Cisco has announced the acquisition privately held artificial intelligence (AI) company MindMeld for $125 million. Cisco plans to incorporate MindMeld’s AI technology into Cisco Spark, its collaboration suite, to help power human-like conversational interfaces. MindMeld specializes in developing conversational interfaces, such as those used to interact with chatbots providing customer support that are capable of […]
May 12 2017 | Posted in
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Adobe and Microsoft have joined forces, combining Adobe’s Sensei artificial intelligence (AI) with Microsoft’s data to give Adobe customers more automated, intelligence-based business feedback. By plugging into Microsoft’s ecosystem, Adobe can pull rich insights from Microsoft’s customer relationship management (CRM) and data visualization tools, among other platforms. Adobe Sensei is now armed with a new […]
Mar 21 2017 | Posted in
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Nvidia’s has a new partner to bring AI-powered self-driving tech with Bosch. For those of you who don’t follow the auto-manufacturing chain, Bosch is a leading tier one auto industry supplier. Bosch will build an AI supercomputer designed for use in vehicles using Nvidia tech. This is major win for Nvidia in the races to […]
Google-owned artificial intelligence lab DeepMind is setting up shop in the US. The London-based firm last week advertised a new job as an applied research scientist in Mountain View, Calif. As reported by Business Insider, DeepMind plans to hire “a couple of dozen” people for a mixed group of software engineers and research scientists “who […]
Dec 20 2016 | Posted in
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Video game streaming site Twitch on Monday stepped up efforts to fight inappropriate comments, introducing an artificial intelligence algorithm that it says can offer broadcasters more control over how controversial they want their comment streams to get. Called AutoMod, the AI feature is unique because of its customization. Many online comment platforms can identify posts […]
DeepMind has introduced a new “computer” that uses memories to answer questions and even navigate the London Underground. The UK-based artificial intelligence firm, owned by Google parent company Alphabet, built a “differentiable neural computer” (DNC), which consults its own memories to acquire and dispense information—much like the human brain “We showed how neural networks and […]
Oct 14 2016 | Posted in
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Artificial Intelligence created by the government = bad. Watch Any Movie Man! The Obama administration is aware of those concerns, which is why a new report questions how government-backed AI could impact society and public policy. It calls for long-term investments in AI research, as well as investigations into the ethics and security implications of the […]
Oct 13 2016 | Posted in
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Samsung said it has agreed to purchase Viv, an artificial intelligence startup run by the team that originally developed Apple’s Siri. Siri’s creators left Apple to form Viv, which is based in San Jose. Samsung plans to add Viv’s artificial intelligence technology to its own Galaxy smartphones and other consumer electronics products. Terms of the […]
Oct 6 2016 | Posted in
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If you are college student with an interest in artificial intelligence, you could win some serious money from Amazon. The Web giant on Thursday announced the Alexa Prize, a new contest for university students aimed at helping advance conversational AI. Teams of students will be tasked with building a “socialbot” on Amazon’s Alexa platform that can […]
Sep 30 2016 | Posted in
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A handful of big tech companies have formed a partnership with the goal of keeping people informed about the development of artificial intelligence. Many people already use technology that is aided by AI, and that number will only continue to grow. The group includes Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft, each of which has its […]
Sep 29 2016 | Posted in
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