Honda hasn’t been shy about wanting an AI assistant in its cars, and it’s bringing in a partner to ensure that this assistant is one you’ll want to use. The automaker has tapped SoundHound to speed up the development of its AI companion. Thanks to the Houndify platform, your ride should understand natural, conversational voice […]
Countless dollars and entire scientific careers have been dedicated to predicting where and when the next big earthquake will strike. But unlike weather forecasting, which has significantly improved with the use of better satellites and more powerful mathematical models, earthquake prediction has been marred by repeated failure. Some of the world’s most destructive earthquakes — […]
Christie’s has sold its first piece of AI art, a canvas named the Portrait of Edmond Belamy, for $432,500. The sale is unusual not only as a first for the 252-year-old auction house, but because the expected price for the print was between $7,000 and $10,000. The artwork was created by a collective named Obvious. […]
About 99 percent of the Sun’s energy emitted as neutrinos is produced through nuclear reaction sequences initiated by proton-proton (pp) fusion in which hydrogen is converted into helium, say scientists including physicist Andrea Pocar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Today they report new results from Borexino, one of the most sensitive neutrino detectors on […]
Internet giant Baidu unveiled an artificial intelligence-powered tool on Wednesday that can translate English into Chinese and German in real time, in move to challenge a rival product from Google. So far, many translation services online allow users to say or write a sentence, but there is a lag before it proceeds to serve up […]
Udi Manber, who ran engineering for Google’s core search products and previously held senior roles at Yahoo and Amazon, is joining health insurance giant Anthem as the head of artificial intelligence, according to people familiar with the matter. Manber’s new role involved running the AI group at Anthem and he’s expected to build out a […]
The oil industry has fallen hard for digital tech, with artificial intelligence and robotics a particular focus of attraction, KPMG’s latest CEO Outlook: Oil & Gas has suggested. As much as 85 percent of respondents—52 global chief executives from the oil and gas industry—told KPMG that they have either already adopted AI in their operations […]
Igneous Systems plans to introduce two new products Tuesday for hybrid cloud customers working with massive data sets, in yet another sign that cloud computing does not plan to leave any sector of the information technology economy untouched. The Seattle data archiving company plans to introduce Igneous DataDiscover and Igneous DataFlow later on Tuesday, said […]
The Nvidia GTC conference kicked off this week in Washington D.C. It’s D.C.’s largest A.I. conference and with Nvidia playing host. There are many uses of A.I., and that goes way beyond cars. There are also several players, but the host seems to have taken the lead. TheStreet has long covered Nvidia. Take Eric Jhonsa […]
The future won’t be made by either humans or machines alone – but by both, working together. Technologies modeled on how human brains work are already augmenting people’s abilities, and will only get more influential as society gets used to these increasingly capable machines. Technology optimists have envisioned a world with rising human productivity and […]
Tiny robots no bigger than a cell could be mass-produced using a new method developed by researchers at MIT. The microscopic devices, which the team calls “syncells” (short for synthetic cells), might eventually be used to monitor conditions inside an oil or gas pipeline, or to search out disease while floating through the bloodstream. The […]
Alibaba Group’s cloud computing arm has launched its first data centres in the UK, as the Chinese company forges ahead with an ambitious international expansion plan in Europe. Alibaba Cloud, which was founded in 2009, will host two operational sites in London, adding to the Chinese conglomerate’s existing data centres in Frankfurt and Dubai across […]
