Now playing: Watch this: Meet Cozmo, the AI robot with emotions 1:37 Cozmo is an AI robot that learns about you over time. Powered by a so-called emotion engine, Cozmo recognizes faces and responds to external stimuli in order to develop its personality. The palm-sized robot can play games and has facial recognition — but …
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Google nabs AI startup to help phones see better
As computers around the world get smarter and more powerful, internet heavyweight Google is determined to stay ahead of the game. The company said on Wednesday that it is buying a French artificial intelligence company called Moodstocks that specializes in image recognition. Moodstocks focuses on building image-recognition capabilities into phones, and first introduced software that could do this back in …
Read More »LifeBeam artificial intelligence headphones put a biosensing fitness coach in your ear
Most wearable fitness trackers give you the option to choose your own headphones to listen to while you exercise, but the new Vi headphones from LifeBeam actually bundles a pair of proprietary “biosensing” headphones along with an artificial intelligence app to put a personal fitness coach right in your ear. Vi is outfitted with eleven internal input sensors that keep …
Read More »Google’s AI software is moving into your iPhone
Google’s artificial intelligence software, smart enough to help vanquish the world’s top Go player and answer your email, is coming to your iPhone. On Monday, Google published an early version of TensorFlow (the 0.9 release candidate) that adds support for iOS, the software that powers Apple iPhones and iPads. TensorFlow is “neural network” software that lets computers process data in …
Read More »Artificial intelligence: Getting as good as the real thing
Just as electricity transformed everything we do, artificial intelligence — think really, really smart machines — will upend industries from retail to finance to transportation. And that will reshape our world and change our lives, said a panel of experts Monday discussing “The State of AI” at the EmTech Digital Conference in San Francisco. The transformation, though, will rest on …
Read More »Google: Scary
Whenever we talk about artificial intelligence, someone inevitably mentions Skynet, the destructive machine system in the Terminator movies. But we shouldn’t be worried about a dystopian rise of the robots. At least that’s the opinion of John Giannandrea, Google’s chief of search and the company’s former AI boss. Why? Because we’re so far away from anything that would even resemble …
Read More »Google predicts the future: Go big on artificial intelligence
It’s a given that the most important thing to Google — the company/verb/website that’s synonymous with finding things using the Internet — is its search business. Now, as the company lays out its master plan for the future, Google is making sure that business is injected with a healthy dose of artificial intelligence. At least that’s the big takeaway from …
Read More »Facebook’s new goal for AI: Searching through photos and video
Facebook isn’t working on artificial intelligence just to let you text with robots. (Though it’s doing that, too.) It’s also using the technology to do something much simpler: help you quickly find the photos you’re searching for or the videos you want to see on the social network. The company showed off several new ways to use “machine learning,” a …
Read More »It’s not just Zuckerberg: Microsoft wants to build a real Jarvis too
Microsoft has seen the future, and it’s filled with bots. No, not robots or flying drones, but rather these new apps that can perform simple tasks at your beck and call. Want to book a flight? Microsoft believes a bot can do that for you. Need to remember to send an email to your boss? A bot can remind you. …
Read More »Microsoft taps into AI with SwiftKey app acquisition
Microsoft has purchased SwiftKey but is more interested in the artificial intelligence behind the software than in the popular app itself. The tech giant confirmed Wednesday it acquired the maker of the predictive-keyboard app, which is installed on more than 300 million handsets. Microsoft paid around $250 million, according to the Financial Times. Microsoft did not immediately respond to a …
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