“Chinese tech giant Baidu has unseated Google for No. 2 in the smart speaker market worldwide, according to research firm Canalys. Baidu, which makes speakers that it sells only in China, had a 17.3% market share of shipments in the second quarter, ahead of Google, which had a 16.7% share. Overall, smart speaker shipments grew…
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Google and Amazon fight it out for retail ad spend
The report says retail advertisers in the US alone will spend $13.12bn on search in 2019, a 22.5% increase from last year – and this will reach $15.65bn in 2020. The report attributes 54% share of product searches to Amazon vs 46% to Google – a complete reverse of the shares it published in 2015….
AMAZON SAYS IT CAN DETECT FEAR ON YOUR FACE. YOU SCARED?
“Amazon announced a breakthrough from its AI experts Monday: Their algorithms can now read fear on your face, at a cost of $0.001 per image—or less if you process more than 1 million images. Google does not offer facial recognition, a decision it says resulted from an internal ethical review raising concerns that the technology…
Is Google leading the image recognition engine race?
“The top-level results of the study show Google Vision to be the best of the engines when it comes to basic accuracy. 81.7% of the 2000 images it tagged were accurate, second only to the human team who managed to tag the images with 87.7% accuracy.” https://www.clickz.com/image-recognition-engine-comparison/254682/
Google heralds a new era of ‘Deployed AI’ to transform businesses
“This new era is called the age of “Deployed AI,” which Google Vice President of AI Andrew Moore said in a blog post means having a “vision for transforming your business.” “The campaign reached nearly 500 million people across multiple continents, generating measurably positive uplift in brand engagement and consideration in the process.” One example…