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Microsoft Creates Speech Recognition Tech With Human Accuracy
The system can transcribe conversational language as accurate as professional transcriptionists
IBM Injects Watson AI Into German Hospital To Solve Complex Patient Cases
University Hospital Marburg will use Watson’s cognitive computing capabilities to aid doctors with complex diagnosis
US Government Believes AI Is Beneficial But Warns Of Job Risk
But AI will also present new opportunities for health, education, energy, and the environment
Google’s DeepMind Creates AI That Can Navigate The London Underground
The AI system mixes deep learning neural nets with external memory to further mimic human learning
MPs Say Government Must Consider The Impact Of AI
So far the government has shown a lack of leadership on addressing concerns over smart robots replacing human jobs, claims science and technology committee
Huawei Provides $1m To Power AI Research At UC Berkeley
Huawei will send researchers to UC Berkeley to work on the next wave of AI tech
IBM’s The Weather Company Deploys Real-Time Cold & Flu App
The IBM division is to provide real-time local maps of cold and flu outbreaks based on social media data
Samsung Will Acquire AI Specialist Viv To Take On Siri And Cortana
Viv will give Samsung an artificial intelligence platform to push to developers
Benioff Says Salesforce Betting Big On The Success Of Einstein AI
Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff calls the company's artificial intelligence push a game changer, but is the hype at Dreamforce conference justified?
AI Control Needs ‘Careful Consideration’ To Prevent Killer Computers
IP Expo 2016: Professor Nick Bostrom highlights the risks of creating a true artificial intelligence, even if its is completely benevolent
Google: Unification Of Software And Hardware Will Enable ‘Always On’ AI Computing
Google says it can bring the power of artificial intelligence to everyone by combining its hardware and software and shows off Google Assistant-powered Pixel smartphone and Home appliance
Google Pixel Packs AI Assistant To Realise Android Smartphone Vision
Google releases its first ever "inside out" Android flagship smartphone, powered by AI Assistant and Daydream VR
IBM Touts Trio Of Partnerships To Spread Watson IoT Further
Cognitive computing from Big Blue has IoT in its sights
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: AI Is As Core To Digital Transformation As Cloud
Microsoft is creating an AI supercomputer through the Azure cloud platform
Google Apps For Work Becomes the Machine Learning-Powered G Suite
Google says its intelligent apps can save workers time and make them more productive thanks to a decade of AI research
Microsoft Merges Research, Cortana And Bing Divisions To Create AI Arm
Redmond is looking to push AI technology into more of its services and has created a fourth group at the company
Tech Giants Form ‘Partnership For AI’ Artificial Intelligence Alliance
Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM and Microsoft join forces to explore the challenges, opportunities and ethics of artificial intelligence
Microsoft Boosts Windows 10 And Office 365 With Added Security And AI Features
IGNITE 2016: Office 365 gets a host of tweaks with productivity and security in Microsoft's sights
Google’s Self-Driving Car Crash Results In Lexus Being Towed Off
Google’s driverless car has been involved in yet another crash, though the blame is laid firmly at the fender of another human-driven car.
Facebook Brings Native Payments To iOS and Android Messenger App
The social networking giant has tweaked its chatbot platform with a suite of features
IBM Reveals Power8 Linux Servers Aimed At AI and Big Data Workloads
Big Blue's new servers mix Power8 processors with Nvidia's NVLink technology
Google DeepMind WaveNet Mimics Human Speech
DeepMind has used neural networks to create a computer model that generates natural sounding speech and music
HPE Revamps Big Data Machine Learning Range
A new version of Vertica and added features to Haven OnDemand bulk up HPE's machine learning cloud capabilities
Yandex Offers ‘Complaint’ Button And AI As Alternative To Ad Blocking
Yandex, a major search engine in Russia, hopes to reach a compromise between users and advertisers as an alternative to indiscriminate ad blocking
Microsoft Buys Up AI Calendar Service Genee For Office 365
If you wanna be with me, baby there's a price to pay, I'm a Genee in a bottle, you gotta rub me the right way
Microsoft Launches Five New Chat Bots For Skype
Skyscanner, StubHub and Star Trek bots come to the VoIP platform
Google Launches Betas Of New Machine Learning APIs
Cloud Natural Language API and Cloud Speech API opened as betas for analysing large chunks of text and speech
Google Uses DeepMind AI To Slash Data Centre Energy Use
Artificial intelligence platforms predicts power needed for cooling, resulting in 40 percent energy saving
Google To Offer Symptom Search Results For Medical Queries
'I'm Feeling Yucky' - Google uses Knowledge Graph to give users more information on their medical searchs