Google Assistant actions can now continuously listen for specific words
Google today detailed new tools for partners developing on Google Assistant, its voice platform used by over 500 million people monthly in 30 languages...
Amazon and Techstars announce inaugural Alexa Next Stage cohort
The Alexa Fund, Amazon’s $200 million venture fund for voice-focused startups, and Techstars today revealed the inaugural cohort of companies participating in Alexa Next...
AI model creates 3D avatars from a person’s picture
What if all it took to create a realistic digital avatar of a person was a single image? In a paper accepted to the...
DeepMind hopes to teach AI to cooperate by playing Diplomacy
DeepMind, the Alphabet-backed machine learning lab that’s tackled chess, Go, Starcraft 2, Montezuma’s Revenge, and beyond, believes the board game Diplomacy could motivate a...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the Metaverse, permanent WFH, and accelerating raises
Nvidia posted big earnings gains and unveiled its 54-billion transistor A100 artificial intelligence chip in the past couple of weeks. We talked with CEO...
Nvidia’s GameGAN generates games like Pac-Man by watching videos
Two years ago, Nvidia researchers detailed AI that could generate visuals and combine them with a game engine to create an interactive, navigable environment....
IBM claims its Neural Computer achieves record AI model training time
In a technical paper quietly released earlier this year, IBM detailed what it calls the IBM Neural Computer, a reconfigurable parallel processing system designed...
Drone Racing League launches flight simulator competition on NBC
Today the Drone Racing League announced the launch of the DRL SIM Racing Cup, a competition that takes place entirely inside the DRL SIM...
AI Weekly: Animal Crossing, ICLR, and the future of research conferences online
This week, the world’s machine learning community got a good look at what digital research conferences will look like in a post-coronavirus future, as...
Facebook’s role-playing game teaches AI to complete tasks by reading descriptions
Demonstrating once again the potential of video games to advance AI and machine learning research, Facebook researchers propose a game-like language challenge — Read...