Google trained Pixel 4’s Soli AI on millions of gestures from volunteers
Google today penned an explainer on the Soli radar-based technology that ships inside its Pixel 4 smartphones. While many of the hardware details were...
DeepMind technique encourages AI players to cooperate in zero-sum games
In a preprint paper, DeepMind described a new reinforcement learning technique that models human behavior in a potentially new and powerful way. It could...
Alexa can now send driving directions to your phone on your way out the door
Amazon’s Alexa just became a bit more useful thanks to the addition of new features aimed at commuters, weather watchers, and basketball fans. They...
Tempo’s $1,995 fitness tracker taps AI to improve your workout routine
Can AI and machine learning improve the quality of your workout routine? As the wearable AI market climbs to $180 billion, Tempo (previously Pivot),...
PlaySight trained AI on thousands of hours of videos to understand sports
Sports analytics, which refers to the use of data and statistics to measure the performance of players (or teams) and make informed coaching decisions,...
Samsung Galaxy S20 begins shipping March 6
At the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco this afternoon, Samsung unveiled its newest flagship series: Galaxy S20. Like S-series lineups before it,...
Uber’s AI plays text-based games like a human
Can AI learn to play text-based games like a human? That’s the question applied scientists at Uber’s AI research division set out to answer...
Ubisoft uses AI to teach a car to drive itself in a racing game
Reinforcement learning, an AI training technique that employs rewards to drive software policies toward goals, has been applied successfully to domains from industrial robotics...
Tencent details how its MOBA-playing AI system beats 99.81% of human opponents
In August, Tencent announced it had developed an AI system capable of defeating teams of pros in a five-on-five match in Honor of Kings...
DeepMind’s Dreamer AI learns from the past to predict the future
Some AI systems achieve goals in challenging environments by drawing on representations of the world informed by past experiences. They generalize these to novel...