AI Biweekly: Google Flexes AI Muscles at I/O; Siemens Advances Its Vision 2020+
10 AI News You Must Know from May W 1 – W 2
Category: AI Bi-Weekly
Bi-weekly news recap for global machine intelligence industry.
AI Biweekly: Watson’s Future Uncertain; Robert Enslin Joins Google Cloud
10 AI News You Must Know from April W 3 – W 4
AI Biweekly: New European Ethical AI Guidelines; Microsoft & BMW Partner on IoT Manufacturing
10 AI News You Must Know from April W 1 – W 2
AI Biweekly: ML & Ethics; Skepticism re AI-Powered Surgeries
10 AI News You Must Know from March W 3 – W 4
AI Biweekly: OpenAI Launches For-Profit Arm; Patents Pave a Digital Empire
10 AI News You Must Know From March W1 – W2
AI Biweekly: Canada Pumps Money into AI; Siemens Steps Up Digital Innovation
10 AI News You Must Know From February W3 – W4
AI Biweekly: Trending StyleGAN Raises Concerns; AI Applications in the Finance Industry
10 AI News You Must Know from February W 1 – W 2
AI Biweekly: Voice Assistants Take New Roles; AI Reduces Medical Overtreatment
10 AI News You Must Know From January W4 – W5
AI Biweekly: AI Healthcare Investments & Going Global
10 AI News You Need To Know From January W 2 – W 3
AI Biweekly: Optimistic Outlook for IoT & AI-Powered Smart Homes
10 AI News You Need To Know From December W 4 – January W 1
AI Biweekly: AI in Medical Records & Robotic Process Automation
10 AI News You Need To Know From December W 2 – W 3
AI Biweekly: Smarter Responses from Amazon and Google; Innovations in Robotics
In the past two weeks, news related to the field of human-computer interaction and voice interaction has been focused on technology giants Amazon and Google. Amazon upgraded its Fire TV Cube and the Amazon Music system, which enhances the diversity of voice interactions.
AI Biweekly: Google Pushes Its Enterprise Services; AI Takes a Creative Role in Media Production
The big news from Google in the last two weeks includes the CEO change in Google Cloud’s business and new efforts in the Google Health department. After three years as the CEO of Google Cloud, Diane Greene announced that she will step down.
AI Biweekly: Fujitsu AI to Vancouver; Gartner Says AI Powering IoT Automation and Deployment
10 Things You Must Know from November W 1 – W 2
AI Biweekly: Alphabet Q3 Revenue Disappoints Investors; Facebook Hires Nick Clegg as Global Strategist
10 Things You Must Know from October W 3 – W 4
AI Biweekly: Voice Interaction and NLP Business Applications; Logistics’ Last Mile Challenge
10 Things You Must Know From October W 1 – W 2
AI Biweekly September W 4 – W 5
10 Things You Must Know From September W 4 – W 5
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from September W2 – W3
Grammarly announces a new tool that provides better grammar checking services for users. The tool is based on Grammarly’s AI system, which uses machine learning and natural language processing techniques. The service will be available on Chrome as an extension, and is expected to launch on Google Docs later this year.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from August W4 – September W1
Anglian Water plans to install an AI-based energy storage machine system in its water treatment facilities. The system will provide a real-time energy consumption balancing service and increase the lifespan of storage machines. The AI system was designed by Open Energi and is expected to be full operational by next year.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from August W2 – W3
Blockchain hardware, software, and services company Bitmain confirms it will build a data center in Rockdale, Texas and invest US$500 million in the United States over the next seven years. Bitmain will launch a local training program and hire more than 400 employees.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from July W4 – August W1
Google teams up with New York distributed ledger solutions startup Digital Asset. In a Google blog post the company says it is exploring new ways to use distributed ledger technology.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from July W2 – W3
Facebook is working with a select group of advertisers to create augmented reality ads for its News Feed. When users activate an ad’s tap-to-try AR capability it can display for example how a pair of glasses would look on their face via the user’s webcam and screen. Facebook says it also intends to expand shopping support in Instagram Stories.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from June W4 – July W1
Tact.ai raises US$27 million in its series C round from Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce. The conversational AI company plans to use the funds to develop a cutting-edge AI-powered CRM voice interaction system to change the way salespeople interact with information.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from June W2 – W3
