“The Trump administration took measures on Friday to crimp exports of artificial intelligence software as part of a bid to keep sensitive technologies out of the hands of rival powers like China. Under a new rule which goes into effect on Monday, companies that export certain types of geospatial imagery software from the United States…
Month: January 2020
Technological highlights from 2019 and a look at the year ahead (Vol. II)
“Yesterday BBVA published five interviews with some of the banks tech leaders asking what they thought were their highlights for the past year and what to look out for in 2020. How will this impact the way in which customers and clients access financial services in the future? In terms of specific areas of impact,…
6 AI features Microsoft added to Office in 2019
“Outlook – Last week, when we talked to Cortana lead Andrew Shuman, he was really excited about Outlook’s various Cortana integrations. Shuman frequently “triages” his own email with Cortana. Excel – Excel supports natural language queries, meaning you can ask a question about your data and get quick answers without writing a formula. Using AI,…
CES 2020: Samsung To Reveal An Invisible Keyboard That Makes Use Of Selfie Camera And AI To Type – Tech
“SelfieType is essentially a virtual keyboard that uses the selfie camera of a phone. The software uses an in-house SelfieType AI engine that analyses finger movements captured from the selfie camera and then converts them into text via QWERTY keyboard inputs.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/technovlogy.in/samsung-at-ces-2020-to-showcase-an-invisible-keyboard-that-lets-you-type-with-phones-selfie-camera-and-ai/amp/
China’s AI champions are already powering a mind-boggling array of processes and this will rise in 2020
“Formerly known as Face++ before rebranding in January 2019, Megvii has transformed itself from a facial recognition algorithm provider into a fully-fledged artificial intelligence of things (AloT) service provider For personal IoT, Megvii technologies enable over 3.5 billion instances of facial identification and payments processes every day and its algorithms cover 70 per cent of…