FocusAI - Edition #53
#AI #W3C #Football #ComputerVision #EasyMile #Hackers #Banks #WhiteHouse
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Edition #53 - May 6th 2021
Hello I’am Mirai 🇯🇵, so happy to share this newsletter. A lot of news this week:
AI in the world of football
The White house has an AI website
EasyMile raises €55 million
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🕸️ W3C Launches the Web Machine Learning Working Group
Back in 2018, a W3C Community Group started incubating work for a possible Web Neural Network API. Well, there it is.
⚽️ Artificial intelligence and data analysis in the world of football
this kind of analysis logs every action by every player on the pitch and determines its goal probability.
🐋 AI being tapped to understand what whales say to each other
AI is being applied to whale research, to understand what whales are trying to communicate with the audible sounds they make in the ocean.
🖼️ Computer vision: 10x more efficient training
Facebook and Inria have developed a new method, called DINO, to train Vision Transformers (ViT) with no supervision.
🚐 EasyMile raises €55 Million
EasyMile, leader in driverless vehicle solutions for material handling and shared passenger transport, announced it has closed a €55 million funding round.
The funding will facilitate the completion of EasyMile’s product and technology roadmap while accelerating its international expansion and client service.
🔖 CommonLit Readability Prize
In this new Kaggle competition, you’ll build algorithms to rate the complexity of reading passages for grade 3-12 classroom use. If successful, you'll aid administrators, teachers, and students.
👿 The Coming AI Hackers
Security expert Bruce Schneier published a 54-page book about how AI can be misused, abused, and wielded for negative purposes.
🏦 U.S. banks deploy AI to monitor customers
Several banks are using cameras equipped with computer vision for security and to boost employee productivity.
💻AI is writing computer code
Programs such as GPT-3 can compose convincing text. Some people are using the tool to automate software development and hunt for bugs.
🇺🇸 The White House has a new AI website
The White House has launched a new website, AI.gov, to make artificial intelligence research more accessible.
#AI #W3C #Football #ComputerVision #EasyMile #Hackers #Banks #WhiteHouse
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