Facebook has acquired Wit.AI, a San Francisco-based startup building a speech-recognition platform for the internet of things. The company launched early in 2014 raised a $3 million seed round in October… Read more »
There’s more to speech recognition apps than Siri, Cortana or Google voice search, and a San Francisco startup called Expect Labs aims to prove it. On Thursday, the company announced it… Read more »
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs is working with IBM to analyze hundreds of thousands of VA hospital medical records using the Watson cognitive computing system. Improving the diagnosis and treatment of Post-Traumatic… 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 »
Nuance Communications is sponsoring a contest called the Winograd Schema challenge that aims to replace the usual conversation-based attempts to pass the Turing test. According to its backers, the Winograd challenge… 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 »
Researchers at both Stanford University and Google have fused state-of-the-art neural network techniques for vision and language in order to create hybrid systems that can analyze images and produce natural-language explanations… Read more »
IBM’s Watson group has invested an undisclosed amount of money in Pathway Genomics to help the company deliver an app that gives personalized advice to users based on their genetic information, as… Read more »
Amazon just showed off a new connected device that combines the skills of Siri with a speaker. It’s a cool idea and looking at other products like it can tell us… Read more »