Walmart inaugrates AI-based store, now open to the public
Walmart has unveiled a publicly accessible AI-based concept store, the Intelligent Retail Lab (IRL for short), in Levittown, New York. Walmart, which faces fierce competition...
Facebook AI turns friends into controllable game characters
A team of AI researchers at Facebook have published a paper earlier this week describing a technique to extract playable characters from real-world videos.
Facebook's...
OpenAI bots defeated a top-tier ‘Dota 2’ esports team
OpenAI is an AI(Artificial Intelligence) research organization. Its artificial intelligence system trained to play the complex strategy game Dota 2 has bested a world champion e-sports...
Google launches a model-making AI platform for Data Scientists
The second day of its annual Cloud Next conference, Google took to shine a spotlight on its upcoming AI tools. Google Cloud Platform is...
A Team At Amazon eavesdrops on your talks with Alexa
A team at Amazon that includes both full-time employees and contractors listens to people's audio snippets recorded by devices with the company's Amazon Alexa...
EU issues guidelines for ethical AI development
The European Union(EU) has published new guidelines for developing ethical AI(Artificial Intelligence). The guidelines are not legally binding and include a list of seven fundamental...
IBM’s AI tool can predict when an employee is about to quit
IBM's new AI(Artificial Intelligence) can predict with approx. 95% accuracy, when an employee is about to quit his/her job. According to IBM CEO Ginni...
Apple appropriates another Google’s top AI researcher
Apple has acquired another AI pioneer from Google. Ian Goodfellow is widely known in the AI space for his prominent work on Generative Adversarial...
Intel investing $13 million into an AI chip that can transfer data 1,000 times...
Toronto-based Untether AI, recently announced a $13 million USD Series A funding round led by Intel Capital, to help develop an AI computer chip. It...
Walmart now allows voice-activated, Google-powered grocery shopping
Walmart now lets customers order groceries by voice through Google Assistant. This can be considered as an attempt to counter Amazon.com Inc.’s growing clout...
