Vector databases, commonly used for similarity search and product recommendations, are a shining light in the era of Artificial…
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Tech pundit Tim O'Reilly had just tried the new Google Photos app, and he was amazed by the depth of its artificial intelligence.Wired From ACM News | November 9, 2015
Facebook's Accessibility Team says it is developing an artificial intelligence tool to automatically describe photos posted on the social network to blind users...Wired From ACM TechNews | October 30, 2015
Much rightful snark and scorn has been thrown at the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter, the multi-multi-multi-billion dollar jet meant to be the mainstay of...Wired From ACM News | September 15, 2015
With the help of neural networks—vast networks of machines that mimic the web of neurons in the human brain—Facebook can recognize your face.Wired From ACM News | June 24, 2015
Facebook and Google are building enormous neural networks—artificial brains—that can instantly recognize faces, cars, buildings, and other objects in digital photos...Wired From ACM News | June 22, 2015
Yann LeCun is among those bringing a new level of artificial intelligence to popular internet services from the likes of Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.Wired From ACM News | May 28, 2015
As Russ Tedrake flings up the garage door to the dusty MIT lab, light whooshes in, revealing a 360-pound humanoid robot hanging from a rope.Wired From ACM Careers | May 22, 2015
In 1997 chess master Gary Kasparov went to battle against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in a landmark match. After six games Deep Blue prevailed, marking the...Wired From ACM Careers | May 21, 2015
Sometime next summer, you'll be able to watch a horror series that is exactly as scary as you want it to be—no more, no less.Wired From ACM News | April 23, 2015
For all the Brad Pitt-fueled hype, sabermetric analysis is still only as good as the systems that capture data from the field—who hit what to whom.Wired From ACM News | April 8, 2015
An old aviators' joke goes like this: In the future, airline cockpit crews will consist of one pilot and a dog. The pilot is there to feed the dog, the dog is there...Wired From ACM News | April 1, 2015
If NASA plans to send robots to other planets, it's going to need some new designs: ones that are easy to land, easy to move around, and easy to fix.Wired From ACM News | March 5, 2015
When Andrew Ng trained Google's army of computers to identify cat videos using artificial intelligence, he hit a few snags.Wired From ACM News | February 19, 2015