Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have created a method called LiveLight that they claim can watch generally uneventful videos and pick out the parts that viewers probably want, or need, to see. Read more »
Google hired the noted inventor and futurist to build artificial intelligence that can think like a human. His vision is a computer with a structure modeled on the human brain, giving… Read more »
A startup called Ersatz Labs is promising deep learning, delivered via appliance or the cloud, usable by pretty much anybody already familiar with machine learning. It’s the latest attempt to take… Read more »
Deep learning is all the rage among the tech scene right now, and that’s more a result of its utility than because it sounds cool. Some questioned the feasibility of the… Read more »
On this week’s Structure Show, the exec in charge of IBM’s massive cloud effort updates us on how that’s going and why you’d be silly to underestimate Big Blue when it… Read more »
IBM announced the three winners of its Watson Mobile Developer Challenge on Tuesday, but the company will likely many, many more developers on on the platform if Watson is going to… Read more »
Skymind is providing commercial support and services for an open source project called deeplearning4j. It’s a collection of of approaches to deep learning that mimic those developed by leading researchers, but… Read more »
Gigaom has written a lot about artificial intelligence over the years. Here are three timelines tracking the rise of deep learning and other learning systems, IBM Watson and AI discussions at… Read more »
Nokia has bought a virtual travel agent, one that just happens to have deeper insight than a typical search engine into travel destinations and your own personal preferences. Read more »
Beyond Verbal, a finalist in Gigaom’s Structure Launchpad, has come up with a way to help computers understand the emotions behind the words people say. Read more »