Artificial Intelligence
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Amazon opens its second cashierless store in Seattle; Chicago and San Francisco are next
Amazon’s expansion into brick-and-mortar shows no sign of slowing down. The retailer today opened the doors at its second Amazon Go…
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Google releases open source reinforcement learning framework for training AI models
Reinforcement learning — an artificial intelligence (AI) technique that uses rewards (or punishments) to drive agents in the direction of specific goals —…
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Amazon researchers share how AI helps Alexa answer follow-up questions
Humans have an easy time with context carryover — the ability to track references through rounds of conversation (like inferring…
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Hype kills value, and other hard lessons from veteran voice app developers
At the AI-focused Transform event held by VentureBeat in Mill Valley, California, Google VP Scott Huffman, who is in charge of engineering…
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Self-driving cars face a long road to becoming transportation’s future
Self-driving cars are the future of transportation. According to some reports, 10 million will hit the road by 2020. They’ll…
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Researchers gave AI curiosity and it played video games all day
Credit: Nicole Gray If you teach a robot to fish, it’ll probably catch fish. However, if you teach it…
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Sony‘s robotic dog Aibo returns to the U.S. for $2,899
In order to gain further market share in the household robotics space, Sony is teaching an old dog new tricks.…
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Indeed: AI job listings are up over 99% since 2015
Jobs with AI or machine learning in their description rose 99.8 percent between June 2015 and June 2018, according to…
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