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Nasscom CoE-IoT ties up with Taiwan-India AI Technology Innovation Research Center

Nasscom CoE-IoT has signed an intent of cooperation with Taiwan-India Artificial Intelligence Technology Innovation Research Center, Taiwan’s largest university and incubator of startups under the National Chung Cheng University. Aimed…

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Wipro partners with DataRobot to provide solutions in augmented intelligence

Bengaluru-based global IT giant Wipro has announced that it will co-develop solutions in augmented intelligence with Boston, Massachusetts-based AI solutions provider DataRobot. Augmented intelligence can be defined as a design…

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AI powered robot camera mistakes linesman’s bald head for the ball

A robot camera, trained to keep the lens trained automatically on the football using AI at a game in Inverness, Scotland, kept on mistaking the ball for the bald head on the sidelines. The Caledonian Thistle FC doesn’t use a cameraman to film games and instead relies on an automated camera system to follow the action. Most of the smaller clubs use an automated camera; as crews and professional recording equipment can be very expensive.

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CAPTCHA’s surprising relationship with AI: The story behind the squiggly letters

Introduction Most people are unaware when they confront the distorted letters and digits of CAPTCHAs in their day-to-day usage of web services that they’re being subjected to a reverse Turing…

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Machines are learning to argue with humans #ProjectDebater

After feats like the grand-master chess (remember Deep Blue vs. Garry Kasparov), Rubik’s Cube, Jeopardy, Space X’s space-borne supercomputer; we should have gotten used to being surprised by machines. But…

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Blockchain in Spain used to block corruption !

From smarter registration and tracking of transferred crypto-asset transactions to using an AI application (that researchers from the University of Valladolid have been focusing on) which generates early warning systems…

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Amazon’s Foe, Walmart’s friend – Microsoft in automated checkout

What if someone could cut the queue that Amazon is leading? That too, one which is right on the edge of retail and worth billions of dollars- the automated grocery…

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AI is entering nuclear reactors too

Soon, some North Carolina State University researchers will get busy developing control systems for nuclear power plants that lean heavily on AI (Artificial Intelligence). Thanks to a $3.4 million grant…

Blockchain

Credit Cards, Rewards and Blockchain

Getting extra points or cash-backs when one swipes cards for fuel, travel, hotels etc. is not a surprise anymore. But blockchain and AI can be soon making these rewards deeper…

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Singapore govt establishes AI ethics council

The Singapore government is convening a council to advise it on the ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) and data. Fairness, transparency and the ability to explain an AI (Artificial…

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White House and AI: Good Cop-Bad Cop-No Cop?

At the AI summit where 34 tech giants came together, technology policy man for Trump, Michael Kratsios has been, reportedly, assuring technology giants like Google, Intel, Nvidia and Apple that…

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Machine Learning: Go out-of-the-box. But not IN a Black Box

AI researchers are simply stumbling in the dark. ML is still a Black Box. For the interpretability problem is not allowing us to see how a given AI came to…

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Duplex! You better get gargled up for…

From the good, the gothic to the gross; a whole new swathe of ways can erupt to put to use the suave, nuanced and discreet Don Draper of a Voice-Assistant…