In a statement Apple Inc said, it has hired Samy Bengio, a former distinguished Google scientist who left the search engine giant following a turmoil in its artificial intelligence research department. Bengio is now set to lead a new AI research unit at Apple under John Giannandrea, senior vice president of machine learning and AI strategy,…
On Tuesday, the White House proposed regulatory principles to govern the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) aimed at limiting authorities’ “overreach”; it also said, it wants European authorities to follow its lead and avoid aggressive approaches. Producing a fact sheet the White House said, federal agencies should “conduct risk assessment and cost-benefit analyses…
China wants to attract talent in AI areas of biometric identification, cloud computing, big data and deep learning and wants to apply them in military technology in order to gain a leverage over the United States. China is pushing ahead to fulfill its ambition of becoming a world leader in Artificial Intelligence by 2025 and…
Companies across the global are pushing the advance of AI-based deep learning for facial recognition technology. The multi-billion dollar industry is seeing rapid adoption by China as it tries to enforce a rigid framework on its citizens much like its firewall which limits its citizens’ usage of the internet. On Wednesday, the SenseTime Group, a…
The Vector Institute’s governing board includes Google, Uber and many of Canada’s largest banks. The institute is being set up as a global hub for artificial intelligence. The Vector Institute, which the Canadian government set up earlier this year in a bid to help establish Toronto as a global hub in artificial intelligence with more…
With Apple acquiring Israeli-based RealFace, a company which specialises in deep learning based, face authentication technology, it would not be surprising if the next i-device moves away from fingerprint-based authentication to facial recognition. Turns out that the rumours surrounding Apple exploring facial recognition tech for signing-in on its device might after all have some merit.…
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