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Artificial intelligence for real conversations
In a world of automated e-commerce, a couple of entrepreneurs realised that for many potential customers, there was still a lot of comfort in transacting with a bit of conversation, even if over text-based chat. Snehal Dhruve and Bineet Desai, who are brothers-in-law, and had already founded two start-ups: Being Baby, which dealt with baby products, and Go Hero, focussing on travel. Both ventures used conversational e-commerce using AI, or artificial intelligence. In 2016 they decided to put their expertise and learnings to work for other clients, and set up Superfan, a real-time automated customer engagement platform. "Globally, 3 billion users are on messaging apps," Mr. Dhruve says.
Powervision Launches The World's First Consumer Underwater Drone, Powerray In Singapore - IoTNews.asia
PowerVision, a world leader in AI robotics and technology unveils the PowerRay, an innovative underwater robot with groundbreaking features to revolutionize recreational fishing enthusiasts and marine photography. As a financial hub and trusted gateway to the emerging Asian markets, PowerVision has strategically selected Singapore to lead the Southeast Asian release following the global launch of PowerRay in San Francisco (USA), Munich (Germany), Beijing (China) and Tokyo (Japan). Singapore is the fifth city to launch the world's first underwater drone, followed by Hong Kong in March, as well as Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand in April. PowerRay is the first consumer-level lifestyle underwater robot from PowerVision and was first unveiled at CES 2017 as one of a series of marine and aerial "Power" drones including the PowerEye, PowerEgg, and PowerDolphin. They have been well received by the media and consumers for its advanced product concept and functional advantages.
Building Bonzai Podcast [Episode 1]: AI, Machine Learning & Chatbots
Chantal Cameron: "What are some thoughts about technologies we're excited about this year?" Matthew Carriere: "Artificial intelligence, a big one, but I know that when you say artificial intelligence, people are like, well, what do you mean? Because it encompasses a lot of technology." "Also, machine learning is a big focus here at Bonzai this year. It really started, honestly, with sales. You were a big part of that. I remember sitting in on sales meetings and, one of the questions I like to ask is…well, if we're looking at the leads coming in, when is this going to close? And, you know, the sales guys are usually too optimistic, saying something like, 30 days from now. Going to make it rain, so to speak. I remember leaving one of those meetings last year and coming to you, and I said, 'there's gotta be a way we can mine these years of sales data that we've been collecting, and kind of automate that prediction.'"
Microsoft's new AI bot can draw whatever you tell it to
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has incredibly evolved over the last few years and is touted to be the next big thing of the future. Making more headway in that direction is Microsoft Corp. who has been investing in multiple projects relating to AI. The tech giant has created a new AI tool which it calls a "drawing bot" using a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) running on two machine learning models. The bot uses the GAN to generate images based merely on a descriptive caption. One machine learning model generates images from text descriptions, while the other model known as a discriminator uses descriptions of text to judge the authenticity of generated images, so that it cannot be tricked.
The Purge of AI-Assisted Fake Porn Has Begun
It was only a matter of time before more sophisticated fake porn videos surfaced online. But a crackdown on this super-realistic fake porn is already beginning. Reddit and Gfycat, two popular platforms where users have been uploading the fake porn, have begun to eradicate the manipulated smut, which is often so convincing that it blurs the contours of reality itself. This type of fake porn, also referred to as deepfakes, involves mapping someone else's face onto a porn star's body. While fake porn has existed for years, free and more powerful tools using artificial intelligence now afford trolls a way to create more realistic videos, given they have enough images of their victim to recreate a scene.
AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers - AWS
Learn the basics of deep learning - a machine learning technique that uses neural networks to learn and make predictions - through computer vision projects, tutorials, and real world, hands-on exploration with a physical device. AWS DeepLens lets you run deep learning models locally on the camera to analyze and take action on what it sees.
How Artificial Intelligence And Natural Intelligence Works
This article explains how Artificial Intelligence and Natural Intelligence (the human brain) works. Before discussing AI, I need to discuss the history of machine language. Most people assume that machine language is the latest in the industry; however, it is not. In 1950, a German scientist, Mathison Turing, started working on AI. Later, in 1955, J. Mccarthy started working on Machine Language.