AI of “Interlingua” Neural networks are machines and algorithms developed to behave like the human brain—but a development from Google Translate shows that (once again) AI can outperform humans in a big way. Google’s AI can now translate language pairs it has not been trained for. To be clear, this means that it can translate […]
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Google’s AI can now lip read better than humans after watching thousands of hours of TV
Researchers from Google’s AI division DeepMind and the University of Oxford have used artificial intelligence to create the most accurate lip-reading software ever. Using thousands of hours of TV footage from the BBC, scientists trained a neural network to annotate video footage with 46.8 percent accuracy. That might not seem that impressive at first — […]
The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence
The year 1995 was heralded as the beginning of the “New Economy.” Digital communication was set to upend markets and change everything. But economists by and large didn’t buy into the hype. It wasn’t that we didn’t recognize that something changed. It was that we recognized that the old economics lens remained useful for looking […]
Reelgood debuts a hub for finding TV shows and movies across streaming services
The service is live on the web now, while its iOS and Apple TV apps are available in the respective app stores. More people are cutting the cord with pay TV in favor of streaming services, but finding something to watch is growing more difficult -not only because of rights deals which see content coming and going, […]
Switch Bot – The World’s Smallest Remote Robot
We are constantly running from place to place, working to accomplish everything on our never-ending “to-do” list. If you’re a person who is always on the go, convenience can be the biggest lifesaver and an added luxury or reprieve from daily stress. Switch Bot is a small, automated device (controlled via app on your Android […]
‘Doom’ running on MacBook Pro’s is so pointless yet so awesome
‘Doom’ running on MacBook Pro’s is so pointless yet so awesomE It’s too early to determine if the Touch Bar on Apple’s new MacBook Pro is a gimmick or truly innovative. But there’s one thing we do know: It can run the original friggin’ Doom. That’s right, developer Adam Bell crammed the 1993 classic in […]
It took only 36 hours for these students to solve Facebook’s fake-news problem
Facebook is facing increasing criticism over its role in the 2016 US presidential election because it allowed propaganda lies disguised as news stories to spread on the social-media site unchecked. The spreading of false information during the election cycle was so bad that President Barack Obama called Facebook a “dust cloud of nonsense.” And Business […]
Bad memory? No problem, thanks to the Chipolo Plus
Forgetful? There’s an app for that. Or rather, there’s an Internet of Things device with a companion app for that. Meet the Chipolo Plus from Chipolo, a tiny little tag that you can misplace to your heart’s content without ever losing it or the item to which it’s attached. The tiny IoT tag is a […]
‘Nanobionic’ spinach plants detect explosives, pollution, drought | KurzweilAI
By embedding spinach leaves with carbon nanotubes, MIT engineers have transformed spinach plants into sensors that can detect explosives and wirelessly relay that information to a handheld device similar to a smartphone. (credit: Christine Daniloff/MIT) MIT engineers have implanted spinach leaves with carbon nanotubes, resulting in a hybrid electronic system that they call “plant nanobionics” […]
Apple is reportedly trying to move iPhone manufacturing to the US
Apple is reportedly asking its manufacturing partners to investigate moving iPhone production to the United States, according to the Japanese newspaper Nikkei. According to the report,sources claim that Apple has approached Foxconn and Pegatron, the two manufacturing companies that are largely responsible for assembling iPhones. Foxconn is apparently exploring the possibility, while Pegatron has elected to […]