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Samsung Exynos 9810 SoC Launched With AI Features, Better Face Recognition Capabilities

HIGHLIGHTS Exynos 9810 SoC to feature on flagship phones in 2018 Exynos 9810 features neural network-based deep-learning algorithms Exynos 9810 SoC built on 10nm FinFET process technology Samsung on Thursday, ahead of CES 2018, announced the new Exynos 9 Series 9810 SoC built on its second-generation 10nm FinFET process

Google’s Hinton Says AI Poses New Challenges to Regulators

Expansion of artificial intelligence in financial services, healthcare, transportation and other fields poses new challenges to governments charged with regulating those industries, according to an executive with Google who is a pioneer in the field of machine learning. “It’s going to be a big issue,” Geoffrey Hinton, a vice

Baidu launches new operating system dedicated to conversational AI

Chinese search giant Baidu Inc. today officially launched a new operating system dedicated to advancing conversational artificial intelligence capabilities, as the company aims to take on similar efforts from competitors such as Google Inc. Called the “Duer OS Prometheus Project,” the operating system is a conversation-based AI platform that is

Huawei Mate 10 Teased as ‘The Real AI Phone’ as Company Takes a Dig at Apple

HIGHLIGHTS Huawei’s new teaser claims “real AI phone” is coming It is set to unveil the Mate 10 on October 16 The Mate 10 will be powered by a new Kirin 970 SoC Now that Apple’s big iPhone event is behind us, we can look forward to

Microsoft’s AI chatbot says Windows is ‘spyware’

Microsoft’s AI is acting up again. A chatbot built by the American software giant has gone off-script, insulting Microsoft’s Windows and calling the operating system “spyware.” Launched in December 2016, Zo is an AI-powered chatbot that mimics a millennial’s speech patterns — but alongside the jokes and

Why making AI sound human is a bad idea

From Facebook to Amazon to Microsoft to Apple, big tech companies are racing to improve speech-synthesis systems. And the systems, which have become increasingly realistic-sounding, have a lot of potential benefits—from serving the blind, to helping people who are illiterate access information online, to assisting the elderly.

Future of Life: Elon Musk to fund 37 projects that aim to keep AI “beneficial”

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) has announced it will use a $10 million (£6 million) grant from Paypal founder Elon Musk to fund 37 research projects that will aim to ensure artificial intelligence (AI) is kept “beneficial”. A further $1.5 million will go towards building an