Yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off Jarvis, the artificial intelligence system he built to serve as a digital assistant around his house. Now we know what the software sounds like, and it’s got the voice of God. Well, the guy who played God in movies. Zuckerberg on Tuesday released a video of Jarvis at …
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Now playing: Watch this: Mark Zuckerberg builds his own Jarvis AI 1:36 Mark Zuckerberg has to be feeling a little bit like Tony Stark right now. The Facebook CEO said Monday that he’s finished building his version of Jarvis, the artificially intelligent computer system Stark uses to control his home in the Iron Man movies. Zuckerberg’s Jarvis can do things …
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Google, trying to get you to think of keyboards as apps for more than just typing words and emoji, released its Gboard software on Friday for phones and tablets using its own Android software. The app includes the standard features on Google’s keyboard, including autocorrect and text predictions, swipe typing that lets you slide your finger from letter to letter …
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A new fingerprint sensor has just arrived that could make your next phone’s screen significantly bigger without making the phone itself larger. Touch-tech expert Synaptics announced the new fingerprint sensor on Tuesday, an optical model that fits under a phone screen’s cover glass. That contrasts with today’s capacitive models that need dedicated territory, like the circular home button at the …
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Imagine you’re on a guided tour in Chartres cathedral in France along with tourists from Brazil, China, Russia and Germany — but none of you speaks French. For the last few decades, you’d each need your own tour guide. A new app from Microsoft aims to flatten this multilanguage barrier, though. The Microsoft Translator app, running on your phone but …
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Now playing: Watch this: Meet Relonch, the camera without a screen 1:21 Add Relonch to the growing pile of products touting artificial intelligence that’s so advanced it’s practically magic. In this case, it’s a $99 a month service that consists of a data plan and a camera sporting only power and shutter buttons; it automatically whisks the photos to its …
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Google Assistant is about to get a bit smarter, thanks to third-party developers. The Alphabet-owned company said Thursday it is opening up its digital assistant with new tools for developers who want to interact with customers through Google Home, its always-listening smart home speaker. The tools, called Conversation Actions, will allow developers to engage with users in conversational form to …
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If you’re obsessed with “Westworld” or “Ex Machina,” you might be preparing for humankind’s impending doom. You know, the dawn of artificial intelligence. Facebook has this advice: Take a deep breath. The social network on Thursday launched a campaign aimed at demystifying AI by educating people on the basics of how it works. In a handful of short videos, Facebook …
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World travelers, language nerds and everyone in between, you’re in luck. Google said Tuesday it has vastly improved its Google Translate app, available on phones and the web. The search giant said it’s now incorporating “neural machine translation” into the software, which means it can translate whole sentences at a time, instead of breaking the text down to smaller chunks …
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Microsoft has formed a partnership with OpenAI, an Elon Musk-backed company, to research artificial intelligence. The two companies will focus on “making significant contributions to advance the field of AI” and will work on their “mutual goal of using AI to tackle some of the world’s most challenging problems,” Microsoft said Tuesday in a blog post. Microsoft added that it …
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