Alphabet’s Mineral moonshot wants to help farmers with robotic plant buggies

Posted on 12/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

In 2018, Alphabet's X lab said it was in the process of exploring how it could use artificial intelligence to improve farming. On Monday, X announced that its "computational agriculture" project is called Mineral. The Mineral team has spent the last...

Google Photos for Android has a powerful new editor

Posted on 30/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Android’s machine learning renaissance is coming to the Photos app, company executives announced during Wednesday’s gloriously brief Pixel 5 live stream event.To start, Google plans to augment its already useful image auto-enhance feature with machin...

How ‘Microsoft Flight Simulator’ became a ‘living game’ with Azure AI

Posted on 25/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Microsoft Flight Simulator is a triumph, one that fully captures the meditative experience of soaring through the clouds. But to bring the game to life, Microsoft and developer Asobo Studio needed more than an upgraded graphics engine to make its pla...

Cornell’s VibroSense makes appliances ‘smart’ by tracking their vibrations

Posted on 09/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

We've all been there at some point: you forget to go to the dryer when it completes a cycle, letting your clothes sit and collect wrinkles. That's just one example of inefficient home appliance use, and it's probably one that most people would like t...

Google Magenta’s Lo-Fi Player is an AI-based virtual music studio

Posted on 04/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Lo-Fi Player, a new project out of Google Magenta, wants to help people play around with music creation -- no experience necessary. Lo-Fi Player is a pixelated, 2D virtual room that runs in a web browser. It lets you mix lo-fi hip hop tracks by click...

Google Maps is improving travel ETAs with DeepMind AI

Posted on 03/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Google Maps helps users navigate over one billion kilometers in more than 200 countries and territories daily, and Google says its estimated time of arrival (ETA) predictions have been consistently accurate for over 97 percent of trips. That’s not go...

How ‘Coraline’ studio Laiki uses Intel’s AI to perfect stop motion films

Posted on 01/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Laika, the stop motion animation studio behind films like Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, isn't afraid to embrace new technology. We chronicled how it used 3D printing to add a whole new level of detail to 2012 film Paranorman. Now, the studio...

MIT researchers use radio signals to detect everyday household activities

Posted on 25/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

A team from MIT has developed a system that uses wireless radio signals to monitor a person’s movement and activities without the need to film them. Researchers from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) suggest the system coul...

MIT AI system knows when to make a medical diagnosis or defer to an expert

Posted on 03/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

AI can now detect lung, breast, brain, skin and cervical cancer. But in the world of medical AI, figuring out when to rely on experts versus algorithms is still tricky. It’s not simply a matter of who is “better” at making a diagnosis or prediction....

DeepMind and Oxford University researchers on how to ‘decolonize’ AI

Posted on 28/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Sometimes it’s tempting to think of every technological advancement as the brave first step on new shores, a fresh chance to shape the future rationally. In reality, every new tool enters the same old world with its same unresolved issues.In a moment...

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