Artificial Intelligence
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Facebook open-sources PyText NLP framework
Facebook AI Research is open-sourcing some of the conversational AI tech it is using to power its Portal video chat…
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China’s JD.com teams up with Intel to develop ‘smart’ retail experiences
Months after it landed a major $550 million investment from Google, China’s JD.com — the country’s second highest-profile investor behind…
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Tencent-backed fleet manager G7 racks up $320M in funding
A sizable funding round is poised to heat up a race to automate China’s logistics infrastructure. Beijing-based fleet management company G7…
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Montreal startup Stradigi’s AI game teaches people sign language
Responsibly applied artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to solve some of the world’s toughest challenges. One needn’t look further for…
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Why you need a supercomputer to build a house
When the hell did building a house become so complicated? Don’t let the folks on HGTV fool you. The process…
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Yale teaches robots not to mess with people’s stuff
When it comes to getting a quality education, a robot could do far worse than a program at Yale.…
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How Hive is raising a massive army to build AI-training datasets
The thing people forget about artificial intelligence is that it’s exactly that — artificial. Behind Facebook’s flesh-spotting algorithms and Mobileye’s…
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Still a year away from launch, Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi keeps adding talent
Video won’t start rolling on Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg’s new bite-sized streaming service with the billion-dollar backing until the…
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