Salesforce announces a deeper data sharing partnership with Google. Consumer insights from Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud and Google Analytics 360 will be merged into one dashboard for either platform. Marketing Cloud data can be used to create a more customized web experience.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from May W4 – June W1
Microsoft is working on a bias-detecting tool which can alert people if an AI algorithm might be treating them unfairly based on their race or gender. As more and more decisions are being made by or based on AI, the detection of unfair biases has become an important public issue.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from May W3 – May W4
Fujitsu and Japan Publishing Co. (Nissha) together introduce SeleBoo, an AI solution the leverages information on 3.5 million books and some 3,000 bookstores nationwide to automatically stock books based on characteristics of each bookstore…
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from May W1 – May W2
Singapore’s NGEE Ann Polytechnic (NP) and London’s Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CFTE) launch an AI in Finance course. The course will provide an overview of AI knowledge in the fintech and digital finance fields.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Apr W 4 – Apr W 5
Google introduces starter kits designed to help people learn and experiment with AI solutions.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Apr W 2 – Apr W 3
IBM announces a four-year program in collaboration with Calgary-based Natural Resources Solutions Center to help oil and gas companies with sustainability and efficiency.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Mar W 4 – Apr W 1
Now social and behavioral scientists can use the TuringBox platform to study artificial intelligence algorithms. AI contributors can upload existing and novel algorithms for review, gaining a reputation in their community.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Mar W 2 – Mar W 3
Google is collaborating with the United States Department of Defense to create an AI system for identifying drone footage. The system will leverage machine learning and computer vision technologies to collect and categorize drone footage more efficiently.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Feb W 4 – Mar W 1
Capillary Technologies is a cloud-based SaaS company serving over 300 large enterprises and 500 small or medium businesses in over 30 countries. It improves retailers’ engagement with customers through analytics.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from February (Pt 2)
Non-profit organization Atrius Health applies NLP technology to identify clinical data and extract information…
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from February (Pt 1)
The staffless Amazon Go opens to the public in downtown Seattle. Just like a normal convenience store, this intelligent store sells pre-cooked food, snacks, drinks , etc. — but there’s no cashier scanning the goods.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from January (Pt 2)
NVIDIA Announces Delivery Target For Self Driving Processor Xavier; Facebook Plans to Shut Down Its Personal Assistant “M” on January 19th; Amazon Alexa Is Integrating With Windows 10; A US Media Team Plans to Launch Vital Intelligence Data Live
AI Biweekly News Roundup
Myntra Applies AI to Clothing Design; San Jose Negotiates With Partners to Deploy Autonomous Vehicle Transit; Can Google Street View Images See the Future?; Ctrip and Baidu Launch AI Pocket Chinese-English Translator; Canada To Use AI to Track Suicide Trends on Social Media
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Dec (Pt 2)
MIT scientists teach AI to have emotions; AI company Stem works with Mitsui to build the first energy storage in Japan; New York City implements expert team to correct algorithm biases
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Dec (Pt 1)
NVIDIA strides into healthcare industry by collaborating with GE healthcare; Intel introduces a safety model for self-driving cars; Amazon adds translation feature on AWS
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Nov (Pt 2)
Microsoft Reveals Azure IoT Edge; Google Launches Chatbot Analytics Platform Chatbase; Tesla Unveils An Electric Rival to Semi Trucks
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Nov (Pt 1)
AT&T’s New Acumos AI Platform Hosted by Linux Foundation; Waymo is in Arizona Testing Self-Driving Cars; DJI Unveils Drone Management Solution FlightHub; Amazon’s Fourth Research Hub in Germany Targets Visual AI R&D