Albert Heijn reports that a fully digital AH to go is being tested at the head office in Zaandam. In this shop you don't have to scan products anymore, so there is no cash register. The shop will be tested in the next two months. The idea is that shopping becomes just as easy as taking products fro... Read more
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Google has created a new open source framework that allows artificial intelligence (AI) models to learn to work with structured and adversarial data. This is Neural Structured Learning, which was made for the AI development toolkit TensorFlow. The framework allows developers to bring structured data... Read more
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Scientists at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab are working on an approach that will eliminate a number of long-term obstacles in the design of artificial intelligence (AI) models. The resulting programs should be able to learn about the world by observing it. Where people can learn a lot about an environme... Read more
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Binance, one of the largest crypto-currency exchanges in the world, launches a new developer platform. The platform should lead to new blockchain innovations, preferably focusing on already existing Binance platforms. The new developer platform will be called Binance X. This will include a hub where... Read more
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Microsoft introduced Icecaps, a toolkit for conversational AI, on Thursday. This is a subfield in Natural Language Processing for creating realistic conversations with AI. Icecaps is an acronym for Intelligent Conversation Engine: Code and Pre-trained Systems. The tool uses multitask learning to cre... Read more
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Facebook will set up a consortium to tackle the challenges of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Realistic interaction between speech and computers creates quite a few obstacles, which Facebook wants to solve with this research collaboration. Three months ago, Facebook distributed a number of calls... Read more
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The Text-to-Speech service on Google Cloud will be expanded with a number of new languages and new voice sounds. The expansion should make the service attractive to more customers, from more parts of the world. The app simply works by entering written text, which the service then converts into sp... Read more
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Nividia will bring AI and machine learning to the cloud. More specifically, "accelerated GPU services" are offered for VMware Cloud on AWS. According to SiliconAngle, the new service makes it possible to migrate existing vSphere applications to Vmware Cloud on AWS. After this migration, it will b... Read more
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Fujitsu is going to use blockchain technology in two apps. DocumentFlow makes it possible to track and check documents in order to prevent fraud. With InvoiceFlow companies can prevent incidents with orders and invoices, including invoice fraud. Fujitsu DocumentFlow is a blockchain-based applicat... Read more
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Huawei announces an AI chip called Ascend 910. The chip would have a very low energy consumption of only 310 watts. Also, the computing power would be very high compared to other AI chips. Originally, the chip would have had a power consumption of 350 watts, but this is now even lower, reports Z... Read more
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