Category: Artificial Intelligence
Nvidia unveils new Tesla V100 GPU, DG-X supercomputer at GTC 2018
Image: smith collection/gado/Getty Images Nvidia has unveiled several updates to its deep-learning computing platform, including an absurdly powerful GPU and supercomputer. At this year’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the DGX-2, a new computer for researchers who are “pushing the outer limits of deep-learning research and computing” to train […]
UiPath confirms $153M at $1.1B valuation from Accel, CapitalG and KP for its software robots
Last week, we reported that UiPath, a startup out of Romania building AI-based services for enterprises in the area of robotic process automation (RPA) — helping businesses automate mundane tasks in back-office IT systems — was about to close a big round, upwards of $120 million at a $1 billion-plus valuation. Today, the company is […]
Driverless cars on UK roads by 2021 – really?
Image copyright Getty Images Remember the days when the Budget was secret and anybody who leaked it got fired? Well, nowadays much of it gets dribbled out days in advance and over the weekend there was an eye-catching leak – or rather Treasury press release – about new money for technology. The most striking element […]
Man makes app to erase your makeup in photos but insists it isn’t sexist
Artificial intelligence-based photo editing tools, in their brief existence in the history of humanity, are off to an immensely painful start. Selfie-editing tool FaceApp clumsily took the torch earlier this year, setting fire to the product’s intriguing face-altering premise by whitening users’ photos under an ill-intentioned “hot” filter. The same app continued to offend with […]
It doesn’t look like it, but it’s China’s latest AI smart speaker
Image: baidu Google Home and the Amazon Echo have new competition. Baidu, which runs China’s most popular search engine, has produced the Raven H, a voice-activated speaker that runs on an artificial intelligence platform. SEE ALSO: Baidu plans to put a driverless bus on Chinese roads next year and cars by 2021 The Raven H […]