Amazon has quietly been pushing its Rekognition AI system to police departments, using the deep learning technology to power real-time facial recognition. The company has already deployed Rekognition-powered services in a number of US states, it’s reported, automating the identification of “people of interest” from multiple cameras spread across cities. Rekognition was launched back in 2016, as a way for … Continue reading
The subreddit /r/thedonald (not to be confused with /r/the_donald) was a venue for fervent Donald Trump supporters to express their affection for America’s president. That is, until Donald Glover’s “This Is America” (performed as Childish Gambino) to…
Today, SpaceX is scheduled to launch a previously flown Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Liftoff is currently scheduled for 3:47 PM ET (12:47 PM PT). The payload includes five Iridum NEXT communication satellites and a pa…
Sony has for long been one of the biggest music publishers on the planet but from now on, it’s going to be the biggest publisher in the industry. The company today announced that it’s going to pay almost $2.3 billion to acquire a controlling stake in EMI Music Publishing. This subsequently makes Sony the biggest music publisher in the world.
Mubadala Investment Company previously owned an approximately 60 percent equity interest in EMI Music Publishing. It has decided to sell that to Sony and as a result of this transaction, Sony will indirectly own almost 90 percent of the equity interest in EMI which will now become a consolidated subsidiary of Sony.
This is one of the first major moves by new Sony President and CEO Kenichiro Yoshida. It gives the company a catalogue of over two million songs from the likes of Queen, Drake, Kanye West, and the Motown catalog.
Sony sees this investment in content intellectual property as a stepping stone for the company’s long-term growth. It’s counting on the gaining popularity of streaming services that have to license catalogues from publishers such as Sony to provide their services to subscribers.
While Sony has announced the deal today, it’s subject to certain closing conditions as well as regulatory approvals, but there’s no indication as yet to suggest that it may not be able to gain those approvals.
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Google took us all by surprise at I/O 2018 earlier this month when it showcased its Google Duplex technology. It’s what allows a bot to make a phone call and talk to a real human being in order to accomplish tasks such as booking a table at a restaurant. The idea is to have users just command Assistant to do these tasks with Duplex making the call on their behalf to an actual business. Microsoft has been working on something similar for quite some time now essentially out of the public’s view as the tests have been limited to China. It’s where its AI bot can also make phone calls to humans.
Microsoft has been testing its Xiaoice (SHAO-ICE) artificial intelligence bot in China for some time and it already has more than 500 million “friends,” according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella who talked more about the tech at an artificial intelligence event in London today.
Xiaoice has more than 16 channels for Chinese users who want to interact with it through WeChat and other services. Xiaoice even has her own TV show and does many interesting things, according to Nadella. Many users love it as it gives off the impression that it’s a human being that can actually be their friend.
The bot primarily interacts with users through text conversations but Microsoft has now allowed it to call users on their phones. It’s a bit different from Duplex which calls businesses on your behalf as Xiaoice calls the user to have a conversation with them. “One of the things we started doing earlier this year is having full duplex conversations,” Nadella said, adding that Xiaoice can be conversing with the user in WeChat and then stop and call them on their phone and talk to them using voice.
It’s worth noting here that “full duplex” is what you call a conversation in which both participants can speak at the same time. It has nothing to do with Google Duplex as the internet search giant has named its product on this concept as well.
Nadella mentioned that Xiaoice has already made more than a million calls so far in China and its demo shows that the bot is even capable of predicting what the user is going to say next and respond accordingly.
It’s unclear when Microsoft intends to demonstrate this technology in the West where Google is now setting the narrative with Duplex but it goes to show that it’s far from the only company that has been working on getting bots to talk to humans using voice.
Microsoft’s AI Bot Can Make Phone Calls To Humans As Well , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Gamers have been finding it really difficult to get their hands on graphics cards recently due to the cryptocurrency mining rush. This caused prices to surge considerably thus putting the cards out of reach of those who just wanted to upgrade their gaming machines. The situation has improved in the past few weeks though and gamers will also like that NVIDIA has now launched a new budget option for them, it’s the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB.
Most NVIDIA fans are excited about the next-generation card that the company is due to launch in June but it also has other products up its sleeve. The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB has been quietly announced and it sits between the 2GB GTX 1050 and the 4GB 1050 Ti.
Despite its faster base clock, it has a lower memory bandwidth of 84GB/s. It does have 3GB of memory which means that this graphics card will be more than capable of handling recent games. It won’t appeal much to cryptocurrency miners, though, as they often require 3GB of VRAM at the very least.
It also has 768 CUDA cores with the company claiming that it should deliver a 10 percent performance gain when gaming compared to the 2GB GTX 1050 model. NVIDIA is going to release the new card next month as well. Pricing hasn’t been confirmed as yet but it’s expected to cost over $100.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Is A New Budget Option For Gamers , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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