Carnegie Mellon University is touting a new $3.6 million research grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, to build machine learning algorithms that can index online sex ads… Read more »
I take a lot of photos on my smartphone. So many, in fact, that my wife calls me Cellphone Ansel Adams. I can’t imagine how many more digital photos we’d have cluttering… Read more »
Smart devices, appliances and the internet of things are dominating International CES this week, but we’re probably just getting a small taste of what’s to come — not only in quantity, but… Read more »
Computer vision has seen some major advances over the past couple of years, and a New York-based startup called Dextro wants to take the field to a new level by making it easier… Read more »
Two studies published this week provide even more evidence that deep learning models are very good at computer vision and might be able to tackle some difficult problems. The study on computer… Read more »
IBM says it has developed a machine learning system that identified images of skin cancer with better than 95 percent accuracy in experiments, and it’s now teaming up with doctors to… Read more »
The artificial intelligence technique known as deep learning is white hot right now, as we have noted numerous times before. It’s powering many of the advances in computer vision, voice recognition… Read more »
A Palo Alto startup called MetaMind launched on Friday promising to help enterprises use deep learning to analyze their images, text and other data. The company has raised $8 million from Khosla… Read more »
The Paul G. Allen Foundation announced on Wednesday that it has awarded $5.7 million in grants to five projects that aim to teach machines to understand what they see and read… Read more »
Targeted machine learning applications continue to raise money and big-time users, possibly at the expense of general-purpose platforms targeting potentially much broader use cases. Read more »