Artificial Intelligence News Issue 42

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Google 'Artificial Intelligence' Free Update: Google Introduces 'Parsey McParseface' As Open Source Natural Language AI Tool [VIDEO] On Thursday Google launched SyntaxNet, an open-source neural network framework applied in TensorFlow that provides groundwork for Natural Language Understanding (NLU) systems. It also includes Parsey McParseface, an English language parser that has been skilled to examine English text and the most accurate model in the world.

Rage Frameworks to Present Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence Insights at EmTech Digital DEDHAM, MA--(Marketwired - May 17, 2016) - Rage Frameworks, a provider of knowledge-based automation technology and services, today announced that it will attend MIT Technology Review's fourth annual West Coast Emerging Digital Technologies (EmTech Digital) Conference, which brings together innovators, entrepreneurs, business leaders and venture capitalists to examine what's next...

eBay's Next Move: Artificial Intelligence To Refine Product Searches -- Trefis After indicating that the company is working on a turnaround plan this year, eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) seems to be aggressively pursuing initiatives to fulfill its goals of making its platform simpler and more efficient for both buyers and sellers. Reports suggest that the company recently acquired an artificial intelligence and analytics company based out of Sweden called Expertmaker.

Changing Carrier Landscape - Data and Artificial Intelligence Our world is undergoing unprecedented, some say disruptive, change at a lightening pace. Many of these changes in our world of insurance will stem from technology, data and artificial intelligence and the considerable interplay among all three.

Google Echoes Amazon's Echo, Opens New Virtual-Reality Door Google wants to play an even bigger role in managing people's daily lives, while also nudging them into an alternate reality, as the Internet company responds to competitive threats posed by Facebook, Amazon and Apple. As part of an onslaught of upcoming products, Google will implant a more...

Sony Is Trying to Resuscitate Its Artificial Intelligence Machine Japan's Sony Corp said it plans to build up its artificial intelligence (AI) business and eventually turn it into a major revenue source, beginning with an investment in a U.S. start-up. The electronics maker has invested an undisclosed sum in California-based Cogitai.

Can Using Artificial Intelligence Make Hiring Less Biased? The resume is on its way out. "[It's a] data token that boils you down to a data object," says Pete Kazanjy, founder of TalentBin, a service that uses social media to find job recruits (now part of Monster). That's especially true for hard numbers, said Google's SVP of "people operations" Laszlo Bock in a 2013 New York Times interview.

Artificial Intelligence Requires Thoughtful Policymaking, Experts Say With appropriate policies in place, robots should become our "best friends," not our "worst nightmare," experts said at the 41st Annual AAAS Forum on Science & Technology Policy on 14 April. During a panel, entitled "Best Friend or Worst Nightmare?

Read for Later - Facebook's "Trending" Stories, Emotional Artificial Intelligence, and What People Are Doing in Coffee Shops One of the big stories this week - accusations that Facebook manipulated its trending stories section to exclude conservative news - has fascinating implications for the information work we all do every day.

How Artificial Intelligence puts the 'smart' in smart buildings - Samsung: The Connected Enterprise Early case studies illustrate the business application of deep-learning technology. Over the past six years, investment has poured into Artificial Intelligence (AI), growing over threefold from $1.5bn in 2010 to $5bn in 2015, according to data analytics firm Quid. This has also been a boon for smart building technologies harnessing AI.