Alibaba Supports Digitization Of Chinese Ancient Books With Advanced AI Technology
The digitization of Chinese classics is challenging, as Chinese ancient characters are complex. Throughout history, one Chinese character might have several variants and written forms. Digitizing Chinese ancient books through optical character recognition (OCR) not only facilitates machine reading but also gives a new life to numerous ancient books for public peruse. Alibaba DAMO Academy …
Quantum Machine Learning Hits A Limit
A new theorem from the field of quantum machine learning has poked a major hole in the accepted understanding about information scrambling. “Our theorem implies that we are not going to be able to use quantum machine learning to learn typical random or chaotic processes, such as black holes. In this sense, it places a …
Teaching AI How To Forget At Scale
Every day, we’re inundated with a constant stream of information — most of which we’ll forget. Sure, you can probably remember what you had for breakfast this morning, but what about last year? We often take for granted the ability to forget mundane, day-to-day details to make room for valuable moments that matter in our …
New System Cleans Messy Data Tables Automatically
MIT researchers have created a new system that automatically cleans “dirty data” — the typos, duplicates, missing values, misspellings, and inconsistencies dreaded by data analysts, data engineers, and data scientists. MIT researchers have created a new system that automatically cleans “dirty data” — the typos, duplicates, missing values, misspellings, and inconsistencies dreaded by data analysts, …
Sweden To Receive First Delivery Of World’s Most Advanced Air Defense Missile
Lockheed Martin successfully delivered Sweden’s first Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors in April, providing the country with the world’s most advanced air defense missile that uses Hit-to-Kill technology to defend against incoming threats. “By choosing PAC-3 MSE for missile defense, our customers around the world know they have the combat-proven technology …
This Startup Is Launching A New AI Media Lab To Create Human Avatars For Brands
A startup that made a name for itself designing AI avatar clones of celebrities is turning its attention towards brands. Nonprofit-commercial hybrid AI Foundation is launching a new brand media lab designed to build experiences for marketers and entertainment companies based around its trademark lifelike human avatars. The project is a partnership with creative studios …
Darktrace Extends One-Click Integrations Program Announcing Full Integration With CrowdStrike
Darktrace, a leading autonomous cyber security AI company, today announced it is extending its One-Click Integrations Program, with full integration capability with CrowdStrike. Darktrace customers can now feed data straight from CrowdStrike Falcon to the Darktrace Immune System, allowing host-level alerts to be analyzed by Darktrace’s self-learning AI, for autonomous threat detection and automated investigations across …
Robotic Solution For Disinfecting Food Production Plants Wins Agribusiness Prize
The winners of this year’s Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize got a good indication their pitch was striking a chord when a judge offered to have his company partner with the team for an early demonstration. The offer signified demand for their solution — to say nothing of their chances of winning the pitch …
Untangle Your Hair With Help From Robots
With rapidly growing demands on health care systems, nurses typically spend 18 to 40 percent of their time performing direct patient care tasks, oftentimes for many patients and with little time to spare. Personal care robots that brush your hair could provide substantial help and relief. This may seem like a truly radical form of …
When Artists And Machine Intelligence Come Together
Throughout history, from photography to video to hypertext, artists have pushed the expressive limits of new technologies, and artificial intelligence is no exception. At I/O 2019, Google Research and Google Arts & Culture launched the Artists + Machine Intelligence Grants, providing a range of support and technical mentorship to six artists from around the globe …