“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,…
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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…
‘Doomsday’ scenario of mass layoffs due to AI unlikely, federal documents say | The Star
“In a separate briefing, officials were told ahead of summer that 11 per cent of jobs in Canada could be automated over the next 15 to 20 years, and a further 29 per cent are ‘likely to change significantly.’” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thestar.com/amp/news/canada/2020/01/01/doomsday-scenario-of-mass-layoffs-due-to-ai-unlikely-federal-documents-say.html
Will Deeptech’s Fortunes Turn In 2020?
“Quoting NASSCOM data, many reports said about 18 per cent of 1,300 Indian start-ups launched in 2019 are leveraging deep-tech. This is a big leap from 8 per cent in 2014, recording 40 per cent compound annual growth rate in the past five years. While India has 27 unicorns, none of them are from the…