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Sony's new 3D speaker is a pricey work in progress

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

Along with its smaller sibling, the RA3000, Sony's latest sonic hardware is first and foremost a vessel for the company's immersive music format, 360 Reality Audio. From its multi-directional, seven-driver configuration to support for high-resolution audio over Wi-Fi from 3D sound sources--and a sticker-shocking $700 price point--Sony's intentions for the RA5000 as a 360RA ambassador are clear from the get-go. Following Amazon's Echo Studio smart speaker, which supports the rival Dolby Atmos Music service, the RA5000 is tasked with helping Sony blaze its own trail in the 3D music landscape. However, while the RA5000 is an ambitious device with impressive sound quality, it's also got some serious limitations at the moment, including a half-baked app, an awkward design, and a highly limited collection of songs to make it sing. But before we get into the details, what exactly is 360RA?


Would You Swipe Right for an AI Profile?

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I explain Artificial Intelligence terms and news to non-experts. Most of us are convinced that we can dissociate humans from machines, but is it really the case? This study dives into this question using AI-generated profiles on dating apps. Would you swipe right for an AI? Let's find out. This AI Reads Your Brain to Generate Personally Attractive Faces, https://youtu.be/-ZibKcoW-7k


Zoom now works on Amazon's Echo Show 10

Engadget

You now have another way to hop into Zoom calls with friends, family and co-workers. Amazon is bringing the video chat service to its Echo Show 10 smart displays in the US, according to SlashGear. Echo Show 8 already has Zoom support. Hooking up your calendar to Alexa or your Zoom account will make it easy to use the app on an Echo Show, as long as you have a meeting ID and passcode on a calendar entry. Otherwise, you can tell Alexa to join a call and you'll be asked for the meeting ID and passcode.


AI and a great impact on mobile technology - Zesium

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We've all heard about Artificial Intelligence (AI) but only few of us know exactly what it means and how does it impact our everyday life. When thinking about AI, many Baby Boomers and X Gens think of the old sci-fi films and scenes where machines come alive and take over the world. But that's just a funny representation how humans used to perceive the unknown. If you remember the old TV show'Beyond 2000', you may recall that their ideas and inventions were outstanding at the time, which only shows the potential of the technology. What is in fact AI and what are the examples we can see on mobile?


Drug Recommendation System based on Sentiment Analysis of Drug Reviews using Machine Learning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Since coronavirus has shown up, inaccessibility of legitimate clinical resources is at its peak, like the shortage of specialists, healthcare workers, lack of proper equipment and medicines. The entire medical fraternity is in distress, which results in numerous individuals demise. Due to unavailability, people started taking medication independently without appropriate consultation, making the health condition worse than usual. As of late, machine learning has been valuable in numerous applications, and there is an increase in innovative work for automation. This paper intends to present a drug recommender system that can drastically reduce specialists heap. In this research, we build a medicine recommendation system that uses patient reviews to predict the sentiment using various vectorization processes like Bow, TFIDF, Word2Vec, and Manual Feature Analysis, which can help recommend the top drug for a given disease by different classification algorithms. The predicted sentiments were evaluated by precision, recall, f1score, accuracy, and AUC score. The results show that classifier LinearSVC using TFIDF vectorization outperforms all other models with 93% accuracy.


FixMyPose: Pose Correctional Captioning and Retrieval

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Interest in physical therapy and individual exercises such as yoga/dance has increased alongside the well-being trend. However, such exercises are hard to follow without expert guidance (which is impossible to scale for personalized feedback to every trainee remotely). Thus, automated pose correction systems are required more than ever, and we introduce a new captioning dataset named FixMyPose to address this need. We collect descriptions of correcting a "current" pose to look like a "target" pose (in both English and Hindi). The collected descriptions have interesting linguistic properties such as egocentric relations to environment objects, analogous references, etc., requiring an understanding of spatial relations and commonsense knowledge about postures. Further, to avoid ML biases, we maintain a balance across characters with diverse demographics, who perform a variety of movements in several interior environments (e.g., homes, offices). From our dataset, we introduce the pose-correctional-captioning task and its reverse target-pose-retrieval task. During the correctional-captioning task, models must generate descriptions of how to move from the current to target pose image, whereas in the retrieval task, models should select the correct target pose given the initial pose and correctional description. We present strong cross-attention baseline models (uni/multimodal, RL, multilingual) and also show that our baselines are competitive with other models when evaluated on other image-difference datasets. We also propose new task-specific metrics (object-match, body-part-match, direction-match) and conduct human evaluation for more reliable evaluation, and we demonstrate a large human-model performance gap suggesting room for promising future work. To verify the sim-to-real transfer of our FixMyPose dataset, we collect a set of real images and show promising performance on these images.


Hitting the Books: The bias behind AI assistants' failure to understand accents

Engadget

The age of being able to speak to our computers just as we do with other humans is finally upon us but voice-activated assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Home haven't proven quite as revolutionary -- or inclusive -- as we'd hoped they'd be. While these systems make a commendable effort to accurately interpret commands regardless of whether you picked up your accent in Houston or Hamburg, for users with heavier or less common accents such as Caribbean or Cockney, requests to their digital assistants are roundly ignored. In her essay "Siri Disciplines" for Your Computer Is on Fire from the MIT Press, Towson University professor Dr. Halcyon M. Lawrence, examens some of the more glaring shortcomings of this nascent technology, how those preventable failures have effectively excluded a sizeable number of potential users and the western biases underpinning the issue. Used with permission of the publisher, MIT Press. Voice technologies are routinely described as revolutionary.


Council Post: AI In B2B E-Commerce: The Challenges And Alternatives

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Prior, he was the CTO and Co-Founder of Magento. Interest in artificial intelligence (AI) is growing, and the technology is rapidly improving. According to Statista, the fast-growing global AI software market is expected to reach $126 billion by 2025. AI is fueling search engines, virtual assistants and e-commerce product recommendations. For B2B e-commerce businesses, AI can be a tool for greater personalization, improved decision-making ability and gaining a competitive advantage.


This week's best deals: $50 off Apple's MacBook Air M1 and more

Engadget

While this week was peppered with limited-time sales, there remain a number of discounted gadgets available today. Apple's MacBook Pro M1 returned to its all-time-low price of $950 and the new, swiveling Echo Show 10 received its first discount since debuting in February. Amazon knocked down the prices of its Fire tablets, too, including the Fire HD 10, which is still $55 off. Here are the best tech deals from this week that you can still get today. This is the base model with the new M1 processor, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.


Artificial Intelligence in Business and Education: Projects in 2020 - 2021

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With the recent changes in business methods and environment, using the latest innovative technologies is highly favorable. Artificial intelligence is already an important instrument in business and education. You may not pay attention to reality, but AI is already an essential part of your life. More and more businesses tend to go through the digital transformation bringing up projects based on artificial intelligence. Modern clients want to bring artificial intelligence into business management.