accuracy

Researchers from Pfizer and IBM claim to have developed a technique for machine learning that can predict Alzheimer’s disease years before symptoms develop. The team says their strategy achieved 71 percent specificity when evaluated against a group of cognitively stable people by evaluating small samples of language data collected from clinical verbal studies.  Alzheimer’s disease […]
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AI researchers urge tech go beyond scale to address systemic social issues

For a long time , the concept of success was synonymous with three terms for startups and big tech firms alike: development of hockey sticks. To scale is to be capable of rapid user and revenue growth. However, according to a recent paper published by Google senior research scientist Alex Hanna and independent researcher Tina […]
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New models for deep learning: Less neurons, more knowledge

In our daily lives, artificial intelligence has arrived — from search engines to self-driving vehicles. In recent years, this has to do with the immense computational capacity that has become available. But recent AI research findings now show that it is possible to use simpler, smaller neural networks to solve such tasks much faster, more […]
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Google Maps gains driving mode and food delivery status

Google today revealed Google Maps updates aimed at warning users of pandemic-related threats. Soon, maps will display all-time COVID-19 cases identified in an area, along with fast links from local authorities to resources. Google will also start to demonstrate how bus, train, and subway lines are crowded in more locations across the globe. Maps also […]
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Hover raises $60 million to streamline home inspections with computer vision

Today, $60 million was raised by Hover, a startup creating AI-powered apps that build 3D models of homes from smartphone images. The 200-employee firm says the proceeds will be used as Hover expands its product offerings to strengthen established partnerships with insurance companies.  6.26% of insured homes experienced a claim in 2017, compared to just […]
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Google Maps gains driving mode and food delivery status

Google today revealed Google Maps updates aimed at warning users of pandemic-related threats. Soon, maps will display all-time COVID-19 cases identified in an area, along with fast links from local authorities to resources. Google will also start to demonstrate how bus, train, and subway lines are crowded in more locations across the globe. Maps also […]
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Hover raises $60 million to streamline home inspections with computer vision

Today, $60 million was raised by Hover, a startup creating AI-powered apps that build 3D models of homes from smartphone images. The 200-employee firm says the proceeds will be used as Hover expands its product offerings to strengthen established partnerships with insurance companies.  6.26% of insured homes experienced a claim in 2017, compared to just […]
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Motional receives permission to begin testing autonomous vehicles without safety drivers in Nevada

Motional, the joint autonomous driving alliance between Aptiv and Hyundai, announced today that the state of Nevada has obtained permission to test its autonomous vehicles without a driver behind the wheel. The firm claims this is part of the completion of a phase of self-imposed testing and evaluation.  In the U.S., relatively few businesses have […]
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Meet This Year’s WIRED25: People Who Are Making Things Better

WHEN SARTRE SAID hell is other people, he wasn’t living through 2020. Right now, other people are the only thing between us and species collapse. Not just the people we occasionally encounter behind fugly masks—but the experts and innovators out in the world, leading the way. The 17-year-old hacker building his own coronavirus tracker. The […]
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A graffiti representing a nurse by artist David "S.I.D." Perez is pictured on a wall and part of a serie to pay tribute to essential workers during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Gland, Switzerland, April 5, 2020. (Reuters)

Ethiopia marks six months of COVID-19 – Analysis and Visualization

13 September marks six months since the first coronavirus announced in Ethiopia.In the half-year since then, reported cases are close to 64 Thousend, with more than 996 deaths. At the onset, COVID-19 mainly affected the capital city. However, the virus is now moving from high-density urban areas to informal settlements and then onward to rural […]
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AI and self driving car

Present international artificial intelligence (AI) inventory and progression in self-driving vehicle research and development Complementary subjects in technology are also artificial intelligence ( AI) and self-driving vehicles. In brief, without someone involved, you just can’t debate one. While AI has been rapidly applied in different areas, a new hot topic has been the way you […]
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