AI gauges the mental health of cancer patients through eye movements

Posted on 21/12/2020 by Engadget

Good mental health is important, and early research suggests AI might help diagnose that health for people who are under a particularly heavy strain. Scientists have developed a combination of deep learning algorithms that use eye tracking to gauge t...

DeepMind’s latest AI breakthrough can accurately predict the way proteins fold

Posted on 30/11/2020 by Engadget

Alphabet-owned DeepMind may be best known for building the AI that beat a world-class Go player, but the company announced another, perhaps more vital breakthrough this morning. As part of its work for the 14th Critical Assessment of Protein Structur...

Facebook’s AI team expands post-grad courses for Black and Latinx students

Posted on 22/10/2020 by Engadget

Facebook says that it will expand an online course in deep learning to more students to help improve the diversity of its AI division. After a successful pilot program at Georgia Tech, the company will roll out this graduate-level course in deep lear...

Microsoft licenses the breakthrough natural language AI GPT-3

Posted on 23/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Microsoft announced that it has “exclusively licensed” OpenAI’s sophisticated GPT-3 language model that can generate disturbingly human-like text in applications ranging from commercial bots to creative writing. After investing $1 billion in the San...

Google Magenta’s Lo-Fi Player is an AI-based virtual music studio

Posted on 04/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Lo-Fi Player, a new project out of Google Magenta, wants to help people play around with music creation -- no experience necessary. Lo-Fi Player is a pixelated, 2D virtual room that runs in a web browser. It lets you mix lo-fi hip hop tracks by click...

Google starts displaying contextual info in image searches

Posted on 08/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The next time you search for and tap on an image on Google, you may see some helpful information related to what's on your screen. The company is now more deeply integrating its Knowledge Graph with pictures that it finds online. Say you're paging t...

Qualcomm’s 5G RB5 robotics platform will help drones navigate tight spaces

Posted on 17/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Qualcomm is working on AI computing much like rival chip makers Intel and NVIDIA, but it’s sticking to what it does best: smaller devices and connectivity. It just unveiled the RB5 AI-enabled 5G robotics platform — a follow-up to the RB3 chipset — de...

Hitting the Books: Do we really want our robots to have consciousness?

Posted on 23/05/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

From Star Trek’s Data and 2001’s HAL to Columbus Day’s Skippy the Magnificent, pop culture is chock full of fully conscious AI who, in many cases, are more human than the humans they serve alongside. But is all that self-actualization really necessar...

Microsoft and Intel turn malware into images to help spot more threats

Posted on 11/05/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Microsoft and Intel have a novel approach to classifying malware: visualizing it. They’re collaborating on STAMINA (Static Malware-as-Image Network Analysis), a project that turns rogue code into grayscale images so that a deep learning system can st...

Intel and Penn Medicine are developing an AI to spot brain tumors