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Microsoft Pushes the Bot Framework, Google Buys API.ai
Microsoft has made available Bot Framework Preview to developers and Google has purchased API.ai, a bot engine with many integrations.
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DeepMind Unveils WaveNet - A Deep Neural Network for Speech and Audio Synthesis
DeepMind's WaveNet synthesizes speech and musical audio using parametric text-to-speech (TTS). DeepMind claims to have outperformed some of the leading TTS systems when rated subjectively by a group of test participants in a blind study.
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DeepMind AI Program Increases Google Data Center Cooling Power Usage Efficiency by 40%
DeepMind Sensor data captured from Google data centers yield a 40% increase in data center power usage efficiency and an overall site-wide 15% power usage efficiency gain using an AI program similar to an earlier game-like program of theirs that had learned how to play Atari games.
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Open Sourcing Artificial Intelligence Research
Today OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence research company founded by InfoSys and Amazon Web Services, announced a beta for OpenAI Gym. Gym is a Python based toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms offered under the MIT license.
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Facebook Wants to Replace Apps with Bots
Facebook has opened up the Messenger Platform to be integrated with chatbots performing various tasks.
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IBM Expands Watson Cognitive APIs
IBM has recently expanded their collection of Watson Cognitive APIs to include beta updates to the Emotion and Tone Analysis APIs.
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AlphaGo: Google and DeepMind Publish Seminal AI Work
A game simulation at Google's Deep Mind defeated expert humans at Go last month in a breakthrough for AI. Go is considered one of the great unsolved problems in AI.
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Father of AI Marvin Minsky Dies
The father of AI, Professor Marvin Minsky, died on Sunday of a brain haemorrhage. InfoQ looks back at the contributions he made in inspiring a whole new field.
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Facebook Open Sourcing AI Hardware Design
Facebook recently announced open sourcing hardware design for its custom designed Open Rack compatible hardware. Attributing advances in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to richer data sets and more powerful GPU-based systems, Facebook is unveiling its next generation systems code-named “Big Sur”, after the synonymous location in California.
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Sirius: an Open Source Competitor to Siri, Cortana, Google Now
Sirius is an open source, customizable system that can be commanded through vocal input. It has been built by University of Michigan researchers and is similar to Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana, and Google Now. According to University of Michigan, Sirius “is designed to spark a new generation of intelligent personal assistants” for wearables and other devices."
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Facebook Open Sources Modules for Faster Deep Learning on Torch
Facebook has open sourced a number of modules for faster training of neural networks on Torch.
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Google Announces Development Kit for a Tablet with Advanced Vision Capabilities
Google has announced the availability of Project Tango Development Kit, which should allow developers to make applications that track full 3-dimensional motion and capture surfaces in the environment. Tango development kit, created in collaboration with NVDIA, includes the new Tegra K1 mobile processor and aims at providing a platform designed for computer vision and 3D sensing.
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IBM Launches Contest for Cognitive Mobile Apps using Watson
At the Mobile World Congress, IBM has announced a developer contest for developers to create mobile consumer and business apps powered by IBM Watson cognitive computing platform. The winners of the IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge will receive design consulting and support from IBM to gain access to the market.
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An Introduction to Neural Networks Using C#
Neural networks have long been an interesting field of research for exploring concepts in machine learning (otherwise known as artificial intelligence). Dr James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research recently gave an introduction to neural networks for those looking to learn more about them in an engaging talk that includes working demo code.
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AI Researcher Judea Pearl obtains Turing Award
The ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) announced on 15th March that they award Dr. Judea Pearl for “for his work on the partnership between humans and machines, part of what is generally known as artificial intelligence”.